China Glaze Water You Waiting For Swatch And Review

     Today I have Water You Waiting For (WYWF) from the China Glaze Cirque Du Soleil collection. WYWF if a multi-hued multi-sized glitter in a clear base. The colors range from teal, to blue to dark blue and to dark purplish blue.

The bottle:

Indoor with flash.

Indoor no flash.

Outdoor.

Swatches:

Indoor with flash. 

Indoor no flash. 

Outdoor in shade.

Outdoor in sunlight(ish). 

Close up:

     All pictures are with three coats of WYWF and two coats of top coat. This polish is another top coat eater but well worth the effort. This polish is sparkly blue perfection. it applies easily and dries quickly. And did I mention that it's blue...and sparkly. Your inner Valkyrie will love it. Mine sure does. My favorite color mixed with glitter? Come on that's a match made in heaven. I an just going to say one more thing about this polish. Go, buy it now, it's amazing. I hope you guys like it as much as I do. Until next time, stay classy and stay polished.
XOXO

China Glaze Champagne Kisses Swatch And Review

     Today, I have Champagne Kisses from China Glaze's Holiday Joy collection to show you guys. Champagne Kisses is a light peachy, copper holographic micro glitter in a clear base. Let me just start by saying that I originally did not want this polish. "I thought ugh! A copper polish?" But then I got it with a gift card and tried it, first on my toes then on my fingers and fell madly in love with it. On the nail it's a gorgeous warm peach glitter and even though I am pale as a ghost it looks good on even my pale self. Anyway here's what you are waiting for...the pictures.

The bottle:

Indoor no flash.

Indoor with flash. 

Outdoor.

Swatches:

Indoor with flash.

Indoor no flash.

Outdoor in shade.

Outdoor in sunlight(ish). It's pretty cloudy out. 

Close up:

     All pictures are with 3 coats of Champagne Kisses and two layers of top coat. This glitter polish like the others in the Holiday Joy line are top coat eaters so be prepared to go heavy on the top coat. That said it dries fast and has the warmest shimmery glitter to it that I fell madly, deeply in love with. I am so glad I added this polish to my collection. It's beautiful and glittery and for some reason unbeknownst to me reminds me of sugar cookies...maybe it's just because it's that time of year again and I am fiending for some home made sugar cookies. At any rate I hope you guys enjoy this polish as much as I do. Until next time stay classy and stay polished.
XOXO

China Glaze Get Carried Away Swatch And Review

     Today, I have a swatch from the China Glaze Cirque Du Soleil collection for you guys. Get Carried Away is a black jelly with small and large hexagonal glitter (silver, black and dark pink), and black bar glitter in it. Now normally I don't buy polish with bar glitter. I hate bar glitter. It never lays right, clumps up, and if you get a piece of said bar glitter hanging off the edge of your nail after your polish dries, you are in for some not so fun paper cuts. But I put aside my deep dislike of bar glitter to try this polish because it's dark and glittery (two of the best qualities a polish can possess) plus I just adore when black and red or black and dark pink are pared together. That and it was free thanks to Amazon gift cards so worse case scenario I pass it off to my best friend (and fellow polish addict) Marcie.  Anyway, enough blathering on my part here's the polish.

The bottle:

Indoor with flash.

Indoor no flash.

Outdoor. Stupid rainy weather. 

Swatches:

Indoor with flash.

Indoor no flash.

Outdoor.

Close up:

*All my close up shots are taken of polish on the nail, not in the bottle. So you get a better idea of what it will look like on. 

     The pictures above are with 3 layers of Get Carried Away, and two layers of topcoat (this polish like all large glitter polishes eats top coat alive). The bar glitter was as expected, a ginormous pain in the...well you know where it was a pain. I ended up having to use tweezers to remove a few bar glitter that refuse to lay right at the tips and cuticles. Also the nail polish is really thick and gloppy which adds another level of annoyance to the polish. What I find really kind of funny is that on the nail you barely even see the bar glitter and (in my opinion) the polish would have been better without it. I love the hexagons though so pretty. And I think the polish could look really cool layered over another polish. If I had payed for this polish I probably would have been a grumpy Gus but I didn't so it's kind of like, ehh it's alright. I may have to try it as part of a jelly sandwich and then decide if I'll pass it on down the line. Well that's all I have for you today. Until next time, stay classy and stay polished.
XOXO