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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Orly It's Not Rocket Science, OPI Black Shatter

I just wanted something easy and shiny and green.

How I love this colour. Swampy, glittery all things good.

But this? This is amazing. It looks like REAL ZOMBIE SKIN!!!!

I think I might love this stuff even more horizontally applied.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Orly Space Cadet

I know everyone has seen this elevntymillion times but here's my contribution.

In the sun...

it is amazing!

But even more so..

in the shade.

It's stunning.

See?

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Orly Snowcone, Sally Hansen HD Spectrum

I figured I should try out the other SH polish I picked up. For posterity's sake. So here it is!

Wow! This is am amazingly brilliant blue. I'm not really seeing the flashes of pink I see in the bottle on my nail, but it's still pretty blingtastic!

It has that foil-y look I am so crazy about and the colour is INTENSE.

This is 2 coats of Spectrum over 1 coat of Snowcone. I wanted to use something that would cover in 1 coat and the Orly seemed a good choice.

I think the next time, I'd try it over a red or pink polish to see if pulled more purple. That would be spectacular!

I found this mani chipped a lot sooner than the previous one. In fact it's sitting on my hands right now looking totally trashed. I need to get some length off my claws right now! My nails grow like crazy. I think it's all the knitting...

Monday, October 18, 2010

Orly Velvet Rope, SH HD Laser

Wow, wowee, wow, wow, wow!

I passed on the SH HD's when they first came out, but saw some in a clearance bin this weekend. I picked up Laser and Spectrum. Umm.. why did I pass on these before?

It's like totally my favourite finish of like all time!

Like OMG! But really, this is stunning. Almost in a literal sense. I keep staring at my nails. They have stunned me.

This is 2 coats of Laser over 2 coats of Velvet Rope (which is a gorgeous matte plum, but that is for another day maybe!) and I coat of Speedey from CND. It's bloody lovely isn't it?

Goes to show you, you gotta give some polishes a second look. Or you'll miss out on surprising yourself with the gorgeous.

Have any polishes surprised you lately? Anything you thought was blech that turned out to be the hot? Do tell....

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Orly Pixie Dust

I had to run outside my backdoor to get these not so great semi-sunny pictures.

It doesn't show the sweet sprinkle of shiny that is in Pixie Dust. Awww.

This is a 3 coater for sure! But I love the way it looks on. Very Elegant.

I found nail polish heaven last week.. again the Aesthetics certificate comes in berry handy!

Even against my dog bench (we bought a bench for Pickles to look outside. Spoiled much?) the Pixie Dust is slammin'!

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Orly Out Of This World

The weather here has been really overcast and rainy. It has been tricky to get enough sun for proper photos!

I lucked out with a little spot of sunshine for this purple polish.

But I do have to say, I don't think there is really anything special about this one from the Cosmic collection.

This is 2 coats. It's kinda sparkly, but nothing to go searching for. I think it may be the dud of this collection.

What do you think?

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Orly It's Not Rocket Science

You know you have an in with the Sally's gals when they call you about the new collection you asked about.

I picked up 4 of the 6 Cosmics, and felt a little bad.. there wasn't going to be any left when they put the collection out for everyone else. The regulars looked like they were gonna clean house on it!