Indian Teal

Pantone captures this color very well: deep blue that inches towards teal, but doesn't push into Mallard blue territory.
Nice.

I've got three that I'd like to share.

Here is a star in its own right: Zoya Kotori

Three coats, no top coat. It's a beautiful shimmer swimming in a black base.

Here's another shot that shows how sheer it actually is:

After I wore this, I moved it into my toppers: it's a huge win in that department. Three coats does work, but this one has legs for other tasks and I didn't want to waste it on a multi-coater since Zoya no longer makes this beautiful polish.

A real loss, it's a favorite.


Here are some comparisons.

I found NYC Electric Nail Glossies at the Dollar Tree ages ago, but for some reason haven't blogged yet. It's a generic vamp that has this Indian Teal shimmer.

Here it is in comparison to Zoya Kotori.

Left to right:
NYC Midnight
Zoya Kotori
NYC Midnight
Zoya Kotori

It's the size of the shimmer, Kotori is bigger, and the black base, NYC's is deeper.

Here are the bottles:

Next is Nicole by OPI Too Rich For You and NYC Midnight

Left to right:
NYC Midnight
NOPI Too Rich For You
NYC Midnight
NOPI Too Rich For You

NOPI Too Rich For You is more shimmery, perhaps a larger size particle versus the uniform size of the NYC.

Both read vampy, though, because they need a lot of light to show off the shimmer.


Here are the bottles:

Finally Zoya Kotori and NOPI Too Rich For You:

Left to right:
Nicole by OPI Too Rich For You
Zoya Kotori
Nicole by OPI Too Rich For You
Zoya Kotori

You can find NOPI on eBay and other places, but it's not inexpensive. There is a SinfulColors dupe, I blogged it here along with NOPI Too Rich For You.

Of the three Kotori is a bit more of a unique polish. It will build and it will layer, so it's got a lot of versatility. Kotori is available online, just not at Zoya (naughty, Zoya, naughty!), and somewhat cheaper than the NOPI. I can't find the NYC online, not to worry, though, the SC dupe will fill all gaps, save the one left by Kotori!

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Milani Glitters and a Bonus

A mixed bag of glitters. Hope you enjoy!

Milani Twinkle

Three coats, no top coat.

Pretty deep blue and deep purple glitters in a clear base. All over white, here, it's a vibrant jewel tone metallic glitter.

Easy to use, lovely color combination.

This is old Milani, I found this at Dollar Tree. 

Milani Blue Flash

Three coats, no top coat. Bright turquoise blue in a blue jelly.

I've put it over white, but will be lovely over a number of bright blue polishes.

Pretty metallic glitter. Found at Dollar Tree.

I've used this polish over Smitten Hydrangea here and it was a pretty amazing, so I wanted to show it alone.

I put Blue Flash as a base under NYC 235 and it turned more cobalt blue. The blue jelly really doesn't assert itself the way that you'd think.

This is one of those NYC Nail Glossies that I found at the Dollar Tree years ago.

I was going through a phase where I got rid of too many of these, but now I really cherish them. I regret getting rid of a number of them. This is one coat over one coat of Milani Blue Flash. A super simple mani with a lot of impact. 

NYC's are on eBay, but not in the Dollar Tree any longer. Might be on eCrater, Amazon, etc. They can be hard to figure out because they are numbered instead of named.

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Sheers, Sheers, Sheers

So versatile.

Layering under, over, around. To me a good sheer is great as a one coater. I have to say that "water polish" and jellies can be exasperating because they need to be applied very correctly to achieve and even color. I've got Maybelline and Zoya and I won't lie, it's not pretty and I have kept them, why I am not sure...but that's another story.

Meanwhile, here are some sheers that do the job in one sheer coat. Some of these build better than others, but at one coat, they are just right for layering.

Sally Hansen Cherry Nice

Can I get an Amen! This is one coat of heaven. It's bright, but cool at the same time. Raising a ruckus!

One thing I've discovered is that Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure had a few of these really amazing sheers, I was on the verge of purging, but as I try these out the wow factor is off the charts.

Still roaming around eBay. Nice!




New York Color Glossies 237

Sheer shimmers often leave me in a lurch. They are patchy, they don't cover well enough to really leave you enough wiggle room to one coat.

Well, this one did. NYC Glossies are really kind of underrated, they all seem to have this translucence about them, it must have been the "thing" about this line.

