China Glaze Optical Illusion, Full Spectrum, & Liquid Crystal

Hey everyone! As most of you know I'm giving 3 of the new colors from the China Glaze Prismatic collection. Today I decided to swatch the colors for you. This collection consists of 6 colors and no word yet on when they're being released. The promo pics (as always) made everyone drool, and let me tell you, these bottles do not disappoint, they're so gorgeous and duochrome-y that I immediately went crazy. On the nail, however, they're nice, not the "OMG THIS BOTTLE IS GORGEOUS" effect that I had when I first saw them, which is unfortunate since that doesn't directly go on to the nails but they're very nice no less.

Here are the amazing looking bottles that I showed you yesterday...

Now on to the nails, these are all with 2 coats, no top coat, all 3 were really sheer on the first coat but came together nicely by the second coat.

Optical Illusion

Full Spectrum

Liquid Crystal

As you can see, on some angles you can really see the duochrome on the nail but it's not as extreme as in the bottle, I would imagine that a third coat would hide any nail that shows through but 2 was thorough enough for me. Overall, I think they're really pretty, I honestly do, however, I did expect more. As much as these are great, it almost seems like they're just a nicer version of the 3-D Glitters that just came out, the promo pics made me expect more.

China Glaze Prismatic Giveaway!

I am extremely excited to share this with you, I ran into these 3 little gems today, 3 out of the 6 China Glaze Prismatic polishes!! These are soooo gorgeous in the bottle and I couldn't get home fast enough to share this with you. I know I don't have a huge number of followers and I haven't really reached a follower achievement to post a giveaway but I appreciate every single person that takes the time to come to my page. So for this I will be giving away these 3 gorgeous polishes!!

 Left to Right

Liquid Crystal, Full Spectrum, Optical Illusion

This giveaway is indeed international and will end at 12:0AM EST on Valentine's Day 2/14/12. Good luck!!

China Glaze Magnetix Swatch Video

Just wanted to share this video over here for those that aren't following me on YT. Last night I swatched the China Glaze Magnetix collection on camera, if you're interested, check it out!

China Glaze Electropop (Picture HEAVY)

Instead of dividing this into separate posts I decided to just lay it in one huge one. So here's all 12 colors from China Glaze Electropop, I have to say I'm a bit "meh" about this collection, besides Gothic Lolita and maybe Techno (which is just a re-release anyway), there's not a color that I can geniunely say "I really like that" to. Then again, spring colors have never been my favorite so it might just be me.

All colors are two coats, no top coat.

Sunshine Pop

Medium yellow with a nice shimmer.

Gaga for Green

Green Creme, a little sheer upon the first coat, evened out by the 2nd coat.

Make Some Noise

Creme Coral Pink/Red

Wicked Style

Creme Dark Pink

Fuchsia Fanatic

Creme Pink/Purple (Fuchsia)

Kinetic Candy

Creme Light Blue

Electric Beat

Creme Medium Blue

Dance Baby

Creme Pink

Aquadelic

Creme Aqua

Sweet Hook

Creme Light Lavender

Gothic Lolita

Purple with Purple/Blue Shimmer

Techno over Gothic Lolita

Holographic Hexagon & Micro Glitter

Matte Magic over Techno & Gothic Lolita

As I swatched these on video I realized that these colors are easily dupable and even a close match to previous colors, on the bottle at least. Wicked Style seems to be like Heli-Yum, Aquadelic is almost identical to For Audrey, and Electric Beat is just slightly lighter than Secret Peri-winkle, that was a little dissapointing but I guess it's to be expected eventually. Hope you enjoyed and feel free to watch my swatch video if you want to see how they apply live.