Three In A Row

Hope you don't mind, but it's the third Orly polish on a row here on Life.Love.Nailpolish! Nite Owl was one of my must-haves from the Birds Of A Feather collection released in Fall of 2011. I've worn it before, but as with most Orly polishes on me, it chipped in a few hours so I don't wear it very often. It's a sort of chocolatey taupe color with silver shimmer. I thought it would be more nude but it's a bit too dark and cool-toned on me. I'll have to look it up in my notebook later, but I used either 2 or 3 coats here. It was a little thick and lumpy, but I don't know if that's because it's been sitting around for so long since the last time I used it. On to the pics!

It's really packed with shimmer, so no need to worry about this being a hidden shimmer polish!

See what I mean about it being a little lumpy? I'll thin it next time before I wear it. I hope my bottle of Royal Navy thickened up a bit since it was on the thin side.

Hope you liked the polish, and if not, I hope you at least liked the larger pic size! I widened the blog so that it could fit larger pics. If the pics still aren't large enough for you, you can always click on them and make them even bigger (although, that is slightly more complicated now that I use flickr for pics).

Happy Polishing,

Janelle

Another Orly Polish?

I actually have a ton of photos of today's polish, but I'm only gonna post a few because it didn't feel like this polish was worthy of pic spam. I like the color, but it's just average to me.

Orly Gilded coral is a peachy nude with gold shimmer. I have an obsession with nudes, so I had to get this polish. If you're fair-skinned, this may lean more peach to a point where it looks like a light coral on you. I can't remember how many coats I used but I want to say it was 3 because I remember it being sheer.

Ok, that's enough photos. If you want to see more photos of this polish, you can see them here in my flickr account. 

Is this polish up your alley or totally not your style? Let me know in the comments!

Happy  Polishing,

Janelle

Satiny Pearls

Oh yeah, I've been a naughty blogger. Sorry about that! I haven't been feeling too well, so I've been laying down in bed...a lot. Quick post today though because I'm at a meeting and I'm required to be sitting up. The polish is Orly Au Champagne which was released in 2011 for the holidays. It's a satiny pearly off-white that many people liked, but it didn't tickle my fancy. It took too long to dry on me and it's on the sheer side to me. I did 3 thickish coats here. It dries to a satin finish and I didn't use any topcoat.

But it looks really pretty in the bottle. I'm sad that I couldn't get it to work this time, but I'll try again to make it work.

So it's totally my type of polish, and I will try to make it work in the future, but I say it's not worth hunting this polish down. My fave shimmery white is still a toss-up between China Glaze Frosty and Zoya Gaia. They're both sheer, but to me, the color is worth it!

Happy Polishing,

Janelle

(oh, yeah I used my full name!)

Frenched Cherry Blossoms for Pink Wednesday

I'm a busybody. I couldn't leave this simple cherry blossom design alone, and that's how I ended up with today's nail design. I used China Glaze Innocence for the base, China Glaze White on White for the petals, and black and pink Kiss nail art stripers. Then, it turned into this:

I used Orly Passion Fruit for freehanded tips and then the black Kiss Nail art striper. It was pretty simple but I think the tips were overkill.

Happy Polishing,

J

Don't believe the camera's lies!!

This picture is exactly how almost everyone's swatches of Orly Royal Navy looked. I knew I had to get this color!! It was the most amazing royal blue polish. Not! Don't get me wrong, the polish is actually really gorgeous, but it is not the color shown above.

This is more like the actual color. You can hardly see the teal shimmer unless you look up close, and it is a true navy jelly. In bright lighting, there is definite VNL (visible nail line). I decided to jazz up my manicure with a Color Club mini I scored on eBay that I cannot find any info about. If you know anything about this color, please let me know!! I can't even find swatches of any of the minis I bought except Where's The Soiree?, so someone please inform me!! No further procrastination, here's the nail art done freehand with the polish brush and a dotting tool in Color Club Peace & Gold:

I knew this polish would look great with gold and it does!! Plus, I'm a little smug about my nail art...It looks great to me!!

Happy Polishing,

J

Hot Hot Lava!!

Yay!!  Blogger is finally back up!! So, yesterday's look is inspired by my desire to try my new China Glaze polishes that came in the mail!! I got 8 polishes in colors: Orange Knockout, Heart Broken (pink crackle), Crushed Candy (baby blue crackle), Cracked Concrete (grey crackle), Fault Line (purple crackle), Four Leave Clover, White on White, and Fairy Dust!! I haven't had a chance to use them all yet, but I will post pics when I do! Fairy Dust is officially my favorite sparkle topper....of all time.

On to my manicure! I wish it lasted longer, but it was my fault for trying to apply polish on top of my Orly Nailtrition, and two coats of it at that. Here's the order I applied my polish:
2 coats Orly Nailtrition
1 coat SH Hard as Nails
1 Coat ChG Bare if You Dare
1/2 Orange Knockout, 1/2 Bare if You Dare ( I used Orange knockout for the top half and Bare if You Dare for the lower half)
1 coat  Seche Vite to even out things
1 coat ChG Cracked Concrete
1 coat ChG Fairy Dust
1 coat Seche Vite

Did you want to see pics? Well here they are....

 My index finger totally wrinkled right before i took this pic...argh. Never would have happened if I'd only used the Sally Hansen.

 Sorry for the blurriness!! I could not get my cam to focus last night!

So, it totally looked cool, and I would love to try it out again with different color combinations. Hope you enjoyed it!

Happy Polishing,

J