Purple Crumpet Fairy Christmas Challenge Day 22 - Christmas Puddings

PURPLE CRUMPET FAIRY CHALLENGE – The 31 Days of Christmas

Day 22 – Christmas Pudding

Hi Goddesses

I’ve pretty much known what I was going to do for this mani since October lol – ironic then that last night I was thinking “shit, I haven’t done it yet!”.

Luckily this is super simple and super effective.

Mine is very similar to the other Xmas Pud manis out there, with one exception – mine is on a base of OPI Merry Midnight.  I thought its flakiness would perfectly reflect the raisins and fruit in the pudding, and it does!

The white is CG Snow, the green is CG Glittering Garland and the red berries are CG Ruby Pumps.

It was all done with a thin dotting tool – I still find they give me better results than a brush.

Et voila!  Tomorrow is Santa J

Enjoy xx J

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.

Orly FOWL PLAY & Compulsory OPI Merry Midnight Comparison

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.

Nails I Love - OPI Merry Midnight

Nails I Love

OPI – Merry Midnight

Helloooooo Goddesses.

Today we have Holy Lemming No 1 – Merry Midnight.  There’s a reason it’s so beloved – it’s a fricking work of ART.

with flash to show the amazing base colour

There are several reasons MM floats my boat –

• Base colour – purple – nuff said
• It had flakie holo pieces
• It looks like Christmas
• It’s sheer happiness for the nail
• It’s an explosion of lusciousness

MM has a purple base, but way over on the maroon side.  It looks like the blackcurrants and the cranberries decided to have a fight in the bottle, and are still going at it.  I’ve included a couple of flash pictures, because the undertone is truly special.

So, not only is the base colour gorgeous, it has frosting and shimmer to it that flash blue in the light.  THIS is why it reminds me of Christmas J 

Then of course you’ve got the holo flakes.  Most of the time they glint pink, but they happily turn to orange if you so much as wink at them.  Better still, get them alone and start flirting and they turn GREEN as they shy away from the light.

There’s a whole lot of colour going on here, and if you think about it, it really shouldn’t work – purple, pink, orange, green and blue ?  All at the same time ?  And it keeps changing ?  It seems insane they can co-exist so perfectly and not inspire nausea, but they do.

The secret is in the magical cloak of mystery MM likes to present to the world.  She likes to pretend she’s a respectable purple-maroon-magenta kind of girl, a cloak of many twilight colours, but really she’s a kaleidoscope ready to freak out!

So, is it worth the hype?  Actually, I’m not that sure.  As the day has worn on I have loved her more and more, and in return she has shown me more of herself (she certainly wasn’t flashing her blue shimmer at me this morning, and it took me til lunch to find the lime green).  At first I thought I could do as well with a good purple and some KleanColor black holo, but d’you know what, I can’t.

There’s no way to replicate the enormous blend of colours going on here, and that’s what makes MM so amazingly special.  How else do you combine colour, shimmer, glimmer, frost, holo, flakie goodness in a combination of hot and cold colours ?

This also reminds me of a Christmas pudding – please, bear with – it’s got the warmth of the berries, the fruit and the brandy and then the clash of the blue flame once it’s lit.

This is super special, and in what has until now been quite a bland year, a timeless reminder of what OPI can do when they really make an effort.

Enjoy 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.