Every Day an Essie! - Essie Showstopper

I am not terribly happy with the photo, because Essie Showstopper is a great medium red with tons of gold shimmer that is really a knockout. It's got a bluish tone, not an orange one. It's a keeper, IMO!

Essie Showstopper:

Information From Orly Regarding Once Upon a Time Collection

I got an email from Orly regarding their Once Upon a Time Collection and wanted to pass it on to you!

Here's a link to my review of the Collection!


Once Upon A Time

ORLY Fall 2009 Collection

Make Your Fairy Tale Come True


...And we all lived perfectly polished with ORLY’s NEW Once Upon A Time Collection! The Fall 2009 color treasures whisk you away to a fantasy world of deep magentas, burnt reds, muted blues and many dreamy colors in between. Meet your Prince Charming and live Happily Ever After in these beautiful new shades.


The six new lacquers in the Once Upon A Time Collection include:




Live Happily Ever After in magenta shimmer

Throw Pixie Dust in the air with icy blue shimmer

Stroll through an Enchanted Forest with dark green crème

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who has the fairest nails of all? You! in grey crème

Careful with that Poison Apple in burnt red crème

Find your very own Prince Charming in brownish grey crème


All ORLY Nail Lacquers including the Once Upon A Time Collection are free of DBP and all traces of Toluene and Formaldehyde.

The Once Upon A Time Collection Nail Lacquers will be available starting September 2009 for $7.50 each. ORLY Nail Lacquers and Treatment products are available at orlybeauty.com, Sally Beauty, Ulta and other purveyors of beauty throughout the U.S. and in over 66 countries worldwide. For more information contact LaForce + Stevens or visit the ORLY web site at orlybeauty.com.


Jeff Pink founded ORLY in 1975 with a simple idea: to innovate natural nail care. By creating leading-edge products and tools designed not only to beautify, but to respond to the needs of salon professionals, ORLY’s beauty experts have redefined nail care and nail fashion. ORLY’s dynamic color palette includes over 150 lacquer shades that are completely free of DBP, formaldehyde and toluene. As much a trendsetter as a nail care innovator, ORLY also introduced the first-ever iconic nail look: the Original French Manicure® and reinvented lacquer application with the award-winning Gripper Cap™. ORLY embodies quality that beauty professionals in over 66 countries worldwide rely upon.

Every Day an Essie! - Essie Damsel In a Dress

Damsel in a Dress is quite lovely. It's a dark reddish purple with a slight silver shimmer for pizazz. I think it's very hot.

Essie Damsel In a Dress:

Zoya Shivon Giveaway Winner!!!

The winner of the Zoya Shivon Giveaway is Jessica Benjamin! Congratulations Jessica!!

I'll be sending your polish, and Kellie G.'s overdue one out tomorrow! Enjoy, both of you and thank you for reading Polish mayhem!!

Last Day to Enter Zoya Shivon Giveaway!

http://polishmayhem.blogspot.com/2009/07/end-of-months-of-zoyas-giveaway.html

Everyone anywhere can enter! Winner posted tonight, oh, around 7:00 pm PST. You can enter until 5:00 pm or so.

Good Luck!

Every Day an Essie! - Essie Garnet

This is sort of a medium red jelly. I have NEVER seen a garnet this color, but I think the polish is quite nice. A layer of polish then a layer of glitter then another layer of polish might be pretty hot. Or a topcoat like OPI Thrills in Beverly Hills.

Essie Garnet:

Every Day an Essie - Essie Jewel

Essie Jewel is a deep rose with lots of purple shimmer. Very pretty!!

Essie Jewel:

Orly Once Upon a Time Collection!

I no sooner heard about this in an email than it was in my hot little hands! I can't find info on it anywhere on Orly's site, so I have no real information other than what it says on the box. It says "6 Pix from the Once Upon a Time Color Collection". So I don't know if there are more, if this is Fall or Winter, or what. "Once Upon a Time... Orly's collection of modern nail lacquer shades, inspired by the darkness and drama of classic fairy tale stories". Update: This is a Fall 2009 Collection that comes out in September!

The collection pretty much does bring out that feeling for me. It is a change from the brighter more jeweled colors and mattes being offered. It has a typical decent Orly formula, I had a few mishaps but nothing horrible. The colors are richly pigmented and except for Pixie Dust, were easily two coat perfect. It's a nice palette of cool tones, a chocolate brown creme, a medium red jelly, a light grey creme, a light bluish grey shimmer jelly, a dark bluish green fir tree colored creme, and a dark pomegranate with purple shimmer.

