Comparison; Nails Inc - Belgravia and China Claze - There's Snow One Like You

Yea I know, maybe not the right season. But while I'm at it, a comparison between Nails Inc - Belgravia and China Claze - There's Snow One Like You. Both are white texture polishes as you can see.

Nails Inc - Belgravia 

• Jelly with sparse on texture, white hexagons and prismatic hexagons(which never look prismatic on the nail).
  
• 4 coats (needed 5 on some nails).
  
• Very difficult application, almost fishing for the texture and there is some dabbing needed to not get bald spots. In general less textured and not as "tipex white" as TSOLY.
  
• Drying time is about 35-45 minutes. Quite similar to TSOLY, but I guess the many coats increase the drying time.
  
• Cost; about $11 (CAD) (At the time I bought it, it was comparable to about 8 euro)

China Claze - There's Snow One Like You

• Jelly/crelly filled with texture and white matte hexagon glitter.
  
• 2 coats
  
• Also difficult application, the formula is thick and "lumpy" with the texture/glitter, however much easier than Belgravia. Much more textured and more white than Belgravia.
  
• Drying time is about 30 minutes which is normal for textures (imo).
  
• Cost; about $4 (US) (At the time I bought it, it was comparable to about 4 euro)

Nails Inc - Belgravia

Nails Inc - Belgravia

China Claze - There's Snow One Like You

China Claze - There's Snow One Like You

So, overall I prefer China Claze - There's Snow One Like You. I know it has more of a cottage cheese feel or like really fluffy new fallen snow, but I like that. Also, TSOLY is half the price of Belgravia, and also TSOLY need half the amount of coats, which should mean that it would last twice as long (if any one would empty a bottle..). I didn't experience any major tip wear with any of them (however I wrapped the tips) but the only thing I didn't like with both of them is that the "texture balls" are gray toned plastic (as for all textures, but here it shows more). After a couple of days wearing for both TSOLY and Belgravia the gray plastic shows a tiny bit after some wear and tear (since there's no top coat), and makes the white look a bit "dirty" in an unpleasant way. Belgravia beeing less white from the beginning has an disadvantage there.

So, do you have any of these?  Which one do you prefer? Do you even like matte textures? ;)

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Comparison between Colorclub's Miss Bliss and Halo-Graphic

Third holo post in a row, and this time a comparison between Miss Bliss and Halo-Graphic. Actually thought that I had showed them on their own on the blog but seems like I haven't. XD

Anyhow. As you know Color Club 2012 came out with their first Halo Hues collection with the six polishes Halo-Graphic, Cloud Nine, Harp On It, Blue Heaven, Cherubic and Angel Kiss.
2013 Color Club came out with 6 more shades for Halo Hues which included Miss Bliss, Beyond, Eternal Beauty, Over The Moon, Cosmic Fate and Kismet.

To make a simple comparison between the collections, 2013 Halo Hues seemed more colorful and perhaps 2012 Halo Hues where slightly more holographic.

My Miss Bliss and Halo-Graphic are super similar. Miss Bliss seems slightly more pink, maybe more warm toned and Halo-Graphic is less pink and more cold toned. I also remember that I imagined my self that Halo-Graphic was slightly more holographic, maybe.. But just looking at them you wouldn't know, they look very close.

Also added Over The Moon to the underside of my nails. Which just was a good idea in theory. Mostly it just look grayish blue and therefore looked like dirty metallic. This shot it looked cool though.

Thoughts? I have seen swatches where I imagine that there are bigger difference between them, are yours as similar or is it just mine?

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Comparison: Color Club - Port-Folio vs. Miyo - Mars

I knew that they weren't dupe's, but I thought they where similar, purple base and greenish color shift. I almost didn't buy Mars, because I thought it might be too similar. But when I compared them I saw that they where miles away from each other. What can we learn from this? Well, always buy polishes ;)


My index finger and ring finger are Miyo - Mars and my middle finger and little finger are Port-Folio. The pictures says it all but Color Club - Port-folio has a warm warm purple base towards a yellow toned green when shifting. And Miyo - Mars has a cold purple base towards teal. The color shifts in Port-Folio are also more visible.

For more photos and their original post:
Color Club - Port-Folio, swatch
Miyo - Mars, swatch

Flourecent light.

Natural light.

What do you think? Comparing them like this Port-Folio is much more striking than Mars, but I still like them both.

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Pumpkin funky french - comparison

And, just for fun.. A post with both the matte and shiny version. Somehow I find the shiny version more vibrant in the colors so maybe I prefer that one more, then again matte is really cool. Which one do you prefer?

I'd also like to show you last year's pumpkin funky french I did. I'd definitely say that there has been a major improvement in just one year, both skills and technique but also taking photos, cleanup, placements etc.

To get to each post, just click the images. :)

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Comparison neon pink polishes

During this week I've showed some pink neon polishes and I figured that it would be fun to compare them, not that they look like dupe's at all, but because I thought it would be fun to see them side to side.

From left to right I have;
CG - Love's A Beach
CG - Under The Boardwalk
CG - Hang-Ten Toes
Kleancolor - Neon Pink

I've used two coats on everyone except Hang-Ten Toes, where I needed three coats.

My thoughts:  All the China Glaze polishes have a sheer formula giving some VNL, it depend on how sensitive you are but I'm not bothered by it. CG - Love's A Beach and Hang-Ten Toes have a shimmer in them which is extra visible in the sun, making them almost glowing. Kleancolor is as you can see a creme and covers really well but needs the second coat to cover. For nail art Neon Pink is the best choice since it's the opaquest. Here it's also possible to actually see how red Under The Boardwalk looks comparing to the other. My favorite is with out doubt Love's A Beach, and as I said I'd use Neon Pink for nail art details :)

Attention.. some sad news (at least for me) you know the second polish, Under the boardwalk, today I found a new pink that I didn't know that I had, to make a long story short, at a facebook group things unraveled ; Under the boardwalk is NOT suppose to be pink, it should be purple (check pamsan's swatch out >here<). The mysteriously new pink I found was Beach Cruise-R, which should NOT be pink either!! However I remember it to be purple and other people also remembered it to be purple but now it has changed color. To clarify; in the collection there where two purple polishes, now both of them has changed color! There's no mislabeling, they where purple before but now they aren't. I think this is sad since they where my only purple neons and now I have none.... :(

An InLinkz Link-up

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