My Picks from China Glaze Wicked Collection 2012

I usually am all over Halloween collections, but last year I have to admit, I wasn't super stoked on any of them really. I did pick up a few from China Glaze's Wicked collection though, and here they are!

Cast a Spell is a hot blackened olive green with crazy green and gold shimmer flecks. It's reminiscent of one of my favorite ChG's ever, Wagon Trail. This is beautiful and excellent in shimmer payoff, meaning it's not hidden! This is two buttery coats.

Immortal is a dark horse in the collection, a secret standout. This is concrete gray with microshimmer in silver, blue, and fuchsia. Beautiful and subtle. Two coats.

And this baby is Glitter Goblin! Another polish that reminds me of one of ChG's previous hits, Spellbound. This has a clear base with small holo, silver and rusty orange glitter. This thing SPARKLES like whoa! I expected this to be harder to apply than it was, which was nice. It took three generous coats to cover the whole nail. I'm guessing this was made more for layering but IDGAF, it's awesome as a stand-alone shade!

I'm sure you can still find these online somewheres. Did you pick up any Halloween polishes in 2012?

zoya julianne

this is a "current" swatch, as i confess (pfft like it's a secret) that some of the swatches i show here are relatively old news (like a month or so). this baby is from LAST NIGHT. yup extra extra read all about it! front page stuff! julieanne is from the "wicked collection" that zoya just put out and even though i have mimi, the bright purple number from the "sparkle collection" from this summer, i had to have this baby too.

julieanne is described by zoya as a byzantium sparkling metallic. yeah i don't know what byzantium means. or at least i didn't until i googled it. it even has a hex triplet! so they didn't just make that up ;) this color has an awesome dark charcoal/blackish base color that lets the royal purple shine center stage. the polish also has a bit of duochrome on the edges, it's slightly silver and almost gold sometimes. very complex. you can fall head over heels in the deep dark pool of glitter that is julieanne!

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