Old Dollar Tree purchase. Finally blogged. This one is great over glitters, too. Enough shimmer to play around and enough pigment in the base, to cover in one pretty decent coat.

On eBay, so it's not completely gone.




New York Color Glossies 221

One delicious melon pink coat foamy shimmer: not a full on shimmer, but not a creme at all. Soft shimmer in a pretty little package.

I blogged this before, here, but I believe that my stained nails didn't really help show off this sweet polish.

Candy shell goodness, eh?

I don't know why I had this in the purge pile, I am so glad I re-evaluated it!

And it's still on eBay! Yay!




L'Oreal Drumbeat Red

Perfect pure red. One coat. It is beautiful. No playing around with deep red, orange red, blue red, just red. No top coat, but quite glossy. I love the formula, but it's old chemistry, so it does stink a bit.


I wanted to show how nice these types of polishes look when layered. I put this one over NOPI Canadian Star.

I love how it suddenly becomes a blue tone red, but still enables the sparkling glass fleck to show through. Better still, you don't see the blue jelly in NOPI CS, but it does imbue Drumbeat Red with a cooler tint. It's layering heaven.

Drumbeat Red was a Dollar store purchase, and it is available online.



I also think that the new lines of polishes by OPI, Essie and others do similar things as these polishes, albeit not with any finish but sheer cremes, so these old polishes are right on trend.


Personally I don't get a thrill layering over a chrome. Now a foil, a glitter, a glass fleck or a flakie? That's another turtle on another Galapagos Island. Ya know? You feel the variations, if you get my drift.

Down the road I hope to get some of these new polishes to experiment with, but in the meantime, I've got these guys in my stable.


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All Around The Mulberry Bush

Here is a comparison I've wanted to do for a bit of a while.

In my red based purples, or violets, I have some mulberries mixed in.

As usual, no top coats. All are two coats, except where I need to do three and I'll discuss more on that one.



New York Color Peony

Here is a shade that I've blogged before, here, and still really adore it.

Two beautiful coats in a formula that is pretty much doing all the work for me, thank goodness!

I did mention before that this was a limited edition that I found on a fluke, and can't seem to really find it anywhere online at this time.

It has some gorgeous gold, but not so much to make it muddy.




OPI Catherine The Grape

Another truly spectacular polish. Like NYC Peony, this one has a soft shimmer, but not really gold, just a pretty mauve pink.

Two coats and still a lover.

This was from the OPI Russian collection from 2007, which predates my renewed interest in polish. This collection is full of some nice basics. This purple is really one of those grown-up shades.

Thought I'd compare:

Left to right:

• NYC Peony
• OPI Catherine the Grape
• NYC Peony
• OPI Catherine the Grape

I won't call them dupes, but if you happen to have NYC Peony, I recommend it over OPI CTG. It's more saturated and the shimmer is a bit nicer. By comparison, CTG seems a wee bit more frosty.

I do love both polishes, though, and there isn't much doubt that I will wear both, though CTG a little more, since NYC Peony is a rare gem.





OPI Diva of Geneva

From OPI's Switzerland Collection - many beauties in that baby - and this is no exception. I didn't capture the gold shimmer very well under my lamps, but it really ups this polish from a generic mulberry wine into one with some oomph.

Two coats, no top coat and you can see some brushstrokes.

OPI Switzerland came out in 2010 and I've been collecting these here and there, they never seem to let me down.

You can still find these on eBay and at etailers. Definitely a nice one!




Mod Lacquer Majestic

Mod Lacquer's a three coater. It does build nicely by coat three, so no alarms that it needs a fourth.

This I found on Etsy and I adore it. It's a solid burgundy shimmer that is in this smokey base. Yet it's not blackened, it's just great. Unfortunately I don't see it listed any longer, but that doesn't mean it may not show up again.

Meanwhile it's a favorite.


Here is a comparison between the two:

Left to right:

• OPI Diva of Geneva
• Mod Lacquer Majestic
• OPI Diva of Geneva
• Mod Lacquer Majestic

You can see that they are more similar in the bottle than on the nail, I did try a bottle shot, but it didn't pan out. I think Mod Lacquer Majestic has a more lit from within quality, that's not to say that DoG doesn't look great in the sun.




