Today’s color is green and I painted my nails with Fresh 48722 from Orly’s Happy Go Lucky collection. It’s the only green nail polish I own, I’m not really a fan of green in general, but this very shade looks so vivid and fresh, just like its name says.
3 coats of Orly’s Fresh in the daylight (please, don’t mind such a colorful background that decided to become the foreground >< it's my summer dress with floral print):
I don’t have much to say about Sephora’s Yellow Umbrella, except that it’s a big disappointment to me :( Now I wish I had bought Orly’s Lemonade or Live Wire instead, since both of them were in stock as well.
The thing is I was so happy about Sephora’s Cherry Popsicle, that I was expecting the same quality from Yellow Umbrella. The brush and bottle are the same, but this one turned out to be much worse. It applies streaky and unevenly, regardless of the number of coats. In the pic I have 4 coats of Yellow Umbrella, and you can see how bad it looks:
Needless to say I removed it right after taking the pic. I’m not sure, is it me or the polish that’s to blame? I tried to be very careful, but it went on thick, streaky and gloppy.
The color looks fine to me, I think this neutral yellow shade will work with many skin tones, and ofc it will look much better in summer (and on shorter nails), but I will never ever paint my nails with it – too much time and nerves to lose for such a poor mani :( I’ll only use it for flowers or some other art.
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Today’s color is orange, and I decided to show you a nice summer nail polish Cha Cha Cha 48674 from Orly’s Miniature collection. I didn’t have any orange polishes in my stash, so I had to buy this one specially for the Challenge.
Here’s how it looks like – 2 coats of Orly’s Cha Cha Cha without a topcoat:
Please, don’t pay attention to the chocolate in the pic, it’s not an ad by any means :) I just needed something orange to take pics of the mani.
Cha Cha Cha is a bright sunny orange with microshimmer. The application is ok and the polish is of the same quality as you would expect from Orly, but in a small 5.4 ml glass bottle. I like its cheerful color, and I know it will look much better in summer when my hands are at least a little bit tanned and when there’s lots of sun. I’d better keep Cha Cha Cha in my nail polish box until then.
Today we have a grey sky with rain clouds here in Saint Petersburg. The snow that fell last week is all melted now, there’s puddles everywhere and everything is dark and wet outside :( It’s definitely not the time for bight summer colors… and yet, I am to do a yellow mani tomorrow! lol Gotta love this Challenge %)
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Today is the first day of the Challenge and I’m to paint my nails red. I chose a lovely red polish Cherry Popsicle L03 from Sephora. It’s described as rich cool red and yes, that’s what Cherry Popsicle is in rl.
2 coats of Sephora’s Cherry Popsicle in the daylight:
Today’s polish has a weird name Androgynie and comes from Orly’s Holiday Soiree 2011 collection. So far I bought only this one, because 5 other polishes from the collection don’t look very interesting to me. With Androgynie it’s different, from the moment I saw its swatches on the web, I knew I must get it. This black glitter definitely goes right up my alley and my love for dark polishes :)
Androgynie is a black-based jelly polish with tiny holographic gold/silver flecks, and larger green, blue, yellow and orange hex glitter. I needed 3 coats to get the opaque finish I wanted, but it was worth it. I wore it for 3 days and it held up perfectly well.
3 coats of Orly’s Androgynie without a top coat (daylight):
It’s been raining for 3 days in a row here in Saint Petersburg, and I’m beginning to feel kinda trapped inside due to the cold wind and rainy weather. This all makes me sleepy, today I woke up close to 2pm and my first thought was… don’t laugh! – “It’s so late already! How I’m going to do a new swatch?” :))
These short winter days make it tough as there’s very little daylight shooting time available for me. Waking up early has never been my thing and I can’t seem to feel ok if I get up before noon. And what is more, the rain-clouds steal the sun away. So please, bare with me and my swatches :)
Now onto today’s polish – it’s called Chocolate Nut from Sally Hansen’s Hard As Nails Xtreme Wear line. This is how it looks like in daylight when it’s raining outside:
A week ago in my post about Lumene’s Magic Moment I promised to show you one more interesting shade I have from this Finnish brand, the polish called Trouble Maker:
Back in November, when I made a swatch of Yves Rocher’s Mauve Leger, I mentioned that YR nail polish bottle was quite small, just 5.5 ml
Guess what? Today’s nail polish, Vert Abysses by Yves Rocher is in a 3 ml bottle :)) They are getting smaller and smaller each time I buy them 0_o and now I’m concerned about how long this polish will last, as I really like the color. Just look at this little cute thingy!
YR Vert Abysses with ORLY Sapphire Silk:
I have yet another grey nail polish that I want to show you :) It’s called I Vant to Be A-Lone Star and it comes from OPI Texas collection that was officially launched on 2 February 2011. The polish was created for Spring/Summer season, but I think its color is great for winter time too, because it reminds me of snow.
I Vant to Be A-Lone Star is a pale grey/blue polish with a silver shimmer. It seems to be the lightest and most muted color in the collection.
Application wise it is easy, as always with OPI polishes, and drying time is ok. The first coat is streaky tho, but the second is much better, and by the third coat it seems pretty opaque. What I don’t like is that the brushstrokes are slightly visible :(
3 coats of OPI I Vant to Be A-Lone Star (direct sunlight):
For those who never heard about Lumene before (I believe the name is not very popular around the world) – it is a Finnish cosmetics and skincare brand. There is a crystal clear lake called Lummenne in the center of Finnish Lake District. The lake gave its name to the Lumene brand :)
I remember Lumene’s polishes from my school years, especially I liked a blue shimmer called Star Dust (or Space Dust?) and a sparkling yellow polish which name I completely forgot, but like I said, it was long ago, so I’m 100% sure both of them have been already discontinued, I couldn’t even find their swatches on the web… Anyway, let’s move on to today’s polish!
Lumene’s Magic Moment or Hetken lumo in Finnish is a gorgeous purple nail polish with pink and purple microglitter. The polish is slightly sheer, it takes a few coats to build up intensity, but it dries quickly so it’s no big deal.
On the pic I have 3 coats of Lumene Magic Moment without base or top coat:
