Nails I Love
ORLY – Fowl
Play
Hi Goddesses
Today has been a
better day thankfully, and I am wearing a fabulous polish – what could be
better ? Finally, I am wearing Orly Fowl
Play, only about a gazillion years after the rest of the world!
So Crumpet, why have
you waited sooooo long to get this polish when usually you can’t get your
grubby little paws on new purples fast enough ?
Wellllll, me and Orly don’t have a loving relationship. Whilst I love the bottle, the fact you get
18ml (wow) and their fabulously ergonomic wand, I find the polish a little
meh. All the ones I have tried have been
really thin and watery and therefore left me disappointed. Believe me, having the faith to try Fowl Play
took a lot of compromising on my part.
Wow, I compromised
for my art! Lol. Also, I saw so many posts about was this a
dupe for OPI’s Merry Midnight, and being the snob I am, wanted MM. So I got it, loved it, and then still got this
one! Honestly, sometimes even *I* don’t
understand myself!
So here she is, and
despite the fact I had to use 3 coats, she’s lovely. I LOVE the Orly wand, it’s soooo comfortable
to hold, and really helps you apply the polish.
The base colour is a lovely rich purple with some warm tones, but not
quite as burgundy as MM. The flakies are
gorgeous, and seem to flash more colours than I remember MM showing – green,
yellow, orange and BLUE, which is a fabulous contrast to the base.
This reminds me a of
an exotic speckled egg, maybe something the evil purple dragon would lay. It’s got that amazing smattering of colour
that is indistinct yet mesmerising at the same time.
I shouldn’t assume
of course that all of you are familiar with Merry Midnight. A lot of you might be reading this right now
and thinking this is the most amazing polish you’ve ever seen, and you wouldn’t
be far wrong. For those of us who feed
our addiction with Google image searches, it’s easy to forget how we first
reacted when someone picked an amazing purple and added some flakes to it. This IS a genius polish, no doubt at all, and
EVERY girl should own something similar.
The perfect colour + flakies = pretty much 100% perfect combination.
So yes, this is a
wowzer of a polish, a bottle of awesome sauce dribbled over some
amazeballs. This is an addict’s polish –
ever so decadent, ever so pure, and ever so fan-flippin-tastic.
So, DOES it compare
to Merry Midnight?
Well first off – do
they look a little different in the bottle?
No, not all really. Whilst you
might think 1 has a bit more blue than the other, this is mainly just a
question of how many flakies are being caught by the light – tilt the bottle
and the picture changes.
On the nails … well,
can you guess which one is MM ?
It’s the ring
finger, it also had 3 coats, and I am quite surprised by how much difference
there is. Definitely warmer, more
burgundy, a lot less blue, and actually, a fair bit less flakiness. The speckled effect is definitely less.
So, 2 gorgeous
polishes. Practically identical. Fowl Play is pretty much like your mother
improving on your grandmother’s recipe.
OPI must be LIVID!
If you can’t get MM,
Fowl Play will do fine – it’s just as nice, just as gorgeous, just as
distinctively wow. But since when has
that ever stopped us lemming more ladies ?
Lol – enjoy xx J oh and if you want to do your own contrast
& compare, my Merry Midnight post is just …….. here J xx
(PPS you might be
able to tell from the tip wear to the right thumb that the Orly didn’t wear as
well as OPI.)
J
Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.
