China Glaze Travel In Color

If you remember, I actually posted about China Glaze Travel In Color (Iridescent Top Coat) in my Happy HoliGlaze swatch post, but I used it over some creme polishes which did not bring out the true beauty of the Top Coat.

One of my readers, Liz Blyer (Thank you Liz!) actually commented on that post to say that Travel In Color is stunning over Black, so that's what I'm going to show today!

In the photo, I have 2 coats of China Glaze Travel In Color, over 2 coats of black creme polish.

It's really hard to capture the effect on camera, but Travel in Color flashes a beautiful purple with specks of blue when the light hits it.

The black base brings out the iridescent effect really well!

I guess the right base colour is super important for this polish to bring out the gorgeousness! :)

What do you think?

China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze Collection - Comparison

Had been really busy and hardly had time to do my nails.. :(

Here's a quick comparison for some of the polishes in the China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze collection!

First up, is China Glaze Mingle With Kringle which I had mentioned that it reminds me of China Glaze Goldie But Goodie from the Autumn Nights collection.

Mingle With Kringle vs Goldie But Goodie

I didn't went and took a look at my Goldie But Goodie when I was swatching the Christmas collection, but just from my impression, I thought Mingle With Kringle seems really similar to Goldie But Goodie.

It was only when I swatched them side by side then I realised they were a totally different kind of golds. Mingle With Kringle is a much brighter yellow leaning kind of gold that would really look like a pot of gold, while Goldie But Goodie is a more brownish leaning copper type of dirty gold. Infact Goldie But Goodie hardly even look like gold anymore when placed beside Mingle With Kringle.

Mingle With Kringle vs Goldie But Goodie

What is similar between these 2 polishes is probably the application and finish. Both are foil like polishes, Mingle With Kringle is bright gold with coppery darker gold flakes, while Goldie But Goodie is rust gold with silver micro shimmers/flakes.

Mingle With Kringle vs Goldie But Goodie

Goldie But Goodie is more opaque between the 2, and they both dis-integrates into irritating gold flakes that sticks to your skin when you try to remove them.

Next up is a comparison between the reds:

Ring In the Red vs Just Be-Claws vs Ruby Pumps

Ring In the Red, Just Be-Claws and  Ruby Pumps are all red with shimmers/glitters but you can see from the picture that they are very different from each other.

Out of these 3, I must say I'm absolutely in love with China Glaze Ring In the Red! It's one of my un-tries and when I swatched it.. I was like.. woah! So pretty! LOL

Ring In the Red vs Just Be-Claws vs Ruby Pumps

Nevertheless, I would admit that Just Be-Claws is a great colour for Christmas, especially for nail art as it's quite opaque. It is also very suitable for people would like something less flashy. :)

Ring In the Red vs Just Be-Claws vs Ruby Pumps

I will use China Glaze Ring In The Red for my Christmas Manicure this year! haha!

Last comparison for today would be the blupple glitters!

CG All Wrapped Up vs LA Girl Eutopia

Another comparison that came to my mind when I was swatching is these 2! China Glaze All Wrapped Up vs LA Girl Eutopia!

CG All Wrapped Up vs LA Girl Eutopia

China Glaze All Wrapped Up and LA Girl Eutopia are quite similar colour, with LA Girl a little more purple. Their main difference is their glitters.

China Glaze All Wrapped Up is made up of very dense fine glitters, while LA Girl Eutopia is made up of sparse small hex glitters with some large hex glitters.

In summary, All Wrapped Up is more suitable to be used on it's own, while Eutopia is more suitable to be used as a topper.

CG All Wrapped Up vs LA Girl Eutopia

Between these 2, I think I like China Glaze All Wrapped Up more just because of the way it sparkles under the light. So pretty!

CG All Wrapped Up vs LA Girl Eutopia

That's all for my comparison today! None of the other polishes sparked any interest in me to compare them so I'll just be doing these 3.