Here is a side by side of all four:

Left to right:

• NYC Peony
• OPI Catherine The Grape
• OPI Diva of Geneva
• Mod Lacquer Majestic

First image is of the bottles, second is one coat, and third image is final coats: three for Mod Lacquer and two coats for the rest.



These shades feel like autumn and there is no getting around it: it's coming.

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Spring Is In The Air

Everywhere I look around.

Yes, it's here, early. Actually we never really had much in the way of winter around here. 

Meanwhile I felt the urge to push forward with a little more stamping. 

A few things first: somehow I found a super squishy stamper, this has made a HUGE difference in applying the stamps. It was one that came with something, I don't know what, I think an Essence. 

First up here is New York Color Palm on the Beach:

Very bright parrot green that seems to have gone a bit diffused thanks to my camera. Quick note about the formula, NYC in these little tapered bottles never lets me down. Love the formula. I purchased this at the Dollar Tree and was from the 2014 summer collection. It's a beautiful, intense green with a faultless formula.

On to the gradient and stamping!

I used this and Sally Hansen Marble Creme to make a little nail gradient for my stamping base. SH Marble Creme looks blue by comparison.

I used a homemade version of Liquid Palisade. The recipe was tweaked by Ravenclaws on MUA, but masking fluids have been around the blogosphere for a bit of a while. From tape, to liquid latex, etc.

I used an empty Sephora by OPI bottle (a crackle gone wrong) and it filled with glue and some 91% alcohol. This was not quite enough. I think the alcohol has the same kinds of functional groups as water - OH - so they don't help with evaporation.

 Thanks to Ravenclaws, I added nail polish to 1) help it dry and 2) help see it on your skin - she added a gel food coloring, but I think that would have been a challenge on my skin, so I picked a pink polish. It's still hard to see, but I think it's a game changing element in stamping, gradients, and especially marbling!

Here is a photo of me taking it off:

No, I didn't use my teeth to take the photo, I propped the stick up and took it with my other hand. Hehehe.

It makes a big difference. I will try it again with marbling, man, if it works, it will be great!

Here is the resulting stamping:

I am always trying to get this blog print look with stamping, I don't know why. I think the pinky (and this is all one hand) kind of makes it work. 

These polishes are a mix of the ones which I got from the nail stamping machine.

Here's a photo of the stamping plates, they are all from Pueen:

It's from the Sumptuous Gallery

Plates 18, 20, 23, and 24. I love these plates and will do more with them.

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Ulta Jaded - Mercurial, Changeable, Moody Green

Yes!

Finally!

Greens for March! My kind of madness.

I have to admit I kind of cheated throwing that last red post on the last day at the last minute. Hee.

So I've had this polish for quite a spell. I've kept it with greens, although I do have color shifting polishes separated out and could store it there, I doubt I'll really do much more with it, it's a bear of a formula. Second (third?) Ultra polish that just didn't work out formula-wise. 

Let's get to the photos:

This is a very sheer, gray based frosty shimmer. It has a translucent metallic quality to it, which I really think is quite alluring, but on the other hand, it is enfant terrible as far as dealing with it. As you can see brushstrokes were de rigueur, this requires a sure hand and no hesitation - as you can see I did in the index finger.

Sometimes you think you've got it, then after you think it's dry it dents, does a smudge, or a deep fingerprint. Gah! I redid a couple of fingers before I even got this much accomplished. Hmm.

It shifts form a shadowy green to a soft aqua blue.  Quite an atmospheric polish.

I tried it as a topper over New York Color Palm On The Beach: 

Gone is the color shift but up front and at attention is a pretty jungle green.

Palm On The Beach will be featured in an upcoming post, I'll get a photo then, but it's a bright parrot green and it only required one coat. I love how it looks. 

From sombre to jubilant. 

I am working with several old polishes and trying to fix their formulas, I'll have a post on this, it's a work in progress. I might goof around with this one. We'll see.

Meanwhile...Let's Go Green!

Old New York Color and Old Sally Hansen Have a Party

I have to admit I've given short shrift to old New York Colors that were had from the Dollar Tree.

Many were sheer. Some I've unloaded.

It is a blast to find a really great use for those sheer ones!

Here's a layering that basically was a 5 layer sandwich of NYC 221 and Sally Hansen Razzle.

Please excuse the staining causing the dark band that shows up below the whites of my nails. Ugh.

