Orly Country Club Khaki with a twist

Hello ladies!

Oh wow, I can´t believe it has been almost a month since my last post! Sometimes I think I should just quit my blog, because it´s very hard to find time to post anything. But I love blogging when I have time, and I shouldn´t feel obligated to post every day. I hope people like my blog eventhough I´m not here every day.

Well, I do have something awesome to show you. I finally got Orly Country Club Khaki. Yay! And I applied like butter and is a lot more opaque than I expected. I only used 1 coat! Unbelievable! It´s a very pretty nude shade. But I decided I wanted something extra pretty. So I did some stamping with white Konad polish. And this is what it turned into.

I truly think this is a very beautiful combination. Nude with a twist. This is definitely something I will wear more often.

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Max Factor Fantasy Fire

Hi there nail polish addicts ;-)

How are you all doing? I´m quite ok. Recently I got some of my huge lemmings, including the one I´m showing you today. This is just sooo beautiful! Unfortunately my pics don´t do it justice, but still, it really is gorgeous!

I used Orly Royal Navy as my base color, 2 coats. If you enlarge the pics you might see some of the gorgeous aqua glitter through the awesome shimmer of Fantasy Fire. I used 2 coats of Fantasy Fire as well. Got lots of compliments on this manicure. It shifts so much colors. Unfortunately I didn´t see much daylight when I was wearing this, so I had to take pics in artificial light. In real life the shimmer popped much more and you couldn´t see the vnl that´s visible in the pictures...

It´s so stunning! This might be my favorite polish at the moment.

The only downside: the bottle is really small... might need to get a back up.

In case anyone is wondering, I got this at eBay.

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Orly Out Of This World

Hi there!

For today I´m showing you Orly Out Of This World. When I saw this in the bottle I had to have it, although I was never really attracted to it when I saw swatches of it. But it really is a beauty! Although I do wish the gold would be a lot more visible.

This was perfect in 2 coats. And the application was good, like expected with Orly.

I´m really happy I captured the gold on camera a bit in the first picture, that makes it look a lot more awesome.

Sorry for such a short post, but there´s just not a lot to tell about this.

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Orly Fowl Play

Hello!

For today I´ve got an awesome polish! It has glitter, it has flakies and it is dark purple. What more could I wish for? I love it! I already had OPI Merry Midnight and loved it, but hardly ever used it because I was afraid it would run out. So when I saw Fowl Play I knew I had to have it.

Fowl Play is a dark grape purple jelly with blue glitter and flakies that shift orange, green, red and yellow. Stunning combination!! It is supposed to be a dupe for Merry Midnight and yes it definitely is very close, but Fowl Play seems darker. In my pictures it almost seems black actually.

I used 2 coats and application was good. I really like the Orly caps and brushes!

Gorgeous!!

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Orly Cashmere Cardigan + Color Club Jingle Jangle

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I did this mani a while ago and I totally forgot about it. Why? I mean, it really is an awesome combo!

The base is Orly Cashmere Cardigan. One of the few cremes that I actually love. I used 1 coat and that was enough, except in sunlight... So if I´ll ever use this combo again I should definitely use 2 coats.
On top I used 1 coat of Color Club Jingle Jangle, which is a lilac, blue, teal and silver glitter. Very nice!

You see, there are some bold spots in direct sunlight unfortunately. Well, I do still love the combo. What do you think?

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Orly Nite Owl

Hello!

Today I´ve got for you a polish I consider a perfect nude. It´s a very soft beige with a silver shimmer. So lovely! I have been looking for a color like this for ages. Don´t get me wrong, I love all my hysterical polishes. But sometimes you just can´t wear heavy glitter, vampy purple or bright blue. And in these cases Orly Nite Owl is great!

I used 2 coats, although I thought it really needed 3 coats after I applied the first one. But 2 was enough. Application was good, drying time too.

Since I had a huge smudge on my index finger, I´m only showing you three fingers :D

It´s just very pretty. And work appropriate. Actually, appropriate for just about every situation.

What´s you favorite appropriate-for-anything polish?

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Holiday shopping, BIG TIME!

Hi ladies!

I´ve been home now for a few days and what an amazing holiday it was! I loved Miami, I loved the Bahamas and I loved the cruise ship. And of course I did "some" shopping. I´ve read about all these stores in the US that lots of you ladies visit frequently. For me it was awesome! Walking right into Ulta while up till then I had only read about it. And Walgreens, Forever21, CVS, Ross, Icing, Del Sol and more. Just seeing all these great brands that I love displayed right in front of me. Some stores I haven´t found unfortunately (like Sally´s, Target, Walmart, Rite Aid) but I did some big time hauling. I tried only picking the ones that I had on my wishlist but I failed miserably. Bought a total of 31 polishes and 2 of the newest Konad plates, ooooppsss!

So here we go, this is what I got.

 Butter London No More Waity Kaitie + remover

 Color Club Back To Boho set (yes, the cheap 8 dollar sets are really sold at Ross)

Boho Mojo, Nouveau Vintage, Voodoo You Do, Artsy Crafty, Blue-topia, Rebel Spirit

Icing: Chrome Navy Blue, Irish Gold, Epic Winning, Vampire Blood, Witches Brew, Starlight

Orly Fowl Play, Orly Nite Owl, Orly Out Of This World, Zoya Neeka, Zoya Yara, OPI It´s My Year, OPI ds Top Coat

Sinful Colors Let Me Go, Wet ´n Wild Back Alley Deals, Wet ´n Wild Teal Of Fortune, Piggy Polish The Right To Bare Feet, Milani Blue Lightening

Nicole Me + Blue, Sally Hansen Icequeen, L`oreal Owl´s Night, Confetti Ice Ice Baby, Love & Beauty Shimmering Grey

M84 and M85

Besides all these brands I´ve seen many more and mostly at places I didn´t expect them. 

