China Glaze Blue Island Iced Tea
I have a lot of blue polishes in my untried stash. In particular, medium blues. I really love dark blues, but for some reason I’m not that into the lighter blues. (One can ask why I got them in the first place, I blame unconsciousness while buying. 
) I thought I’d better swatch them to see what the deal is.
China Glaze Blue Island Iced Tea is a light blue polish with oodles of glass fleck glitter, it’s almost a foil finish. It’s from China Glaze’s 2008 Bahama Blues collection. I was quite apprehensive when applying this, the color just looks and feels weird on me. It gives me an unflattering washed out look. Bit of a shame, because in theory it’s actually a really beautiful polish. It sparkles wonderfully in the sunlight and it’s nice and shiny on the nail. This would be a great summer vacation polish.
Another thing I don’t like about this polish, is the formula. It’s so thin and runny, and really hard to control. It’s also very sheer, I’m wearing three coats in these pics, and I still can see a hint of visible nail line. Bummer.
So what do you think of this polish? Pretty pretty polish, or just weird alien-hands-making polish?
Posted on February 26, 2010, in China Glaze, NOTD and tagged blue, China Glaze, foil, glitter, nailpolish, NOTD. Bookmark the permalink. 10 Comments.
This one didn’t really get to me. It’s not like an alien or something, just not my thing. That being said: You ver well find it in my untried stash. Hence buying unconsciousness …
I really have to wake up before I make my next TD order.
ooh i really want this one. which is funny cuz like you, i usually skip the light blues. but i just gravitate towards the glass flecked ones and this one is calling to me
I’ve sent you a mail.
Jag köpte också Blue Island Iced Tea nyligen och blev besviken när jag såg lacket i flaskan. Det ser lite urvattnat och tråkigt ut. Håller tummarna för att jag ändrar mig när jag testat det själv!
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I got this one because it was a glass fleck. I got a bunch of the Summer Days polishes and wanted a blue one that’s like them.
I usually stay away from pale & cool blues too, but I actually really like this one. I got it in the Fall and when I put it on, it made me think about Winter coming soon. It’s just such a pretty icy blue, it totally says cold & snowy weather to me and cries for silver & white snowflakes on top.
I was actually thinking the same thing! It’s prettier as a winter polish than a summer polish.
I love the “washed-out look” kind of colors as those go well with my skin color. I’ve got low-contrast coloring. Sometimes I have purchased some stuff in a bottle because I love the color as viewed from the outside of the bottle – only when I put it on, I realize it is extremely sheer. So I end up painting the tips white then putting the sheer color polish over the whole nail. I like that a lot. Also, it’s very popular here to create dark french tips and put some color sheer over the whole nail, so the sheer colors work well for that. Thanks for swatching these!
That’s a great tip! Thank you, Jen.