Essence - Make It Golden over China Glaze - Passion & Seether/3DD concert

This weekend I decided to finally use this Essence Colour & Go polish called 'Make It Golden'. It exists of small round glitter and larger hexagon glitter. Make It Golden definitely needs to be layered, I would probably need around fifteen coats for full opacity, lol. So anyway, I wanted something festive so I layered it over China Glaze - Passion. I basically bought Passion just for stamping, because all these Romantique polishes are very streaky. This is actually the only simple gold polish I have except for a holographic one, so I had to use this one. I applied two coats.










Here's a picture of China Glaze - Passion on its own: 

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It's already a week ago, but last saturday me and a friend went to see 3 Doors Down, yay! It was really awesome. We saw Seether, too! So here are some of the videos we made:

    

P2 - Green Lagoon layered

Last weekend I wanted to do a sea nail art, so I decided to use a polish from P2 called 'Green Lagoon', this was in their Deep Water Love limited edition. Unfortunately, it's very sheer, so I decided to layer it over China Glaze - Re-fresh Mint. This is Re-fresh Mint by itself: 

And this is P2 - Green Lagoon layered over China Glaze - Re-fresh Mint:

Just a small picture of the nail art, because I wasn't really satisfied. Could've looked better! I used SN Red, SN Blue, SN White, SN  Yellow and SN Green for stamping. The imageplates I used are m28, m36 and BM09. I also used two glitter polishes: China Glaze - Nova and Orly - Here Comes Trouble. 

China Glaze - Secret Peri-Winkle

Today I'm showing you a beautiful cream from China Glaze called Secret Peri-Winkle. It's not blue, it's not lilac.. So I guess 'periwinkle' suits this colour perfectly. It's part of the Operation Colour collection. It's easy to apply, only two coats. 

China Glaze - Haunting

Haunting is named after China Glaze's halloween collection called Haunting (surprise, yay). I was kind of disappointed because of this. China Glaze always makes up great names for their polishes, so why name this after the collection? Well, anyway. It's a black with round silver glitters. Simple, but pretty. Two coats. 

Some China Glaze Pretties

Just some random pretties I decided to swatch, because I didn't wear them yet or just because they deserve a better picture. 



China Glaze - Bahamian Escape. The perfect sky blue cream. 

China Glaze - He's Going In Circles. Unfortunately the only Kaleidoscope polish I have. 

China Glaze - Pink Voltage Neon. The name says it all, it's a pink neon and it dries matte. 

China Glaze Prismatic

Have you already heard about one of China Glaze's upcoming collections called 'Prismatic'? I think this collection looks spectacular, all the polishes are filled with holographic glitters. 

''Bursting with color and dimension, China Glaze Prismatic combines glitter and holographic particles for the ultimate eye-catching nails.''

Bottle pictures: 

Ray-diant

Polarized

Liquid Crystal

Prism

Full Spectrum

Optical Illusion

These will be available in March 2012. I think I need them all in my life! 

Reggae Zebra Nail Art

So.. This is the nail art I made with the 'Raspberry Fields Forever' base. I wanted it to look like some regular animal nail art design.. But because of the colour combination, it looks reggae. And I don't even like reggae! ^^ I do like the design though. 
So first, I applied Catrice's Raspberry Fields Forever and then I sponged my nails with China Glaze Happy Go Lucky and Barry M Spring Green. The Zebra design is on plate BM-223. I used P2 - Eternal for stamping. 

China Glaze - Electric Pineapple and plate BM-201

A few weeks ago, I received China Glaze's Electric Pineapple. I didn't buy it for a long time, but I decided to buy it anyway. Electric Pineapple was part of last year's Summer collection called 'Island Escape'. It's a pale yellow with lots of green in it. Application wasn't too bad for a yellow, I had to apply two coats. 

I also 'tried' to do a stamping design with this color, and decided to use plate BM-201. It didn't really work out, that's why I only photographed two nails, lol. I might try this some other time, maybe I'll succeed, who knows. For stamping I used Konad SN Black. 

China Glaze - Happy Go Lucky & Catrice - Pool Party At Night with M66

OK, so this evening I wanted to do a nail art and I had already decided I wanted to do this.. 'reversed french manicure thing'? Then I found out I ran out of these patterns, so I went to our local drugstore to get some. I picked two colors, China Glaze - Happy Go Lucky and Catrice - Pool Party At Night. At the end, I decided to stamp two butterflies on each nail, and now that I finished.. I don't think I like it. Maybe because it's too summer-y looking? Or maybe because it reminds me of Winnie The Pooh and his honey, lol. I think I should've used another stamp design, I probably would've liked it better. 

