My Latest Obsession

A New Haul

Jeannie — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:22:54 +0000

OK, new rule. Anything that comes into this house must be swatched immediately. Of course, I made this rule before I remembered that I received these yesterday:

A bunch of old China Glazes from a blogsale.

Emotion
Cloudburst
Cherry Pie
Go Crazy Red
Rainy Days

List Mist
Rose Among Thorns – something is fishy with this, it looks exactly like Japanese Koi. I suspect polish mixing.
Japanese Koi
White On White
Pink Champagne

An Affair to Remember
Jetstream
Celtic Sun
Delight

Stella
Tempest
Coral Star
Vertical Rush

Then, the Icing Magnetix. Well, except for the green one, which they were out of. CAN ANYONE GET ME THE GREEN ONE, I NEED IT.

And a cute little mini set! No names on these, which is annoying.

black creme
silver foil
red and gold glitter which looks just like that one from the ChG christmas collection this year
neat tan crackle with shimmer

A few more random Icings. And also, Moonpool!

All That Glitters is Green
Birthday Beyotch
All Night Long
Moonpool

I also went to the Dollar Tree. I HAD to get all of the Chrome pens, cause they’re good for stamping! That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

And my Zoya promo order just came in. I got all of the bar glitter collection except for the pink foil, because I have a mini of that from Birchbox.

Rina
Holly
Twila
Noel
Kissy

Well, following my new rule is going to take the entire day today.

Orly Mineral FX

Jeannie — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:03:51 +0000

My smallest nephew always wants to go in my room when he’s over. Then he walks around pointing at all my nail polish that’s scattered around and exclaiming “Oh! Polish nail!” “More polish nail!” I don’t bother correcting him cause it’s damn cute. Then last night he demanded that I paint his nails dark blue. He also managed to convince TCB to let me paint his nails black. It was a good night!

These are all gorgeous. Much more gorgeous than they look in either the bottles or my pictures.

Emberstone, 2 coats.

Rock Solid, 3 coats.

Rock The World, 3 coats.

Rock-It, 3 coats.

Rococo A Go-Go, 2 coats.

Stone Cold, 2 coats.

Some randoms

Jeannie — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:04:54 +0000

I got new storage for my b-day! 3 brand spankin’ new Melmers, which DOUBLES my storage space! Me and TCB put them together, and I must say, once we realized that we have an electric drill it went soooo fast. I swear, it took me 4 hours to put together my original 3 Melmers. So after they were in place, he laid on my bed playing Angry Birds for hours while I organized and giggled over how much fun I was having. Stash photos coming soonish!

Zoya Shawn, 3 coats.

LOVE.

RBL Concrete Jungle, 3 coats.

3 coats??? Ehhhhhh, not worth it.

L.A. girl Matte Indigo, 3 coats.

I think this was an extra in a swap, and it is soooooooo awesome. It’s got a neat satiny finish, and it’s not entirely opaque. The formula and look of this one is different than any other matte I’ve tried, and I like it!

Revlons

Jeannie — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:24:33 +0000

OK, I just counted my untrieds. 518. Not counting mini sets which I keep separate. Or the 18 polishes have on the way to me. Or the ones strewn around my room that I can see from where I’m sitting that aren’t where they’re supposed to be. This is insane. I am GOING to get this under control!!!

Sunshine Sparkle, 3 coats.

Formula on this was really hard to deal with.

Jaded

This is a really old swatch (as you can see from the nail length), and I didn’t record how many coats I used.

Blue Mosaic, 3 coats.

I kind of hate this polish. It seems to be just rather chunky glitter, no noticeably tinted base, and it’s just yucky imo. The other two from this little collection were great though.

Facets of Fuschia, 2 coats.

Now this is more like it. I loooove this polish!

Starry Pink, 3 coats.

Another winner! Love this one!

China Glaze Let It Snow collection

Jeannie — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:37:41 +0000

Well. I’m totally a fail blogger.

And I know your mama calls you good for nothin’
She says her baby is a failer and she don’t want you callin’

I love that song. Anyway, yeah, so I procrastinated even swatching these for like a month, then finally got them swatched, WEEKS before Christmas, and then I let them sit on my camera, unloved.

Blue Year’s Eve, 3 coats.

This is the same TYPE of polish as Blue Iguana from the summer collection, but this is much more purple. And I like the shade of this one muuuch better, also. Look at that glitter!

Champagne Bubbles, 2 coats.

I actually quite like this polish. The glitter is strangely bumpy, but I think it jazzes up an otherwise kinda boring polish. In pictures, the glitter shows up at just dark dots, but it’s actually quite sparkly. This is a polish that just isn’t very photogenic, I think.

Glittering Garland, 3 coats.

Very nice. Very close to Emerald Sparkle, but darker.

Holly-Day, 2 coats.

A creamy, smooth, delicious green. I want to describe it as “dark,” but it’s totally not. But it is a little darker than any of the other green cremes I own.

Icicle, 3 coats.

Eh. This is just a standard silver foil, and not one of my favorites. 3 coats is too many for a silver foil. ChG Millennium is totally better.

Poinsettia, 3 coats.

And here’s the first of the reds. Bright and red, what else can be said?

Ring In The Red,2 coats.

I HATE this one. It looks NOTHING like the awesome Ruby Pumps. The glitter is chunky instead of being smooth. I do enjoy the larger hex glitter, but really I think this one’s just too similar in theory to Ruby Pumps and so I can’t help comparing it and it just falls short.

Tinsel Town,2 coats.

I thought this one looked sort of boring in the bottle, but it’s now one of my favorites. Hex glitter and normal glitter, very opaque, I love it!

Twinkle Lights,3 coats.

This is another that is sort of a cousin to last year’s Party Hearty, but they’re actually very different. Still, I can’t help comparing them. Fine gold, red, and green glitter combine on the nail to make sort of a goldish shade.

Velvet Bow,3 coats.

This is extremely close to my beloved Ravishing, Dahling, it’s maybe a little more red and less brown. I found it difficult to get this to apply evenly.

Winter Berry, 2 coats.

I never know how to describe reds. It’s…red. It’s bright. There’s nothing wrong with it, and it’s not even that I don’t like red polishes, I just have a hard time describing them.

Snow Globe, 1 coat over Velvet Bow.

I tried Snow Globe over several different polishes. I don’t think it’s very photogenic though…I liked these in person, not so much in pictures. It’s very sparkly and throws off a lot of colors.

1 coat over Tinsel Town.

1 coat over Ring In The Red.

These were provided for review.