Swatchfest: new CQ and Petites Color Fever polishes

As promised, here are swatches of all the new CQ and Petites Color Fever shades I've purchased over the past few weeks.

Let's start with my absolute favorite:

CQ Rustic Dream

(retail: $2.99)

Three coats, no top coat

As you can see, this is a beautiful rust/orange/pink duochrome. It is even more stunning in person, let me assure you. I literally can't stop looking at my nails when I'm wearing this one.

CQ Golden Green

(retail: $2.99)

Two coats, no top coat

Golden Green isn't really unique, but it's still a lovely olive green with gold shimmer. I have plenty of shades like this, so I'm sort of regretting this purchase because I was hoping it might be a little different on the nail.

CQ Slate

(retail: $2.99)

Two coats, no top coat

This is a lovely, vampy, dark teal and I have nothing like it in my stash so I love it BUT: warning! Slate is a @#$%& to remove. It didn't stain my nails, but it left a lot of color behind on my skin (on the sides of my nails) and also underneath my nails. I'd double-up on base coat if you're planning to wear this one.

Next, here is Daze, layered over Slate:

Petites Color Fever Daze

(retail: $3.99)

I prefer Daze, which is a lovely glass-flecked(?) lime green, as a layering polish and I really LOVE it over Slate. I'll show Daze to you by itself in a second.

Here is 24K Gold over Rustic Dream:

Petites Color Fever 24K Gold

(retail: $3.99)

I totally did NOT need to layer 24K Gold over Rustic Dream, but I didn't know it would be so opaque until I tried it. As you can see, 24K Gold completely blocks out the rust shade of Rustic Dream. You really can't see that color underneath. Oh, and this was two coats of 24K Gold under three coats of Rustic Dream. No top coat.

Now I'll show you both 24K Gold and Daze with NO base color underneath either shade:

Two coats 24K Gold

Three coats Daze

No top coat

In these pictures, it's hard to see the true beauty of 24K Gold, which is packed with gold and reddish-bronze microglitter. It looks sandpaper-ish in my pics, but that's only because I didn't apply a top coat. In person, it's not too bumpy at all because the glitter is so fine, and a top coat completely eliminates the gritty texture. This is such a stunning gold glitter--it might be my favorite of anything I own. The texture of this polish is quite similar to the Milani One Coat Glitters (kind of like glitter glue) but the glitter particles are finer.

Daze is so pretty--I think it might be similar to a Zoya shade--would anyone like to chime in with a dupe?

If you missed the other new shade I swatched last week, Pink Diamond, you can see that here.

So, do you have any of the newest CQ or Color Fever polishes yet? How do you like them?