China Glaze Lotus Begin

Monday again... did you all have a nice weekend? We celebrated our very first King's Day on Saturday and it was a lot of fun. I strolled a flee market, listened to a band playing in a truck while having a drink with my husband and just enjoyed the gorgeous weather.

Today I have a gorgeous spring polish for you. China Glaze Lotus Begin is a pastel lilac cream. I think I don't need to tell you that pastel polishes normally don't look good on my skin tone, but this is just bright enough for me to pull off.

This is another polish from the City Flourish collection and the formula is not that great, but nowhere near as bad as the other polishes I showed you from this collection (Grass is Lime Greener, for example). It's a little patchy, but I was able to get it opaque in 2 coats. It has an average dry time and a shiny finish.

I absolutely love this color! Finally a pastel I can wear. I love pastels in general, but they just don't work for me. I've loved every polish in this collection so far, China Glaze did an awesome job with this one. I still have a couple in my stash that I haven't tried yet, so I hope I like those just as much as I like this one.

Did you pick up any of the polishes in this collection and which one is your favorite?

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China Glaze Metro Pollen-tin

As my dear friend Yv pointed out very nicely yesterday, I was a day early with my fried eggs that were supposed to be flowers nail art for the #SPRINGNORULES Challenge. So when I was looking through my untried polishes yesterday and saw this one, I had a "Duh!" moment.  Not only is this polish gorgeous, it's totally appropriate for today's theme! Flowers... Pollen... totally works! So today I have #SPRINGNORULES: Flower Part Two for you.

China Glaze Metro Pollen-tin is an orange based yellow cream polish. This is another polish from the City Flourish collection and this one also has that overly bright, almost neon tone to it.

Unfortunately it also has the crapy formula. These polishes just dry so incredibly fast, you can't manipulate them in any way, so the three strokes (or as few as you can manage) method is the best way to get them on your nails. But once they're on, they're absolutely stunning!

I love this vibrant color so much, I really don't mind the formula. I think China Glaze hit the nail on the head with this collection, if only they could fix the formula issues...

What's your favorite yellow polish?

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China Glaze Petal to the Metal

We've been having some great spring weather the past couple of weeks and this has put me in the mood for those bright, cheery spring colors. Winter has skipped us completely this year and yesterday temperatures rose to a lovely (but a little windy) 20 degrees Celsius. So out came my neons!

China Glaze Petal to the Metal is a dusty pink coral pastel neon. I know that doesn't make any sense, but that's the best way to describe this polish. In the bottle it looks like just a dusty pink cream and I didn't find it really interesting, I was even a little disappointed when it arrived.

 

I didn't feel like putting this on my nails at all, but I gave a friend of mine a choice and included this polish. Of course she picked the one I didn't actually wanted on my nails, but I gave her a choice, so on my nails it went.

My first reaction was WOW! It's so much brighter on the nail than it looked in the bottle, this is not a boring dusty pink, it's a dusty pink neon! I love it! The formula... well.... it's kinda crap, but manageable. A little streaky, a little patchy, but opaque in 2 - 3 thin coats and it dries extremely fast. Because it is a neon, it dries a little matte, but nothing a shiny top coat can't fix and the end product is more than stunning! It reminded me a little of that cult favorite Flip Flop Fantasy, but this is a bit more pink and a bit more pastel. I like this better to be honest.

I just can't get over how much I love every polish of the City Flourish collection this polish is part of. When I saw the first promotion pictutes, I was afraid China Glaze was giving us yet another pastel collection, but nothing could be further from the truth! They gave us pastel neons! Each and every one is totally unique and I love them all!

Have you tried any of the City Flourish polishes and which one is your favorite?

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China Glaze Grass is Lime Greener

I've been waiting for the new China Glaze Spring 2014 City Flourish collection for a while now. Ever since I saw the first promo pictures, I knew I wanted a few of them. The first swatches didn't dissapoint, so I basically stalked all the usual sites I get my China Glaze form and ordered 3 of them as soon as they came available. Yesterday, they finally arrived on my doormat and I couldn't wait to try them!

I've been coveting this one especially since the first promotions and of course it's the first to go on my nails. China Glaze Grass is Lime Greener is a bright lime green cream. It's so bright, it almost looks like a neon lime green.

The formula... well.. to say it's tricky would be an understatement. It's streaky, patchy and don't even try to go over the same spot twice, because you'll end up with big bald spots. I found that the best way to get this even on your nails is to make sure you have enough polish on your brush, do slightly thicker coats and use the 3 strokes method. It's opaque in 2 - 3 coats, depending on how thick you make them. I did 2, still a little streaky, but nothing a good coat of top coat couldn't fix.

But when you give me color like this, I really don't care about the bad formula. It's absolutely gorgeous! So bright and vibrant, it glows on my nails. It did dry a little matte, so you need top coat to get the shine. I'm in love, this will get a lot of use in spring and summer.

Did you get any of the City Flourish polishes and which one is your favorite?

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