Nail Swatches: China Glaze Awakening Collection for Halloween 2010

Halloween is coming, and even though we don’t really celebrate it here in Australia, doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the collections that come out because of it 😉

Zombie Zest

My favourite from this collection, the base is a semi-transparent jelly moss & mud-like colour topped with tiny irregular specks of light metallic green / gold / blue / iridescent glitter. The formula is easy to work with and thanks to the reduced size of the glitter pieces, applies very smooth. If you only pick one from the collection, this would be it! Due to it’s transparency, this particular formula requires 3 coats to achieve this shade without top coat.

Ick-A-Bod-Y

This formula had chunkier glitter than Zombie Zest, you can see below they are rounder and all bright orange. The base polish is a murky dark green colour. Not as smooth as the above polish just because the glitter bits are larger. The swatch above is after 2 coats without a top coat, a pretty decent amount of glitter for just two coats, but like all glitter polishes, a bit of a pain to remove afterwards.

Mummy May I

Magenta squared glitter with a gray to almost black base polish. The glitter is certainly not as concentrated as the last two, probably one of the more “vampish” colours from the collection. Again, due to the size of the glitter don’t expect a smooth finish unless you have top coat. I found the formula easy to apply, only slightly goopy. Above is 2 coats without a top coat.

I’d like to do more of these types of posts, just because I have an insane amount of polish (for the average bear, not counting those awesome nail polish bloggers) and this would certainly force me to actually crack into them a bit more. My polish dream would be to actually finish an entire full bottle of coloured polish 😀