China Glaze Stellar
First, I love the color of this polish. A champagne beige with micoglitter, I think it’s suit any skintone. This is my usual 3 coats plus SV. Downside: total pita to remove unless you use the soak and wrap method of removal. In my book, it’s worth it!
ChG Stellar
Here’s one more pic in the bright sunlight. I just think it’s gorgeous and understated at the same time.
China Glaze Bogie
I’d almost compare this to a blackberry shade… dusky eggplant, maybe? It has alot of shimmer, though! I really like this one and plan to wear it alot this fall! This is a three day old mani and a pic taken quick, so pardon (always and forever) my horrid cuticles. Sorry, also, that I’ve been on such whirl around here I haven’t been up to snuff on posting and answering. Someday my rountine shall set in!
China Glaze Jitterbug
This little lovely is from the ChG Vintage Vixen set. I thought it was a close dupe to OPI Lucerne-tainly but it’s really not. Lighter in color, and more graphite looking, very shimmery as to almost be a glitter. Dh loves these natural earthy looking polishes. And so do I! If you click the pic, it gets HUGE and you can see the flecks of shimmer better. I didn’t use a topcoat, hence the wear, sorry. Sunlight here doesn’t always allow an immediate photo…due to the lack of it. But lucky me, today we have some sun, so a-swatching I shall go!
ChG Spontaneous
ChG Spontaneous is such a lovely, feminine and flirty purple creme. It’s a bit bright, not dusky at all. Lavender? Lilac? There are near dupes, but not an exact one that I’ve found yet. It applies really nicely dries fast and wore well! It’s a win!
ChG High Hopes
In continuation of the long series of Up and Aways is High Hopes. It’s less gooey than the pastels, but more gooey than the deeper hues. This is definitely on the orange side of coral, and is pretty bright! It dries a little darker than it appears in the bottle. I want to like it, but have many similar shades that apply much easier.
ChG Heli-Yum
Another great formula. I guess it’s just the pastels that are kinda glooppy. It’s a bright pink, obviously. To my eyes, there’s definitely no red or orange look… it’s all pink! I really don’t know how to describe it better! Hibiscus Pink?
ChG Flyin' High
Flyin’ High is another winner in the formula category. I checked my blues, thinking I had one like it, but I really don’t. Similar to Custom Kicks, but it bluer. The picture is quite accurate. Pardon the neglected and poorly painted right hand! I think these polishes *may* be Konadable. They’re preeetty opaque….
ChG Peachy Keen
Peachy Keen was kind of a pita to apply. It was thick and streaky. Took 3 coats to get this. The color to me is a little less bright than in the pic, but still, it reminds me more of cantaloupe than peaches. Overall, it will be worth the pain in the butt to apply it, I think. 
ChG Light As Air
Light as Air is a very pastel lavender creme that isn’t so chalky looking. It was thick, but applied much better than some others. It was opaque in 2 coats, easily. For me, this is a win, maybe because I like purples so much! Yes, I have my own biases.
ChG Four Leaf Clover
This is my favorite of the bunch, and I couldn’t get a perfect pic of it. It’s more green, not blue at all. I was even wondering how Four Leaf Clover and OPIs Jade is the New Black would compare. The formula on this one is MUCH smoother and nicer to apply, very much like Grape Pop, maybe better. The color is really different and bright and I like it! 
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ChG Refresh-Mint
ChG Refresh-mint is quite thick and opaque. It went on streaky at first but leveled itself out pretty well. It still looks a bit chalky on my skintone, but I don’t dislike this formula as much as I did the yellow ones. It’s application is different than a usual ChG, much thicker. Not always a bad thing, I guess! Anyhoo, the color is a very pastel mint green with no hints of blue at all. Pure mint. This is pretty color accurate.
ChG Channelesque
Lavender putty. I think they use that to describe Sephora OPI Metro Chic. This is possibly similar, though I don’t yet own the Metro Chic yet. Went on great, white label, for those who care, dry time was a wee slower than normal, but it took only 2 coats. I really love the neutral shade of this color. It looks much shinier than in my pics. Still working on that…. yes.
Application was a globby, streaky mess, however I did manage this on the first try. The pic here shows the color a little darker than it is, for sure. NOT color accurate.
Grape Pop is fine, glad to report (again.) The rest, I’ll continue swatching when I can stomach it. Most of these colors look like chalk on me. They are thick and fairly opaque in 2 thick coats. To me, it just isn’t TIME YET for these Easter-egg pastel colors. I’m still in full-fall gear here!
No pictures yet. Battery died as mani was drying! I have some dumb luck sometimes, lol! Anyway, I wanted to be impressed and love these, but so far the ones I’ve tried have been pretty streaky and not as easy to apply as a typical ChG. Four coats of High Hopes and still streaks. Grape Pop fared slightly better as it’s more opaque. Drying time was a little longer, imo, too. I’ll update this post as I get some photos taken, hopefully tomorrow!
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China Glaze Midnight Ride
Midnight Ride is a deep, deep shimmery purple, and this picture is with a flash. Sorry for the wear. It’s definitely purple, but has a tendency to look bluish is some light. Regular daylight, it looks like a dark purple and I can’t see the shimmer unless I really look for it. My sweet DH got me a whole Rodeo Diva Collection, with both parts, so this was the darkest of those.
To give this polish some credit, I did clean out my sink, shower, do dishes, move my whole pantry contents out and back in…. The mani held up to alot of torture! However, it was watery going on, which made application kind of difficult.
Orly Enchanted Forest With China Glaze Pixie Dust
I labeled the photo incorrectly! This is ChG FAIRY DUST, not Pixie Dust!
Goofing around, noticed that this base polish really showed off the sparkle and holo in Fairy Dust, so you can imagine what it will do to a holo! I love Fairy Dust.
China Glaze Gussied Up Green
I thought this was holidayish with a bit of grrr to it, so this is my mani today. ChG Gussied Up Green is a deep blackened green shimmer, dries quite fast, but went on a little thin unlike my usual ChGs. Three coats is no biggie though, especially when this beauty of a shade comes from it.
China Glaze Cowgirl Up
Beautiful polish, very glam, to me. A deeper shade of burgundy magenta, is the only way I know how to describe the shade. It went on great and dried fast. In different light it looks lke a brown, or a wine…. It is a very different color in my collection (which is tiny compared to many on nb!) but one that my Dh picked up for me, and turned out to be another winner!
China Glaze Ginger over OPI Ginger Bells
The ChG polishes in this collection, I believe it’s Carnival Lights (I’m SO not the researcher.) are a little translucent, so layering them works great for me since I like opaque best. I used OPI Ginger Bells 2 coats with 1 coat of Ginger. Ginger is a holo glitter with coppery tones, very nice and smooth with topcoat. Mahagonie and Dynasty are also in the same collection and similar in texture and tone, all very pretty and unique. I classify this in browns, though it is kind of orangy, too… very fallish.
China Glaze Fortune Teller
This much coveted polish came out at Halloween, and I missed it completely. Fortunately, I have wonderful friends like Jessika that found this for me! Please note, Jessica also found one! How nice is that?!? It goes on super smooth for a glitter and dries a little slow, but worth the wait! I couldn’t get a good day pic of this, it just kept focusing on glitter, so here’s the glitter with a flash. DH says it looks like an oil spill on copper. And it does! Super shiny and very coppery-orange. I love it!
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