China Glaze's No Plain Jane swatch/review

I'm not a huge fan of duochrome colors but I wanted at least one for my collection and my husband got me one when I was sick. So. He actually went in to Sally's for me (lol!), and got 3 polishes. Including No Plain Jane, which wasn't on sale, but for some reason the lady gave him a discount for being a dude getting polish for his wife. Heh. Amusing. But in total the 3 polishes was only $6, so I was pretty pleased!

Anyway, for No Plain Jane I would seriously advise buffing your nails before hand. The polish seems to be thin and where it's metallic, it shows every little thing if not buffed. (I didn't buff mine because I lost my darn buffer.)

No Plain Jane is a light-ish purple metallic with a brown-ish undertone which shows through in different lighting. It's pretty cool. Still not a huge fan of duochromes, probably my least favorite polish type. I wish it wasn't so thin.

Wth cuticle?

Not the best, but I didn't get a whole lot of the full on purple effect. A few days
worth of tip wear at this point, too.

Subtle metallic gradient with silver holo tips

I actually wasn't going to do anything to the tips but I had some tiny smudges that were bugging me. I ended up liking it a lot though, it did feel like it was missing something before I added the funky french holo tips. The blue and silver seem to fade in very nicely with each other, too, which is something I haven't gotten with the few gradient designs I've done. (The blue was also metallic but not as obvious since I sponged it i guess.)

Am I the only one whos cuticles and hands are suffering with this hot weather? I don't remember this happening last year, and I haven't changed my moisturizing routine at all. Weird.

The colors I used was a blue metallic Pure Ice color (can't think of the names gah i really should take pictures of them.) and a Revlon silver. I'm absolutely fricken thrilled I found a use for Pure Ice's metallics because their formula seems to be a bit off. It's pretty streaky as a base.