China Glaze Neons On The Shore / Sunsational - Creme Swatches

Finally I got around to swatching the China Glaze Neons On The Shore!

China Glaze Neons On The Shore consists of 12 neon polishes, 6 cremes and 6 jellies. Today I'll be showing the 6 creme polishes from the collection, and the 6 jellies will be coming up in the next post, hopefully in a few days. :)

The creme polishes from this collection were not easy to swatch and were even harder to photograph! They are like.. well.. Creme polishes! They're thick, and needed some creme painting skills to even out. In the end I just dropped a load of thinner into each of them before I paint them on my nails.. It took an average 3 coats of colour and a good top coat (seche vite) for me to get them nice and smooth.

My camera couldn't capture the neon at all and I had to go all over the house to try find the best environment and camera for the color to show. It's quite the nightmare I tell you.. And that would explain the inconsistent background in the photos and some poor quality shots.

All in all, probably none of the pictures managed to capture the real colors but I picked those that are closest to what I see on my nails.

First up is China Glaze Sun Of A Peach, an Orange neon creme polish.

Does this look familiar to you? Cos this is probably what China Glaze Peachy Keen + Neon liquid(?) would look like. Seriously. I think what China Glaze actually did with this collection is take some of their old popular colours, add some neon magic to them and tadah! You get Neons On The Shore.

Like I said, actual colour in real life in much more neon than shown in the pictures. I applied 3 coats for this. Usually my hands look sucky with Orange, but this actually looks okay. I guess the Neon factor helped.

China Glaze Too Yacht To Handle, An Aqua neon creme polish.

China Glaze Too Yacht To Handle is an aqua blue neon creme and I'm pretty sure it's the neon version of China Glaze's super popular For Audrey.

Please pump up the neon factor yourself, my camera couldn't handle all that brightness. This is 3 coats as well.

China Glaze Neons & On & On, A Pinky Orange neon creme polish.

China Glaze Neon & On & On is described by China Glaze as a Pink neon polish, but I think there's quite a bit of Orange in it as well. Can be classified as a borderline coral?

I don't have any creme equivalent of it from China Glaze so I can't tell which polish is this modified from..

As usual, actual colour is more neon in real life. I love this kind of colour.. they are very flattering on my skin. :)

This is 3 coats of polish.

China Glaze Highlight Of My Summer, A mint Green neon creme polish.

This 1 is quite a no brainer.. Anyone familiar with China Glaze's popular shades can tell with a look that this is the baby of China Glaze's Re-fresh Mint with neon magic fluid.

Applied 3 coat for this. This is one of the pictures which the neon is almost non-existent.

Beautiful mint green neon. I don't think I have anything like this is my collection (not counting re-fresh mint since that's not neon). My neon greens are usually those highlighter green.

China Glaze That's Shore Bright, a Purple neon creme polish.

That's Shore Bright is the type of purple that is impossible to capture.. For me that is.. It's the type of purple that always look too blue. This is the closest I can get to the actual colour.

A non-neon equivalent of this nail polish might be China Glaze's Spontaneous?

This is the only polish from the collection so far which I only needed 2 coats to get an opaque and even finish. However the neon factor is the least so far as well. :(

Last but not least, China Glaze Bottoms Up, a bright Pink neon creme polish.

The best description for China Glaze Bottoms Up is probably Barbie Pink in neon. A very popping colour that reminds me of Nicki Minaj somehow I dont know why, since I don't listen to her songs. I only knew about her from her OPI collection released last year.. LOL

The only Barbie Pink I have from China Glaze is Dance Baby and well.. Barbie pink is Barbie pink.. I guess you can say Bottoms Up is neon-tified Dance Baby.. My photos don't do this polish justice, it's much much more neon in actual!

3 coats of beautiful neon pink on my nails. I am falling in love with this on my nails! It's makes me happy just looking at it! It's just such a happy color.

 I think you would be able see it on my nails from a mile away.. it's so bright! LOL

So all China Glaze fans out there.. What do you think? Would you be getting these revamped neon-tified China Glaze popular shades?

And to my Singapore readers, China Glaze Neons On The Shore are now available for sale at PolishAlley! :)

Check out the remaining 6 shades from the Neons On The Shore collection here!

Birthday Confetti Nails

A very belated Birthday Confetti nails.. You can see from the amount of nail growth that I've had this manicure on for a while before taking a picture.. I'm just feeling super lazy.. =P

Polishes Used:
OPI My Vampire Is Bluff
OPI My Paprika Is Hotter Than Yours!
OPI Suzi’s Hungry AGAIN!
OPI OPI… Eurso Euro

Easter Nails

Easter is coming so I decided to work on an Easter themed nails today!

I did something really simple with just a bunny and a couple of easter eggs.. as you know.. I'm not capable of doing really complicated nail art designs. =P

Anyway I decided to mattify this mani and I love it this way! You can't really see it now, but there's actually a bit of screw up with my bunny but the matte top coat covered it up. It'll probably get amplified if I used a normal top coat so I'm really glad that the matte top coat saved me! :)

We don't celebrate Easter here, but what do you think of my Easter nails? Did I capture the spirit of it? haha!

