China Glaze ~ Urban Nights
A dark eggplant purple, créme
This is a follow-up to the post I made yesterday, in which I tried China Glaze's "CG in the city". I wasn't impressed with that, not because the glitter wasn't pretty, but because the colour was a little bit "meh"...
A dark eggplant purple, créme
This is a follow-up to the post I made yesterday, in which I tried China Glaze's "CG in the city". I wasn't impressed with that, not because the glitter wasn't pretty, but because the colour was a little bit "meh"...
Today
I wanted to try the same polish, but with a darker colour underneath,
to see if that changed my opinion about it. I chose another China Glaze
polish, namely "Urban Nights" - both polishes are from the "Uptown Collection".
"Urban Nights" is a dark eggplant
purple with a cream finish and I found it very difficult to work with.
The formula was on the runny side, and it was hard to apply an even
layer.
The
colour itself is nice, although I prefer wilder colours, so this is bought with
glitter and/or stamping in mind. Since I know from yesterday that the
glitter in "CG in the City" is relatively intense, I only applied one
layer of Urban Nights.
After
waiting for a bit, I applied the glitter. Two generous coats, and then a
layer of Seche Vite top coat. It looked like this:
It's somewhat better than yesterday, but seriously: I'm still not impressed. I'm
going to play around a bit with various colours underneath the glitter and see what we get.
And if everything else fails, I'll be using them both for Frankenpolishes! :D
The verdict:
Urban Nights:
Opacity: 6/10
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 6/10
Overall: 6/10
Buy again: No
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: 6/10
Value for money: 6/10
Overall: 6/10
Buy again: No
CG in the City:
Opacity: 6/10
Colour, prettiness: 5/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 6/10
Buy again: No
Colour, prettiness: 5/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 6/10
Buy again: No
I like this manicure! Shame the base was difficult to apply but I think the end result is really nice :-)
ReplyDeleteI kinda grew a bit on me as the hours passed, but it never got the wow-effect I was after. It was however much better than yesterday. :D
ReplyDeleteI have the urban night but not the glitter- not a fan. But that purple is oh so pretty!
ReplyDeleteI really like this purple too - but I'm surprised of how difficult it was to work with.
ReplyDeleteSuper pretty mani!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. :)
ReplyDeleteNice colour but even better with the glitters
ReplyDeleteI had the same reaction to CG in the City alone - thought it was going to be as stunning as Skyscraper, but it wasn't.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, I like it a lot more when I saw your swatches of it layered over another polish. I'll have to try layering it. Maybe I'll use it more then.
@ Beautyshades ~ I agree. I think I'll use it for stamping as well.
ReplyDelete@ Swatch & Learn ~ I don't think I'm going to use it on its own again. I've considered mixing it with another polish to see if that would work. I'll post about that when I get to do it. :)