Meanwhile, I adore this combo. I've got to say this was a blast to wear. Even though it was a lot of coats, it was worth it. Payoff was nice.

Sally Hansen was particularly fussy, but patience and some heat from my Verilux lamp and it was ready for the next layer.

Razzle isn't on eBay, but it's also in the throws of old age: some of the glitter is beginning to disintegrate. There is a bit of a milkiness in the glitter. Nothing big, but the beginning of the end. Time to start wearing The Hell out of it.

NYC 221 isn't on eBay either. It's a sheer shimmer. Shimmer jelly =  Shelly? Seriously, there are gorgeous color that isn't completely uncommon, there is probably a jelly out there.

NYC has been a solid beauty of a polish, just sheer. I can't really find it in my heart to dump it, it's a great hot magenta pink. It's also in that cute square bottle!

Meanwhile this combo shows up! Thanks to the last couple of years discovery of layering glitter under sheers as a nail polish phenomenon. Nice!

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Laura Ingalls Wilder Has Something To Do With This

As tween (a word invented in my lifetime to create yet another marketing demographic rather than just calling kids what they actually are: children) we all poured through the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I think I hit them around 3rd or 4th grade.

Every time I hit the portion where Mary and Laura had to use the "flat iron" to curl their hair, a device you actually had to heat on the stove, I read it as "flirtation" and kept thinking "what is going on?" then I finally would reread it and realize what was going on. It still sticks with me today when I read these words together.

NYC Flat Iron Green brought it all back to me.

A vamp of a green it is, too.

Unlike yesterday's Edude House GR607, which cheerfully says "Why yes! Now that you mention it, I am green!" this one says "yeah, I'm green, what's it to you?"
It's not jelly-ish, so I don't know if it would work into a jelly. I keep repeating myself that SC Last Chance has chops for that category.

Three necessary coats.
A little sloppy on the formula, too.

It's a warm green, and turns black in most lighting.

Easily obtainable at any Dollar Tree that is carrying shelf pulls of NYC, apparently it's not still at the drug stores, but I am not visiting them as often as I used to, so I can't really speak to what is up with NYC these days. I bet it's on eBay, too.

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Dark Blue Shimmers, Two New, One Old Fave

Three deep blues, one oldie to use as a comparison.

Oldie to start:

NYC Skin Tight Denim

Three easy coats. Hard to fault the finish, shade, luxe quality, and price point.



Maybelline Denim Dash

Three coats again of sapphire blue. I think I purchased this because I'd seen Love8Brain's photos on MUA, totally gorgeous.
Love it.



Finally
Acoustic Azure

A real blackened blue.
Three coats of a navy that leans over into the warmer maritime realm.
Old Maybelline rectangular bottle with a black cap, honestly it's probably the main reason I keep it!



Here is a comp

Same order left to right:
NYC Skin Tight Denim
Maybelline Denim Dash
Maybelline Acoustic Azure

I swatched these as I was tightening up organzation of a drawer and found more blues to add to the swatch  list. Acoustic Azure almost looks teal in the top of this photo by comparison to the other two. Even more so in real life.

The Maybellines are both discontinued but Denim Dash is all over the 'bay.
I found Acoustic Azure at the Dollar Tree aaaaaages ago and never got around to swatching it.

Pretty soon I will do a "blackened blue" swatch, but for now, this motley group was very fun.

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Maybelline Taupe'd Off

I've had Maybelline Matte Stone around for a while:

It is shown here with no top coat and three coats.
I will admit it's kind of muted like a taupe, but I must have gotten it after I did my taupe comparison, because for some reason it wasn't in that batch.
I'd call it more of a clay color.
In any event, it's not self leveling, in need of thinning and for some reason even caused a divit on the ring finger. I should have redone it, but I didn't.
Eep.

I pulled out NYC's Molten Metal, I blogged it here, and popped it over the taupe, er top.

The base is very similar and so the pretty silver remains! Nice!

I think I put on a couple of coats. It's pretty alone, too, but works nicely with the taupe/clay/light brown shades.

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Red, Red, Wine...

Anyone who grew up in the 80's might remember that UB40 song, but if not, go to Youtube and find it and listen to it, it's a classic second wave ska song.

Meanwhile, a few couple reds that I found which are dupe-ish.