Hope these swatches helped! :)

Swatch - China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze Collection: Part 2

Hi Everyone! Thanks for waiting, here are the swatches for China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze Part 2!

First up is China Glaze Put A Bow On It!

China Glaze Put A Bow On It is a clear base polish densely filled with micro magenta glitters!

I used 1 coat on my pinky finger to show how fine & dense the glitters are! For the rest of my fingers, I had about 3 coats on to cover all the bald spots.

Application is smooth, but it's really hard to fill up the sides & the nail tip areas. I guess one of the solution for this is to apply a base color that's really close to China Glaze Put A Bow On It?

Really sparkly & christmas-y in actual! Pretty!

China Glaze This Is Tree-Mendous:

China Glaze This Is Tree-Mendous is a clear base polish densely filled with green & gold micro glitters.

1 coat on Pinky finger, about 3 coats on the rest of the fingers. Actual color in real life is a little more lime. I think it's quite close to the colour of Pine Trees?

I'm a sucker for glitters like these. :) Majority of the glitters are green with some gold for extra bling and christmas spirit.

Sparkling prettily under the light!

China Glaze All Wrapped Up

China Glaze All Wrapped Up is a clear base polish densely filled with violet blue micro glitters. My fingers would look a little green in the pictures as I had to edit the colours a little with some photo apps. This is one of the colours that my camera can never capture correctly.

1 coat on Pinky finger, about 3 coats on the rest of the fingers. I have tried to make the colours as close as possible to what I see on my fingers.. might still be slightly different though.. The polish looked more purple in the bottle, but more blue on the nails.

The formula is similar to the previous 2 polishes, but slightly easier to control on the edges.

China Glaze All Wrapped Up reminds me of 1 of the glitter polish from L.A. Girl. I'll probably do a comparison post soon!

Next, China Glaze Bells Will Be Blinging

China Glaze Bells Will Be Blinging is filled with some small + slightly larger blue hex glitters, gold holographic hex glitters, and some short holographic bar glitters. And densely packed glitter.

A close up shot on 1 coat of China Glaze Bells Will Be Blinging. I really like these half length bar glitters from this polish! They dont look or feel hairy unlike some of those previously released, and they actually look really pretty!

Super gorgeous & sparkly! I think I have about 3-4 coats on for the 3 fingers though. Application is easy and it's not hard to fish the glitters at all. China Glaze do have great formulas for their glitters.

Lastly, a bottle shot!

Next, China Glaze Be Merry, Be Bright:

Unlike the previous 4 in this collection, China Glaze Be Merry, Be Bright meant more as a topper than to be used on it's own. China Glaze Be Merry, Be Bright is filled with smaller magenta and violet  hex glitters + some larger violet hex glitters in a clear base.

1 coat on the pinky finger, and about 4-5 coats on the rest. I didnt use any base as I suck at pairing some times and I dont want to ruin this polish. =P

The blue looking glitters are actually more violet in real life, very similar to China Glaze All Wrapped Up.

Last of the glitters, China Glaze Your Present Required

China Glaze Your Present Required is filled with multi-coloured, multi-sized glitters in a clear. Also meant to be a topper glitter polish. I can see white, gold, silver, green, blue and magenta coloured glitters.

I like how this polish looked on it's own without any base! It looked so cheerful that I felt happy just looking at it. My boyfriend thinks it look kiddy and childish though.. pfft! boys.. what do they understand.

Super gorgeous! I doubt I'll ever find a base color suitable for it though.. there's so many colours here!

Last of all!! China Glaze Travel in Color

China Glaze Travel in Color is a top coat that creates an iridescent-like effect when applied over any polish colour. Note that Travel in Color is not your normal sized China Glaze though.. it's the mini size 9.6ml bottle.

In my pictures, I'll have 2 fingers of the same polish. 1 with Travel In Colour, the other 1 without. Here I have China Glaze Santa Red My List and China Glaze So Blue Without You.

