OPI Hello Kitty Limited Edition Cherry Blossom Collection

Hey ladies! Today I have swatches of the new OPI Hello Kitty Cherry Blossom Collection!

This is a limited edition collection consisting of 4 girly & basic shades. I haven't seen much swatches of these around so I thought I'll do 1 on my blog!

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OPI Showered By Petals

OPI Showered By Petals is a pretty basic off-white creme polish. The polish looks very close to pure white but when you compare the polish side with side with a pure white polish, you can see that OPI Showered By Petals is very slightly greyed. Just a very very light hint of grey.

OPI Showered By Petals have a creamy application and is not as opaque as pure white polishes.


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OPI Dreams Of Spring

OPI Dreams Of Spring is a pale light pink creme polish.

The application for this polish is a little streaky and took 3 coats for me to even it out.


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OPI Sitting Under Cherry Blossoms

OPI Sitting Under Cherry Blossoms is a jelly pink polish with pearly shimmers.

A sweet girly shade that really does reminds me of Cherry Blossoms.


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OPI Cheery Blooms

OPI Cheery Blooms is a bright tomato red creme polish.

The application for this polish is awesome. Very smooth and opaque. You can easily get away with 1 coat with this polish but I like to apply at least 2 coats for the creamy & fuller look.

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Even though this is a limited edition collection, I do feel that the colors are all very basic and common shades.

However they are still kind of necessary colors for base or nail art etc so yea, I would get them anyway for the Hello Kitty wrapper. :)

For readers in Singapore & Malaysia, the OPI Hello Kitty Cherry Blossoms collection is now available for sale at PolishAlley.com

China Glaze Road Trip Swatch - Road Trip Ready

I finally got the remaining colors swatched! Here are the rest of the 6 colors from set 'Road Trip Ready' which consist of some straight cremes and some shimmery cremes.

First up is China Glaze Pinking Out The Window.

China Glaze Pinking Out The Window is a very pretty salmon pink creme polish. I like how this polish look on my skin tone!

This is the kind of pink I like.. Very flattering and versatile. :) Formula is great too.


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China Glaze Dashboard Dreamer

China Glaze Dashboard Dreamer is a very soft light blue polish with pearly shimmers. This reminds me of a darker version of OPI I Vant To Be A Lone Star, and a shimmery version of China Glaze At Vase Value.

Formula-wise, this polish is a little sheer and needs more coats to be opaque.. Think I applied about 3-4 coats for this. Shimmer is very soft and more obvious in bottle but hardly visible on the nail.


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China Glaze Boho Blues

China Glaze Boho Blues is an indigo blue straight creme polish. This kind of periwinkle blue is my favourite kind of blue!

Formula is smooth.. I used 2 coats for this. I do have a few similar shades already but hey.. you can never have too many polishes rite? :)

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China Glaze Pack Lightly

China Glaze Pack Lightly is a light peach polish with very soft shimmers.. Infact, the shimmers is so subtle that it's really hardly visible at all.

This type of orangey colors is really not suitable for my skin tone.. :( Don't you think it makes my skin looks dark and dirty?

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China Glaze I Brake For Colour

China Glaze I Brake For Colour is a bright tomato red creme polish. What surprise me the most is that China Glaze actually used the British english spelling for 'colour' instead of the American spelling.. LOL

The application for this polish is fantastic. The polish is opaque in one coat but I like to apply 2 coats anyway for the creamy texture. Down-side is.. this polish seems to stain.. :(

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China Glaze Wanderlust

China Glaze Wanderlust is a light pinkish purple polish with soft shimmers. I feel that the polish looks more purplish in the bottle but more pinkish on the nails.

Like most of the other shimmer polishes in the collection, the shimmers in this polish is very soft and kind of totally not obvious on the nails.

Formula is okay but need some work to even it out.

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Finally it's done! What do you think of this collection?

So sorry it took so long for me to finish these swatches, but I'm in the midst of moving house and I haven't got all my polishes moved over so posts is going to be a little slow I guess. :(

For readers in Singapore & Malaysia, the China Glaze Apocalypse Of Color collection is now available for sale at PolishAlley.com

China Glaze Road Trip Swatch - Destination Unknown

Hi Ladies! Today I have for you half of the China Glaze Spring 2015 collection - Road Trip.

Road Trip is made up of 12 vibrant colors, and further split into 2 sets which are 'Destination Unknown' and 'Road Trip Ready'. Today I have for you the colors in set 'Destination Unknown'.

First to be swatched is China Glaze Pop The Trunk.

Pop The Trunk is a shiny red-leaning Orange creme polish. The formula is very easy to apply, smooth and opaque. I have on 2 coats for this.

A very bold bright striking color, very suitable for the coming Chinese New Year. And I like how this shade of Orange doesn't make my fingers look yellow. :)

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China Glaze More To Explore

More To Explore is a creamy peachy coral creme polish. The formula is a little thick and hard to even out. I think I had to do about 4 coats to get everything even out for this one.

