China Glaze Will Take You "On Safari" This Fall. Will You Go?

Well, hello there!  I hope this week has been treating you well. We're getting close to my favorite time of year for polish collections - fall (or is winter my favorite? maybe spring?  ah, nevermind)!  I was lucky enough to snag a couple of newbies from China Glaze's Fall 2012 On Safari collection (shout out Sally Beauty Supply!).  If you come across any of these in your local stores, I highly advise you to snap up the ones you like.  The displays I did find had already been raided of the more interesting colors, despite having only been for sale a couple of days.

Let's go ahead and jump right in...I have a lot of pictures, taken under different lighting conditions to help give you good idea of what these actually look like.

Kalahari Kiss:

When I first saw this color, I knew it would be just the type of muted yellow I've been looking for.  CG describes it as a light sand brown.  Yellow, sand.  Whatever.  I'll take it.

base = Zoya Get Even
coats of polish = 2
top coat = CND Shiney

Desert Sun:

CG describes this as delicious caramel.  I don't know about being delicious or caramel, but I think I like it.

base = Zoya Get Even
coats of polish = 2
top coat = CND Shiney

Last, but not least: I'm Not Lion

CG describes this one as "glistening gold and multi-color glitter."  I'm not that into glitter, but I LOVED this one.  There's another glitter in the collection, but I guarantee this will be harder to come by.  The fine gold sparkle is very pretty.


base = CND Stickey or Zoya Anchor (sorry, I can't remember which)
coats of polish = 2
top coat = CND Shiney

China Glaze - I'm Not Lion (one coat)

Warning: Since this was my favorite one, and the hardest to capture on camera, I ended up taking a ton of pictures to give you a good idea of what this will look like in person.

intentionally blurry pic

About the collection:

 Swatch and Learn has the press release and more official promotional photos of the collection.

As always, I want to know if you see anything you like.  Drop me a note in the comments!