Ready for some more holiday goodies?
Orly Holiday Soiree brings in the season with an icy white, bright red jelly, some awesome metallics and a fun glittery black. There is one missing here which I passed on. It’s a deep, basically black blue creme called Le Chateau.
Orly Birds of a Feather collection for fall 2011 features six new colors and I’ve got two of what I think are the best ones.
The colors included in this collection are Sweet Peacock (shimmery deep blue), Lucky Duck (medium green creme), Peachy Parrot (shimmery peach/orange), Nite Owl (shimmery light taupe) Seagurl (metallic greenish/grey), Fowl Play (eggplant purple with holographic flake glitter).
I love Orly nail polish! I love their formula, brushes, bottle shape and caps. I don’t think they get nearly as much love as they should. They are definitely in my top favorite nail polish brands and are cruelty-free!
Welcome to another edition of vs.!
The face off today features three similar colors. All are black with silver glitter, but how closely do they really compare?
The Heavyweight: NARS Night Breed is the newest of the three colors and the most expensive and possibly coveted.
The Middleweight: Nubar Knight’s Armor is from spring of 2010 and not too expensive but not super cheap either.
The Lightweight: Orly Goth is the oldest of the three. She’s also the least expensive and the most easily found.
In the bottles they look pretty similar. All are black with heavy silver glitter. You can tell from looking at the bottles that Night Breed and Knight’s Armor look like they have heavier more prolific glitter than Goth. In Goth you see a lot of the silver kind of sits there not looking very well dispersed.
Back to school. Those are words I ABHORRED hearing when I was a kid. I hated seeing the back to school commercials that always seemed to start earlier and earlier each year, encroaching on my summer. But if I had a collection like Orly‘s new one called Happy Go Lucky Back to School, I probably would have been much less surly. 
Happy Go Lucky Back to School features four new colors, two of which I have for you today.
They are all bright cremes (except one), but not necessarily neons.
I love my Orly’s because their formula is usually really great and these are as well. Creamy, easy to apply and full coverage in just two coats.
Orly Precious for spring 2011 is a collection based on “lush fabrics, rare stones and extravagant finishes” from all across the globe. “Orly celebrates the refined glamor of porcelain, the vibrant sheen of silk, and the lush sparkle of priceless gems”.
I like the idea behind this collection, I think it’s a great concept and they pulled it off (sort of).
Pure Porcelain
Pure Porcelain is a nude/beige/white creme color. I wouldn’t have thought of porcelain when looking at this initially but since it’s named that, I can definitely see the correlation. What I liked about this one was that it was very even and thick, but not hard to work with. After two coats it was very opaque. It would make a good color for a conservative work place or especially those with darker skin tones.
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