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 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!