I'm a big fan of China Glaze, which makes my disappointment with this polish that much worse. It's a gorgeous light salmon pink with gold shimmer. The colour is truly beautiful. The formula, however, is terrible. I've been wearing nail polish for forty years or so (yikes!) and I've rarely experienced a formula this bad for bubbles. Ugh! I've tried wearing this polish on several occasions, and no matter what, I get bubbles. I know how to apply polish, I know steps to take to reduce bubbling, and yet no matter what, at least a couple of nails have bubbles, and since this is a shimmer, they show like crazy and completely ruin the look. I tried putting on base coat and waiting until the next day to apply this. I tried putting the coats of polish on quickly, I tried letting the first coat dry for up to an hour before the second, but no matter what, the second coat produces at least a few bubbles on at least a couple of nails. Frankly, it's damned annoying. I want to wear this polish, I want to figure out a way to make it work, but I'm about at the end of my patience, and I'm super disappointed with China Glaze on this one. If I was a nail polish newbie, I might think it was me, but with 400+ polishes in my current collection and 35+ years of nail polish experience, I have to say it's the formula. Maybe I just got a bad batch or something, I don't know, but I don't think I'll even be putting this in my "destash" box. This is probably going to go directly in the garbage so I don't inflict it on anyone else. Only use I can think of for this is a pedicure, because flaws and imperfections like bubbles are less likely to show on toenails, but even then, I don't know if I can be bothered to try. What happened here, China Glaze?

A medium dark cool blue with magenta shimmer which may be more of a surface iridescence (there is definitely some surface shimmery stuff going on, anyway). In some light, this looks like a bright indigo or maybe more of a periwinkle blue, because the magenta works with the blue to give a purplish cast overall (but still blue). Formula is on the thin side. I had a bit of a hard time getting the right amount on the brush. Second coat gives perfect opacity and smooths out any patchiness or irregularities. This works really well with my pale, cool (pink and blue undertones) complexion. It's a cool enough blue that it doesn't bring out the visible blue veins in my hands (in fact, it's bright enough that it minimises them). The magenta twist in this makes it pretty special, I think. I have a lot of blue and indigo (blurple) polish, and this is unique in my collection. Really nice, really different.