Twinsie Tuesday - Dot or Stripes Manicure

Good Morning! Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme is a dot or stripe manicure. It seems like such a simple concept, but I spent quite some time thinking out what I was going to do. I chose a base which I wanted to work with and then decided to go with dots - but I couldn't pair up the perfect accent color to go with the base. In the end I decided to stripe it up. I did some freehand (not like I needed to tell you that...) stripes using my Jordana Pop Art Nail Design polish in black over Orly Sapphire Silk (which is more green in person)....

Make sure you check out my Twinsies and see whether they decided to go with dots or stripes...

 

Amanda at Amandalandish

Anna at Going to the Showing

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Ashley at Art Evolve

Brandi at The Beaulieu Review

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Jamie at Polish, Please!

Katherine at Haul of Fame

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Meredith at Polish and Charms

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Sarah at See Sarah Swatch

Tara at Polishy of Truth

Twinsie Tuesday - A Polish The Same Color As Our Car (Orly Lunar Eclipse)

Good Morning everyone! I've been pretty excited for today's Twinsie Tuesday theme since the day we received the email giving us our weekly themes. Today's theme is a polish that is the same color as our car. While I can be a girly girl, I absolutely love my car and I have absolutely no problem wrecking a mani if I'm scrubbing my wheels or waxing my car. I drive a Volkswagen Jetta in Blue Shadow.

I picked up Orly Lunar Eclipse due to the fact that I fell in love with the color, but it wasn't until I was putting shopping bags in my car that I realized that Lunar Eclipse is the perfect match to my car. Of course, my car doesn't have the glitter that is packed into the Orly but the color is pretty spot on in the sun.

Lunar Eclipse is a gorgeous medium blue with purple-pink and blue microglitter mixed in. The purple-ish pink microglitter is so amazing in the bottle, but much more subtle on the nail. I could barely pick up the pink microglitter in my swatch pic, sorry about that! The formula on this is pretty sheer. I needed three coats for the photo below and I think it could have used a fourth. I also found that this polish takes a little longer to dry. I'll never forget the first time I wore this; I went out right after and had dents everywhere lol. With all of that being said, it's an amazing polish!

Here's the car for reference. You can't really see the color since this was taken about 50' away with my cell camera (I was aiming for storm clouds)

 

I'm curious to see if any of my twinsies drive a blue car. Be sure to check them out here:

 

Amanda at Amandalandish

Anna at Going to the Showing

Anne at Grape Fizz Nails

Ashley at Art Evolve

Brandi at The Collegiate Nail

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Cordia at Seriously Swatched

Elizabeth at Did My Nails

Jenn at All That is Gorgeous...

Jenna at I'm Still Thinking...

Katherine at Haul of Fame

Maribeth at Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Meredith at Polish and Charms

Nory at Fierce Makeup and Nails

Rachel at Top Coat It

Sarah at See Sarah Swatch

Tara at Polishy of Truth

Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire

Good Morning! It's another Monday :(  I hope everyone had a good weekend! I'm sad to see it end. Today I have some older swatches for you, it's a polish that I'm revisiting because my first swatches were so bad. I don't know if anyone remembers my first swatches of Lynnderella's Very Pretty Vampire....but they weren't good.

 So today I have two coats of Lynnderella Very Pretty Vampire over two coats of Orly Rococo A Go-Go, topped with a thick coat of Seche Vite.

I miss the old school Lynn bottles...they looked bigger lol  :)

 As much as I want to be completely enamored with this polish, I'm not a red girl. I'm thinking next time I may have to layer it over a black base and see what it looks like, but then I'll lose the black glitter that is in there. :::sigh:::

I hope everyone has a good day today! I'm hoping to get my Llarowe nail mail today, which includes 20 new bottles of Lynnderella <3  I'm stalking the USPS website. I almost wanted to call in sick to work haha ;)

Orly Fresh

Hello! Don't worry - it's not another Color Club post! lol. I usually try my best to mix it up and I realized I did three Color Club back to back. As much as I love Color Club I'm trying to keep it interesting for you guys.