The actual color is a little brighter in real life and kind of like glowing.. abit neon-ish. Much brighter than it looked in the bottle.

For some reason, this polish reminds me of China Glaze Neons and On and On.. But when I did a quick search online, Neons and On and On seems to be more pinkish.. Not quite what I remembered. *feeling confused*

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China Glaze License and Registration Please

License and Registration Please is a marine blue creme polish with a little bit of jelly-ish texture. The first coat is very sheer, but it opaques up nicely with the second and third coat.

The actual color is slightly a darker and brighter blue than what is in the pictures. And it doesn't stain! Like finally China Glaze got it right! LOL

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 China Glaze Trip Of A Lime Time

Trip Of A Lime Time is described as a lime green creme polish, but I do think it's more of a yellow creme with a dash of lime in it. Reminds me a little of OPI Life Gave Me Lemons.. They are 2 different shades of yellow, but the idea is kind of the same..

The formula for this polish is great, very smooth and evens out nicely. This type of funky colors is just not my type though.. Haha.. I'm just not sure where to wear them to.

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China Glaze My Way Or The Highway

My Way Or The Highway is a beautiful turquoise creme polish. Probably my favourite out of this half of the collection!

The formula for this polish is great, and the color is even though probably not unique but at least not something that comes up every collection.. I like it!

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China Glaze Sun's Up Top Down

Sun's Up Top Down is a bright yellow polish with very subtle gold shimmers. A very nice sunshine kind of color.

Formula-wise, this polish is a little hard to manage.. I did get quite a bit of bald spots and had to do at least 4 coats to get it to even out.. and even with 4 coats, I feel like I can still see VNL (even though it's not obvious in the pictures).

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So that concludes the first half of the China Glaze Road Trip collection. What do you think of the colors? Is there something that catches your eye? Or do you think they are mostly similar to past collections?

For readers in Singapore & Malaysia, the China Glaze Apocalypse Of Color collection is now available for sale at PolishAlley.com

China Glaze Halloween 2014 - Apocalypse Of Color Swatch

Today is swatch day! Today I have 4 polishes from the China Glaze Apocalypse Of Color collection, which is their Halloween collection for 2014.

There are actually 6 polishes in this collection including China Glaze Ghoulish Glow which shows up in every Halloween collection so I'm not going to swatch that since there's about few million swatches out there already. The other polish which I'm missing is actually China Glaze But Of Corpse - the green in the collection. Apparently this polish didnt reach Singapore for some reason, so I couldnt get my hands on this one! :(

First swatch is China Glaze I Love Your Guts

China Glaze I Love Your Guts is a red polish filled with tiny black glitters that dries to a matte satin finish.

The formula for this polish is really tricky because the polish itself is actually very smooth but it dries so quickly that it practically clumps up as you apply. You have to work really really fast with this polish.

I applied a coat of top coat over China Glaze I Love Your Guts and it becomes a very pretty strawberry pink shade.

I think you can go without top coat for Halloween, and then go with top coat for Christmas. That will probably be the best way to wear this polish. :)

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China Glaze Getting To Gnaw You 

China Glaze Getting To Gnaw You is a very dark brown polish base filled with copper glitters.

Application is great for this polish, nothing exceptional from the usual China Glaze glitters. The glitters do look reddish in some angle, but they are definitely copper.

An appropriate Halloween color I guess. I dont feel anything for this polish to be honest.

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China Glaze Don't Let The Dead Bite

Don't Let The Dead Bite is a sheer nude pink polish base filled with multi shaped & sized red glitters.

This is definitely my favourite polish out of these 4! The nude base blends in really well with my skin tone and the polish itself reminds me of undead zombies.. haha

A really creative polish from China Glaze!

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China Glaze Rest In Pieces

China Glaze Rest In Pieces is a mix of gold, copper & holographic multi shaped glitters in a clear base.

To be honest, China Glaze Rest In Pieces looks really out of place in the Halloween collection. It's so bright & cheerful, it should really belong in the Christmas collection instead. -.-"

But nevertheless, a very beautiful mix of glitters in this polish. I really like it on it's own with a thick coat of top coat! :)

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So here it is! My swatches for the China Glaze Apocalypse Of Color collection. What are your thoughts?

For readers in Singapore & Malaysia, the China Glaze Apocalypse Of Color collection is now available for sale at PolishAlley.com

OPI Next Stop.. The Bikini Zone

Hi Ladies, today I have OPI Next Stop... The Bikini Zone, a beautiful purplish grey douchrome polish from the OPI Brazil collection.

This is about 2 coats over a black base as I saw some photos of the polish online and it looks a little too sheer and thin for my liking, so I decided to try it with black underneath.

I dont think I've captured the beauty of this polish entirely as it's more purple in real life, and much more gorgeous too!

