Sunday, November 13, 2011

China Glaze ~ Urban Nights

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"... 

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


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

9 comments:

  1. I like this manicure! Shame the base was difficult to apply but I think the end result is really nice :-)

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  2. I 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

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  3. I have the urban night but not the glitter- not a fan. But that purple is oh so pretty!

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  4. I really like this purple too - but I'm surprised of how difficult it was to work with.

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  5. Nice colour but even better with the glitters

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  6. I had the same reaction to CG in the City alone - thought it was going to be as stunning as Skyscraper, but it wasn't.

    That 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.

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  7. @ Beautyshades ~ I agree. I think I'll use it for stamping as well.

    @ 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. :)

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