Howl You Doin' was recently released by China Glaze as part of its Monsters Ball collection for Halloween 2013. Described by China Glaze as a "shadowy purple glitter," it's a glitter jelly polish with a saturated dark red-leaning purple jelly base full of small hex glitters in purple and fuchsia and shardy orange flake glitters. On the nail it's appearance is near black with twinklings of violet, pink and orange.
I've read reviews where folks experienced the consistency of Howl You Doin' as thin but my bottle was thick and rather sticky so I ended up adding a few squirts of thinner. Opacity was excellent for a jelly polish with a bit of streakiness on the first coat and full opacity after two.
For me, jellies are the most difficult kind of polish to manipulate during application. My tendency to hold the brush at a low angle, with more of the side of the brush in contact with the nail surface, does not serve me well with jellies. With Howl You Doin', I tried holding the brush at a larger angle, with more of the tip in contact with the nail, and this worked much better.
Howl You Doin's glitter spread was great, with no trouble getting plenty of its glitters evenly dispersed across the nail. It dries in very good time for a jelly to a textured slightly dull finish that is curiously topcoat hungry. I applied two coats of Seche Vite and still had a bit of texture come through after drying.
Photos show two medium coats of Howl You Doin' over treatment and basecoat with two coats of Seche Vite to finish.
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Howl You Doin' is pretty much a dupe for Orly Fowl Play (Fowl Play has larger orange flakes, though, and more of them), and while I didn't appreciate Fowl Play when I swatched it I'm sure I would now because I like Howl You Doin' quite a bit. It seems that swatching all these darker colors this fall has expanded my polish aesthetic's horizons further than I ever expected and I didn't even realize it until now.
Eleanor, have a great Halloween! Eat some candy for me!
love,
Aunt Liz
This is really pretty! I like how the blue and red twinkle within the black.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Thithi -- I really loved wearing this!
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