China Glaze - It's Alive

Just like everyone else, I must post my swatches of China Glazes "It's Alive". You know I just feel that there should be a "!" after "It's Alive!". I don't I'm strange.

Anyway... This is the real glitter of the collection, I feel. Waaay more glitter than Haunting had. It's a green base filled with green and yellow glitter.

 It applied like a nightmare. Just what I had suspected. It looked nice from FAR away, but if you got up close you could actually see where there are dents in the polish since it applied too thick and chunky like, I know this is 3 coats but that's only because It looked this way with 2 coats and I tried to fill the spaces in..it only got worse.

...and like everyone else it doing, I feel I need to show my comparison to last years "Zombie Zest:"... Not comparable at all. I also showed it next to Sinful Color- Call You Later.

 Do you have a comparable color to "It's Alive"?

China Glaze - Midtown Magic

I can't talk about how much I love this color, the green and orange sparkles. The dark burgundy. Everything.

Can you see all of the sparkly goodness in this color? This just came out with the Metro Collection, and in my opinion the best color of this collection and one of the best colors China Glaze has come out with in a while. It's a dark burgundy base filled with green and orange glitter flecks. What this polish does in the light is amazing.

In case you didn't know I'm deeply hurt how I was never lucky enough to get China Glazes - Fortune Teller. That polish is absolutely beautiful and Midtown Magic doesn't really compare to it in any way and Fortune Teller is still on the top of my wish list. I'm not saying that I've given up on my search for it but I kind of feel like I can relax a little on it now that I have this one. haha.

I got a little picture happy with this color. I just wanted to properly show what this polish is and how awesome it looks.

What do you think of this color? Is this your favorite from the new Metro Collection?

OPI - Clubbing Til Sunrise

So...It's only August 21 and I'm thinking about Halloween already. I just ordered the new China Glaze Halloween colors, I can't wait for them to get here!!! but still I need to relax and enjoy the rest of the summer. Pretty soon it's going to be snowing and I officially hate snow and after last years snow I'm ready to move south.

Anyway....Clubbing Til Sunrise is a Burnt orange with shimmer with a nice metallic like finish. It does make me think of the sunrise :) it applied very easily and covered well with 3 coats, however it is not a very forgiving finish for those with ridges in their nails but only real visible under certain lighting. Below: No base, 3 coats, no top coat.

Again since I was thinking of Halloween I decided to try out some looks I might do in October. I tried 2 different black crackles. Which by the way seem pretty much the same other than formula goes, and white. I think I might try this alternating black and white.

What do you think of the crackle over Clubbing Til Sunrise?