China Glaze City Flourish Swatches - Pollen In Love

Today I'm showing swatches for 2nd half of the China Glaze City Flourish collection - Pollen In Love!

In case you have missed out the first half - Peonies & Park Ave, you can check them out here!

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China Glaze Don't Honk Your Thorn is a light beige brown creme polish with very light silver shimmers.

Application-wise is okay, but polish tends to create bald spots. The way to solve it is to wait till the bottom coat is fully dried before applying another coat. Still, this took me 3 coats + top coat.

A pretty nudish color that isn't similar to any others I have in my collection.

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China Glaze Strike A Rose is a magenta pink creme polish with light silver shimmers.

Application is great, I achieved this in 2 easy coats & a layer of top coat.

A beautiful color that looks really good on my skin tone.

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China Glaze What A Pansy is a blue toned dusty purple creme polish. Another of the type of colors that I simply can't resist!

Application is great as well, 2 easy coats with top coat.

Definitely one of my favourite from this collection.

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China Glaze Thistle Do Nicely is a bright neon highlighter pink polish with creme finish.

Application is great, 2 easy coats with top coat.

A super eye blinding bright pink. People can probably spot you from a mile with this on. :)

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China Glaze Grass Is Lime Greener is a bright green creme polish. A really unique color for nail polish in my opinion.

Application is okay, polish tends to have bald spots. Took me 3 coats + top coat.

A beautiful polish, I think I will be using this for nail art a lot. :)

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China Glaze Metro Pollen-tin is a mustard / Nacho Cheese yellow polish.

Application is easy, but this polish have bald spots problem as well. 3 coats with top coat.

Very pretty! One of the rare yellows that actually suits my skin tone.

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So we are finally done with the swatches of China Glaze City Florish collection. What are your thoughts for them? I'm certainly glad I have these as these are colors that I'll use frequently.

Nevertheless, I think 1 pink or coral in each collection would be enough. We have too many of them already!

For those interested, the whole City Florish collection is now available for sale at www.PolishAlley.com

China Glaze City Flourish Swatches - The Peonies & Park Ave

 

Hi Ladies! Today I have swatches for half of the China Glaze Spring 2014 City Flourish collection!

City Flourish comprise of 12 creme colors, and most of them are pastels. Definitely my type of colors! The collection is divided into 2 sub-collections, which are Peonies & Park Ave and Pollen In Love.

Today I will be showing you swatches from the Peonies & Park Ave half of this collection!

China Glaze In A Lily Bit is a beautiful light lilac creme polish with a little hint of pink.

Application is great! I achieved this in 2 easy coats and Seche Vite top coat. It looked just a tiny bit streaky after the 2 coats, but Seche Vite smoothed them out pretty easily.

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China Glaze Petal To The Metal is a peachy coral creme polish that's almost neon!

Application is great as well, 2 coats with top coat!

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China Glaze Peonies & Park Ave is a bright neon pink but creme polish. I know.. It's complicated. LOL

Application is great, applies like a thicker than typical neon. This is 2 coats with top coat.

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China Glaze Spring In My Step is a very pale beige-pink creme polish. Very soft & pretty polish.

Application is great, though there was some bald spots. This took me 3 coats with top coat.

Sometimes it looked more beige, sometimes it looked more pink.. It's really hard to decide.

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China Glaze Lotus Begin is a deeper pastel lilac creme polish.

Application is rather easy, but it was rather thin initially. I had to shake it up really hard to get the polish mixed well and become a more regular texture.

Took me 3 coats with top coat for this due to bald spots.

Color is gorgeous though.

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China Glaze At Vase Value is a pale minty aqua creme polish. This polish reminds me of China Glaze Aquadelic but lighter.

Application is great, but the color is a little thin so it took me 3 coats with top coat.

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Overall I am loving this collection! The colors are all bright & pastels.. the types of colors I love & frequently use.

The only problems I have would be that there isn't much unique colors in this collection and I already have a list of similar polishes in my head. Will probably do a comparison post after I've swatched all of them.

Also, there seems to be too many pinks & corals. I wish there's more variety. :(

What do you think? Do you like what you had seen so far?

For those interested, the whole City Florish collection is now available for sale at www.PolishAlley.com

My Chinese New Year Nails!

I went blue this Chinese New Year to match my new dress! :) Do you like it?

For my base color, I used ColorClub Over The Moon, a beautiful ocean blue holographic polish and stamped on the design with Pueen Stamping plate PUEEN49.

I've bought a few new plates recently, including PUEEN plates and CICI & SISI plates. Really loving the designs they have and I can't wait to show more of them in the next few posts! Stay tuned!

For those in Singapore, both the polish & the stamping plate (from Amazon) can be spree-ed from SpreeAlley.wordpress.com!

China Glaze Sea Goddess Collection - Swatches

Today I have swatches for the China Glaze Spring 2014 collection - Sea Goddess!