These are the 2 foil polishes in the Happy HoliGlaze collection. Iridescent effect is more obvious in real life, though it's barely there as well.

Here I have OPI Kiss Me On My Tulips and China Glaze Pelican Gray. Iridescent effect is actually more obvious than on the foil polishes above, but you cant see it as it's super hard to capture on photo. :(

To be honest, the Iridescent effect of China Glaze Travel in Color is not as great as I anticipated, but I guess I didnt really experiment with much colours as well so it might actually look great when paired with some particular colours.

One thing for sure, it doesnt go well with foil blues. -.-"

Okay! It's late now and I need to go sleep.

If you ladies are interest, all the polishes from the China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze collection are now available at http://PolishAlley.com!

Good Night! I'll probably do a comparison post next!

Swatch - China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze Collection: Part 1

Sorry for the wait! Here it is.. the China Glaze HoliGlaze collection Part 1!

First up, China Glaze Elfin’ Around

Elfin’ Around is a orange-leaning coral foil like polish with silver micro-shimmers, described by China Glaze as aluminum-like mirror finish. 

Application is very smooth and really easy to control. 

This is a one coater. I applied 1 coat on my index and ring fingers, and 2 coats on my middle and pinkie fingers but they just looked exactly the same so I guess you can safely go with 1 coats for all.

Next, China Glaze Santa Red My List

Santa Red My List is a raspberry pinky-red foil polish with silver micro-shimmers. Very pretty christmasy colour!

Application is great for this polish as well. The silver shimmers can be hardly be seen on the nail, but I guess they would be adding some sparkle when the lights hit on them?

You can get away with 1 coats for this polish, but 2 coats does makes it slightly darker & deeper.

1 coat on index & ring fingers, 2 coats on middle and pinkie fingers.

China Glaze Mingle With Kringle

Mingle With Kringle is a light bright gold foil polish with bits of coppery darker gold flakes. This polish reminds me a lot of Goldie But Goodie from the Autumn Nights collection.

Application is smooth, but the polish tends to create bald spots. I used 2 coats on all my fingers for this.

When I removed the polish, the gold flakes got all over my fingers and was a pain in the ass to remove. :(

Next up, China Glaze So Blue Without You

So Blue Without You is a beautiful turquoise-blue foil polish. Polish is more turquoise in real life than shown in the pictures.

Application is smooth and will require at least 2 coats to be opaque. Stain alert! I could see some blue staining on my nails even though I only had this on for like 10 minutes and I even had a base coat on. :(

It does seems like a lot of China Glaze's blues stains right?

China Glaze Just Be-Claws

Just Be-Claws is a really gorgeous bright red shimmer polish! Really common but is my favourite out of this half of the collection!

Application is super smooth like the others.. kinda like jelly! I had 1 coat on my index and ring fingers, and 2 coats on my middle and pinkie fingers. You can see how 2 coats made the polish more red and luscious.. much deeper and prettier!

So pretty! Classic red never gets old. I wonder how it compares with Ruby Pumps and Ring In The Red!

Last of this half, China Glaze There’s Snow One Like You 

There’s Snow One Like You is a white textured polish with matte white hex glitters in it!

I have to admit that the application for this is not at all smooth. With the texture and the glitter, the polish is really really chunky. The texture bits (?) was a little transparent/translucent as well and I got really confused when applying the polish, thinking that they were air bubbles.. -.-"

There’s Snow One Like You reminds me a lot more of crystallized salt than snow.

This is a polish that would probably impress your friends when they sees it during Christmas, but would be a pain in the ass to apply other times. I'm not kidding.. this is only 2 coats and it's so chunky!

Okay.. I might be exaggerating abit.. but it does feels really bad after 5 super smooth applications.

That's all for part 1 now. If you are interested, the HoliGlaze collection will be up for sale at http://polishalley.com really soon! 

Stay tuned for part 2! All the glitters will be there!