Orly Fowl Play

Remember how a couple of posts back I was talking about how Orly's Fowl Play looks like Merry Midnight? Now, I have proof, courtesy of Gilded Nails!



This is what she wrote:

"To my eyes, Merry Midnight's base is a touch brighter and redder. And the finish of Merry Midnight seems more glossy than Fowl Play but a good top coat would fix this.  However, these differences are quite negligible and when looking at my nails in natural and artificial light, I honestly couldn't tell the difference between the two."

OH MY GOD I AM ALREADY SPAZZING WITH EXCITEMENT! I can't wait to get my hands on Fowl Play once it launches! Too bad 8ty8beauty stopped bringing in new Orlys so I'd probably have to get this baby from nailvibe when they can get a hold on some! Oh man, flakies have got me by the chokehold!
Also, I'm so glad to see so many onsugarettes discovering Nubar 2010! Looks like we all bought our bottles from the sidewalks and I'm so happy that the flakies excitement is slowly spreading! (:

OPI Miami Beet (and a sales pitch)

I'm wearing OPI Miami Beet right now. My mum's friend got it for her birthday last year and I stole it from her to do this NOTD. Don't worry, I'll put it back after I'm done with this post!

Miami Beet can be described as a "rich, deep purple creme" to quote Scrangie and at times it comes across like a deep berry shade with a slight hint of purple. In low light, it just looks like a deep red.

Here it is, under indirect sunlight

and with flash

It took 3 thin coats to achieve full opacity but 2 thicker coats would have sufficed with more skilled hands. The 3 coats applied like butter though, so doing this mani was easy enough. Recently I've been using a lot of Essie colours so the sudden change back to the pro-wide brush was much welcomed! I used 2 coats of Poshe base (because colours like these really stain my nails so I wanted to take extra measures to prevent that from happening) and no top coat.

Nail swatches aside, I went to Robinsons yesterday and managed to swatch a couple of reds I was thinking of purchasing. Felt pretty happy, having decided which reds I want to get now because I find it so hard to buy reds without looking at a real life swatch. Reds can be so subjective according to different skin tones so I always avoid buying reds from sprees. But now that I know, I'm gonna get OPI Vodka and Caviar and From A to Z-urich from timtam soon! She's having a GSS promo so if you're interested in some colours hop down over to get them before her stock runs out! I actually saw Miso Happy With This Colour available a couple of days ago but it's gone now so don't think and just go buy whatever colours you want now!!

I think this whole GSS thing is making me go nuts cuz I've buying polish like nobody's business these days. I recently got a slate blue from Tony Moly to franken MAC's Blue India (get this though, the blue I got from Tony Moly was actually called Indian Blue!!!! So dupish right!), 3 colours from Etude House cuz they have having a 30% off storewide, and I bought some other polishes from a couple of sprees. I decided I'll do a monthly haul segment starting from May to show you guys the polishes I got in that month. I won't be showing you swatches of all the polishes in that post though as I only do swatches when I do a NOTD so if you wanna see any swatches, just comment away and I'll try to make it my NOTD if I feel the colour! May's Haul will be up soon so do watch out for it!

June's Haul is gonna be a big one cuz I got word from my usual spree site that China Glaze is gonna discontinue their Crackle Glaze after this batch so I'm getting Black Mesh (as a back up for Black Shatter which is ALWAYS oos) and Lightning Bolt just because it's white and should be easier to match base colours. So if you haven't got your Crackle // Shatter // Textured // Fractured fix yet, act on it before they're gone for good! I'm also waiting for my spree-er to get Navy Shatter because I tried it out yesterday and it looks FAB! I know that most other sites already have it selling at $15 but this awesome site I always spree from usually sells them at $11 only so I shall be patient! I also got a couple of Milani polishes (2 Chanel dupes) and a Sinful Colours polish from Smoochiezz. Nailvibe was also having a 10% off so I got 2 Zoyas and OPI Stranger Tides (even though I already have Essie Da Bush which is a very close cousin). So many firsts for me in this June Haul (Milani, Sinful and Zoya)! Can't wait for all of them to arrive! :D

So, do take advantage of all the awesome promos this GSS and have yourself a polish fix! (Somehow this post seems like some sales pitch! Sorry if I'm tempting you!)

 

Essie Eternal Optimist

I was wearing Essie Eternal Optimist my last paper because I wanted to be as optimistic as possible and not to feel depressed if the paper went terribly wrong. Eternal Optimist is a light salmon which gravitates more towards the pink side then orange. I was actually rather surprised when I got it because alot of the swatches I googled showed it as a nude but the description "spiced tea rose" is pretty accurate except it's not as dark / dusty as I would have imagined (when I think of spiced tea rose, I think of ChG Fifth Avenue).

Here's the most accurate shot of it I can get! Please ignore my super dry cuticles. Maybe it's time I invested in some cuticle cream.

I felt a little weird when wearing it because it was too pink for my preference but if you're comfortable wearing pinks, give it a go!

The wear time for me was horrendous though. I had chips on a couple of nails after 1 day (maybe from the excessive flipping of my notes and textbook during my exam and the shopping afterwards). Essie usually wears like iron on my nails so I'm convinced it chipped so quickly due to the things I did rather than its formula.

This was 2 coats (I think) with a coat of Seche on top.