Style: Hey, how about some China Glaze?

How many self-indulgent bloggers does the world need, you ask? Well, one more wouldn't hurt, would it? I'm not even that funny or interesting, but sometimes I get bored and feel like rambling about things in a public bloggy forum. This is only the hundredth(?) blog I've had. It's a well-known, yet ever strange little compulsion in our tech-dominated society, for better or worse.


So, what's the topic at hand today? O-M-G NAIL POLISH. Seriously, I'm going to do a nail polish post, because I wisely (debatable) ran out and splurged (sounds like splooged) a bunch my hard-earned cash on nail polish like it was *insert highly-addicting drug*. In the giant scheme of things, what a dumb thing to waste money on. I can't even justify it, other than "OMG, I LIKE COLORS AND I SHOULD GET SOME NAIL POLISH 'CUZ IT'S BEEN LIKE TEN YEARS" only not really ten years. Hugely impulsive. Maybe my inner art student poked its head out and demanded that I expand my collection of paints and polishes to rival the glorious swatches of Pantone? (I may have recently bought some watercolor cakes as well.) I suppose it's nice to have a little bit of frivolous fun every once in a while. Besides, the student loan vampires can hold off on collecting my funds for at least a little while. Yeah, that'll show 'em.


Now, let's get right into the thick of it. I am China Glaze-gaga right now. If you go to head2toebeauty, they're $3, but it's only a good deal if you're getting a lot of them, since shipping will get ya. I'm impressed with the wide variety of awesome colors CG has. It's gonna be a 95° weekend here, so here are some summer-oriented colors.


China Glaze Gothic Lolita

Bitchin'. Just bitchin' in the sunlight. A festival of fabulous purple. I'm not generally a huge purple person (scarring images of a purple people eater?), but this purple is pretty, bold, and slightly pink-tinged, rather than blue, which is generally preferable. It went on nicely and looked decent after one coat, but I added a second for good measure. It's kinda BAM! I'M HERE, LOVE ME!, but still cool, hangin' out with its shades on... if that makes any sense. (No, it doesn't. And yes, that is a plush sushi in the last photo.)


China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint

Ah, cutesy name... I see what they did there. I did an awful job of applying this one, but I love these pale blue-green minty tones. Maybe they're more spring than summer due to the creaminess, but who's counting? Mint is kinda classy. It makes me feel classy and I'm decidedly not a very classy person, just crotchety most of the time. This takes two or three coats.


China Glaze Lemon Fizz

I was initially concerned about trying a pale pastel yellow. Mainly because colors like that and baby pink do not work on me in any way whatsoever. I don't really love yellow that much usually, so I conveniently drop it into that category of GET AWAY FROM ME with pale baby coo-coo pinks. But, damned if my pasty nothern European epidermis didn't kind of pull this one off. It's a creamy, not overly bright, delicious (eating not advised) yellow, a frosty glass of lemonade on a hot summer day. Mmm. Neon yellow is probably better suited for summer heat, but Lemon Fizz is just where it's at. Definitely took three coats; yellows are tricky.


China Glaze Strawberry Fields

Strawberry fields forever. Talk about succulent in two coats. A wearable hot pink with an orange shimmer. If that doesn't scream summer, then I don't know what does... besides an ice cream truck.


China Glaze Cha Cha Cha

A lovely shimmery golden spring green in two coats. Last photo is truest to its color 90% of the time. Gimme a green any day of the week. When I had this on, I kept getting distracted by its glow. Wowee. The only bad thing is that the metallic-tinged polishes show brush strokes, but I can't resist its allure. The boyfriend even loved it. I tried to get him to agree to a lovely coat of polish, even with the promise that he'd be so very pretty, but no such luck.


I'm discovering the wonders of using a base coat before applying color. I got a bottle of Seche Clear. And I'm trying to figure out how I feel about matte finish nail polish. It makes the nails look crazy artificial or something. I just don't know what it is about it. Add a shiny topcoat and I'll come around, but until then... these mattes are a mystery. Where's Nancy Drew when you need her? Or maybe the Scooby Gang could help, especially if things get a little dicey in a demonic sort of way...