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China Glaze Metro Collection - Part 1: Uptown

Hello lovelies, I finally got to swatching the China Glaze Metro collection for Fall 2011. It's a great range of shades from greys and taupes to reds and raspberry shades. I think everybody can find their shade.



Here is the first half! The collection is divided into two parts - Uptown and Downtown. Today I will show you swatches of Uptown collection, my favourite :) 



Uptown includes CG in the City, Urban-Night, Traffic Jam, City Siren, Street Chic and Brownstone.

No more introduction, let's see the swatches! First up
Traffic Jam - a raspberry creme colour. This is a beautiful shade that reminds me CHG Heli-Yum from Spring 2010. The formula is great - so smooth, not watery and shiny! The polish is opaque about 90% in one coat and it takes just second thin coat for perfection. I dried quite fast and became #1 of the whole collection for me!




Street Chic - creme taupe with a hint of grey. I needed two coats for a full coverage but had to be careful because formula is a little bit runny. Nothing horrible but you can't use too thick coats. It is nice and shiny without top coat.




City Siren - beautiful cool tone red creme. One coat was almost enough for a full coverage and it's soo shiny! It applied very nicely and dried reasonably fast. This is a very nice shade of red I must say.



Direct sunlight



Brownstone - reddish brown creme colour. Again the formula was very nice, smoth and shiny just like the rest of the collection and it dried fast and was nicely pigmented. I needed two coats as usual but one had very good coverage.





Urban Night - rich eggplant purple creme colour. Really nice and deep shade with blue-ish undertones. Formula is smooth, pigmented  and shiny. 





CG In The City - fine silver, purple and orange glitter particles. The first coat dried quite fast but was a bit grity. The second and third were all right and were enough for the coverage you can see in the pictures. The polish dries fast but leaves a bit of a matte and gritty finish. With one layer of top coat it will be nice and smooth :) It's a nice layering polish as you'll se below in the pictures. The removing was a bit difficult because it's a glitter polish but I just left soaked cotton buds on my nails for few minutes and it helped a lot. I don't bother with wrapping my fingers with foil, that's too much hassle.



In the direct sunlight
 

CG In The City over Traffic Jam

In the direct sunlight



The first half of the collection impressed me a lot with the great formula of the polishes. All the five creme shades applied smoothly and were really nicely pigmented. I haven't done the 'wearing' test yet but I have good experience with CHG polishes. I will report on this issue later. 


So far it's a great Fall collection and it's already available in e-shops. I'm really looking forward to try the second half - Downtown Collection. Stay tuned cos it's coming soon!




*These products were sent to me by a PR company for a review and I expressed my honest opinions.

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Summer holiday post with Glitter Gal 3D Fuchsia

Hello lovelies, I'm sending you my wishes from Czech Republic! I'm on holiday visiting my family and friends and I'm having a really nice time (except for the weather :-/ ). That's also the reason why I haven't posted anyhing lately...sorry...  I'm spending my holiday with Glitter Gal Fuchsia on my nails so I'll write a post about it :)

Fuchsia is a holografic pink colour with a hint of red, not really a typical bright and vivid fuchsia colour. But if you won't see it in person, you won't believe how beautiful it is! Oh my! The holographic effect is so intense and beautiful, better than China Glaze OMG collection.

I was little bit afraid that the application with quite a small brush will be difficult but no. It applied very nicely, smoothly and I managed to have clean nails without need of any touch ups. The small brush in here comes very handy, especially on holiday when you don't have all your gadgets with you ;)

The formula is good, it is not too thin so I needed two coats for a nice  and full coverage. I apply OPI base coat and Seche Vite top coat and polish lasts about 4 days without chipping. With minor touch ups you can wear it for about 6 days. Pretty good, huh? When I wore holographic polishes in the past, they didn't last very long so this was quite a surprise for me. I also haven't experienced any problems applying holographic polish over a base coat as with China Glaze.

The bottle of polish has 9 ml and it is an Australian product.

Glitter Gal is seeking International on-line or store stockists
If you know anyone that may have on-line store or store, this would be a great help, as we are continually asked stockists in your country and it would be great opportunity, as we can then direct our customers directly to stores in appropriate countries.

 
 Direct sunlight

In the natural daylight/shadow

*This product has been sent to me for a review
About Glitter Gal:
Our background

Both Anna and Kerry have been friends for many years and partnered together to create Glitter Gal.
With Kerry's experience as a makeup artist and Anna’s background in creating/suppling “private label” products to other Australian companies they have designed “Glitter Gal” a great makeup and nail polish range. The products are great quality, eyecatching packaging and very affordable. 
 
Glitter Gal Holographic nail polish
We use “true” holographic particles in our formulation. This one ingredient is 30 times more expensive than any other nail polish ingredient. Thus making our holographic nail polish the highest quality possible. You will notice the smoothness to the finish of polish, and reflective effects are amazing. They are also the “Big 3 Free”.
Many other companies have tried create holographics, but use the more affordable ingredients, which don’t give the polishes the same effect, we didnt want to compromise on quality and wanted to deliver to our customers a true holographic formulation. I hope this helps.
 
 
So what do you think about this holographic beauty?

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