piCture pOlish Marine Comparisons: Essie, Zoya

This is a comparison post for piCture pOlish Marine. Similar polishes shown here are Where's My Chauffeur, Naughty Nautical, and Wednesday.

Pictured above is two coats each of Zoya Wednesday, Essie Where's My Chauffeur, Essie Naughty Nautical, and piCture pOlish Marine.

Marine is a lot bluer than Nautical and Wednesday, where as Chauffeur is in the same line of teal but a few shades lighter. Nautical also has a faint shimmer. Wednesday is a lot dustier looking than the other shades.

Link roundup:

- Purchase Marine from piCture pOlish
- 2013 Blog Fest nail art featuring Marine

piCture pOlish Beige Comparisons: O.P.I, Zoya

This is a comparison or versus post for piCture pOlish Beige. These are the colours I had closest to Beige; Did You Ear About Van Gogh, Samoan Sand, and Avery.

Pictured above is OPI Did You Ear About Van Gogh, OPI Samoan Sand, Zoya Avery and piCture pOlish Beige. 

So as we can see, Beige is lighter than each of these shades; which makes it look slightly more chalky than the softer shades Samoan Sand and Avery. In comparison to Beige, Van Gogh is more green-toned while still holding the more chalky like look as Beige. Samoan sand is more red-toned and is much sheerer. Avery has more yellow in it, and in the midst of not quite chalky looking but not sheer either.

Which is your favourite? Or do you have a polish that is similar to Beige?

Link roundup:

- Purchase Beige from piCture pOlish
- 2013 Blog Fest nail art featuring Beige
- Patterned gradient using Beige

Comparison: OPI Spotlight vs. It's A Girl

I thought I'd do an updated comparison between OPI's In The Spotlight Pink and It's A Girl, as they look identical in their bottles! Spotlight is shown on the middle and pinky here, Girl is on the pointer and ring. Two coats of each. As you can see they are in the same colour family, it's just that Girl is milkier, giving you more coverage.

This is a swatch of OPI It's A Girl, two coats.

OPI In The Spotlight Pink - Femme de Cirque 2011

Today I have OPI's In The Spotlight Pink from their Femme De Cirque collection 2011. Spotlight is a gorgeous glassy pink polish. This is the one you go for when you want nails that look stunning yet natural. Three thin coats are shown here.

BL Bumster vs. SOPI Neutral Beauty

To follow on from yesterday's post of Neutral Beauty, today I have a comparison against Butter London's Bumster! Two coats of each, both fantastic formula.

See what I mean about having just the little bit more contrast? While both colours are beautiful on their own, I much prefer Bumster against my skintone.

Comparison: Pepe's Purple Passion vs. We'll Always Have Paris

These two are incomparable for some and incredibly close for others. On the left we have OPI Pepe's Purple Passion and on the right OPI We'll Always have Paris. Pepe's Purple Passion was released with The Muppets collection last Christmas and Paris was released a few years ago from OPI's France collection. I think it may be a part of the main line though.

Very minor differences. Pepe has very small flakie pieces and is a fraction lighter but the shimmer isn't really all that obvious. Then we have Paris who is a beautiful deep raisin creme.

Late last year I was dying for this colour but now I think I don't need both. 


What would you do?

Comparison: Trendsetter vs. Uh-Oh Roll Down The Window

 

I know it's a bit of a stretch to compare these two, but I feel like I need to get rid of one of them. 


Uh-Oh Roll Down the Window is from OPI's latest fall collection, Touring America (2011). Trendsetter is also from China Glaze's latest fall collection, Metro (2011). So both are fairly easy to come across.

Formula wise the OPI is quite watery and at the other end of the scale is thick-goopy Trendsetter. I have added thinner to it before but the next time I went to use Trend, it was just as thick as before.

I appreciate Trend's different-ness and Uh-Oh to me is a collection staple. Although it isn't as bold as Trend, it certainly looks nice, clean, subtle and will match a lot of outfits.

I just don't know what to do! What would you do? Are you in the same position but with other colours?

Comparison: It's A Girl vs. In The Spotlight Pink

 

I love my sheer jelly pinks. These are the only two I have, but I am thinking about the future. OPI New York Ballet collection are all jellies. I'm going to try and get the whole set to review on Nail Juice. So that means I need to make room...

It's a Girl is on the pointer (left) and Spotlight is on the middle finger (right). Two coats of each. You can't fault either of them, they're both delicate glassy pinks that just make your nails look a million dollars.

It's a Girl gives you more of a milky pink build up and Spotlight is an extremely beautiful sheer pink, perfect for sprucing up tired or 'need a break from colour' nails.

Here is It's A Girl in all her glory. Girl was released two years ago and Spotlight was released just last year. So both are fairly easy to find.

I could't bare to part with either one. I might just have to wait for the Ballet's to compare them all!

Comparison: Design-er De Better vs. You're Royal Shine-ness

I'm purging the stash again, I need to make room for almost all of those OPI New York Ballets, a few Hollands, a few Electro Pops and hopefully the Misa Spring collection.


Designer De Better and You're Royal Shine-ness are too close to own both for my liking. No they aren't dupes, but you know, they're both silver foils and that's close enough for me.

Designer De Better is a lighter silver with rose gold speckles running throughout. You're Royal Shine-ness is a darker silver that has a deep green-gold base to it. They both give great coverage and I can't fault them on their formulas.

