Finger Paints - Surf's Up

OMD2 - 31DC - Duochrome

Color Club Snow Queen + Pearl-spective

Color Club - Alias

Hey girls! I've got some Color Club for you today! Since I bought soooo much Color Club at Winners there's tons more Color Club coming! ...once I get around to swatching them all haha

This is 3 coats of Alias. Alias is from the Alter Ego collection from Spring 2011. It has a smoky gray jelly base with purple and blue glass fleck shimmer and a green duo chrome shift. The green duo chrome is more obvious in the bottle but is still visible on the nails under certain lighting conditions. 

I love the blue and purple glass fleck shimmer going on in here. Personally though, I don't like the green duo chrome shift. Not that I hate duo chromes I just dislike the shade of green it is shifting. Kind of reminds me of moss or something. Call me crazy but this one might be going to the giveaway pile.

This polish shrunk quite a bit :( I used the Color Club top coat (the one that comes with the sets) which is what I typically use... I guess it's probably due to the jelly base. Definitely do not use Seche Vite with this one! I can only imagine the shrinkage you would get :/

Swatch: Sephora + Pantone Universe - Evergreen

I bought this polish a while ago when I went to Vegas... back in October. It sat in my untrieds for the longest time. It looks really blah in the bottle and you can't see the gorgeous duochrome shift until it's on the nail. Usually it's the other way around where it looks gorgeous in the bottle and the duochrome isn't as obvious on the nail. Because of that I actually forgot why I bought it lol. Usually I'm not really a fan of green but I love the teal/blue shift this has! Unfortunately I found the shift wasn't that obvious in real life. It showed up well under the lamp that I use for my nail pictures but in other lighting wasn't as visible. I ended up doing a gradient over it and then trying out the black spotted technique... see that mani here

I used 2 coats for this swatch. The brush was shorter than normal and didn't hold much polish. I barely wiped off any polish from the brush and still had to re-dip into the bottle for each nail. I found that the polish kind of stuck to the nail rather than flowing nicely and I needed more polish than usual. Once I got that figured out though the polish didn't give me any problems. The brush was small and had good control. The polish felt a bit thin and flaky on the nail though, although this may have just been my topcoat or something? I used Mavala Barrier Base coat and Seche Vite top coat.