Scenes from Cosmoprof – Scoping Out China Glaze Holiday 2011 & Spring 2012
Stopping by the AII Beauty booth at Cosmoprof North America, the premiere business to business beauty trade show, is like a visual assault. They own so many brands, including China Glaze, that it’s hard to know where to look first.
Thankfully, two of my fave people from the company, Amy & Anne, were there to walk me through. You may remember that eons ago, not really but it seems that long, I had the chance to meet the China Glaze team during a trip to LA. It’s where I got my first glimpse of the best green glitter to ever exist on the planet, China Glaze Emerald Sparkle. Get ready for your own visual assault courtesy of ALU as I bring you a look at the 34 new China Glaze polishes that will be released between now and January 2012. That’s right, I said 34. |
China Glaze Metro is the Fall 2011 collection and it’s already on shelves. Going around the nail swatch wheel we have: Skyscraper, CG in the City, Urban-Night, Traffic Jam, City Siren, Loft-y Ambitions, Brownstone, Midtown Magic, Street Chic, Concrete Catwalk, Westside Warrior and Trendsetter.
China Glaze Haunting started shipping August 12th so expect it on shelves very soon. This is China Glaze’s Halloween offering and it includes two cremes and two glitters. It will be displayed with Ghoulish Glow, a glow-in-the-dark top coat, and Crackle Glaze Black Mesh.
From left to right we have: Haunting, It’s Alive, Near Dark and Crimson
Just like last year’s holiday collection, China Glaze Let It Snow is bringing a LOT of color to the party. There are 12 colors in the collection and 12 gift sets and the whole collection starts shipping September 2nd.
Twinkle Lights, Champagne Bubbles, Holly-Day, Glittering Garland, Velvet Bow, Winter Berry, Ring in the Red, Poinsetta, Blue Year’s Eve, Tinsel Town, Icicle, Snow Globe (re-promote)
I’m a sucker for a great gift set and even though the Carry Me Away for the Holidays set doesn’t contain very “me” shades, I love the travel case the comes with it.
It’s a travel roll that holds your nail tools and has a zip up case to hold your nail polish bottle. I need one of these in my life ASAP!
The next collection to roll our way after Let It Snow are the China Glaze Eye Candy 3-D Glitters. Shipping out at the beginning of November, these six new lacquers are named with a Marilyn Monroe theme and packed with a mix of multi-shaped, multi-colored glitters to create a multi-dimensional look on the nail.
Blonde Bombshell, Love Marilyn, Material Girl, Marry a Millionaire, Some Like It Haute, Lorelei’s Tiara
Finally, let’s talk Spring 2012 for a hot second. Releasing in January 2012, China Glaze ElectroPop brings eleven pop-art bright cremes along with the re-promoted glitter Techno.
The world is yours to create, a bed ripened for your own artful ecstasy. It’s about independence and pushing boundaries –a hyper sensory clash of art and technology. This trend is optimistic for a bright future!
Top Row: Kinetic Candy, Electric Beat, Aquadelic, Gaga for Green. Second Row: Sunshine Pop, Make Some Noise, Wicked Style, Fuchsia Fanatic. Bottom Row: Gothic Lolita, Dance Baby, Sweet Hook, Techno.
Whew! That’s a lot to take in all at once. China Glaze is certainly living up to its “Live in Colour” motto, no?
Which collection is grabbing your eye? Is there one specific color you can’t wait to get your hands on? How do you feel about Spring being all cremes with an accompanying glitter top coat?
I was really disappointed with Metro Collection, so I’m looking forward to halloween and holiday collections, I’m thinking glow in the dark one and Haunting will be mine from Halloween one and from Holiday coll. probably the greens, the blue looks nice too. Frankly, the one that really catches my eye is the Eye Candy collection. Half of the glitters look amazing!
Has anybody been able to spot Relovn’t Graphite? I saw it at ULTA about 3 weeks ago, but now it’s gone. Didn’t buy it at the time cause I didn’t know what it was.
I think I missed out on it as well.
*DROOL* I keep hearing about Cosmoprof…but only professionals can go? *whine* This would be like going to ComicCon for me!!
I LOVE the red & silver Marilyn glitter polish. That travel roll MUST be mine as well. Seriously.
Usually I don’t like glitters, but the ones from the Eye Candy collection actually look amazing…like diamonds on a nail
I love the gold, red and silver one!
And the holiday collection as well…I don’t know why, but China Glaze always keeps me fascinated with their holiday collections…although it’s the same color theme
China Glaze will be getting a lot of my money in the next few months. Eye Candy and Let It Snow look great.
The Ulta in Mentor Still DOES not have the Metro collection in yet. If they are so far behind with their collections, we’ll never see the Holiday ones till Feburary 2012!!!
Well that sucks. I haven’t been out looking for them but did you try Sally Beauty? The one at Points East in Mentor usually gets all the collections.
cvs still has it, i saw it and bouthg last week
does anyone know when let it snow will start showing up in stores?
I have a spare Revlon Carbonite (“Graphite”) if you are interested….let me know
Am loving the upcoming spring 2012 collection
cant wait to get my hands on all of them, though i do believe i already have techno, oh well more wont hurt 
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The China Glaze gift sets may not be released until late 2012. One of the sites I buy from has the single polishes available, but the sets show a release of 9/2/2012. I looked up a specific set and found an entire post on another blog indicating that the sets were all September 2012 releases. Do you have any more information about that?
Why in the world would they show posts of the np gift sets a yr in advance… that is ridiculous!
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Does anyone know of any online stores to buy the Let it Snow collection?
trasdesign has all of the let it snow sets out except carry me away for the holidays. I just ordered one set and a bunch of the individual polishes. I am gonna be soooo broke when the Eye candy collection comes out
trans design has them
Thanks so much! Off to go spend too much money on polish.
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Thank you SOOOO much for this post!! I’m so glad I get to see all of the great shades in their limited edition collections all in one place, I underestimated the Let It Snow Collection, they are gorgeous