So I asked myself what I wanted them for. A silver foil that's going to pop with an outfit, well they'll both do that... so I went with Designer De Better, just because it has rose gold in it. I love rose gold.

Designer De Better was released in The Muppets holiday collection a couple of months ago, it'll be really easy to find. You're Royal Shine-ness was a special Serena Williams release and may be harder to find in store, but online will be a breeze.

Comparison: Wild and Willing vs. Pros and Bronze

When Pros and Bronze was first released, it never occurred to me that there would be something already out there like it. We hardly ever get rose gold duochromey foils! But Pros has a very close relative... Color Club's Wild and Willing.

Wearing: Pros and Bronze on pinky and middle, Wild and Willing on ring and pointer.


When looking at the bottles, you can find definite differences but once on the nail... it gets a little bit more tricky. This is both two coats of each shown here. Wild and Willing is a bit finer and has a green sheen. Pros and Bronze's pieces are a bit bigger and more sparse.

Wearing: Pros and Bronze on pinky and middle, Wild and Willing on ring and pointer.


They both share a lot of the same characteristics. They both turn gold when not in direct light. You also get more of a copper or pink shine when inside with different light sources. Wild shines green as well.


Pros and Bronze is a Serena Williams polish and is limited edition. Pretty easy to find at the moment, as is Wild and Willing. Wild was released a little while ago but it seems to be easy to find in chemists or online.

Really it all depends on what kind of foil you like and how many colours you like to see :)

Mint Green & Deep Purple Comparisons

I did a little more digging through my folders and found these :)

Mintys: BYS Kung Fu Blue, Essie Mint Candy Apple, MAC Peppermint Patti, Chanel Jade

Purples: OPI Black Cherry Chutney, OPI Visions of Sugarplum, OPI Gotta Go Grape, Essie Sexy Divide

Well I had better make some breakfast before it turns to lunch time :D

OPI Hong Kong Pinks Comparisons

 

Ok so I thought I would compare the pinks together as I thought they were closer but really... they aren't :)

Lined up we have: Don't Think Just Pink, Lucky Lucky Lavender, I'm Ok You're Bouquet and Panda-monium Pink.

Don't Think Just Pink compared to Lucky Lucky is much more red to me and a little more squishy looking.

Lucky Lucky compared to I'm Bouquet again is more lilac toned. I'm Bouquet is quite a yellow toned pink.

I'm Bouquet compared to Pandamonium Pink is again more yellow and I guess softer looking. Pandamonium Pink is more stark, more pastel like.

My favourite shade out of all of them: Lucky Lucky Lavender. I think I will change For Audrey and put it on! First time I have worn polish for a little while, it's almost exciting again :)

China Glaze Glam & Solar Flare

These are the first two polishes I have gotten from China Glazes glitter specialty collection, or what ever they call it.

Glam the pink one and Solar Flare the gold one.

In the photos I have done one nail with one sparse coat and the other with two coats for each polish.

These polishes can get thick quickly or may be thick when you get them. That's ok you just have to dab a lot of the polish off before applying if you only want a little glitter, otherwise they are perfectly fine.

I found that these polishes dried very quickly and look amazing shiny or matte.

Glam has a big sister called Doll House which is exactly like Solar Flare, just the colour of Glam. And of course Solar Flare has a little brother called Treasure Chest which is exactly like Glam only gold.

Glam has very similar glitter to what is found in Spellbound and Fortune teller. It just lacks the very small glitter. I still love it to pieces though.

Solar Flare is big chunky hex gold glitter. As big as the glitter is I have worn it maybe 3 or 4 times since getting it. I just can't get enough of it.

What do you think of these polishes? Do you prefer them jam packed or a little more sparse?

Mojito vs. Patti

OPI Japanese Collection 2005 - Nude Comparisons

Yay, Autumn's weather is finally kicking in. It has been raining on and off a lot today with thunder too! I like when it rains, but sadly my nail polish didn't. It didn't dry fully, I suppose it doesn't help when my fingers are as warm as an iceberg.

I had been meaning to compare these three for awhile now. I love all three of these shades, all three are work appropriate and apply quite nicely.

In order from top to bottom:
Have A Tempura Tan-trum
Miso Happy With This Color
Let Them Eat Rice Cake

They are a little streaky on coat number two but three fixes them right up. I tried them over a ridge filler to see if I could do it in two coats, no, ridge filler makes them more streaky lol.

So, if you can put up with doing three coats, they are absolutely perfect.

In the last photo you can see the Tempura is the more yellow toned one, Miso the red toned and Rice Cake being the blue toned one. I am positive that at least one of these would work for you!

Comparison: OPI My Private Jet & Color Club Revvvolution

Revvv is much more charcoalish than MPJ, but also much more opaque ;)

Comparison: OPI Sheer Enchantment VS. Color Club Femme Fatale

Two polishes that I wanted to compare for awhile now, OPI Sheer Enchantment and Color Club Femme Fatale.

They look like they have similar sort of shimmer although SE looks really gross in the bottle. They both have pink/orange shimmer that changes to purple/gold. Very nice.

So here they are with one coat and two coats over Where's The Soiree?

4th picture has got its labels round the wrong way n_n;

Sheer Enchantment - Much less visable than Femme Fatale. It is more glitter like with the size pieces. 

Femme Fatal - I love this polish. I wore it over Morgan the other day... those two were made for each-other! Smaller pieces than SE and a lot more of them. I only used one coat of Femme Fatale on ALL pictures.