China Glaze Life Preserver

In my quest to find an orange polish that looked in person the way Zoya Arizona looked in my photographs, I found a few potentials. Today I bring you China Glaze Life Preserver! Remember how I said that Arizona actually looked like a crossing guard's safety vest because it was so bright? I found it amusing that a color named after a similar vest would be closer to what I was seeking.

China Glaze Life Preserver

Life Preserver bottle shot.

Label shot.

While still a fairly bright orange color, Life Preserver tends to lean a bit toward coral so it's not quite as screaming an orange as Arizona is. In fact, I found myself getting a little bored with it after a day so I decided to try once again to do a gradient — this time putting China Glaze Papaya Punch at the tips. Papaya Punch was one of the other oranges I got but found to be too bright for me to wear on its own. However, I thought that it might be just the color to spice things up! My gradient technique still needs a lot of work, but I'm getting better at it. I was quite pleased with myself when a woman at work saw it and commented, "That's an expensive manicure!"

A gradient adding China Glaze Papaya Punch at the tips.

Label shot.

Stay tuned over the course of the summer to see swatches of the other oranges I've found!