classic camel

China Glaze's Classic Camel is a polish that I love on other people but unfortunately on me, it does not work. It actually manages to make my hands look a little sickly which is awkward. Sigh. Think I might have to find a new home for this little gem unless I can think of a way to make it complement my pink toned skin.

an affair to remember

Let me just premise this post by saying my pictures don't do this polish any justice at all. An Affair to Remember is a polish from before China Glaze became 3free so the formulation was pretty fantastic. These pictures below are only one coat and in real life it looked perfect. AATR is a glowy metallic red with a slight pink tint and to be honest this was another polish that I only sought out because of the name... An Affair to Remember is a heartbreakingly gorgeous film starring the very lovely Cary Grant (swoon!) and i couldn't resist acquiring a polish with the same name but I'm very glad I'm such a sucker because I actually really love this polish. Tres beautiful!

super skyscraper

Skyscraper is the second polish from China Glazes Metro Collection that I've tried and it's a gorgeous blue and silver glitter. Surprisingly it wasn't overly gritty when it dried and a top coat made it practically perfect. I adored wearing this polish and can see me getting quite a lot of use out of it. x

utterly urban night

Urban Night from the China Glaze Metro collection is such a frustrating polish! It's beautiful but they way it changed colour on me in different lights drove me a bit mad. In some lights it looked like the lovely dark eggplant purple it is but in others it looked either black or like a deep wine red. V.odd. I kept looking down at my fingers thinking I was wearing something like OPI's William Tell Me About OPI. Now that I know what to expect from it I don't think it will bother me when I wear it in the future but it did throw me at first, not getting as much out of that lovely purple colour in the bottle as I thought i would.

lovely little drummer boy

Little Drummer Boy is from the 2010 China Glaze Christmas collection and I'm only getting around to wearing it now...for shame! This polish is an amazing inky one coat blue. I'm not even talking one thick coat. This polish just went on so easily for me. I honestly didn't even consider going to the trouble of layering an extra coat it just didn't need it. V.impressed!

party hearty you glamazon

After I'd been wearing Glamazon for a while I decided to add some sparkle to my ring finger and I thought this vibrant purple would be the perfect colour to pair with china Glaze's Party Hearty since green and red both go well with purple plus it might not seem so Christmasy...was I right? Did it work?

mummy may I wear this polish all the time?

Okay so this is the last of China Glaze's 2010 Halloween collection. Mummy May I is the first polish I wanted from that collection and it was the last I tried. Go figure... I seriously love this polish! I honestly wish I didn't like glitter polish since it can be quite the pain to remove but alas, I do love it rather a lot. Mummy May I is a dark vampy polish with an understated glittery sparkle (can glitter be understated? I think it can...right?) and I honestly can't get enough of it. So lovely!

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in harmony with china glaze

My collection of China Glaze polishes is continually growing. This particular polish, Harmony, is from the Romantique Collection from Spring 2009 and I love the finish of the colours from this collection. They're frosty/metallic but just oh so glowy and pretty. Harmony is a muted lavender with a touch of mauve and I've never seen anything similar to this. Perfectly lovely. x

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first mate fancy

First Mate, believe it or not, is the first navy blue creme to enter my collection. Up until recently I didn't overly like the idea of blue finger nails but bit by bit I've come around to the idea and now I don't know what I did without this fun and pretty option. First Mate was lovely to apply and easy to remove. A real winner by me.

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devotion dive

I don't really have much to say about this polish. I have several similar colours. Devotion is by no means unique and the formula wasn't really the best for me. It turned out pretty streaky. Much more so then showed up in the pictures. I only wore this for a day because I got bored. I think I'd like this more if I didn't have any other silver polishes...

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perfect pelican gray

Oh gray polish, how I love thee.

There have been some seriously lovely paler gray polishes come out in 2011 already and since I'm a sucker I pretty much love them all. Pelican Gray from China Glaze's Anchors Away collection is really no exception to the love fest. It's pale. It's gray. It has a slight shimmer. It wins my heart. Love. x

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below deck beckons

Below Deck was the first colour from China Glaze's Anchors Away Collection that I knew I just HAD to have. I'm a sucker for this type of muddy taupe/gray/brown/purple type polishes. They interest me to no end and look so lovely on the nail. This polish will certainly not go unloved. x

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awaken-me up

Awaken by China Glaze is my perfect one coat polish. It's so opaque and the formula is so great to work with that it's easy to go from bare nail to fully polished in about3 minutes including base coat. You could add a top coat as well but I didn't in the pictures below. I was actually in a bit of a rush when I applied this so application isn't perfect. Didn't have time for a clean up...oh dear. But I think it still looks pretty darn good. Plus this shade is right on trend. This is from China Glaze's 2009 Romantique collection but it's still pretty widely available on e-tailers all over so if you don't already have it I'd recommend the investment. x

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zombie zesting

Another China Glaze Awakening polish for you today.I was really looking forward to trying Zombie Zest. I love the way it looks on other people. It's got that so ugly it's pretty thing going for it but on me...Yeah. Not good. I chopped my nails down to nothing after this picture and I actually kind of liked it on barely there nails but it still didn't look great. I think next time I'll try layering it over a darker green and see if that helps...

ick-a-bod-y bliss

I only recently invested in China Glaze's Awakening collection from last Halloween but man am I glad that I did. The first colour I'll be showing you is Ick-a-bod-y which I love for a multitude of reasons. One of which being the name. I love Sleepy Hollow, both the novel and the film and to have a polish name that's a play on the main characters name is brilliant in my book. The polish itself is utterly unique to my collection. A dark green base with large copper/orange glitter. It's just amazing. Despite the bumpy finish I will be wearing this quite often me thinks.

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