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.

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!