First up, Maybelline Time for Wine

Two coats, pretty, a bit deeper than the previous OPI INRAW comparison.
A little less than well pigmented because I can see my nail line there.

Not bad, but not really super exciting.


Next, N.Y.C. 227

Two coats, about the same, really.
The shimmer seems to have more pop, too.

Comparison:

Pretty similar, and really hard to tell apart. I know I put TFW on first on my index (far left) then alternated them. Seriously, though, I wonder if I mixed these up. Hmmm. Blog fail!

I admit that neither really do it for me, not sure I'm able to put my finger on it, though.

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Iridescent Iterations

The upside of organizing by color is that you see where your dupes are. And do I have some dupes here!

Iridescent Glitter! Four of them!

I am talking about glitter that is clear, but when the light hits it, it iridesces blues, reds, greens and ambers. I have Sinful Pearl Harbor, but it just iridesces blue and green. I did not include it in this batch.

The candidates are:

From left to right, with some general comments:

• E.L.F. Twinkle - Heavy, need to continually thin, dries like matte, needs a topcoat. Dries pretty well. Need a lot of coats to get decent coverage. Everything is about three coats.
• Cover Girl Crystal Mist - A very pale green base, very pale, with a more uniform glitter. Somewhat scant glitter, too. Dries pretty glossy.
• Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Disco Ball - Some smaller pieces. Dries well, but seems a little satin-like, but there is texture with the glitter when it dries so you need a couple of top coats or a thick one.
• Color Club Si Vous Please - Larger and smaller pieces, great two coat coverage, dries pretty well, a bit like satin and some texture.

More pictures! All bases three coats, all have a topcoat and some are more densely layered than others.




First over WetnWild's (perennial) one coat Black Creme

You can see on all of them, when over black, the range of colors, a veritable rainbow!  Disco Ball and Si Vous Please seem to be the outstanding pair: Si Vous Please for those tiny delicious glitters scattered in and Disco Ball for sheer coverage: both are two coats. E.L.F. is three and Crystal Mist is two.




New York Color 235, a Dollar Tree magenta

Same thing, dupe-o-rama!




Over Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Strike-It-Rich Mauve Creme. Three coats, a dusty pink rose that screams 1987 from the top of Mt. Everest!

The nice thing about pastels - though I am personally flashing back to some awful office decor from a job I had back in "the day" - is that it often lets you see the translucent particles in an iridescent glitter. Disco Ball shows this up the best.
Note how thickly applied is the Twinkle polish! It looks like a puffy pillow!



Now for an unnamed red shimmer that came in a Markwin (WnW) set I found at Ross in 2009 or 2010.

You can see the texture of Disco Ball...even with a pretty healthy dose of thick quick dry, it still has a bit of shadowing from the glitter. I will say Crystal mist is a light dash of glitter which isn't bad.
But, look at Si Vous Please!! Glitter like a christmas tree! Nice!


Wrap up...
I recommend Color club above all, then Disco ball for sheer amount of glitter. I know that for a while Cover Girl pulled their nail polish - I found this for 75% off at Rite Aid - but then while I was at Kmart months later, I saw it again, so I really can't figure out what is what with that brand.
Twinkle? Pass. It needs so much, that your tips will look like you did your own acrylics followed by your own gel, but kept layering. Truly thick.

I love iridescent glitter, I know that Color Club's Pardon My French collection had a really beautiful set of three in the pack, so, I think I'm set!

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Groove is in the Heart

I think my regional Dollar Trees have given up on old polish and settled into just carrying L.A. Colors.

Good and bad.

Good, because I can check them out with less frequency - on the off chance one on a regular route I take has retained a fairly large sized cosmetics section may actually have a find. Also good because I can focus more on polishes I really want.

Bad because there is only a handful of places to really find some old Maybelline, SH, L'Oreal and Colorama love and a lot of eBay means you are competing against resellers who are sharp as tacks (although there are a few who sell on other online venues, usually prices are high, fixed, and some are dubious!). Also bad because I am the worst on road trips now for wanting to stop at a Dollar Tree just to feed my jones! Nail Polish JOOONES!!!

In fact, since I find fewer and fewer old Maybellines and Sally Hansen's, I wonder if I just lucked out on some window of opportunity. I still regret a few, but many are pretty great.

In the land of layering, where I seem to reside, I sometimes like to school myself on particle size. Maybelline gave me a little taste!