Catrice's Pool Party At Night is a great colour. I would call it a blurple, it's not really blue but not really purple either. It's the perfect cream, the application is flawless. 

This is China Glaze Happy Go Lucky on it's own. It was part of last year's Spring collection called 'Up And Away'. It was a great collection full of bright cremes. The formula is really good considering it's a yellow cream... I applied only two coats and it wasn't thick or anything. 


Please don't mind my extremely dry cuticles, this weather is really screwing them up! My hand cream is already working overtime, but it seems like it works for a couple of minutes and then they get all dry again. 

China Glaze - Flip Flop Fantasy and some new jewellery

Today I'm wearing one of China Glaze's Poolside polishes. I believe this was their 2009 Summer collection. It's full of neons, me likey! 

So this one is called Flip Flop Fantasy, the colour shifts between orange and pink. I had to apply three coats, but I didn't really mind because neons tend to dry very fast. 

Then this morning, I went shopping with my mum after finishing this week's last test. I picked up some pretty nice things, also some clothes and stuff for my room. 

China Glaze - Peace On Earth

Today I'm showing you 'Peace On Earth' from China Glaze. It was part of 2010's Holiday collection called 'Tis The Season To Be Naughty And Nice. 


This color would've matched my latest water marble design, don't you think? I've been wanting this polish for a very long time, but now I actually have it, it kind of disappoints me.. Don't get me wrong, it's still a pretty colour, but I expected it to be a little more... Spectacular? I expected it to be more green and less gold. It's still green though, olive green. 

Green Water Marble Design

I really should be studying for my next test right now, but I decided to water marble. It's been quite a while and I got some color inspiration, so I decided to do it anyway! I kind of used the same pattern on every nail, but they're not identical. I do like the way it turned out though. 


The base for this water marble design is OPI - Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow. The rest of the polishes I used are Sally Hansen - Emerald City (Xtreme Wear) and China Glaze - Cha Cha Cha (Island Escape). At first, I also wanted to use a silver polish, but this didn't work out very well, so I decided to leave that out. 

This is the base color, Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow. It's from OPI's Espana collection. It's a REALLY dark green, it's almost black. There's also a little bit of shimmer in this, but that isn't really visible. It's nothing special. I wouldn't wear this on its own, but it's perfect for these kind of water marbles. I applied two coats. 

China Glaze - Trendsetter

Do you know what I mean by saying that certain things can look so ugly that they become pretty? This color is definitely one of those things. When I saw the first swatches of China Glaze's Metro collection, two things popped into my head: 'Ewww!' and 'Oh my god, I need this in my life'. 


Trendsetter is a mustard yellow. I think it's the perfect colour for fall, although I don't really care about what season we're in, I just wear what colour I want to wear, lol. 
Formula was fine, I applied two coats, but could've done one. 

China Glaze - IDK

I think almost everyone is familiar with China Glaze's well-known OMG collection, including twelve incredible prismatic shades. Unfortunately, they're discontinued, so I was very happy when I found this at a China Glaze wholesale. I mean, seriously, they have to bring out another collection like this! Of course, they released the Tronica collection, but that was kind of a disappointing collection if you ask me. There barely is any prismatic effect visible in those polishes. 


Anyway, IDK has an amazing prismatic effect... I remember wearing this last year when I went out swimming with a friend, and it was even visible in the water. 
They dry insanely fast and I had to apply only two coats. I didn't use any base coat or top coat, because those don't go really well with prismatic polishes. 

China Glaze - Frostbite

For today's post I'm showing you China Glaze's Frostbite. A true winter colour, if you ask me. 

Last week, I felt the sudden urge to order some random China Glaze pretties that were still on my wish list, so I ordered ten new polishes, including Frostbite. This is typically one of those polishes that have been on my wish list forever, but I somehow never ordered it. That's probably because of new collections coming out, but I really should pay older polishes some attention too, lol. 

Anyway, Frostbite is a stunner. It's a very vibrant, medium blue. I found the application to be very smooth, two coats were enough for this one. Frostbite was part of China Glaze's Ski Winter Color collection. I would call Frostbite a typical 'in your face' blue. In real, it looks even more vivid than in my picture. I would totally recommend Frostbite if you're a sucker for blue just like me.