China Glaze Glitz Bitz 'n Pieces Collection for Spring 2013

Hi everyone!

I hope everyone is having a great start to the new year! I certainly am! Of course I'm dreading going back to school (and job hunting), but I've been having a blast polish wise! I was stalking my local beauty supply for the OPI Mariah Carey collection and I had the best luck yesterday. Not only did they just get the Mariah Carey collection, but they also got this new China Glaze collection! Needless to say, the hoarder in me jumped out and I had to get all 6 polishes in this collection. In my defense it's glitter, which makes it much more reasonable, right?

Anyhow, there are a LOT of photos in this post, so I'll be putting it under a cut... here's some eye candy to hopefully tempt you into taking the plunge!

China Glaze Stone Cold

Hi everyone!

Just a few words today, since I should really be studying for my first exam (which is Saturday! Eep!). today I have another polish from the China Glaze Hunger Games collection! This one is called Stone Cold.

Stone Cold is a matte polish (which totally makes sense) and it has a shimmer in it and keeps it from being completely flat and gives it a cool texture. I must confess that I don't really like the look of matte cremes (it reminds me of coloured chalk) but I do like the look of matte shimmers. I'm definitely going to give matte glitters a whirl sometime. :D

Anyhow, this polish went on very smoothly, but didn't give me any problems balding (which is a major plus) even though it dried pretty fast. Just to see how it'd look, I also put a top coat over this to see what it'd look like shiny...

What do you guys think? I think that this one is a winner both matte and shiny. I'm super glad I picked this one up. :D

Thanks for reading!

Marisa

China Glaze Agro

Hi everyone! I hope you all have something fantastic planned for Easter weekend!

Today I'm going to show you an amazing polish... I wasn't even planning on buying this one, but my sister bought it and when I put it on it was pretty much love at first brushstroke!

There are a LOT of pictures in this post, so lets get started...

 

Agro applied pretty much like butter! This is two coats. In these pictures it looks a bit brushstroke-y, but it wasn't really all that noticeable in person at all.

Lately I think I've been attrated to certain polishes because their names remind me of geeky things. I didn't even associate this polish with anything until I actually got it into my hands and read the name... and then I thought of this...

From: http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/kabernd/seminar/2002/method/dsmeth/ds.htm

 Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Affectionately known by some (including myself) as Agro. Responsible for some crown galls that you see occasionally on tree trunks, and is very useful for introducing genetic constructs into plant cells.

Anyway... back to the polish. I wondered how this polish would look matte, so I put a coat of Matte Magic on top, and this is what happened...

I love it. It's awesome. I'm obsessed with matte finishes now, especially this matte shimmer thing. Adding a matte top coat to a shimmer just gives it so much more depth. I think I'm going to be using Maate Magic a lot more in the near future... :D

Thanks for reading! Happy Easter!

Marisa