I actually had this polish on for almost a week before taking this photo and surprisingly, there's no chips! Just a bit of tip wear. Super happy and satisfied although you can see that there's quite abit of nail growth.

Sorry that I'm a little busy to update my blog lately. I've just got my OPI Neons and anxiously waiting for the OPI Coca Cola collection. Hopefully I'll have more to show soon!

Swatch - China Glaze Off Shore collection

*Update 13th May 2014 - I have added swatches of the 3 missing polishes to the end of the post.*

Today I have swatches for the China Glaze summer collection - Off Shore - or at least part of it as I'm missing 3 bottles from the collection, can you believe it?!

Don't you hate you when there's a new collection and a few bottles of it is already gone before you can get your hands on them?

China Glaze Off Shore collection is made up of 12 beautiful creme polishes, some with a hint of jelly formula in them.

Let's check them out now!

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China Glaze Feel the Breeze

China Glaze Feel the Breeze is a creamy princess pink creme polish.

Usually I'm like "pink again"? But this time, I must admit I really love the pinks in this collection.

Feel the Breeze is so so creamy looking yet it's so easy to apply. I think this is probably the best China Glaze creme formula to date.

A very pretty & chic color this is. I would definitely recommend anyone to get this!

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China Glaze Float On

China Glaze Float On is a bright creamy hot chick pink creme polish. (LOL.. sorry, but it's really hard to describe the difference between this and Feel The Breeze using just words)

Another creamy pink polish. Float On is slightly darker & brighter than Feel The Breeze. If you ask me which 1 I prefer more, I would choose Float On because it's really gorgeous when used as a full mani.

I would probably use Feel The Breeze more for a nail art.

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China Glaze Wait N Sea

China Glaze Wait N Sea is a blue leaning teal creme polish with a formula that is almost jelly.

Super easy to apply, though a little sheer at first coat. Actual color is a little more blue than what is shown in my pictures.

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China Glaze If in Doubt, Surf it Out

China Glaze If in Doubt, Surf it Out is a soft peachy Orange creme polish.

Very nice & smooth formula, a little sheer but builds up nicely. Color-wise, I'm not so into this. It's a mustard yellow leaning orange that's a little weird for me.

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China Glaze Stoked to be Soaked

China Glaze Stoked to be Soaked is a bright tangerine Orange creme polish.

Very creamy texture, yet super smooth & easy to apply. Super bright Orange that pops.

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China Glaze I Sea the Point

China Glaze I Sea the Point is a royal blue creme polish with a hint of purple. Definitely darker & deeper than what is shown in the picture.

The formula for this polish is absolutely HORRIBLE. I mean it.

Somehow, the polish and the pigmentation doesnt seems to mix well even though I shook it really hard for quite a few times. Some parts of it is really gloppy yet parts of it is so thin. It's like painting with half dried paint. A complete nightmare.

A real pity cos the color is so pretty.

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China Glaze Sea’s the Day

China Glaze Sea’s the Day is a tomato red creme polish.

A beautiful bright red polish that is thin yet opaque in 1 coat. I painted 2 coats anyway for the creamy texture.

The formula & color reminds me alot of OPI Cajun Shrimp which is one of my favourite to-go polish.

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China Glaze Dune Our Thing

China Glaze Dune Our Thing is a raspberry maroon creme polish.

Great formula as well, creamy yet not too thick. 2 easy coats in my picture btw.

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China Glaze X-TA-SEA

China Glaze X-TA-SEA is an eggplant purple creme polish.

Another beautiful creamy polish. 2 easy coats to achieve this.

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China Glaze Be More Pacific 

China Glaze Be More Pacific is a soft apple green creme polish.

Formula is slightly on the thick and streaky side, but I do love the color.

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China Glaze Shore Enuff

China Glaze Shore Enuff is a bright (almost neon) grass green creme polish. Actual color is much brighter than what is captured in the photos.

*Note* For those ordering online, please take extra note that Be More Pacific is the light green one, and Shore Enuff is the darker grass green one.

I'm been seeing quite a few online stores listing them as the other way round, but I think it's because China Glaze changed the names of these 2 colors just before launch.

So please take note!

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China Glaze Sun Upon My Skin

China Glaze Sun Upon My Skin is a bright pastel yellow that is not at all neon or striking. A beautiful yellow that is brighter than China Glaze Lemon Fizz, yet not in your face bright.

Formula wise it's also a little streaky and thick, but still workable.

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In summary, I'm really in love with these thick creamy polishes from the China Glaze Off Shore collection.


This is probably my favourite creme formula ever.

The 3 colors that I'm missing are:

China Glaze Sun Upon My Skin 
China Glaze Shore Enuff 
China Glaze Be More Pacific

Which are 2 greens, and 1 yellow.

Seriously.. colors that I would really want to have. I'm going to hunt these down and hopefully be able to do a swatch on them soon.

Are you loving these as much as I do?