Hello my sweeties! Are you excited for spring and warmer weather? I SOOO am! I need some sunshine in my life again soon! So while the PA weather gods won’t give me real sunshine yet, I need some brightness on my nails!
I saw this amazing swatch video from jessFACE90 on YouTube on the new China Glaze Electric Nights collection, and I got so excited!! Like Jessie Spano on caffeine pills excited:
She’s so… scared! 😉
I had been drooling over the extremely hard to find PipeDream A Night In Vegas neon cremes and after seeing that swatch video, I was really hopeful that the Electric Nights cremes would satisfy my neon craving. I realized I have gaps in my collection when it comes to neons. So I decided I needed to pick up a few of the Electric Nights polishes – specifically the purples, the pink, the red-orange coral, and one of the blues!
So obviously I needed to use the neon I was anticipating the most – the fuchsia purple neon!
This is what I came up with – another little mishmash mani! I love how coral and fuchsia go together! Especially when they’re as bright as pretty as these two!
I have to say, I adore the color of this China Glaze neon! But I don’t think that they’re a replacement for the PipeDreams – from everything I’ve seen and read about those, they have such a perfect pigmented formula. The formula on this particular polish was a little runny. It does get opaque in 2 coats (without a white base), but the polish tends to slide towards the sides of the nail a little bit. I think a 3rd coat would fix that issue.
And, ahem… do you see the pinky nail?! That topper is divine! It’s one of I Love Nail Polish‘s new holographic multichrome flakies. AND I was able to get some good photos of that little sucker!
BOOM baby! I got it! I may have wished on a star, stood on my head, and sacrificed a virgin… but I finally got a good picture of the multichrome flakie! It shows off the gorgeous shift from pink/purple to gold and green, AND you can see how much depth the scattered holo gives it! Yay!
Polishes used:
- Base color for all nails: China Glaze Violet Vibes… as described above. Hopefully the formula of the others I bought are a little better. But I’ve most definitely come across worse neon formulas for sure! Oh, and since I hadn’t seen this collection in stores yet, I bought mine on Head2Toe Beauty.
- Index finger (and thumb):
- Topped with ILNP Neon Rosebud (holo version)… check out the closeup shot above to see just one coat of this beauty! The holo in the flakie topper does give the base polish you use a bit of a silvery tinge. But only a little bit.
- Middle finger:
- Dots of Polish My Life Coral Fedora… this is a gorgeous pink-leaning coral that’s a very bright pastel. The formula on this is perfection! I have yet to come across a bad Polish My Life pastel. They all have amazing formulas and are so pretty!
- Ring finger:
- I used a chevron vinyl from NailVinyls.
- Topped with Polish My Life Coral Fedora
What do you think? Do you have the PipeDream neons? Or do you know of dupes?
And now for your daily David Tennant! This is from the amazing Girl in the Fireplace episode!!
That pointer nail with that flakie polish on top is to die for! Gorgeous.
Thank you!! I loved that nail so much! And I adore the multichrome flakie/ holo combo!
Those flakies work so well over the purple.
Thanks! I was so happy they matched so well!
omg that GIF lol. – Totally get you! This design is awesome
Haha thanks!! 🙂
I don’t have the Pipe Dream collection but have tons of the previous China Glaze summer neons so I’ve never felt like battling it out.
These are a better formula than previous CG neons, but they’re still not the best. Here’s to more searching!
This is gorgeous! I really love the Electric Nights collection, but from everything I’ve seen I think the Pipe Dream Polishes have a more opaque formula. I’m still going to try to marble with them (I’ve seen it done, so I know it is possible!). That macro of Neon Rosebud Holo is amaze!
I think you’re right – I still want the PipeDreams so badly! But the colors on the Electric Lights are so pretty too. Can’t wait to see your marbled mani!!!
And thank you!! I was so happy my macro came out 🙂
Hahahaha!! No sacrificing of virgins!!!! This is such a gorgeous combo and I’m loving fuchsia and coral together!!!
Hey, if I can get some better shots of these tricksy multichrome flakies, virgins better watch out! LOL 😉
Thank you!!! I love fuchsia & coral together too!
I adore fuchsia and it just looks even better with those flakies!
Me too – fuchsia has been my jam recently! And I was so happy the flakies matched 🙂
Coral and fuchsia are such a perfect combo for summer, i love it. I have to agree with you Pipedream neons over everything and anything! Seriously the best neon cremes I have ever experienced.
Ugh I really want those PipeDreams so badly!!! They need to restock for me! 🙂
Love this look! I’m definitely planning on picking up some CG shades from this collection too, this mani just has me even more excited about it. 🙂 I really like how that flakie works with the overall look!
Thanks! You definitely should pick these up! The colors are so great!