Color Club New Bohemian

New Bohemian is another shade from the Back To Boho collection from Color Club's fall release. Actually, I think this might be my favorite collection of all the fall collections - I want all but two of these! I've always felt that Color Club is underrated. They make wonderful shades, and though there are a bunch of neutrals in this - they make some really nice neutrals.
So, New Bohemian. This has been compared to China Glaze For Audrey, but that is quite a bit more blue - this is much more strongly green than For Audrey. They're both awesome aqua shades, though. I think this might be a tad more dusty than my photos show, but this is surprisingly color accurate. I thought I would have a hard time capturing this, and although it looks different depending on what lighting I was in, I did manage to find some that were almost perfect!
Let's talk about formula - Color Club usually has some great formulas on their polishes, and this is no exception. I used two coats for complete opacity, and it has a high shine. I like their brushes and of course, the square bottle is perfect.

I just love shades like this - I'll probably always find these irresistible.

Orly Fowl Play

Okay, before I get into this monster post, I want to apologize - I've been super busy this week, and haven't been feeling my best, either. I'm behind on visiting everyone's blogs, and replying to comments here on Nightly Nails. I don't like to let things get too far behind - I even didn't have a post set for last night.
Anyway, let's get to this amazing polish.
Orly Fowl Play is the hugely popular polish dupe for the much sought after LE OPI Merry Midnight. The differences are minute, really. There have been many comparisons done, and I don't have Merry Midnight anymore to show you guys, so we'll skip that.
If you follow me on Twitter, you'll know I was on the hunt for this and hugely unsuccessful! Last week I got a surprise package from none other than Jen of The PolishAholic - lo and behold, there was my preciousssss. Jen, you are always hooking me up! Thanks sweet girl.
So, this is an amazing polish. Dark purple jelly jam packed with flakies, glitter, and magic. Seriously, so much going on here. It's pretty opaque on its own - you'll see that the very tips of my nails are light in these swatches, indicative of a jelly polish - but I used three thin coats to get this level of opacity. I probably could have gone with two thicker and been done.
I was curious how this would layer, so I tried a couple of different things - the first one you'll see is my thumbnail, with no cleanup. *gulp* I know everyone hates that. Anyway, it was a quick last minute experiment - I tried layering Fowl Play over Milani Rad Purple. The effect is a lighter slightly more red base. Pretty cool!
Next, Jana and Alli suggested I try layering it over a red - I used Sinful Colors GoGo Girl, which is a bright red jelly. I need to be more careful with this, as Fowl Play can go on pretty heavily, so I tried to do a thin layer, and it wasn't even enough. However, LOVE this combo.
So, a whole pile of pictures with this. You also get a bottle shot and a macro! Last photo is the layering with GoGo Girl.

Well. This has got me slightly curious how Fowl Play would look over, say, Revlon Royal. Of course, it looks fantastic on its own! So, have you managed to hunt down this beauty?

China Glaze Westside Warrior

Ahh, the last of my picks from China Glaze Metro. This is darker and less yellow than some of the olive greens I've shown you from fall collections, I think. Gorgeous. Maybe a little easier for everyone to wear? I love that there have been a wide variety to choose from - considering the paucity of olive greens up until now.
I had no troubles with the formula of this, I could almost have gotten away with one coat, since it's very pigmented. But I had a wonky brush - it was shorter in the middle and longer on the sides, and I haven't trimmed it so it made application a bit more of a challenge.

Yup, that's a beauty! I love this shade.

Finger Paints Catwalk Queen

I know that this color will probably not be popular - in fact, it really doesn't even suit my skintone at all. But I love it. It goes into the uglyawesome file, and although I look at it on my nails and think why am I wearing this? - I also am strangely attracted to it. Unlike the funky yellow greens, I don't think this compliments me at all. No matter, I'll keep wearing this. And I know I'll find a way to play with it, I think it would make a great base for a plaid manicure, if I could ever master those.
This was not as easy to apply as the other colors I picked up from Finger Paints fall, but still smoothed out after a couple of coats. It was a tad thicker, but it finally laid down right and settled out. It's definitely a dijon mustard shade on me, predominantly yellow with a touch of brown and green.

