China Glaze Cirque du Soleil Collection Swatches & Review

Hi there!!

I have an exciting post for you today. China Glaze recently released a collection for the Cirque du Soleil World's Away Movie in 3D, and today I am showing you half of that collection! The entire collection is filled with bright cremes, shimmers and glitters that will take your breath away. In this half we have a few cremes, shimmers and one eye popping glitter. Let's get started!

Escaping Reality is a neon pink creme that dries matte. This is very bright! Formula actually wasn't terrible on this for how neon-y it is, it did take three coats for opacity, but it dried pretty quickly and leveled out nicely.

 Def Defying is a bright lime green creme. This is three coats for full coverage, if I had been more careful I could have probably gotten away with two.

Igniting Love is a cherry red creme. This one is intense, and very pretty might I add. Formula was excellent, it went on perfectly in two coats.

Bend over Backwards is an orangey red metallic shimmer. This is pretty and formula was great, shown is two smooth coats. This is a nice choice if you don't already own something like it, no brushstrokes- woo!

Creative Fantasy is a bright purple jelly. I wanted to love this one, I really did! When I saw it in the bottle my eyes opened wide and my mouth dropped, I love purple. But the formula was not good, not good at all. It was watery and streaky and I could not get it to level out for the life of me. After three coats it is still somewhat patchy and you can see VNL. Thought I'm not loving this on it's own, I'm thinking it will be fun for layering / sandwiching!

 Water You Waiting For is a gorgeous bright blue, turquoise and green different sized glitters in a sheer blue base. This one is by far my favorite, I saved the best for last! This is insanely pretty and so sparkly. Very unique, and the formula was wonderful, I needed two easy coats for full coverage, but you might want to double up on top coat to bring out that high shine.

Overall, I am loving these bright cremes and that GORGEOUS blue glitter. How about you? Which one is your favorite? Are any of these going to make it into your stash, if so, which ones can't you live without?

The China Glaze Cirque du Soleil World's Away Collection will be available December 1, 2012. However it has already started making appearances on e-tailers like 8ty8beauty.com and transdesign.com so check out your local beauty supply, you may get lucky!

Products provided for review.