naughty and nice plum cheer

here are two more naughty and nice china glaze colors for you :)

cheers to you is more of a New Years Eve color, but of course works for all year round just fine. a stunning silver foil that literally looks like melted silver! very bling. i would compare this to orly's shine but a little smoother imo. i loved this polish and got a lot of compliments on it. this is two coats.

sugar plums is a nice addition to this holiday set, a lovely maroon red shimmer with tiny holographic bits of glitter mixed in. this polish is reminiscent of some of china glaze's most loved colors, crystal ball and grape crush. at first i wasn't sure if i would like it, i didn't know if there was quite enough glitter for me. but once i had it on, i found that i really liked it's subtlety--the glitz is still there but is more subdued and sly. wearable for even some of you glitter-phobes! this is two coats.

lots more from "Tis the Season to be Naughty and Nice" coming up!

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

these products were sent to me for an honest review. please see disclosure statement for more information.

naughty and nice whites

hi everyone! hope your weekend is going well :) mine is very rainy! i have two of the holiday China Glaze polishes to show you today, the white ones.

snow is the creamy opaque polish, a more marshmallow than plain stark white. this covered well for me in two coats which is impressive. it's flattering on it's own but most would probably use it as a base for art or other colors.

i decided to layer some other colors on top of snow to see how it turned out.  here are party hearty, mistletoe kisses, mrs. claus, and jingle bells (which i will show you a full swatch and review of each soon).  i used two coats of ph and one of each of the others over the white.

the other white color in the Tis the Season to be Naughty and Nice collection is called frosty.  very aptly named, this polish is the color of frost on windows.  take care to use thin coats to resist bubbling.  pictured is three thin coats.  it looks a bit streaky at two, but three evens it out.  this is a super pretty color and brought to mind one of my most cherished ChG's, white-kwik-silvr from the surf collection.

of course i had to do a comparison between the two.  they look pretty different in the bottle shot but turn out relatively similar on the nail.  kwik has more of a translucent color and the shimmer is more gold, and frosty is definitely more white and has more of a silver color in the shimmer.  i also needed one more coat of kwik to make it opaque than of frosty.

hope you like these and there are more from this collection coming up soon!  have a good one my darlins :D

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

these products were sent to me for an honest review. please see disclosure statement for more information.

china glaze ick-a-bod-y

the name of this polish cracks me up :) it works for a Halloween polish on so many levels. "ick" being the gross factor in all things ooky and kooky during this time of year, "body" as in dead bodies roaming the earth devouring flesh! (sorry i just watched Resident Evil) and it's also a play on the name Ichabod Crane from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. yay for china glaze! bad ass name.

this is the last of this year's ChG Halloween polishes, I got the Awakening set of three (Mummy May I and Zombie Zest) with the Fast Forward topcoat from VNS :D a little note on that topcoat, i really love it like A LOT, it dries super fast on me. but the smell is horrendous, i always got a headache when i used it. and as someone who suffers from chronic headaches, i would rather jump off a cliff than knowingly engage in an activity likely to bring one on! it's too bad, because it's a great topcoat. IF you can stand the smell.

ick-a-bod-y is the polish i was probably least excited about from the three, but honestly i ended up liking it just as much as the others. i was gawking at my nails all day when i wore it. i tend to think orange works well with my skintone and the murky green base, while barely detectable as green, makes it really pop. i like that they did something different, rather than just black and orange. kudos ChG (again haha). this is two coats, photographed in afternoon sunlight.

are you planning any special manis for Halloween?  i think i'm going to rock the candy corn mani everyone has been trying out...we'll see :)

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

i bought this myself. please see disclosure statement for more information.