Polishes Used:
OPI Can't Find My Czechbook
OPI Pedal Faster Suzi!
OPI Jade Is The New Black
China Glaze Lemon Fizz
China Glaze Matte Magic

Sweet Nails!

I finally got my OPI Euro collection and OPI Oz The Great & Powerful collection two days ago so I decide to do a sweet nails with my new polishes!

I thought that the soft shades in Oz collection were just boring nude shades thus I was really pleasantly surprised when I noticed that they were jellies! I love OPI jellies so of course, I had to do a jelly sandwich!

For my first 3 fingers, I did a jelly sandwich using OPI I Theodora You and OPI Polka.com. The colorful glitters are just nicely muted by the light pink I Theodora You.. Isn't it just gorgeous?!

I had only wanted to do an accent nail on my ring finger but accidentally painted my pinkie as well.. So today I have a weird design of double accent nails. LOL

The design on my ring and pinkie finger is a design I saw from a Pinterest tutorial. It's supposed to be a triple heart design, but now when I look it.. I think it would have looked better if I painted it the other way round.. -.-"

That's all for today! What do you think of my sweet nails today?

Polishes Used:
Essie Fiji
OPI Can’t Find My Czechbook
OPI You’re Such A BudaPest
OPI I Theodora You
OPI Polka.com

Ruffian Nails!

Today I tried doing Ruffian nails design and it's surprisingly much easier than I expected!

I was super satisfied with the colours I chose for this manicure as well, which are OPI My Private Jet and OPI Gwen-ever. OPI Gwen-ever appeared too orange in the photo though.. It's much more coral in real life, but this is probably the first time my hands doesnt look too yellow in photo with an orange polish on. :)

The colours are contrasting and looked so sophisticated! In love with it~

I think I'm now very much encouraged by the success of this manicure.. Will be trying out more designs soon!

Polishes Used:
OPI My Private Jet
OPI Gwen-ever

Dripping Ice Cream Nails!

I have been wanting to try dripping nail art for quite some time after seeing all the beautiful pictures and what I must say is.. It's really not as easy as it looks. :(

For the base, I used OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know? and stamped on the stripes to create the look of an ice cream cone, and painted on the 'ice cream' with some pastel colors. Maybe it's because my nail beds are really small? I had some trouble with trying to make drips of the right sizes.. And before I knew it.. All of my drips began to look the same! -.-"

I think I really need to work on improving my nail art skill.. getting super lazy!

Polishes Used:
OPI Wooden Shoe Like To Know?
OPI Gargantuan Green Grape
China Glaze Lemon Fizz
China Glaze Electric Beat
China Glaze Dance Baby
OPI Do You Lilac It?

Glam Nails!

Gave my nails a little glam today with a mixture of Leopard & Zebra prints, and an accent nail with China Glaze Glistening Snow.

Glistening Snow is a silver with holographic glitter polish that is meant to be used on it's own more than as a glitter top coat as it's too opaque. The formula and finish for this polish is the same as many others released by China Glaze such as - Hello Gorgeous (Pink), I'm Not Lion (Champagne), I Herd That (Copper).. This finish is really becoming one of my favourite! It's easy to apply and the bling is always just right. Love love!

For my animal prints, I sucks at doing Zebra, so I stamped on the zebra print on part of my nails with Bundle Monster plate BM-223 and free handed the leopard prints on. Overall I think I overdid the Zebra prints, but it looks okay from afar, so I'll just leave it as it is. You might have already noticed, I'm not so much of a perfectionist. =P

That's all for today, chaos!

Polishes Used:
Essie Wife Goes On
OPI Just Spotted The Lizard
China Glaze Glistening Snow

China Glaze Hologlam 2013 Swatches

You might have seen my individual posts of all the polishes in the China Glaze Hologlam 2013 collection. This is just a consolidation of all the swatches in one post! Enjoy!

Cosmic Dust is a silver metal holographic polish. See full post here!

Galactic Gray is a gun metal holographic nail polish. See full post here!

Don't Be A Luna-tic is a turquoise aqua blue holographic polish. See full post here!

SCI-FLY BY is a light silver blue holographic polish. See full post here!

OMG A UFO is a moss green/ olive green holographic polish. See full post here!

Take A Trek is a cool denim holographic polish. See full post here!

Strap On Your Moonboots is amidnight sky blue holographic polish. See full post here!

Not In This Galaxy is a warm coral holographic polish. See full post here!

Get Outta Of My Space is a light powered violet holograhic polish.  See full post here!

Astro-Hot is a soft baby pink holographic polish. See full post here!

Infra Red is a warm magenta pink holographic polish. See full post here!

When Stars Collide is described by China Glaze as a warm maroon colour but IMO, it more like a deep plum colour. See full post here!

That's all for the collection! Hope you have liked these swatches! :)

A England Saint George

I have A England Saint George on today!

Saint George is a deep dark green/teal holographic polish and it's really absolutely gorgeous! Actual colour in real life is slightly more green than shown in the picture.

I added some holographic silver stripping tape for a french tips effect & I totally love how it turned out! It looks so classy and with so much personality. <3

What do you think?

CNY 2013 Manicure!

Happy Chinese New Year 2013!

Polishes Used:
OPI Otherwise Engaged
OPI Dim Sum Plum
China Glaze Golden Enchanment