Strangely fascinating or just ugly, y'all??

China Glaze Skyscraper

You know, when I first saw swatches of Skyscraper, I had a feeling it would be a sibling to both Mrs. Claus and Mistletoe Kisses from the China Glaze holiday collection last year. I was right! I absolutely, utterly loved both of those, so I had to have this. It's as stunning as I hoped it would be, too. I think they need to do a set of glitters just like these in all the other colors - purple in particular, I'm thinking, would be awesome!
So, this is a denim blue jelly base, with lighter blue and silver square glitter. My formula was in between medium and thin - but I've heard rumour that some folks have a thick formula, anyone experience this? I used three thin coats, I like to layer up a bit when it comes to glitters like these to see the depth the layering achieves. Does that make sense? I hope so. I could have used two thicker layers, but I preferred the three thinner layers. This dries relatively quickly, and the grit factor on this is lower than a more chunky glitter, so it dries smoother. I did add a top coat to this before taking photos. I don't mind the gritty texture of a glitter, but often it will dry to a duller finish and I like them to sparkle.
Anyway, enough discussion, here are my photos - my camera had a hard time focusing with all that bling, so the macro is a little blown out. I think you can see the square shape of glitter best on the edge of the macro shot, my apologies!

Oh, I love this. I love it as much as I thought I would, and that's a good thing! I've got one more pick from China Glaze Metro to show you - Westside Warrior. I loved all the olive greens that have come out with this fall's collections, so go figure I picked that up. I decided to wait until I saw the collection in person before I made a decision to buy any more - I do have a few "holes" in my collection that need to be filled, in terms of color, so I may end up getting a few more of the Metro collection.
Did you nab this and adore it?

China Glaze Trendsetter

China Glaze Trendsetter is the uglyawesome color to end all uglyawesome colors. Seriously, this is ugly. And so awesome! This will probably not appeal to a wide audience, but it's perfect. Last year, I was hoping Classic Camel was more like this. Classic Camel only worked on a few people, but if you're remotely interested in this shade, I think it will work with a much wider range of skin tones.
So, Trendsetter. This is a yellow with a lot of green. As a matter of fact, this pulls much more green on me than yellow. Very olive toned! It is chock full of gold shimmer, so that's just an added bonus in my opinion. Swampy. When I think of swampy, this definitely fits the nail polish bill! Formula was perfect, I only needed two coats and could almost have gotten away with one.

Oh ye Gods, I love that. It's so cool! So, time to weigh in. Would you wear this? Do you hate it? Do you love uglyawesome as much as I do?

China Glaze CG In The City

This is my second pick from the China Glaze Metro collection - CG In The City. 

Now, this would be a fun layering polish, but I tried it alone and quite liked it - it built to this level of opacity in three coats, and you can still see VNL, but that's okay with me.

So, this is a clear base, with fine black, pale purple, and coppery gold glitters. I think the black glitters make it look dusky in low light - it's very cool! I have a lot of glitter, but nothing like this. Sometimes with fine glitter, you can have trouble controlling where it goes on your nail - I didn't have this problem with CG In The City, thankfully. 

A rather large number of photos here - couple of low light shots, a direct sunlight, a bottle shot and a macro.

Oh yeah. This is SO cool! Like I said, this would also make a fun topper for a creme.

Comparison: China Glaze Midtown Magic and Color Club With Abandon

I found a near dupe for Midtown Magic, so I thought I'd show you guys a quick comparison. These two are not dead on dupes, but they're sisters, very close. Color Club With Abandon came out with the fall 2009 collection Wild At Heart.
Now, I have to apologize here - I was trying an experiment with a new quick dry top coat, so the fingernails that With Abandon are on have weird wrinkling. You can still see the similarities and differences, thankfully.
My index and pinkie are With Abandon, and my middle and ring are Midtown Magic. Two coats for each polish - they have similar formulas as well.
The main difference is the base - With Abandon is a black jelly base, and Midtown Magic is a deep reddish purple (wine) base. Also I don't think I can spy any red shimmer in With Abandon. It's mostly copper and gold.

