China Glaze Autumn Nights Collection Fall 2013 Swatches and Review

China Glaze Autumn Nights Fall 2013

 China Glaze Goldie But Goodie

 

 China Glaze Gossip Over Gimlets

 

China Glaze Charmed I'm Sure

 China Glaze Don't Make Me Wine

 China Glaze Kiss My Glass

 China Glaze Public Relations

 China Glaze Queen B

 China Glaze Red-y & Willing

 China Glaze Rendezvous With You

China Glaze Scandalous Shenanigans

 China Glaze Strike Up A Cosmo

China Glaze Tongue & Chic

 The formula of the frosty shades was disappointing but not surprising.  They had a thick, stringy texture and applied streaky, with pooling at the edges and visible brushstrokes that only diminish slightly when dry.  The formula on the rest of the shades was stellar; no problems or texture issues whatsoever.  All dried quickly and were glossy even without topcoat.

I love the foils in this collection.  They're a little different than the standard single-tone foil because they have flakes of gold in them.  It's most noticeable in the photo of Gossip Over Gimlets, so be sure to take a good look at that one.  I believe China Glaze is calling these new two-tone flaky foils "aluminum finish."

 

Aluminum finish? Awesome.  Frosts, though?  Please, no.  Just.... no.  Public Relations and Kiss My Glass were intolerably bad for me, but the other shades weren't as streaky or as thick as those two.  Tongue & Chic and Don't Make Me Wine are closer to a regular shimmer finish than a frost or metallic, but still show brushstrokes if you're not careful.



(collection provided for review)

NARS Disco Inferno Nail Polish Spring 2013 Swatches and Review

NARS Disco Inferno.  A light greyed purple-based, frost-finish multichrome.  It starts out with grey edges and a blue-toned purple in the center of the nail, but shifts to blue, green and just a hint of orange, depending on the angle and lighting.  The overall effect is soft and faded, keeping a grey-ness in every color it flashes.  In addition to the multichrome effect, it also has a good amount of tiny silver foil sparkle. 

The formula on this was good.  Thick enough to keep it from being runny, thin enough that it wasn't clumping or bubbling.  It needs to dry for a minute or two between each coat, but otherwise decent application.  It's pretty sheer and needs at least three coats to eliminate visible nail line.  I did four here.  Each additional coat enhances the duochrome effect.  Dry time is average.

Very cool polish, but not a unique color.  It's basically the same as Wet n Wild Gray's Anatomy / Deborah Lippmann Wicked Game (and I'm sure there are others), just with a little more sparkle.  It is more opaque than those two, but it's priced a few bucks higher than the Lippmann so it's not the most economical choice for a purple-grey multichrome.  Super pretty, just kinda pricey.

(This was sent for review.)

Random Ozotic Swatches

Ozotic 746

Ozotic 752

Ozotic 757

Ozotic 761

(Sent for review.)

Ozotic 752

Here's a nail of the day from before I cut my finger... It's one of the new Ozotic duochromes that were released fairly recently.  This one has a lot of color shift to it and I think it's pretty cool.

 Ozotic 752

My finger is just about healed enough for acetone not to hurt it, but it still looks pretty gory.  At least this little break in swatching has given me a chance to work on some of my other projects, but there's so many things I want to swatch and review!  I've still been busy, especially with Halloween and vacation coming up, so I guess it's good to give my nails and cuticles a break every once in a while.  Hope to be back to full capacity soon!  And thanks for all the good healing wishes, everyone :)

(This polish was sent for review.)

Jessica Spicy Dream Collection Fall 2012 Swatches and Review

Another gorgeous nail color collection for fall 2012. This one takes the traditional route of vampy reds and shimmery autumn earth tones and I'm quite happy about that. There are some fantastic polishes in here, exactly the kinds of colors I want to see in fall.


Jessica 734 Cinnamon Kiss. A vampy blackened red shimmer. This has a little gold shimmer and just a hint of a gold flash to it. The color is very rich and jewel-like and I find it to be quite sexy.


Jessica 735 Pumpkin Delight. Holy crap. This is amazing. It's a multi-colored duochrome foil and it has pumpkin in its name. It's like it was made for me! The base color is mostly a red-orange speckled foil with lots of red, gold, bronze and wine accents. The polish itself has a red-orange to gold duochrome color shift and it looks different in every type of lighting. The foil finish is dense and sparkly and you can see distinct yet small particles of many different colors mixed throughout the polish.


Jessica 736 Gingersnap. Very similar to Pumpkin Delight, just in different foil colors. In Gingersnap I see mainly brown and gold with red, green, purple and orange accents. The duochrome effect in this one is a shift from darker red-brown to lighter yellow-gold. The almost glittery sparkle and the multicolored speckled foil finish are present in this one as well. Very interesting color, so many different things going on in it. Reminds me of colors like OPI Pros and Bronze or Warm and Fozzy.


Jessica 737 Crimson Tattoo. Very dark vampy wine red creme. Really, really dark. With only one coat it's a really pretty plum-red jelly, but it's a little bit uneven with just the one coat. The second coat gives it its blackened appearance.


Jessica 738 Champagne Bubbles. Light silvery champagne foil. There are little hints of orange and gold mixed in with platinum and champagne, so it's not a straight single-color foil. It's like a much more subtle yet rougher version of OPI Designer, De Better.


Jessica 739 Brown Sugar. A red-toned brown frost. That pretty much says it all.

The formula on these was good. It was thick but even and smooth-applying. The brushes were back to normal so application was much easier than it was with the spring collection. I did three very thin coats of each, though only Champagne Bubbles actually needed the third coat. The rest were opaque in two, but more intense and rich with three. Dry time is on the long side.

Fantastic fall collection. I absolutely adore Pumpkin Delight and Gingersnap. Cinnamon Kiss and Crimson Tattoo are gorgeous as well, just not really unique. Champagne Bubbles is meh and Brown Sugar is downright hideous on me, but the rest are autumn perfection. I really love rich oranges, reds, golds and browns in fall so this collection hit all the right notes with me. They even added a little bit of duochrome, how about that! The only thing I really dislike about the collection is the name- Spicy Dream???

Jessica Pumpkin Delight and Jessica Gingersnap

The Jessica Spicy Dream Collection was supposed to be available starting early August, but it doesn't appear to be up on the website yet. It should be available for purchase shortly on jessicacosmetics.com, or by calling 1-800-582-4000.

(This was sent for review.)

Toma Mirage Collection - Delusion

Since I'm on such a duochrome kick right now, thought I'd share another one from the archives. Anyone remember the Toma Mirage Collection? I don't know exactly how many colors there were, but they were all frosty metallic multichromes. This shade is called Delusion, and this might actually be the first Toma polish I've ever posted about.


Toma Delusion (four coats). Shifts from silvery pink-mauve-purple to yellow gold and green. The formula is pretty sheer and watery but builds up nicely by four coats. The color shift is strong and the finish looks metallic and frosty.