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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Riveting and Luxe and Lush - China Glaze Colours From the Capitol

  I absolutely loved The Hunger Games trilogy - I am very big into dystopian and post-apocalyptic books lately, and it definitely fit the bill.  For those of you who don't know I am a very avid reader.  It can be hard to find the time with work in the lab and class and my miniature zoo and polish, haha - but I try to read a bit every night.  So far this year in January and February I got in 5 books per month.  I am not sure I will keep that up, but it is a good start!  At any rate, I can't wait for the movie, and was excited to see China Glaze teaming up with Hunger Games for a line of nail polish, and even more excited when I received two of these beauties to review for you!

Riveting
District 3 - Technology

Outdoors, shade
 Stunning bright, fiery orange jelly full of golden-yellow shimmer flecks.  Somehow out of the two polishes I received I managed to get the one I had been most wanting.  This polish is so aptly named - it is definitely riveting!  I couldn't stop staring at it!  It applied fabulously for a jelly, two smooth and easy coats.  The shimmer in this is just amazing.  Here are (quite) a few more pictures to hopefully show off some of its beauty - and I would definitely recommend clicking on some of these to enlarge!

Outdoors, shade - close-up
Outdoors, direct sun
Outdoors, direct sun - close-up
Indoors, artificial light
Luxe and Lush
District One - Luxury
Outdoors, shade
Chunky mylar flakes in a clear base, with flakies reflecting predominantly golden-orange, pink and blue.  This is a bit different type of flakie polish than I am used to, and at first I wasn't sure what I was going to think, but in the end I really like it!  It was fairly easy to apply, although sometimes the larger-sized flakes have to be gently guided into position.  the above swatch is three coats alone; below I added one coat to Riveting.  While too sheer to wear alone (in my opinion) this does make a gorgeous top coat!

Outdoors, shade
Outdoors, sun
Outdoors, shade - close-up
Overall Review

 Both of these colors are gorgeous and I would highly recommend either of them.  Luxe and Lush has a lot of potential uses as a flakie top coat and is fairly unique in size, shape, and type of flakies.  Riveting is a stunning orange jelly with great pigment and application and gorgeous shimmer flecks.  There are still a few colors from this collection that I am going to have to pick up when it becomes available (most notable Stone Cold), but these two are definitely winners!  Below is the rest of the collection, available early March - which colors are you most excited for?


DISCLOSURE: The polishes featured in this post  were provided to Polishology by China Glaze for review purposes.  This is an honest and independent review and was in no way influenced by the company.

8 comments:

  1. These colors look great on you! I too am an avid reader and I LOVED the trilogy! I can't wait for the movie to come out as well. It looks like one of those rare times when the movie may be as good as the book. I guess we'll see! My Sally's had some of The Hunger Games Collection out already this past weekend! I only bought one-Stone Cold. You can see it on my bog if you like! www.thingsiloveatthemoment.blogspot.com. I reviewed it yesterday.

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  2. Love this color! It's the only one I still have to get of the ones I wanted. I also love the Hunger Games Trilogy. Do you have any other books along these lines that you would recommend? Thanks

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  3. Riveting looks so good on you! I wasnt sure I liked it but it really looks great here

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  4. They are both so beautiful! I was skeptical about Riveting but it looks great on you. I might have to try it out. I just finished reading the first of the three books the other night--I was up until 6:00 am finishing it! I'm super excited to go by Fast Track and Argo.

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  5. Riveting and Agro are my two favorites out of the group, I loved the pictures of riveting in the sunlight!

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  6. I am so excited for this collection! I am reading the third book, MockingJay. The Hunger Games is honestly the best books I have ever read! And I have read a LOT of books, hahah. I am literally obsessed with anything having to do with THG. I'm really excited for the movie too, I love all of the actors in it! It looks like it's going to be epic. Hoping to see it in IMAX, haha.

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  7. I really want all of them. I don't know how I can afford it, but at some point, all of these will be in my collection. Riveting is really unique looking and I love it!

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