Orly Lollipop + LA Girl Splatter in Splash

I’ve had LA Girl Splatter polish in ‘Splash’ for quite awhile and finally got around to using it! I just couldn’t decide what to pair it with. I am such a sucker for mint and white, so of course I had to pick up this polish. I layered it over Orly Lollipop, and I loved the results!

Orly Lollipop is a great polish. It’s opaque in one coat; a little thick, but not difficult to apply. LA Girl also had a decent formula for a glitter. It required a little bit of working with to get the glitter arranged how I wanted it. This “glitter” isn’t sparkly- the white hexes are matte, and the aqua hexes have a satin finish. I’m pretty sure these are part of the full LA Girl line. I found mine at Rite Aid! 🙂

Pink & Silver Manicure- Orly Beach Cruiser and Butter London Diamond Geezer

As you may know, there’s nothing I love more than a fantastic hot pink polish! 🙂 Orly Beach Cruiser fits the bill! This is a neon that is relatively easy to work with. It is opaque in two coats, and I didn’t use a white base. I felt like pairing it with silver for some reason, so I used Butter London’s Diamond Geezer for a couple of accents. I actually quite like how this turned out. While I wore this manicure, I kept staring at it because it really popped!

Beach Cruiser is one of the better pink neons I have used, and I highly recommend it if you are in the market for this kind of color!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day Manicure!

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! I don’t have a drop of Irish blood, but it is a big deal where I live. This weekend I ran in a couple of St. Pat’s races, so of course I had to paint my nails to get into it, right?

I used Illamasqua Viridian and layered it with Orly Monster Mash. I almost always layer with Illamasqua, because many of their shades are early opaque in one coat. This manicure was actually difficult to capture on camera, because Monster Mash is SO sparkly! I used one coat of each. I really like this manicure and especially LOVE Monster Mash!

Alphabet Challenge: Orly Elsbeth’s Rose

Yes, another pink! Elsbeth’s Rose is a light, candy style pink with silver shimmer. It has cool undertones, but I think those with warm skin tons could also wear this. Maybe I’m weird, but whenever I buy a polish, I Google it when I get home to see what other people think about it, and what it looks like on others. I especially do this when I randomly find amazing polish deals (this was only $1 at Big Lots and it was the only one there). I’m always curious about why/how it ended up where it was.

From what I have read about this polish, people seem to love it or hate it. It’s pink, so obviously I love it. I didn’t find the formula thick like some other people did. Mine was actually on the thin-medium side and applied quite nicely. Definitely a winner for spring!

Alphabet Challenge: Orly Decades of Dysfunction

Hee hee…I love the name of this polish from Orly: Decades of Dysfunction. I can’t lie that I thought of certain members of my family (not you, Mom!), but got a good laugh out of it anyway. This polish is from the promotional for the Dark Shadows movie. I didn’t find any of the shades very unique, but ended up picking up this one on sale at Sally’s since I love white so much.

This is a pink tinged white cream polish with a very smooth formula! Because of the pink, it is a lot more unique than I thought, at least to my collection.This polish isn’t streaky and it is opaque in just two coats; amazing for a shade like this one.

What do you think? This is definitely a favorite white for me.

Orly Seagurl

Hello! What a week! I hope everyone out there is staying safe with Sandy. I’m nowhere near the bad stuff, but Michigan is definitely feeling the storm. We had ice pellets this morning, tons of wind, and my power was even out for awhile yesterday. Anyway, I have some Orly to show you today! This is from the 2011 Birds of a Feather collection. I have a mini bottle of this polish. I love minis because they take up less space!

Don’t mind my super short nails; I really ripped off that middle one (by accident). In the last month it seems like I just keep breaking one and then I have to file the rest. Seagurl is a very pretty color; it’s gray, but it has silver and gold shimmer throughout, which is more prominent in person.

This polish went on smoothly, but it seemed to chip rather quickly. I’m thinking maybe the top coat was to blame. Still, this is a great color, especially for fall. What do you think?

Orly Monster Mash!

Hello! I haven’t had too many nail posts this week, as you can see. Not only have I been quite busy, my poor hands have been very dry and uncomfortable with the weather cooling. Anyway, I have an awesome glitter today: Orly’s Monster Mash, which I paired over Zoya Charla.

Monster Mash is such a cool glitter. It is suspended in a sheer green base, and is composed of green hex glitter, small gold glitter, and gold bar glitter. I used one coat over Charla, which was just enough sparkle for me!