In this shot the color difference in the base is obvious, I think. Both of these are beauties! Hope you found this helpful.

China Glaze Midtown Magic

I have so many fall polishes I want to show you guys, so I'll be working on getting them swatched and posted over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully that's okay with everyone!
I picked out five polishes from China Glaze Metro that I felt like I had to have. I ordered them from Victoria Nail Supply - I'll be posting a review on my experience tomorrow during the day, if you're interested! I want to have a look at the rest of the collection in person, I may pick up one or two more to fill "holes" in my collection.
Midtown Magic is the first of my Metro picks that I want to show you, and it's a beauty. I must have taken over a hundred photos of this, trying to capture the beauty, hopefully you'll like the ones I picked out!
Let's hope I can describe this finish, because it's complex and I hope I am seeing this right. The base is a dark purple red jelly - think wine - that is absolutely packed with greenish gold and red shimmer. Wow. I think I got that right! Although it's a jelly base, this gets opaque in two coats. Let me tell you something, if you remotely think you might need this polish, YOU DO. GET IT. It's absolutely stunning. It's really pretty, although dark and vampy, in low light, but when you get it in the sun - holy cats. It's sparkly and mesmerizing. Although I am loving all the olivey greens I've been seeing in fall collections, I'm just going to go ahead and say that this is probably my favorite polish from this fall's offerings.
My photos here are not as perfect as I'd hoped for, but I hope you'll be able to see the beauty of this. I included a direct sunlight photo that's for crap, but at least you'll be able to see how it sparkles and glows and absolutely lights up.
Enough raving.

Seriously, click on those and enlarge them. Do you love this or what? Did you pick out any of the Metro collection?

Zoya Yara

Oh, this is a beauty. Zoya Yara is from this fall's Mirrors collection - it's a dusty olive green creme absolutely packed with gold shimmer. It's beautiful, and the shimmer doesn't sink when it gets on your nails, it's obvious. I couldn't stop staring at my nails!
Application was flawless, I only needed two coats. I actually wore this all weekend, so three days with not a single chip. I only took it off because I get bored too easily! This was one of the colors I was most interested in, and it definitely lived up to my expectations.

I think that this is actually a couple of shades darker, but the gold is making it look a bit lighter on camera!
This is my first swatch of the Smoke & Mirrors set I won from the sweet Zara of Never Unpolished.

Finger Paints Military Green

I am seriously loving all these olive toned, dusty greens in fall releases. This is right up my alley! I knew for sure that this would be another color I'd pick out from the Finger Paints fall release.
Military Green is a dusty, soft olive green. A neutral with a twist, I guess? I don't know if most folks would consider olive green a neutral but for me it's the perfect neutral. At any rate, this is a creme, and almost as opaque as Cordur-Orange, it's just slightly thinner so I ended up using two coats. For cremes, both of these colors I've tried applied very smoothly. I sometimes have trouble keeping cremes even on my nails, because they're thicker, but these have an absolutely buttery application.

Again, you can see that this dried just a shade deeper than the bottle color. Lovely!

Finger Paints Cordur-Orange

I AM READY FOR FALL. It's still warm here - not hot, but warm. But I'm long past ready for the fall weather to swoop in and save me.
To me, Finger Paints Cordur-Orange is the perfect fall color. I knew I had to have it before it ever showed up at my Sally's. It's a rusty orange, a bit deep and dusty and with a hint of red. Also, the formula is perfection - this is a ONE COATER. I'm completely smitten with this! I think it dries a bit darker than the bottle color, so do be aware of that, if that's a concern for you. I think this shade would be so flattering on so many folks. Also, it dried super quickly! I don't have enough of this brand and actually, I quite like them. The bottle shape is cute, and the handle is nice and long.

Yeah, that's a beauty! I love this so much. Have you guys picked any out from this collection? Which ones are you lemming?