Hello my dears!!
I'm so sorry for being absent for almost two weeks, but I've been having such a nightmarish time with blogger and Google Friend Connect! I couldn't make them work at all and after trying out a million different things, they just went back to normal as if nothing had happened.
I couldn't even enjoy the first time I've ever been featured on another blog! The Driveler Kate from one of my favourite blogs, drivel about frivol, featured me along with other great bloggers in this post. Thank you so much Kate for the feature and your kind words! I really loved the idea of the Liebster Awards and I've been around to look at some of the features, though of course GFC wouldn't let me follow any at the time *ugh*. I will have a look around again though! I also see I have some new followers; hello new followers! I will in time do my own nominations for the Liebster award, but for the time being I have a comparison for you that I'd prepared ages ago.
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| Mysterious Curse, Royal Velvet, 317, Natural Light. Check out the colour shift of the shimmer on the StarGazer bottle! |
Along with Buried Alive, I also ordered Mysterious Curse from the Orly Dark Shadows collection. I could tell it was somewhat similar to another polish I had from the Spring 2011 collection, Royal Velvet, I just wasn't expecting them to be almost identical. So, here is a comparison I did between those two and another similar polish,Stargazer 317 version 1.
All three have a deep purple base with a lot of fine shimmer in that shifts from bright pink, to blue. The pink shift is actually a lot stronger than what you see in my pictures, but my camera consistantly fails to capture it. They are practically dupes and their only differences are:
*Orly Royal Velvet is much less pigmented than the other two (requires 4 coats at least as opposed to 3) and harder to apply. It's a pooling nightmare as you can see in the pictures.
*Both the Orly polishes left behind red staining in spite of using a base coat.
*Stargazer 317 has a lot more shimmer in and a slightly darker base colour. It is also more pigmented, you could get away with only 2 coats of it if you're careful.
Mysterious Curse is a better polish than Royal Velvet as it is more pigmented and more manageable, but I can't help being very dissappointed in Orly who came out with -practically-the same polish twice in a year. If the Stargazer 317 was easier to find, I would undoubtedly point you to its direction as it is much better and a lot cheaper at the same time. What a shame it's not!
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| Paper swatch along with some more colours, natural light |
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| One coat/ 3 coats, artificial light |
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| First coat |
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| Natural light |
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| Artificial light |
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| Artificial light and as much of the pink shift as my camera could capture. |
Looks like MC and RV are dupes. I didn't have RV but did get MC. It's always a little disappointing when companies just recycle colors.
ReplyDeleteI know, they could have made them even a little bit different. At least MC is the better of the two!
DeleteThose are really pretty. I don't own many Orly's, but I love Mysterious curse. And it's awful that Orly duped themselves. How sad, lol. Maybe they really liked the color, but improved upon it, and hoped no one would notice, lol.
ReplyDeleteHaha! Yes, especially these days with so many blogs around it's *obvious* no one would notice!
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