China Glaze Nova

Woo 2010 is upon us!  I've been doing a lot of self-reflecting the past few days, and burning my aromatherapy candle... and now I'm taking antibiotics for a sinus infection (blah).  I probably won't do anything for New Years, but I can at least have an awesome manicure!


I didn't want to take off my OMG from yesterday, so I just layered 2 coats of China Glaze Nova on top, followed by 2 thick coats of Seche Vite.  Nova is a small hexagon glitter in a clear jelly that is a little chunky and was apart of the Specialty Collection that came out this year (I believe it's also called Glitters and Cremes but I'm not 100% on that one).  Without a base color coat, it takes about 4 coats to be totally opaque and I can still feel a bit of grit on my nails. However, last time I wore this, my nail polish literally popped off in one piece during the day, so I didn't want to put too many layers on this time.

Blurred to see the BLING!

Here are the pictures from the last time I wore this, the 4 coater.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website] or Sally's Beauty Supply [official website].

China Glaze OMG

China Glaze OMG is apart of the OMG! collection that was released in 2 parts - the 6 piece 2BHOT and 6 piece 2BKEWL.  OMG I think was apart of the 2BKEWL Palette... I just bought all of them.  It a micro-particle holographic with a silver base, perfect for the upcoming NYE weekend (and yet I'm sure I'll have a different manicure by then).

It's also impossible to capture on camera.  It's just way too pretty in real life - tons of holographic rainbows all over the place in a smooth finish.  This was three coats, Seche Vite base coat, but no top coat, as top coat tends to dull the shine of the polish as seen in my older pictures.

Older pictures from when I had a top coat:

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website] or Sally's Beauty Supply [official website].

HUGE China Glaze Giveaway!

It's no secret that I absolutely adore China Glaze nail polish. It's pretty, it's inventive, it's Big 3 Free, there are tons of colors, loads of glitters, and well their people just simply rock.


And now they are having a HUGE giveaway - all 50 of their Glitters and Cremes.  If you're a Twitter person (and you should be!), then start following them [official Twitter page].  Then, be sure to send out a message that says "I want 2 win the C&Gs @ChinaGlaze!" There will be THREE winners each day until Wednesday December 30th. Winners announced around 3:00 PM Pacific Time.  International users can also join in on this, and since many of you can't get China Glaze shipped overseas without paying extreme prices, I totally would join in on this!


I currently own all 50 myself, but I paid for every single bottle except for Solar Flare, which I received from China Glaze after I contacted them personally about SF not being available for sale on some of the normal e-tailers.


You can check out the colors on Head2Toe Beauty [official website] and see how amazing this giveaway really is.  Some of my favorite colors from the collection are Rose Tea (which is the picture in my blog header), Gelato, Flower Girl and Nova.  The glitters are beautiful too - even my Mom wanted to borrow Electric Lilac (and my mom pretty much hates nail polish).  So what are you waiting for?!  GO TWEET!

China Glaze Good Witch?

China Glaze Good Witch? was apart of the Wizard of Ooh Ahz Returns! collection that appeared at the end of this year.  The original collection came out in 2001, back when I kept my nails bare (gasp!).  Good Witch? is a pale pink frost with a very fine pink microglitter.  It almost dries matte and a tad gritty, but a top coat of Seche Vite smoothed it out.  I was a little irritated in the sheerness though - one coat of base coat and FOUR coats of polish before my VNS was mostly gone.  I think this color blends a little too much into my skin color, but it's still a pretty polish.

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website] or Sally's Beauty Supply [official website].

China Glaze Water Marbling

I've seen this several times in blogs but never in person, and while I have tried it once before, it was with miserable results.  I still have a lot to learn, but I did my best, and I'm happy enough with it.


I used petroleum jelly to coat my fingers, Zoya Remove+ to clean my nails, and then I forgot the base coat (oops) but I used China Glaze Emotion and China Glaze Cherish both from the Romantique Collection, and a top coat of Seche Vite.  I think my thumb turned out the best but while I was cleaning it up, I scratched the polish on my nail.  Go figure.


I still have to do my right hand, and then wash my hands well to get all the PJ off, but here you go!

China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website] or Sally's Beauty Supply [official website].