China Glaze White Cap

Next in the Anchors Away collection is White Cap, a "whimsical and sparkling multi-dimensional white."  It's more like a milky base with a gold-orange duochrome shimmer running through it.  Now I'll be honest.  I thought (seeing from other blogs) that this was more of a yellow shade, but it's not - it's white...  It's also not opaque so if your nails are stained, it's going to show up.  I wasn't in love with it when I saw it at first, but it is a pretty color.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of White Cap and no top coat.  After seeing how sheer it was, I layered it over CND Blackjack.  The formula was very nice - great coverage.

Look at all that shimmer!  It's just all over.  Very pretty.

Shade shows basically the same thing.  Does it look familiar to you?


For fun, I layered it over Life Preserver as well.

More gold, less green.

By itself, not so fun... over another color, lots of possibilities.  ^_^

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

China Glaze Life Preserver vs OPI Cheyenne Pepper

See!  I'm not crazy!  In the bottle, China Glaze Life Preserver looks a lot like OPI Cheyenne Pepper.  


For Life Preserver, I had a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of LP and a top of Seche Vite.  For Cheyenne Pepper, I had a base of OPI Natural Nail, 2 coats of CP and a top of OPI Top Coat.

Okay, now you can make fun of me.  Yes, in the bottle they look a like but on the nail - not even close.  Oops.

Yeah, you can really see how different they are now.  Oh well.

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

OPI Cheyenne Pepper

I was one of the 150 winners of OPI's Facebook 100,000 Fans Giveaway and received 6 retired shades direct from OPI.  One of the 6 was Cheyenne Pepper, an orange-brown shimmer.  I read that this was from a 1996 collection called "Rocky Mountain" but don't hold me to it.


I used a base coat of OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 2 coats of Cheyenne Pepper, and a top coat of OPI Top Coat.  The formula was very nice - played well with my nails.

As you can see, it's almost a rust type color - not what I expected, especially because in the bottle, it looked a lot like China Glaze Life Preserver (really!).

In the shade, it looks much more brown than orange - this is definitely a deceiving color.  I'm sure you can find it on eBay and possibly as a dusty at some salons or nail supply stores.


OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [official website].  



Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company because of a Facebook giveaway.  For more information, please read this post.

China Glaze Life Preserver

I'm starting off my review of China Glaze's spring collection Anchors Away, a nautical natural collection.  First today is Life Preserver, listed as a highly pigmented and luxurious poppy creme.  It's a bit of a darker orange (with a bit more brown tone) than the recent oranges I've seen.


I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Life Preserver and a top of Seche Vite.  I probably could have used a one coat, but I did two just to be safe.

I learned a lot about the poppy from work, and I know it's more of a red than an orange, so this was a bit confusing.  You can see how bright it is though - and yes, highly pigmented.

I also had one small bubbling issue in my middle finger - go figure.  In the shade, this looks more muted, but the sun picture is more accurate.  It's definitely a unique color!

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].

Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration.  For more information, please read this post.

China Glaze LOL vs Virtual Violet

LOL on left, Virtual Violet on right

Another OMG Collection vs Tronica Collection post today as I'm making my way through now 2 boxes of unswatched but still new polishes.  I'm drowning in polish and couldn't be happier!


For this comparison I used a base coat of Seche Natural and 2 coats of polish.  As you can already see, LOL is a bit more blue than Virtual Violet, and then of course the linear holographic versus rainbow sparkle holographic.

As you can see, Virtual Violet is still super pretty.  Even better, I have this:

Now you can really tell the difference.

And a blah shade picture.  Oh shade.  You bore me.


I think my nails are just too long at this point and I'm ready to chop them all off.  They make it hard to type!


China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].