Cirque Du Soleil China Glaze swatches

I did not use a top coat for these.

Shew, lord, this post is going to take me forever to finish. I just did swatches of 3 different new China Glaze's, took a ton of pics, now I have to upload and edit. Hope you guys enjoy them!

When I first started trying to swatch these babies, in my mind, I thought it was a good idea to swatch with a black and white polish as a base. That pretty much absolutely did not work out at all. Which I suppose is a good thing since I had to re-do a few fingers anyway, since two out of the three polishes were pretty difficult to work with.

First up is It's a trap-eze! In my blog post. This was by far, the easiest to work with. Though it NEEDS 3 layers. One layer is terrible and see through, two is ok, three is perfect. Four if you really want to do 4 coats is preferably IMO, but I'll stick to the usual 3 when I decide to wear it.

Yeah i realize this pic isn't 100% perfectly aligned, my patience was wearing thin lol! Please ignore my yellow nails, seche ridge filling base coat stained them i think.

Whirled away over red, silver, and light pink--no top coat and NO base on my pinky,

contrary to the damn yellow coloring the seche ridgefiller gave me for some reason...

This polish is a HUGE freaking pain. Seriously. You can't get anything where you want it, really takes some effort. Took me a lil effort to get the few white glitters I did manage to snag. It's also a very thick formula, and as you can see on the pink base nail (ring finger) it's goopy because I had to drop the glitters on sporadically. Still a neat look, similiar to Sticks N Stones. I was so interested in it because basically no mainstream brands have done things like this up until China Glaze came around. Perhaps with some practice I'll get the hang of this one. Does make me wish I had some Seche Vite though..

And here we have last but not least, Get Carried Away:

My swatches aren't the greatest I know, but I hope they help someone. This polish is another 3 coater, possibly four. Dries relatively fast, wish I had went a bit thicker with the first coat. But there you have it. You don't really need a base with this one either, as it looks really terrible layered over a lot of colors. (I tried pink and silver for curiousity. Ew.)

Saran Wrap, striping, dots, and glitter

Not a clue on what to name this.

The peach color is gorgeous! Omg. That one is Sinful Colors - Hazard, i think. It's literally THE perfect peach color. Better than China Glaze's shades.

The black stripes I used a random Cosmo Girl striping polish, and the glitter was also by Cosmo Girl. For the Saran Wrap thumbs I used a black Pure Ice. After that dried, I put on Sinful's Hazard again and smudged with the saran wrap. :) Kinda wish I did peach with the black on top but oh well, too little; too late.

Why does this mani remind me of, "Ke$ha" and Lady Gaga for some reason???

    

 

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.

 

Funky plaid (AKA fun with taping)

I was rather indifferent about this design. I liked it more after I turned it into a plaid design rather than just the silver and purple glitter stripes. For the glitter stripes, I actually used Studio M - Purple Medallion (swatch can be found here!) and then put Essie's Shine of The Times on top of it. Pretty unique color combos shining through. I was rather eh about it but I will admit it was unique.

Before I added the yellow China Glaze stripes.

My thumb design. Better pic of all the colors. Verging on hating it,
this mani did not last very long.

Pretty sure I got inspiration from my phones case without realizing it, lol.

Got new top coat, too. :D