The glitter applied perfectly and I didn’t have any issues with it. I haven’t been interested in the Halloween collections much since I don’t particularly care for the holiday, but I decided to get Monster Mash after falling in love with it on a trip to Sally Beauty Supply! I can’t wait to layer this one over some other colors!

Weekend Polish Haul

Hello! Are you enjoying the holiday weekend? The way my job works I pretty only much get Christmas as an extended holiday, so this is just a regular old working weekend for me, but I’m glad my hubby is home an extra day this week. We spent a night with his family after we both had work weeks from HELL! And yes, I treated myself to some new polish because of that rotten work week!

My man needed some new work pants and asked me to tag along to the mall today, and I stopped at a table outside of Regis full of clearance stuff. They had a small basket of OPI polish that was buy one, get two free! Then we stopped at Sally Beauty so I could get some hair oil and of course I just could not say no to a fall polish display. Anyway, here’s what I picked up!

OPI Pink Flamenco– I have so many pinks, but this one was just so pretty and vibrant I could not resist it!

OPI Jade is the New Black– This has been on my wishlist, so I was happy to pick up this green shade.

OPI Suzi Takes the Wheel– A lovely gray for fall. I don’t have anything quite like this.

Finger Paints Fall of Surprises– This is a gorgeous copper glitter and it is a cheaper alternative for the copper Orly glitter that is currently out. Unfortunately, the cashier said, “This is so pretty! It looks like Halloween!” I do not like Halloween whatsoever, but hey, she doesn’t know that. 🙂

Orly Ingenue– This was clearly a hit at my Sally Beauty, because it was the only bottle left! This is from last year’s holiday collection, I believe.

Revlon Radiant– Just adding some glitter to my pile with this one; still glitter crazy right now!

Nicole by OPI Rainbow in the S-Kylie– Another Kardashian color, this one is a dupe for OPI Rainbow Connection, which I do not have and adore!

Do you have any of these colors? I’m not sure which one to use first!

 

Friday Polish Haul!

My nails are in a sad state right now (aka SHORT, but not from biting), so I thought I would share this little polish haul today! Since fall is on the way, I’ve been SO excited about all of the cosmetic brands and polish brands releasing fall collections. Fall is my favorite season, and I love the rich colors associated with it. I even got married in the fall (almost six years ago now). Here’s what I picked up:

Deborah Lippmann Naked– This is much more pink in person, but it is basically the perfect nude. Imagine my shock when I found this at TJMaxx of all places! Instead of the $18 price tag on these babies, it was only $6! There were two other polishes there, but they didn’t pique my interest, as they were just sparkly top coats.

Orly Synchro– I got this one at Sally Beauty Supply from the Electronica display. It’s a duochrome pink and an all over interesting shade that I have never really seen before. The girl at the counter liked it so much she grabbed the last one from the display to purchase!

China Glaze Desert Sun– Let me preface this by saying how disappointed I was in the On Safari display at Sally’s. They didn’t have a very good selection, or the one I wanted the most: I’m Not Lion (so I ordered it on Amazon). There were mostly only the purple and red ones, but I am excited about Desert Sun!

Sinful Colors Rain Storm– This is a new color that was on a new display (Start a Phenomenon display) at Walgreens. It’s a gorgeous dusty blue, but looks more vibrant in the bottle.

Essie Yogaga– This polish is the reason I went to Walgreens. I saw the Yogaga display on some blogs, and just fell in love with the color. It doesn’t look like anything special in the photo, but it’s a light taupe color. At first I thought it was similar to Sand Tropez, but Yogaga is not a sandy shade.

Now I need to paint my nails!

Essence Walk On Air + Orly Shine On Crazy Diamond

I picked up this Essence polish called Walk On Air a couple months ago because I wanted an affordable cobalt blue. There are a lot of gorgeous blues out there, and at 99 cents, this fit the bill! I combined it with Orly Shine On Crazy Diamond, which is a great glitter that is subtle and not over the top.

This is after a couple days of wear. As you can see, I broke the nail on my index finger! There’s some tip wear in these shots, but I work from home and do a TON of typing on a daily basis. For the price, I was happy with the finish and wear. This is two coats of Essence and one coat of Orly.

This shot is a little brighter. I should have really taken these photos right after I painted them! I loved this combination and this was another winner with my husband. Not that I care if he doesn’t like my polish, but it is sweet that he notices. 🙂 Shine On Crazy Diamond is one of my favorite glitters. I like how whimsical it is, and it adds a bit of sparkle without being way over the top. Plus, it has a Pink Floyd reference! What’s not to like about that?