Prince Charming, a sort of melted chocolate ice cream colored creme. Not my idea of Prince Charming, but it meshes with the collection nicely. Manages not to look like poo.
Orly Prince Charming:


Mirror Mirror is a light grey creme that really floats my boat. Apparently I have a grey fetish where other people have a green fetish, I am coming to learn. That suits me just fine. I love this color. Reminds me of urban camo.
Orly Mirror Mirror:


Poison Apple is my least favorite. It is simply not apple colored, this is a tomato. It's a jelly on the opaque side. A richer candy apple red would have meshed better with this collection, IMO.
Orly Poison Apple:


Orly Enchanted Forest, a kind of dark, solid wall of foreboding blue green fir trees sort of creme. Well done!
Orly Enchanted Forest:


Pixie Dust is a bluish grey, almost denim. It's light, and it's a sheerish jelly. This was 4 coats, but you could do three, I probably only needed 4 on one nail. or you could do one for a sheerer look, which would also be pretty! It's got a ton of shimmer, I think it's very nice.
Orly Pixie Dust:


Happily Ever After is a juicy reddish purple with a darker purple shimmer. Very sexy, one of the best of the collection.
Orly Happily Ever After:


I hope I helped you make some decisions regarding this collection!

Every Day an Essie! - Essie Wrapped in Rubies

Wrapped in Rubies is a dark red shimmer, almost a frost. It's a gold shimmer, which is not terribly apparent. Nice!

Essie Wrapped in Rubies:

New NARS Tokaido Express

Picked up a new NARS polish today browsing the Norstrom sale. It's a dark purple, kinda plum shimmer. IMO, there's more sparkle in the picture than in person. It's a pretty, sophisticated polish, the formula is nice, if average, and not hard to control. It has good coverage, picture is 2 coats, no top coat.

But, I think I am gonna stick with China Glaze Lasso My Heart for about $15 less.

NARS Tokaido Express:


China Glaze Lasso My Heart:

Every Day an Essie - Essie Port

Phew this is a fugly polish application job! Was I asleep? Luckily the polish is a nice medium red jelly. You can look at IT, not my mistakes.

Essie Port:

Don't forget the Zoya Giveaway!

Don't forget the giveaway!:


I forgot my giveaway for the end of my two months of Zoyas! Well anyway I remembered it so let's get to it!

Email me your name at polishmayhem@gmail.com to win a new unused bottle of Shivon, to celebrate the successful completion of two months of daily Zoya posts. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did! Entry is open until next Monday, July 20, and winner will be posted that evening. Good luck and thanks for reading Polish Mayhem!!


Zoya Shivon:

Every Day an Essie! - Essie Sexy Divide

Sexy Divide is one of the friggin' weirdest names I've seen in a polish. WTF?? Is this named after spreading your legs????

But it's a nice dark purple shimmer. Just never say the name to me.

Essie Sexy Divide:

Every Day an Essie! Essie Heavenly Sunset

I've got a thing for dusty rose shades. I dunno why. I just do. I think Essie Heavenly Sunset is a particularly nice one. Reminds me of warm evenings by the beach. It's got a very subtle silver shimmer to it, which is nice.

Essie Heavenly Sunset:

Fun Stuff I've Gotten Lately - Mmmmm Glittery!

I got some good stuff the past week or so in the mail and the drugstore.

LOVE this one! Just enough holo glitter to cause that circular oilslick rainbow, but not enough to be a full holographic.
Wet n' Wild Wild Orchid:


From the Color Club Femme Fatale Collection, along with Revvvolution, but I wanted this one far less than Revvvolution. Only bought it because it's a holo. Silvers aren't my favorite.
Color Club Worth the Risque:


This has a gorgeous blue and gold duochrome, and it's a unique one because the blue part of the duochrome is lighter than the blue of the base. It makes it look like it is topped with glass. It's very lovely. I don't enjoy the fake blueberry smell it has. It does fade though.
Revlon Not So Blueberry:


I bought this thinking it might be close to China Glaze's glass fleck No Way Jose. But it isn't really at all. It's too silvery, almost a metallic. But it's pretty, and cheap.
Sinful Purple Diamond:


Gorgeous vampy burgundy with a deep shimmer, both in the base color and a darker purple. I LOVE this.
Sally Hansen Flirt:


But the stars of my acquisitions are the Massinis a friend helped me buy. I utterly adore these!!! They are not holos, just glitters. I wanted these for a very long time and was so excited to have them!

Massini Purple Medallion:


Massini Slamming Red: