Lush Lacquer Clowning Around

First off, let me just say how much I love Illamasqua Jo'mina. It's a beautiful bright lavender light purple. The formula is heavenly, smooth, and pigmented. I picked it up with my roommate Rach from Stuff I Swatched from Sephora in JC Penney as part of their $7 Illamasqua clearance. I thought it'd be a good base to try out my first neon glitter!
Lush Lacquer Clowning Around is a clear based polish fuuuullll of different colors and sizes of neon matte glitter hexes. I love it. I can't wait to put it over alllll the pastels I have. It's going to be great for the warmer months. This is two coats, dabbed on, over two coats of Jo'mina. Enjoy!

China Glaze Orange You Hot? and a franken

After my love connection with China Glaze Pink Plumeria I wanted to love Orange You Hot?, the neon cheetoh orange from the Summer 2012 collection. However... it didn't really live up to my expectations. The formula was super thick, and the color is a little on the frosty side. It's also a pain in the ass to photo, all my pics came out really yellow. In the bottle, this polish looks really pretty, bright light orange with pinky orange shimmer. On the nail however, the pink tint gets lost and just goes frosty. Here is four coats of cheetoh-y-ness.

 

And because I couldn't stand to wear this on its own, I added a frankened holo topcoat. I've noticed that if I use a clear holographic topcoat, it tends to wash out the color underneath. So I've decided I'm gonna create a tinted holo topcoat in all the colors of the rainbow, first up is my orangey coral tint, which I shall dub my La Bamba topcoat.

China Glaze Pink Plumeria Summer 2012 Neon

This is my new favorite! Ohhhh it's so pretty. The whole China Glaze summer 2012 neon collection is gorgeous, but I made sure I limited myself to two. Must control the exponential growth of my stash!

I have found my perfect neon polish, finally. The other ones that I've tried have had super sucky formulas, and just not worked with my skintone. However, Pink Plumeria is just a slice of summery heaven. The formula on this one is a bit thick and gummy, but I made it behave with a little bit of thinner. This color is definitely a new take on a neon, it's a pastel leaning neon! In the bottle it looks like a corally pink with light golden shimmer, and on the nail it just glows!

Swatches I've seen online tend to make this color look really light, but at least on my skintone it had a lot more pow to it. I messed with the color settings to get these to look more true to life. Shown here I've done three coats and  like most neons, it dries matte, so a coat of of Posh shined it right up. One thing to note, this took foreeeever to dry and was super denty for hours.

And here I did a Konad on top with China Glaze Electric Beat.