Misa Moody Model

A milk chocolate cream from the 2007 Runway collection. It looks like yummy melted milk chocolate in most lightings but I think it clashes with my skin tone. My Asian coloring tends to pull out whatever little reddish tints that exist, making it look like impure chocolate. However, I noticed from others swatches online that the color looks like the perfect shade of melted milk chocolate on skin tones more pinkish than mine. It also looks just a little bit dusty in real life.

The application was perfect, most fingers were two coats but some were only one. It also dried with normal glossiness without a top coat. The swatch above was taken on the fourth day of wear, so pardon the tip wear and scratches. Poshe Fast Drying Base Coat and Seche Dry Fast Top Coat were also used and it lasted a good six days on me with only two minor chips.

LA Girl Turntable

A green-based turquoise jelly from the Disco Brites collection. Turquoise is one of my favorite colors, especially green-based turquoise. I even have bed sheets that are almost the same shade, just a touch more blue. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of my nails against the bed sheets as my camera couldn’t differentiate between the two colors. I had a hard time trying to capture this shade and my usual camera settings made it seem too blue. The swatch above is warmer than my usual photos to bring out its true color.

Turntable applied beautifully, I used two coats for full opacity. The consistency was just nice, not too thick or too runny, and it dried very glossy like any other jelly. The most important thing to note is to never ever use this polish without a base coat. It stained my nails yellow in less than 24 hours the previous time! To make sure this didn’t happen again, I used Poshe Fast Drying Base Coat and viola, no staining. As usual, no top coat was added.

China Glaze Grape Juice

A medium purple with silver glass fleck shimmer from the 2009 Summer Days collection. The whole collection consists of beautiful glass flecked polishes but the only one I have is Grape Juice. It looks like a gorgeous amethyst crystal with shimmery particles, lightening under strong light and darkening in the shade. The application was a breeze even though it was sheer and required three coats. I found the watery formula easy to control and certainly hope to get other colors from the collection – namely, Watermelon Rind. The wear was also fantastic, it lasted a week with very minor tip wear and chips with no top coat or base coat used.

China Glaze Lemon Fizz

A light yellow cream from the 2010 Up and Away collection. It's a beautiful yellow that's not too cool on my Asian skin. It's my favourite shade of yellow, being neither too pale nor too bright. Unfortunately it was a streaky mess. The polish drove me crazy during the application (or should I say, applications) and refused to level even after three coats. I tried combinations of thick and thin coats but the application only improved after thinning the formula. The swatch above was an imperfect two coats without base coat or top coat. Now I understand why yellows are usually called the problem-child of polishes.