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Friday, 1 April 2011

Orly Royal Velvet

I picked this polish a few weeks ago. I just wanted something different and this fitted the bill. Royal Velvet is a pretty purple polish with an awesome electric blue duochrome shine. It is easy to put on and I like the formula. It dries pretty quickly as well. Overall it's just a lovely polish. I'm not sure how unique this color is, I've read somewhere that SpaRitual has a similar polish, but I don't have anything even remotely close in my collection.

Thursday, 31 March 2011

China Glaze OMG


OMG indeed!!! My local shop where I get almost all my polishes is having 25% off China Glaze for the next month. Seemed like a great time to try the brand again, perhaps it will be better than Innocence. I got two polishes for now, this and Dorothy Who? for the equivalent of 11$.
OMG is a silver holographic polish with very fine particles. I mean they are tiny, like dust. Even with great magnification you cannot see individual particles. The polish itself is quite lovely, more than that really! The formula is thin, but the polish builds up nicely. Here I'm wearing two coats. When I put it on there were brush marks visible, but they are less noticeable when the polish dries. What is quite noticeable is any imperfections of the nails. So I think I'll need to get a good ridge filler for the base.
Another thing I like about this polish is that the holographic effect is noticeable even in without the sun and in artificial light, even if it is less pronounced.


Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Versace Heat V2045-W


This is yet another oldie that I have I have lying around. It is a very pretty purple with lots of blue shimmer. This is two coats. I like the color and how shimmery it is, it even dries relatively quickly (can't say that about many polishes that are about 10 years old). There's just one thing I don't like about this polish. After a while the shine and sparkle dulls considerably, I don't know why but it has always been like this. Another coat of shiny top coat does improve the situation, but again not for very long.

Monday, 28 March 2011

Chanel 483 Vendetta


This is one gorgeous polish! I love, love, love it! Vendetta is a one coat dark purple polish that has pink and blue sparkle in it. It dries ok, not super fast, but it is fine. In the bottle it looks quite different - much brighter and the shimmer is more visible. When the polish dries, it looks darker and less sparkly, and in the natural light it looks almost black. Still, it is such a sexy polish!
Also on the nails it kind of looks like OPI Russian Navy does in the bottle.



Saturday, 26 March 2011

Versace Heat V2042-W


I've had this polish for a really long time. If I had to guess, something like 10 years. I quite like the color, sort of rusty brick red with a very subtle shimmer. For me it is a one coat polish, it dries ok, not super fast, but I put it down to age.
However, I don't like two things about this polish, or more like the three Versace polishes I have in general. First of all, the name, or the lack of it. V2042-W. If you really want to call your polishes with numbers, go for simpler ones. I also have a problem with the bottle shape. I have about half of the bottle left, but to get the polish out is rather difficult, since the bottle is wide and the edge at the top is at a straight angles, no matter how much you tilt it, it stays trapped inside. Am I making myself clear? :)


Thursday, 24 March 2011

OPI Golden Rainbow


I have been looking at this polish for months now, looking and holding it in my hands every time I go to my nail polish shop, but not getting it for some reason. Until now :) This is probably the prettiest polish I own.
OPI Golden Rainbow is a very pretty glitter top coat. It has tiny gold glitter, slightly bigger silver glitter and quite big holographic hexagon glitter. In one word it is just Amazing!!!
I can't really find a lot about this polish, it's after they changed the formula, so if you know anything about it, please share.
Below is the polish in one and two coats respectively over bare nails.

Here is Golden Rainbow layered over Orly Black Out.

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Orly Black Out


I don't wear black polish very often, but I sometimes get the urge to do it. I've had a few different blacks over the years. Black Out is the one I have right now. I can't say that I hate it, but it's not that great. Orly themselves describe it as a creme. I can't really decide what kind of polish it is. When I got it, it was very thick and at the same time really streaky. It does dry nice and shiny, but for this I needed two, and in some cases three coats. That is not what I want from my black polish and I can get great shine with a top coat. Bottom line is that I had nicer black polishes from no name companies.