I was out on the road, and swooped into a Dollar Tree. There were two Maybellines: both very similar, but different names. I thought they were some sort of re-labelling (like Diva Rock is also Blackened Maroon, or Diva Blues is Blackened Teal, etc), but no, in better light they were different. So, I bought them. Two dollars. If nothing else, they could be frankened. Great excuse, I used it a lot! :D

Here is the bottle comp:

I am feeling some retro dance house love here!

Well, well, well!!!

It boils down to particle size. Same color, but Yellow Rays is a shimmer and Gold Dee-light (I just love this name) is a fine glassy glitter particle.

Supah!

Why does size matter? Particle-wise that is? I think the smaller it is, the more dense it is, the more coverage you have, therefore it will impart more color, even sheer color.

To wit:

Hmmm!
This is over navy and you can see that Yellow Rays really shows up the gold and Gold Dee-light behaves more neutrally, or at least is neutralized by the cooler blue below.



I then put two layers of Gold Dee-light on my nails and about three coats of New York Color 223. NYC 223 is a Dollar Store score, too. I added a bit of clear to push it over the jelly edge as it was already challenged for coverage.

This really pushed the edges of my photography skills. You can see the glassy base pushing through, adding shimmer. I believe, now as I blog this, I sandwiched the layers to achieve coverage and shimmer.

I really enjoyed goofing around with this. One of my favorite jewelry affects if enameling, and I love that colored glass over metal.

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If Ever a Re-blog was in Order....

My original post about Orly Fantasea and L.A. Girl Enchanting is at the top of the list.

I originally blogged about it here.
Yeah, you don't need to say it, I am agog at the state of my hands. Moisturizer? Gloves? Cuticles? My blissful unaware self thought "oh, anyone can blog nail polish!" HA! I am probably the slowest learner of clean up, cuticle care and application on the planet, but dang, my ballz out "manicure shot" quote even causes me to chagrin!

I am laughing on the inside.

So, while I am the first to say I have a lot to learn, let's begin to examine these dupes a little closer, with a bit better application. Shall we?

Enjoy!

What is it that makes Orly Fantasea so unique?  A bronze/brown shimmer in a purple jelly base. A base, I might add, that is an intoxicating combination of that kind of purple that appears to possess the beauty of twilight after a rosy sunset.

It is a sheer animal, too. Though it will build into a nice little polish on it's own, it is a great layering polish.

What could be nicer? That it's not alone, that's what! L.A. Girl has a dupe. So dupe-tastic that one wonders how easy it is to make, or is there one big pot with L.A. Girl, Orly, Sparitual and Forever 21's names written on it? Hmm? No looking behind the curtain because I am nowhere near the Wizard.

Hold your fingers above the names and block them out, can you see a difference? I can not!
Alone, it is a shimmerfest in that purple base.


I popped it over black:

A bronze, with a pinkish duochrome, emerges! Truly a brown at first glance, but you can see that the jelly base isn't opaque enough to do much and so the duochrome shimmer is cut loose.
This is one coat.
Still, very much the dupes.

The bottles, for your viewing pleasure:

No difference whatsoever.


Then I tried on New York Color's Peony, trying to find a base that complemented the jelly base in Fantasea:

I found this in the drug store, a limited edition by New York Color, and quite a beautiful one, too!
Three coats, easy to use formula, easy clean up and nice wear. Such an autumn color, but I seem to forget when I found this! Odd. My only complaint would be that I got a tiny bit of bubbling and I am not sure why.

Here is a bottle comparison the L.A. Girl Enchanting:

Pug shedding knows no boundaries, excuse the hairs!

Made for each other?

I think so!!

That robust shimmer definitely is up front and yet the deeper base of Peony makes the L.A. Girl Enchanting emulate the bottle a bit more! Perhaps another base like purple or even a mauve might also be fun.

I like this combo! A lot!

This isn't on the Orly permanent collection, but I have seen it on a couple of etailer sites.

It appears that the L.A. Girl has pulled all of their cylindrical bottles from their website and a lot of the other colors seem to be gone, too. I have a number and several are pretty cool, weird cool, like jelly, odd colors, and dupe of another Orly. Odd!

Such a strange/beautiful color. But, not yet impossible to find!  I think on top of being a really nice layering polish, its capabilities as a frankening ingredient are pretty nice, too.

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