piCture pOlish Monday - Vegas - Then and Now

Hi Goddesses

Today's piCture pOlish Monday is another Then and Now, this time featuring one of my very favourite polishes, the amazingly zingy Vegas.

I found this polish almost exactly a year ago, and it is solely responsible for kickstarting my orange obsession.  More, it gave me a lust for all polishes that hover on that red / orange border.  Why?  Well I've discovered (as someone who suffers from depression) that this particular shade makes me giddily happy, and so wearing this colour is almost like therapy :)  She's a good 'un.

Vegas is amazeballs.  She's dark molten orange, she dances with red, and she shimmers with golden fire.  She's like a phoenix or a dragon, and I adore her.

I also love how these shades are perfect for shorter nails.  I don't know about you, but the minute I have to cut my nails, I always head for a red or a reddy orange.

So what did Vegas look like a year ago?  Well, not too bad actually.  I can see my photography evolving, and whilst not "there" yet, it's definitely tolerable, and the post is quite funny too.  If you want a re-read, click HERE.

I've got one more piCture pOlish left for you next week, and then we're done.   Unless I buy some more, which I may have to, as they keep releasing amazing shades at a staggering rate of knots.

Enjoy xx :)

The Best of 2012 - Orange Polishes

Hi Goddesses

and welcome to our first Review of the Year post !!  There is pretty much going to be one of these a day for most of the month, covering polishes, brands and blogs.  Today, we're starting with a colour - orange!

Orange was never a polish colour I loved, but this year, we've fallen in love with a passion.  This has been helped by some truly outstanding creations, and also the realisation that orange on my paws makes me HAPPY.  It's definitely a mood-changing colour.  

These posts will not be in any particular order - I haven't tried to rank the polishes because it's just too difficult!  For each of the polishes, you can also click on the polish name to be taken to my original post and more photos.

Ok, here we go -

Enkelini - Lainey Lou

Stunning orange holo, easily rated the best orange holo in my comparison post.  Superb pigmentation and effect.

HITS Hula

Pure happiness in a bottle.  Sensational orange crelly with flakies.  It doesn't get hotter than this.

China Glaze - Riveting

I guess this is possibly the most famous orange of the year, or certainly the most talked about.  Scarily intense and positively thrumming with electricity.  This is orange turned up to 11.

Rainbow Honey - Hoof Wrassle

This is the polish that confirmed I was addicted to orange.  One of my personal favourites of the year, this is a stunning glitter bomb in a burnt orange soup base.

Color Club - Sparkle and Soar

From the Take Wing Collection, this is summer perfection.  This polish looks like fizz on the nails, with the shimmer attracting the sun like bees to a honey pot.  Dupe for a w7 polish and also for Bettina Hippie.

Picture Polish - Vegas

On the outer limits of orange, this is blood burnt orange just as it tip toes into red.  Stunning and vibrant and indecently loaded with shimmer.

Glimmer by Erica - Muy Caliente

I still remember the gasp when I first saw this on More Nail Polish.  Possibly the orange glitter of the year.

Enchanted Polish - Dizzy Mizz Lizzy

Enchanted Polish has made a huge splash this year, and this was my personal favourite (mainly cos I have another 6 polishes of hers that I haven't worn yet!).  An unbelievable orange glitter soup, this is art in a bottle.

OPI - Call Me Gwen-Ever

You could have knocked me down with a feather when I liked this, as it's pretty much everything I usually hate.  Corally peachy creaminess ?  Blah!  But somehow it works.  Summer blancmange magnificence.

If I could only keep one ???   Ah, MAYBE the Hits Hula, purely because it was the one that made me happiest, but wow, these are all stunners.

So over to you - what was your favourite orange of the year?   Any classics that I missed out ?

Enjoy xx :)

The Battle of the Red-Oranges

Hi Goddesses  

A few weeks ago, I bought a Picture Polish called Vegas, and fell in love with it.  I then realised it might have been similar to another polish I owned, so I did a comparison post - see here.

Well, fast forward a couple of weeks and I seem to have 2 MORE polishes that look similar, so I decided to a fuller comparison.

You ready ?  Here we goooooo:

* thumb - OPI Animal-istic

* index - HITS Hula

* middle - CG Riveting

* ring - Zoya Nidhi

* pinkie - Picture Polish Vegas

First thoughts - uh oh.

Closer inspections - 

* thumb - Animal-istic is super shimmery, with lots of light threaded through it.  It's a notch or 2 lighter than Nidhi and Vegas

* index - Hula, aaaaah Hula.  Love this so much.  Her flakiness sets her apart

* middle - Riveting.  Totally different to the others.  Not only lighter, but look how it HOLDS the light, like a secret.  Faintly metallic, very electric

* ring - Nidhi - glorious.  Just-red, with shimmer and tones of orange and pink.  Glorious

* pinkie - Vegas - gorgeous .... and er .... shit that looks similar to Nidhi.  MUST be a difference somewhere.  Looks closer.  Nope, can't see it.   But she's sooooo pretty.   Sisters should stay together, right ?

Actually, actually ... yes, hold on ... yes, under my Gazillion Microscope, I can see ... yes ... definitely different .... more shimmer in Nidhi.   Only by about the weight of half a gnat's fart, but it counts, right ?

Whichever of these you own, they're a joy.  There's something about this type of colour that makes me feel happy inside.  And YES, I doooooo need them all ;)

Enjoy xx :)