The Piggy Polish is unlabled, so I´m not sure it´s the right name... I actually found another one that looks a lot like it.

So what do you think ladies? Ready to see swatches? I´ve already used No More Waity Kaitie while I was on holiday. And OMG, the worst application ever!! Did I get a bad bottle or did you guys experience it too? I can´t even describe all the problems I had. I really hope some thinner would do the trick. I haven´t even made pictures of it.

I also used Blue Lightening, which I think is pretty close to OPI ds Magic. Will make a comparison some day. I did take pictures of this, so you´ll see that one soon.

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Foil duochrome layering experiment

Hello ladies!

Today I´ve got a layering experiment. And it worked out quite well if I may say so.

I was always wondering what happened if you layer 2 duochromes. Are there more colors visible? Or do they mix and give different colors? Well, a little bit of both I guess.

First I used 2 coats of Claire´s Poison Apple and then 2 coats of Orly Space Cadet. The result? A lighter version of Space Cadet, haha. It seems like the purple of Space Cadet and the pink of Poison Apple blended a little and you also you can see some orange from Poison Apple through the gold of Space Cadet. I think it´s pretty awesome.

Sorry for the smudge on my middle finger, ooooppss.

Gorgeous! Well, that´s my opinion. But what do you think? Is it a nice combination or what?

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Orly Androgynie + Essence Make It Golden

Hello!

Remember I showed you Androgynie about 10 days ago? And remember how I wasn´t that impressed by it? Well, before I removed it, I just wanted to try some layering to see if I could spice it up a little. And I was quite happy with the result!

Essence Make It Golden has a clear base with gold glitter in different sizes and shapes. I love these kind of polishes over a black base!

Have a look.

Quite cool, don´t you think?! I really like the combo! Essence also has a purple glitter like this in their new collection, and a blue and green one that looks like Lippmann Across The Universe when layered over a dark blue.cross

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Orly Androgynie

Hello ladies!

Today I´ve got another polish from the Holiday Soiree collection by Orly. This is the one most people are looking forward to the most. And I must admit I was pretty excited about this one too. Then the bottle came and I wasn´t disappointed at all. It looked so amazing!

Look at all the big glitter in there! And the nice small gold glitter.

Well, I´m afraid that I did get disappointed when I applied it... The amount of glitter just doesn´t get onto the nail. No matter how hard I shook it. In close up you do see the glitter, the gold that is and a very few of the big glitter. But definitely not as much as you would expect from looking at the bottle. And I had the same experience as I have had with other black with glitter I used to own: from a distance it just looks like a plain black... Why oh why?! I was just so hopeful on this one.

Application wasn´t that easy either, opacity is fine though. 2 coats was enough. Maybe a third would have prevented it from tipwear in less than 16 hours...

Here you can see it for yourself.

So, what do you think? Still worth getting or are you gonna pass on this one?

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Surprise! I already have 2 of the Orly Holiday Soiree

Hello ladies!

Well, 2 days ago I talked about what I was looking forward to the most. I must admit that I prepare my post about a week before they are posted. While I was looking for pictures of the Holiday Soiree collection I actually found not one, but even two dutch sites that already had this collection. OMG!!! I couldn´t believe what I was looking at. So I decided to order 2 of them. I got Oui and Androgynie.

Here´s a bottle shot.

Don´t they look awesome?!
These babies come with baby nailfiles, but my daughter pulled them of the bottles before I could blink my eyes, haha.

Of course I couldn´t wait to use these babies and I used Oui first. And she is GOR-GEOUS!
Application was great.
This is 2 coats.

What do you think? Impressed? Disappointed? I really love this one! I already loved Zoya Faye, which is a lighter version of Orly Oui, but this one is even more beautiful. You see how many different faces she has depending on the light?

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What collections are you looking forward to the most?? Here are some of mine

Goodmorning ladies!

Today I decided to show you what collections I´m looking forward to the most. And of course I´m really curious what you are all looking forward to.

Here´s my list:

Orly Holiday Soiree

Orly Mineral FX

OPI new Designer Series

OPI Holiday Muppets

Color Club Backstage Pass

Color Club Beyond The Mistletoe

Essie Luxeffects

China Glaze Let It Snow

Well, that´s a whole lot of glitters :-) I´m not sure yet which ones are the lucky polishes that get a new home in my Helmer, but I´m sure it´s going to be quite a lot.

Unfortunately it seems Orly has made quite some dupes... Here´s a list of what I THINK might be dupes:

Orly Fowl Play (Birds of a Feather collection) = OPI Merry Midnight
Orly Rococo A-Go-Go (Mineral FX collection) = Zoya Valerie
Orly Igenue (Holiday Soiree collection) = Orly Rock The World (Mineral FX collection) = Zoya Faye = OPI Rally Pretty Pink
Orly Oui (Holiday Soiree collection) = OPI It´s My Year

So what´s your favorite collection that´s coming up?

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Orly Luxe

Goodmorning!!

I don't know why, but I was sooo in the mood for gold. And what is the best gold nail polish ever? Right, Orly Luxe. Nice soft gold foil which is also easy to apply. What else can you wish for in a gold polish?

And that's why I'm going to keep my mouth shut now, the polish and pics speak for themselves.

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