Today I have Orly's Fresh from their Happy Go Lucky collection from late summer. I picked this up at Sally's on the clearance rack for $1.99. I liked it so much I was planning to pay full price for it, I just happened to get lucky. It's a bright green creme polish. It's not quite neon, but it's bold and bright and I love it. Formula was easy to work with.

I was so excited to review this and when I put the photos on the computer I realized I have a cotton ball fuzzy stuck to my nail. FAIL :(

This is two coats of Fresh with no top coat.

Orly Ancient Jade

Hi there! Today's post is all about Orly Ancient Jade. I kept seeing Ancient Jade when I would polish shop and I was always tempted to buy it up but always put it back. It became a lemming for me and my best friend surprised me with a bottle (as well as a ton of other bottles, all lemmings!)
Ancient Jade is a dusty jade green. It leans a slightly more green than my swatch photos show. The formula was thick but highly opaque. It was easy to work with, as all Orly polishes are. Also, in the 24 hours that I wore this polish I had 3 strangers comment on how nice it was. Score! I love when people notice my nail polish lol.
The swatches below are two coats of Orly Ancient Jade and one coat of Seche Vite.

Comparison Post: NYX Girls 'Sea of Cortez' vs Orly's 'Halley's Comet' vs OPI 'Catch Me In Your Net'

Happy Monday! (let's try to make the best of it lol).

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday, I thought I had scheduled one and didn't realize until late yesterday afternoon I hadn't. Today I have a comparison post for you. When I was wearing NYX Girls 'Sea of Cortez' I thought it was another dupe. Guess what, it's NOT! Yay! It's similar but not a dupe.

NYX Girls 'Sea of Cortez' vs Orly's 'Halley's Comet' vs OPI 'Catch Me In Your Net'

Index: Sea of Cortez. Middle" CMIYN. Ring: Halley's Comet. Pinky: CMIYN

Sorry for the lack of clean up! Swatching without my contacts in isn't a good idea. Also, macro picks up things I don't see in real life.

If you enlarge the photos you can see that NYX Girls 'Sea of Cortez' has gold shimmer running through it, where the shimmer in OPI 'CMIYN' and Orly 'Halley's Comet' is teal. 'CMIYN' and 'HC' are definitely dupes though and I needed 3 coats of each of those, and only 2 coats of 'Sea of Cortez'.

Do I necessarily need all three? Absolutely not. Though I do feel better knowing that I only have 2 dupes, not 3.  :)

Orly 'Rock Solid'

Good Morning! Today's post feature's Orly 'Rock Solid' from their new Mineral FX collection. I picked this one up at Sally's for $7.99 (on sale). I really wanted to purchase every single polish from their new Mineral FX collection but I controlled myself. I'm sure I'll end up buying them eventually ;)

'Rock Solid' is a dark foil/shimmer gray with pieces of holographic glitter throughout. I thought this would for sure clash with my skin tone but I actually like it. Even if it did clash I would still wear it, I like it that much. The holographic glitter in this gives it a great effect. This is much more holographic than my camera decided to show.

Formula was easy to work with. This was the tiniest bit gritty but nothing insane. I didn't use a top coat but I don't think this will be a top coat eater.

The photos below are 2 coats of  Orly 'Rock Solid' with no top coat.

Orly 'Fantasea'

This post features Orly's 'Fantasea' which is a very unique pinkish/purple that flashes gold. I honestly don't even know how to properly describe this beyond it's super unique and it rocks. I don't have anything else like this.

Please regard the tip wear. I have to remember to take my photos the day I paint my nails....not hours later after typing all day :(

Formula and dry time on 'Fantasea' was good. The photos above are three coats with a top coat of Seche Vite.  I found this on at a local beauty supply shop.