Orly 'Passion Fruit'

Ew.  In the bottle 'Passion Fruit is a bright pink creme.  But, on the nail it's a drab awkward orange pink matte color.  This is 3 coats and the formula was RIDICULOUS!  Every time I did another coat it would wipe of part of the precious coat. and it had a matte finnish and that didn't save the application at all.  I had bought this at Sally Beauty (shown here) and I had so much hope, but no.  Oh well.

And on a side note the VOTING is going GREAT!  Thank you all for your votes and the news of them that you have shared!  And I'm hoping that those Orly's will be better than this one (not to hard a thing to do...)!

PLEASE VOTE FOR ME!!

Hey there fraaaynds!  Ok, so a while back I heard about the site Adopt a Polish.  What it is, is a website that lets you 'adopt' nail polishes, and it's all totally free.  So to 'adopt' you make an entry saying why you deserve this polish(s).  So of course I had to apply for a family of Orlys.  Here's what I said:

I am a 13 year old polish-obsessor and have always planned on adopting kids when old enough. Since I’m too young to do that, and my polishes are my babies this would be a perfect way to do that. I also have plenty of space for this beautiful polish family in my bathroom. Also I’m a budding nail blogger so I can promise that Space Cadet’s Wife, Hot Pink, will have her swatches all over the internet with her two wonderful children. Plus, I never lend out or loose my nail polishes and treat them all with the ultimate respect.

And, to my EXTREME suprise, I MADE THE FINAL FOUR! So, what I'm asking is for you guys to go to the link below (they're all the same) and vote for me!  Thank you!


http://www.adoptapolish.org/orly/


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Love & Beauty 'Purple'

Love & Beauty is a brand of cosmetics sold at Forever 21 and there nail polish is $2.80.  They have like a buttload of colors and finishes (glitter, creme, shimmer, even some flakies and scented). Another think I like is a lot of there colors are dupes of OPI and Orly ('Gone Gonzo', 'Austin-tatious Turquoise' to name a few).  So when I saw this it looked like a dupe for Orly 'Out of this World'.  It is.  But it's *so* pretty.  It's a dark purple base with round circular things (not glitter but not shimmer, it's an in-between) that flash every type and shade of purple.  So in some lights it's blue purple, magenta, true purple, or a deep purple.  I really like this color though, this is 3 coats.

Day 9: Rainbow Nails

Well Mimi was supposed to put up to extrmely simple post this weekend but she didn't.  So I'm angry.   GRR!  Well to day was rainbow nails and I saw Rainbow Nail Art and Holo Rainbow, but i don't have anything fancy like that.  I don't even have Red, Orange, and Yellow glitter polishes.  Blogging really shows the gaps in my collection :(.  So I did rainbow skittles on each hand.

UP CLOSE:

Blue: Ulta 'Blue Streak'

Green: Sinful Colors 'Innocent'

Yellow: AVON 'Sunshine'

Orange: Orly 'Sol Cabana'

Red: ALDO NAIL LACQUER 'Pampered Patent'

And I did the rainbow reverse on the other hand so that when you go like that they make a DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!

This is such a basic mani but I like it.  Tomorrow Gradient Nails and I'll post the Day 7 & 8 posts.  That's what's make this lack of post even more of a fail because I had all the pics for one of the post set up for one of them and it's not like I was asking for a essay or anything!!

BTW all of these were 3 coats and cremes

Two Too Many Hauls

I'm a bad person.  I didn't share this earlier because I didn't have a camera.

So this first one is from Rite Aid and the red Sally Hansen was only $.49.  Although I used my moms store card, so every thing was cheaper.  And in my defense I got all of these for around $14.  On to what I actually bought!

(from l-r: Revlon 'Not so Blueberry' & 'Grape Icy', Sinful Colors 'Ciao Bella' & 'Love Nails', Pumpkin Nail Lacquer (no names but a black and orange glitter and a hot pink glow in the dark), Sally Hansen 'Red Hot', and Essie 'Power Clutch')

Aren't they all pretty?!?!  Unfortunately the darker Sinful Colors and the two pumpkin ones (I love those bottles) didn't photograph well.  Although all the other are pretty good.  When I swatch them I'll make sure the colors are right.

(from l-r: China Glaze 'Go Go Pink', Finger Paints 'I'm a Survivor' China Glaze 'Strawberry Fields' and Orly 'Oh Cabana Boy' & 'Passion Fruit')

And then the other day I went to Sally beauty and got a bottle of thinner (everyone needs that stuff) and swatch wheels.  And then Orly and China Glaze had breast cancer displays of all these pretty pinks.  The Finger Paints was on clearance for $1 and the China Glaze was in the pack with the Seche Vite was $9 so those were both on sale.  

As for the colors the only cremes are 'Go Go Pink' and 'Passion Fruit',  all of the others were really pretty shimmers.  And again I didn't try to get the shimmers to show but the colors are pretty accurate, except 'Passion Fruit' which isn't as red.

SWATCHES COMING SOON!!!