Orly Baked Summer 2014: Tropical Pop

I think Tropical Pop has to be my favourite from Baked. It is basically egg yolk in the form of nail polish. It is glorious. The formula is a little on the thick side, however the colour is easily built up. I am wearing two coats here. EGGS

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Orly Baked Summer 2014: Saturated

Today I have Orly's Saturated to show you! I absolutely adore this polish. A deep purple that ACTUALLY LOOKS PURPLE ON! Not black, not indigo, not blue! Purple! And the formula is lovely too. You can almost get full opacity with one coat. I bet it works well for stamping!

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Orly Baked Summer 2014: Hot Tropics

Today I have Orly's Hot Tropics for your viewing pleasure! A beautifully bright pinky-purple filled with green and golden shimmer. This is two coats I'm wearing here. The formula was really spectacular. It had the right thickness, flowed really nicely, and wasn't a 'leaker' (one that flows into your cuticles).

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Orly Baked Summer 2014: Ablaze

Today I have Orly's Ablaze to show you! This was a tricky one for my camera to capture. The shade photo shows the correct colouring quite nicely. This is two coats of Ablaze shown. It has a very nice formula, slightly on the thick side - but look how gorgeous this is!

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Orly Aqua Neon

Orly has released a new line of polishes in Farmers, called Color Blast. They are in smaller 11ml bottles and retail for $14. I decided to pick up Orly's Aqua Neon to try.

I'm wearing two coats here. The formula is really nice and smooth, Aqua Neon also gives excellent coverage!

Nail Art: Galaxy Nails

Well I've been admiring galaxy nails from a distance for far too long! I decided it was time to create my own! What you need to create your own galaxy nails: dark base colour, bunch of polishes, a glitter (optional), and a sponge.

 My base colour was Orly Le Chateau, a very dark jelly-like teal. I do have a black but it's in a mini bottle and we all know how frustrating those can be. I then opted for two fuchsia shimmers, OPI Meep Meep Meep and OPI You Only Live Twice. Meep Meep is more blue-toned and has more chunky flake like pieces, where as Only Live Twice has a finer and very reflective shimmer. The dark plum colour here is OPI We'll Always Have Paris, and the light lavender is Misa Sweet Thing.

Now in most galaxy nail pictures that I've seen, ladies have been layering over a sparse silver glitter. Much like NFUOh GS05 or OPI Servin' Up Sparkle as a way to mimic the stars. I couldn't locate my silver glitter so I went without! I love how it turned out and I really enjoyed wearing the manicure.

I'm going to do another galaxy manicure today and these are my inspiration pictures. Lavender, turquoise  blue and little specks of orange!

Orly Bonder AKA: Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

Or maybe in our case, it should be Best Thing Since Fast Dry Topcoat?.../lamejoke

Now that I think about... what is so great about sliced bread? ...

Today I have one of Orly's many treatments to show you, Bonder. A special rubberised base coat that helps your nail polish grip on. It retails for $12.50 in New Zealand at Farmers. Which really isn't bad. It is 9ml.

I have had a lot of recommendations to try out Orly Bonder as my manicure chips within the first or 2nd day. I can tell you already, I love this stuff! I never want to be without it ever again! I have worn it with every manicure since I bought it and none have chipped. None. I usually change my nails every 3 days so I haven't tried it past that many days.

I also have a lot of peelies on my nails too as I pick and peel my nail polish off... naughty I know... but Bonder really helps even out the nail polish over them, leaving a smooth surface.

If you have had either of the same problems as me, definitely give Bonder a go! I highly recommend it.

Nail Art: Happy New Year!

First and foremost, Happy New Year! Woohoo it's 2012 and we have one year left to live. I hope the nail polish selection is worth it this year!

For my New Years manicure I decided on a glitter gradient. I started with a base of Orly Le Chateau, added a thin sparse coat of OPI Gone Gonzo, followed by OPI Crown Me Already spread just along the tips, and lastly another sparse coat of OPI Gone Gonzo along the tips and up 1/3rd of the nail.

My new camera doesn't seem to be calibrated correctly at the moment. It always sees Gonzo as being quite silvery when it definitely has more blue to it. So bear with me while I try and sort that out!

Any new year resolutions? 

Mine are to work harder and be more of a good person.

Orly Ma Cherie

Ma Cherie is from Orly's Holiday Soiree collection for 2011. Ma Cherie is a bright cherry red jelly.

Mum purchased this one because she just can't leave a jelly polish behind. This colour seems to be very flattering on both of our skin tones. Just thinking of all the layering possibilities makes me giddy!

The application was great. Orlys really are good polishes. I didn't actually have any Orlys in my collection until this collection. Orly usually tends to do safer or not as exciting colours as other big companies. They also don't bring as many collections out or do any collaborations with celebrities.

I kinda like this one just for the name as well. Ma Cherie. An all-rounder great nail polish!

Orly Holiday Soiree Collection for Holiday 2011

I've got a little sneak peek of Orly's Holiday Soiree collection for you! There were two others that we didn't pick up, a pearly white and a redder version of Oui. We bought these with the deal at Farmers at the moment, buy one Orly get one Orly free!

Firstly we have Orly Oui. Mum bought this one and she absolutely loves foils, gold and purple. She chose this one over the redder toned one because Oui suited her skin tone more. She has heavy pink undertones.

Next is Ma Cherie! I love this one just for the name. Kinda sounds like machete though... Anyway, we weren't planning on getting Ma Cherie but after we saw the nail swatch in store, we saw how bright and jellyish it was!

Le Chateau is a very dark teal jelly. You can see the teal clearly on coat one but it goes quite a bit darker with just coat two. I experimented layering NFUOh 50 between it, you definitely need thin coats to see the flakies more clearly, but so nice!

Of course we both picked up a bottle of Androgynie! There's nothing like it! A very dark charcoal brown with a fine gold/brown shimmer, along with rainbow hex and holographic glitter thrown into the mix. One thing I noticed with Androgynie is that the glitter tends to sink, alot. You can kinda see it in the photo above, a huge area of silver glitter.

Simply just roll it between your hands before using and you get all this extra glitter!

Here is a quick swatch of Angrogynie and Le Chateau with NFUOh 050 layered/graduated between two layers.

Full swatches and reviews coming shortly!