China Glaze Tronica Holographic Collection

Over the past few days, the nail polish world has been buzzing like crazy about this collection.
We finally have a little  more info, not much, but better than nothing.

China Glaze has just twitted this awesome picture :

Too bad we can't see 4 of the 12 shades.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm already head over heels about the blue one and I wish the 4 missing to be :
black,
dark green,
navy blue
and red

Along with the picture was these infos :

"Girl, you know it's true! ChG Tronica will feature 12 holos available only at @sallysbeauty and for a limited time!"

"Tronica will be available for a limited time at BSG (Jan/Feb 2011) and Sally's Beauty (March/April 2011)."

"ChG Tronica will also be available overseas at Sally's Beauty UK!"

So what do you think? Is holographic your favorite finish?

Will you be buying any of these?

Quick update :

China Glaze has revealed the a description of the 12 colors

Techno Teal – Turquoise Holographic
Virtual Violet – Violet Holographic
Electra Magnenta – Magenta Holographic
Gamer Glam – Purple Holographic
High Def - Blue Holographic
Hologram - Silver Holographic
Hyper Haute – Rasberry Holographic
3D Fantasy – Peachy Pink Holographic
Digital Dawn – Dusty Rose Holographic
Cyberspace – Taupe Holographic
Mega Bite – Gold Holographic
Laser Lime – Lime Green Holographic


So I guess the 4 missing were
blue, red, pink and gold.

At least I got the red and blue one right, I still hope for a black and a dark green holo someday. Soon?


*BSG is a group that sells exclusive professional salon brands to licensed beauty professionals (CosmoProf, Armstrong McCall)

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Gosh and Kiko Spam

Since I'm still enjoying my blue mani, I thought I'd share with you my Gosh and Kiko stash.
Gosh Cosmetics is a very popular Danish Big 3 free company. Their nail polishes are also free of camphor and phtalic acid. They have a very strong position against animal testing. Unfortunately their products aren't always so easy to find; they do offer online shopping, but some shades are EU exclusive, I think.
Kiko Cosmetics is an italian company that is also Big 3 free as well as Camphor and Styrene Acrylate free. Again they totally proscribe animal testing. They don't retail through the regular network but have their own shops and have been opening more and more in western Europe lately.

I do heart all of these nail polishes since they've been a long time job to collect (I'm still missing a few I like though), especially for the very very hard to Find Gosh Holographic and Rainbow; I have to thank my friend Nell for seeking these throughout London for me.

So on to the pictures, you can leave me comments with the ones you'd like me to swatch first. Hopefully I'll be filling you in with application, opacity etc later.

Gosh Black Passion, Purple Heart, Blue Monday, Ocean, Gypsy Blue, Silky Mint

Gosh Avant Garde, Lambada, Hot Coral, Wild Lilac, Flamingo, Pink Rose

Rose, Frou-Frou, Miss Grey, Silver Star, Magic Star, Gold

Gosh Holographic (Chanel Holographic dupe)
Gosh Rainbow (Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure dupe)
with flash

Gosh Holografic



Gosh Rainbow



Kiko Pearly Dark Slate Green, Purple Microglitter, Microglitter Cranberry, Sparkle Touch (S.T) Red Glitter

Kiko Yellow, Microglitter Yellow, S.T Beige Glitter

Kiko S.T Multicolour Silver, S.T Rainbow Glitter, S.T Transparent Microglitter,
S.T Multicolour Paillettes, S.T Aqua Paillettes

Holiday Limited Edition Collection
Kiko Black Mat (Illamasqua Scorn dupe), Silver Art, Gold Art

And, just for the fun of it, one last picture , Kiko's color display :

 The picture's high res so you can really enlarge it to see all the details.

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Dior "Les Gris City"

Dior is launching in a few days a set of 3 limited edition nail polishes named after 3 of their most famous boutiques :

807 Bond Street – A grey London fog with a kick of blue.

707 Gris Montaigne - the iconic color of the Dior House in Paris.

797 NY57th – Pre-dawn Manhattan.

Luckily, I was able to get my hands on these and of course I am very happy to be able to swatch them for you. Just like all the other latest Dior nail polishes I have tried so far, the formula was great, really easy to work with. The new brush does take some getting used to especially if you're used to OPI's but once you get the hang of it, the polish applies like a dream.

Gris Montaigne is a medium creme grey with slight purple undertone. It's a faux-cream actually, I didn't notice before taking the macro pics or applying it but it has a secret silver micro shimmer, very sparse and unlike Chanel's shimmer. It might not show on the pics but it tends to dry a bit daker than the bottle.

Apart from that, not much more to say about this one, it's very pretty and isn't too light or too dark so I can easily see it complimenting a lot of skin tones.

Dior Gris Montaigne

Dior Gris Montaigne



Bond Street is my favorite from the collection, I knew I had to have it the moment I saw the promo pics and it didn't let me down. I've been in a blue and teal kick lately and this blue with strong grey undertones (I'd rather describe it that than grey "with a kick of blue") is just what I needed to brighten my day. Just like Gris Montaigne, Bond Street has that secret silver shimmer; will it be Dior's new M.O."?
This one also dries darker than the bittle shows and the shimmer is a tiny littke bit more visible. It really gave me a hard time getting the picture right so imagine it a bit darker.

Again, perfect coverage and flawless application. I searched trough my stash but I couldn't find anything like it so I'd say apart from the gorgeous color, worth the price tag, for me anyway.

Dior Bond Street

Dior Bond Street

NY57th is a gunmetal grey with a very good 2 coats coverage and minimum brushstrokes.

It's not the most unusual grey and I'm sure we all have something very similar, if not a dupe, for a very much more affordable price.

Since it reminded me of Chanel Steel, I decided to make a quick comparison for you, in which I also included Chanel Inframetal just for the fun.

You can see that they are both a tad darker, Steel being the darkest despite the deceptive bottles. They also have larger particles that actually consist in a very subtle rainbow shimmer, more visible on nail on inframetal.



Dior NY57th





Dior NY57th

From top to bottom :
Chanel Steel
Chanel Inframetal
Dior NY57th

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