Orly and Essie's Pure White Toppers

Hello Dear Readers.

Still mining the small trove of backlog that occurred during the beginning of the year.

Trying to jazz things up a bit with a comp of toppers.

Pure white glass fleck toppers - meaning translucency exists - are hard to find. Many have color shifts, gold/warm tones, or are just some other color.

Fortunately Essie and Orly each have a tasty offering. If you like to layer, like me, then you probably need one in your arsenal.

First up is a little bit of info: white, for my camera, causes my camera to iris down and underexpose the photo. Pooh. OTOH, I used this as an opportunity to let you see the size of the fleck and the coverage in a bit more detail. 

All are two coats of topper. 

I also included them over black so you can see the crystal effect.

Here's Orly's 2010 Christmas offering, Winter Wonderland:

At normal exposure it looks like a gentle gleam on the nails, though the larger particle size affords a pretty glimmer that dances around in the light.

Here it is underexposed so you can see the shape better:

The greenish cast is purely my lighting. 

You can see it's almost a white flake, only lacking larger flake sizes. I have to admit, I love it.

Here is is over black:

Over black it really takes on more of a glassy look, nothing really seems separate like over white, just  a pretty top coat.

Formula was very nice. I found mine on sale at Ross, before Christmas they were having sets on sale and I found that this was a must have. (among many must haves, right?)

On to the Essie 2012/3 Pure Pearlfection.

In many ways extremely "dupe-like" but altogether different in sized particle. Smaller and more like a glitter than a flake, Essie feels much more subtle, more "dry" though I didn't use a topcoat on any of these, still much more of a hidden feeling to the topper.

Here is the underexposed photo:

Still less of an oomph in the size and affect, you can see it's a much more fine glass fleck, giving a much more gentle icy dew as opposed to an ice storm.

Here's the polish over black:

Similar effect, just more restrained by comparison. 

Formula for the Essie was just fine. 

Orly's Winter Wonderland or Essie Pure Pearlfection both are absolutely without tint, that's a rarity in my Melmer drawer full of toppers, that's for sure. 

I really love the Orly, but as you can imagine, it's hard not to love the Essie, either.

Thanks for reading my little nail polish journal.