China Glaze “Crimson”

This is one of the polishes from my recent Ulta haul. Its part of the China Glaze Haunting collection. At first I thought with a name like Crimson it would be a deep dark red. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is actually a blacked purple crème. Formula was great, went on opaque in 2 coats. Seche Vite made it super shiny and like dark glass. You can see from the messy clean up job the purple tint around the cuticles. So pretty but I only wore it for a day because of something else you will see coming in a later post.

China Glaze “Cross Iron 360” and “Black Mesh”

After I took off my last mani, I went to close the window and had quite the break. My left thumb nail tore completely off. No saving it. It is still long but not as long as I prefer.

This is a blurry photo but this is how it looks filed down.

Another mani from my Haunting Collection that came the other day. China Glaze Cross Iron 360 is a beautiful burnt orange metallic. I think it was originally part of the Ski collection from a few years ago. Formula was great, went on easy. Completely opaque in 2 coats. Sadly, I didn’t get any pictures of it just plain. I added a coat of Black Mesh crackle top coat. Like all crackles, it needed to be put on in one thin coat. The drying pattern was varied with some large cracks and some smaller with most being vertical. As always a couple coats of Seche Vite made it absolutely gorgeous and super shiny! Lots of pictures, enjoy! Oh and excuse the mess around my cuticles, this was pre clean up.

Revlon "Black With Envy"

This was my mani for all of one day. Nothing against the color, I just got something that I was so excited about I had to change it immediately. More about that in another post. J This is a beautiful dark gunmetal gray with a silver shimmer to it. It went on really well and took two coats for it to be opaque. Overall a very pretty color and it will be worn again sometime.