China Glaze Bloomphoria - Mystic Bloom Spring 2022

It's very rare, if not unheard of, for me to discuss a brand new polish on this blog. Even the ones that aren't vintage tend to be at least a few years old. In today's case, though, I may actually be one of the first people online to talk about and/or swatch this polish! To be ahead of the curve... what an odd feeling!

Today's specimen comes to me from China Glaze's Spring 2022 collection, entitled Mystic Bloom. All of the polishes in this collection are stunners -- not a single boring creme to be found, lots of fun colors and finishes! It was this video by Janixa that introduced me to the collection, and her fantastic swatches had me beelining to Head2Toe so I could grab 'em! While the entirety of Mystic Bloom is beautiful, I only ended up grabbing 4 of the 8 polishes in the collection. Truth be told, I am not much of a pink/nude polish girl (I can only think of 2 pinks that I really adore off the top of my head), so those shades did not speak to me quite as much. The shades I purchased are Planted and Enchanted (a soft pearly green), Secret Rendez-blue (a glass-fleck-esque blue), Bloominescence (a satin purple shimmer), and the focus of today's post, Bloomphoria.

(I apologize in advance for the bubble on my middle finger -- trust me, it's bugging me too!)

Bloomphoria is a soft purple with a green to pink duochrome shimmer. While the pictures I was able to get of the green shift appear more minty, the actual color is much closer to a vibrant lime green. It looks almost radioactive! The effect is incredibly cool, and the duochrome is very strong. I feel it's not often we see duochrome finishes from mainstream brands, especially not this intense or highly pigmented. That's one of the things China Glaze has been nailing (pun intended) lately -- fun, funky colors and finishes that other brands are too scared to try (cough OPI for the past few years cough... how many cremes can you make? At least their 2021 holiday collection was good.)

Here, you can see the pink/peach/red shift -- I'm not exactly sure what color to call it. It looks like a completely different polish! From some angles, you can see this color AND the green at the same time -- very cool! 

I don't think this polish is entirely unique -- the first one that comes to mind as a potential dupe is OPI Significant Other Color, though I don't own that one so I can't say for sure. Purple with green/red duochrome is not a new idea -- look at OPI Movin' Out from 2003! Regardless of its originality, this is still a beautiful polish and a welcome addition to my collection, especially from a modern mainstream brand. I hope China Glaze keeps up the good work!

And until next time... PEACE! xoxo