The Sea Goddess collection is a textured collection that is slightly different from the previous ones that China Glaze had released. From what I observed, this collection can be categorized into 2 types: the sandy ones and the sparkly ones!

First up are the sandy ones:

China Glaze Teal the Tide Turns is a light teal textured polish with green glitters.

The textured bits in this polish is very fine and really felt like sand! The coverage is also much better compared to the previous textured collections by China Glaze.

A close up! Application-wise, it's like jelly polish! Super easy to control & apply.

I applied top coat over it to see what happens, and somehow it became jelly like. I don't really like this finish though. I prefer it much more without top coat.

China Glaze Shell We Dance is a bright pink textured polish with silver & pink glitters. I love the name for this one!

Shell We Dance actually reminds me of mashed Strawberries when I was applying it, however it turns into a sandy texture when dried.

Isn't it gorgeous in close-up?

Looks really squishy & jelly with top coat!

China Glaze Sand Dolla Make You Holla is a white textured polish with multi-colored glitters! Definitely my favourite out of this collection!

A beautiful close-up of a sandy beach with colorful sea shells! LOL

Totally gorgeous with top coat as well. Major love!

Next are the sparkly shimmer ones!

China Glaze Seahorsin’ Around is a turquoise textured polish with gold shimmers. I'm sorry that it looked so blue in the pictures. It's actually more green in real life (a.k.a. - just turquoise).

Here's what it actually is:

A close-up! You can see the shimmers sparkle in the bottle.

With top coat! If I were to do a comparison, I would say that for this half of the collection, the finish is quite similar to OPI's Bond Girls collection.

China Glaze Tail Me Something is a beautiful lilac textured polish with lavender tiny glitters.

You can see the tiny lavender glitters in the close-up, but they are actually not that obvious in real life. The color is beautiful nevertheless.

Sparkly with top coat over it! They tend to eat up the top coat though.. This is taken almost immediately after top coat is applied so it's still glossy.

China Glaze Wish On a Starfish is a light pale pink textured polish with gold shimmers.

A gorgeous work place friendly color!

Close-up. The shimmers are the most intense for this polish, compared to others in the collection.

It looks really shiny & pretty here.. but unfortunately I had this on for the longest (cos it's the last that I swatched), and it basically ate all the top coat & is still as gritty as ever. LOL

My thoughts:

I was never a fan of the China Glaze textured polishes but I must say that I really like these! Especially the 3 sandy ones for both their texture and their colors. :)

The sandy ones might be a pain to remove though, as they breaks down in really fine bits that really felt like sand. I wonder how they did it. haha!

For those interested, the China Glaze Sea Goddess collection is now available for sale at http://PolishAlley.com

So what do you think? Would you be getting these?

Nail Art Neon Studs

So I just got some neon nail art studs from PolishAlley.com and this is me trying them out!

These neon studs comes in 6 colors, with both square & circle studs for each colors. The circle studs are smaller than I thought (they were 2mm each) but they were actually just right for me as my nails are reallly small.

To stick the studs on, I applied a coat of top coat over my base color (which is China Glaze Aquadelic btw), and quickly arrange the studs on my nails before the top coat dries. I was afraid that the studs will fall off easily so I decided to apply another coat of top coat over everything again.

Luckily they still looked nice with a glossy finish. Unfortunately my top coat was turning gooey and there was a ton of bubbles. :(

Here's how it looked before the top coat!

Polishes Used: 
China Glaze Aquadelic

China Glaze Ruby Pumps

Chinese New Year is in about 2 weeks so I've decided to do a mani that fits the mood! :)

I used China Glaze Ruby Pumps as base and lightly topped China Glaze Techno over the tips. What do you think?

You cant really see from the pictures, but I love how Ruby Pumps sparkles under the light with it's shimmers. Definitely one of the best reds out there.

A simple yet one of the most popular nail designs for CNY!

Polishes Used:
China Glaze Ruby Pumps
China Glaze Techno

Funky Neon Nails For The New Year

Hi Everyone! I finally got the pueen plates which I had wanted for so long but they do not ship out of USA (I got them via SpreeAlley btw), and finally finally got to use them!

So here's what I did for my first mani of 2014!

How do they look?! I stamped Pueen Plate Pueen07 over China Glaze Neon & On & On.

I'm so in love with these Pueen plates! They have so many beautiful full nail designs that I (almost) only use, and they are so huge as well so I don't need to worry that it wouldnt cover my whole nail.

Major love! Definitely one of the must-get plates for stampers (other than Bundle Monster).

Well, 2014 is going to be an exciting year for me! In this year, I'm getting married, getting my own house for the very first time and I'm going for Honeymoon in the USA! (*Ladies, I'm coming!)

So far, the plan is to visit Florida (for Disney World & Universal Studios), and then head to New York for a few days. Any recommendations of good places to get nail polish around these areas would be greatly appreciated! Or any other states / cities nearby that we can visit would be great too! :)

Hopefully 2014 would be a great year for you as well, whoever you are, reading this post. :)

Cheers to 2014!