30 Days of Untrieds - Day 22

Today's untried color is taking us back to Halloween :)

Near Dark from China Glaze's 2011 Haunting Halloween collection. 3 coats. Its just what it sounds like... near dark. Its a very, very, VERY blackened olive green... it pretty much looks black in almost every light. I'm not sure how I feel about this... its unique when you can see that its not a black... but most of the time you can't tell... Application was also kind of a pain, it was streaky which is why I needed 3 coats to cover drag and bald spots... so I guess I really don't like this... based on both the color and the application.

Thanks for reading, until next time!

Currently on my nails: Haunting + Pumpkin Spice

Yay! Halloween Nails!

China Glaze Haunting as a base (2 coats) with Sally Hansen Pumpkin Spice on top (1 coat). Haunting is a black base with silver glitter. Check out my review here. Pumpkin Spice is a sheer black base loaded with orange glitter. How very Halloween of Sally Hansen. I love the combo. You can't see the silver glitter from Haunting in the picture, but in person its definitely visible. My nails are ready for Monday! :)

Currently on my nails: Westside Warrior and Its Alive

Here's my most recent mani:

1 coat of China Glaze Its Alive over 2 coats of China Glaze Westside Warrior. You can't really see Westside Warrior but it makes it so that I only need one coat of Its Alive. Its much easier to take off one coat of glitter polish instead of 2 or 3. I really like this combo its like the two were meant for each other. They both have that olive-green base color to it. 

More holiday collex swatches coming soon!

Top 10 Fall Favorites: Day 10

Today is the day I wrap up my Fall Favorites series. I'm wrapping it up with probably my favorite color for this fall and surprise, surprise its from China Glaze.

China Glaze It's Alive. Yep. I just love this color. That's all I can really say. L.O.V.E. 

Well, I hope you've enjoyed this series! I will probably be doing one for Winter as fall progresses... but mostly fall and winter colors are interchangeable :) though I have more Halloweenish colors for fall while I feel like I want more festive, frosty, Christmasy colors for Winter. Anyways, thanks for following my series!

Top 10 Fall Favorites: Day 6

Yet another China Glaze color has made this list (can you tell CG is my favorite brand?). Anyways today I bring to you a color from this year's Halloween collection:

Haunting. Black base loaded with silver glitter. I am obsessed with blacks that have a little something to them. Check out my post on the Haunting collection here

China Glaze Haunting Swatches

So when I went to the nail supply place I frequent guess what was on the shelf?

Needless to say, I had to get it. They also had the other 3 color in the Haunting collection out but I only picked up one of those... the other 2 I didn't like.

First color is Its Alive. 2 coats, no topcoat. Its a rotted flesh kind of color with tons of glitter. Its awesome and so perfectly Halloweenish. It kind of reminds of Zombies or something like that. Fantastic glitter.

The next thing I tried is to put the Ghoulish Glow over Its Alive. 2 coats each, no topcoat. Ghoulish glow is a milky glow in the dark topcoat. As you can see, it makes Its Alive look milky and muted. 

Here's the bottle in glow mode. Unfortunately, I had a hard time capturing the glow on my nails. Zom-Body to Love from OPI was much easier to capture on camera... the glow from ghoulish glow was still definitely there but its much more subtle than the OPI version.

Finally I picked up the namesake of the collection, Haunting. 2 coats, no topcoat. Its a gorgeous glitter polish. Black base loaded with silver glitter. Its beautiful. I can definitely see myself wearing this all fall... not just around Halloween time.

The application of all of these was fantastic. I was slightly disappointed by the Ghoulish Glow. I think Zom-Body to Love is much much better in the glow factor. I still love China Glaze as a brand and I'm so excited for these!! I love them all!!!