IsaDora ~ Pink lemonade and All city brown graffiti

Here are two more of the Isadora polishes I got from Kia:

Two coats. Application was good, and dry time absolutely decent. The pictures are taken on day 3 so wear was pretty good aswell. In the bottle (and by name) this one looks really pink, however, atleast on my nails it looks more coral. In Norwegian we call what this one looks like "salmon pink" and that fits the bill pretty well imo. This was also my first experience with the IsaDora crackle polishes. It looked very unevern and "weird" when I applied it but as it dried it evened out nicely.

The crackle (or graffiti-) polish actually cracked a lot nicer on my right hand so here is a better pic

That is what i call a perfect crackle pattern. Pretty evenly distributed in both directions. I definately need more of these graffiti polishes.

Which crakle is your favourite?

China Glaze ~ Halloween 2011, Haunting

And here is the second of the Halloween glitters:

It's a "simple" black polish with a smattering of silver glitter. I type simple in quotation marks, because as the principle is quite simple the result is pretty awesome. It looks like the sky on a clear, dark winter night. Really really pretty.

I decided to try this one with another of China Glaze's crackle polishes, Platinum Pieces:

Ok, this combo was a bit of a dud. I actually think Platinum pieces could be nice over a plain black (like Liquid leather or similar), but here it just ate up all the pretty silver glitters. It looks decent, but the whole magical night sky feeling is lost.

China Glaze ~ Halloween 2011, It's alive!

Halloween is almost here (ok, ok, it's still about 5 weeks away but the halloween collections are already out.) China Glaze has released a collection with 2 glitters, 2 cremes and a glow-in-the-dark topcoat. I got the two glitters and the ghoulish glow topcoat, and here is the first of the glitters

It's alive:

This is two coats without topcoat. It's a dark, moss green jelly base packed with small round and larger hex glitters. The glitters appear very golden but I'm pretty sure they're green like the base. Application was good, dry time was very fast. It dries pretty gritty, and as it came bundled with China Glaze Fast forward topcoat I decided to give my trusty Seche Vite a pass and try it.

Here it is with topcoat. It smoothed out the polish, and made the colour deepen a bit. Fast forward really dried fast. I didn't time it, but for general purposes it felt as fast as Seche Vite. The consistency seemed very runny, but that may be me being used to (often slightly dried out) SV. Anyone else tried this topcoat? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

In the bundle was also a bottle of Black mesh, the black crackle from CG. I have a bottle of this already, so the new one will go into giveaway/swap pile. However, I dug out my old bottle and tried it on:

So far I haven't been completely awed by crackle-polishes, but I really liked this combo. I originally thought I'd found my halloween mani but I'm not so sure anymore. What do you think? Which would be your favorite for halloween?

Halloween manicure!

I think I just found this years Halloween manicure. I felt I had to do something more to the Papaya punch from yesterday. I thought about adding glitter, but instead decided on a black crackle instead. This is China Glaze Black mesh, with my trusty Seche Vite on top.

Pretty neat I think. Opinions?