China Glaze Up & Away Collection: Four Leaf Clover Review, Photos, Swatches

China Glaze Four Leaf Clover Nail Lacquer

China Glaze Up & Away Collection: Four Leaf Clover

China Glaze Four Leaf Clover Nail Lacquer is a richly pigmented, semi-deep green-based teal. Both the way it looks in real life and in the bottle is very, very green and not that teal – but it’s obvious that there is a tealness to it. It’s not forest green by any means, it’s just not the lighter teal that’s getting captured in photos. This is probably the hardest-to-photograph polish I’ve ever encountered (in fact, China Glaze, you win the award for “Hardest-to-Photograph Collection”), because it lightens up and looks very teal. I probably shot over forty photos to get one or two decent bottle photos and one semi-decent swatch photo. Insanity!

Of course, Four Leaf Clover is also the prettiest and most unique shade of the bunch, even if it is seemingly impossible to photograph. It’s really one of those, “Just trust me,” shades, because I completely recommend it above all the other shades in this launch. It also has one of the best formulas/applications out of the collection–smooth, thick but not runny, and you really don’t need more than one layer. I didn’t have any streaking problems, even on the initial coat, as I encountered with some of the other shades (which I learned to work with).

Here’s a flat, color swatch I made in Photoshop – I think this is the closest depiction to the color in real life… except it’s brighter.

For reference, the bottle pictures are the most accurate of the ones in this post — the color on the nail is very similar to the bottle itself (as was the case with most of the shades in this launch).

As always, be sure to keep hands flat while waiting for each coat to dry a bit, because the thickness of the formula can move to the sides if you hold your hand on the tilt. It also best to give each layer some time to dry and not just layer it on immediately.

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• Product: 29/30
• Value: 9/10
• Ease of Use: 4/5
• Packaging: 4/5

Recommendation: If you like bold polish, I have to say this is one worth getting!

Availability: January 2010

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China Glaze Four Leaf Clover Nail Lacquer

China Glaze Four Leaf Clover Nail Lacquer

China Glaze Four Leaf Clover Nail Lacquer (A little truer, but it’s much deeper in real life.)