China Glaze Kiwi Cool-Ada & Icing Love It

I wasn't even going to post this since I could not for the life of me get this to photograph and be color accurate, but I thought I would share my failure anyway. China Glaze Kiwi Cool-Ada is actually a neon, not this spring, grassy green that my pictures are showing. Icing Love It is a multicolor glitter that has purple, black, gold, and blue glitter mixed in (I think, I don't have my bottle with my right now but when I get back home I'll double check!). Application of Kiwi Cool-Ada was alright. Like most neons I have it was streaky on the first coat and evened out at around 3-4 coats. Pictured here is four coats of Kiwi Cool-Ada, one coat of Love It, and one coat of Seche Vite. You could probably get away with 3 coats of Kiwi Cool-Ada, but I did a fourth just to make sure I didn't miss any spots.

Neons are a pain to photograph. I took a picture of my neon shelf on my nail polish rack and they looked almost pastel! Crazy, right? I have a long way to go before I learn how to properly photograph neons.

Icing After Party

Icing After Party is the colorful rainbow version of Icing Shredded, which is what I was originally looking for when I purchased this. It reminds me of OPI Rainbow Connection if it were thrown in a paper shredder and shredded into tiny bits. The brushes on Icing polishes reminds me a lot of China Glaze brushes, I'll include a picture of the brush, I like it, it's not too big but it's not too small, it's just right for me. The only downside of this polish for me is that my bottle has dried polish and glitter on the outside of it, which was there when i purchased it. I think that maybe it was with another bottle that broke and they just didn't bother to clean the bottle off, which is no big deal, but you can really see the dried polish on the bottom of the bottle. You would definitely want to wear a topcoat with this since some of the glitter bits don't lay flat against the nail and stick up a little bit, nothing a little Seche Vite can't solve though!

Pictured is one coat of Icing After Party over top of three coats of OPI Are We There Yet? 

Look at that glitter! So pretty

See the dried polish on the bottle?

A lot like China Glaze brushes, am I right?

NOTD: Blue Gradient

I'm really into the Gradient trend lately. This is only my third attempt at it but hey, not too bad! I'm still trying to improve my technique though. 

The Base color is Essie's Borrowed and Blue followed by Essie's School of Hard Rocks and Bobbing For Baubles with an accent nail in Icing's Hey Sailor Boy. 

I could be wrong, but Hey Sailor Boy looks like a close dupe to Deborah Lippmann's Across The Universe. Don't take my word for it though since I don't own Across The Universe to compare it to. 

I'm not sure how I feel about these two looks together, but separately they're both fantastic colors! All three of the Essie polishes were pretty easy to work with, Borrowed and Blue took about three coats to be even and fully opaque, but if you take your time you could probably get away with two coats. Hey Sailor Boy also took three coats to be fully opaque. I'm not sure if my camera captured it or not, but it has green glitter in it as well as the blue glitter, very pretty!

Edit: I didn't notice the glare from my curtains until just now, please forgive me for the glare on my middle finger and my pinky!