Orly Melrose Collection

Orly's Spring 2016 Melrose Collection consists of 6 polishes inspired by Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. 

 

Beautifully Bizarre is a pale pink with blue and green shimmer.  This is absolutely stunning in person and my favorite of the collection.

 

Feel The Funk is a sheer lilac shimmer polish with holographic glitter.  I used 3 coats to get it opaque.  I'm interested to see what it looks like when used as a topper.

 
Hip and Outlandish is a bright teal crème polish.  These types of shades are notoriously hard to photograph.  It's a bit darker in person.

 

Trendy is a pinky coral polish with crystal shimmer.  It's known to be the problem child of this collection and I would have to agree.  The formula was thick and uneven.  Once it dried, the shimmer seemed to sink down into the polish making it appear dull and lumpy.  It looked a lot better after adding some top coat. 

Vintage is a bright mint green crème polish. This was another one that was hard to photograph.  It's lighter and brighter in person.  I's my second favorite from this collection. I love it!

Window Shopping is a bright magenta crème polish.  This one is practically neon in person.  It's perfect for summer and would be a great pedicure color.

My Pal Joey and Angel Eyes

Blue - My Pal Joey by OPI
Glitter - Angel Eyes by Orly

Orly Sweet Dreams and Candy Shop

Here's another mani that I did using polishes from Orly's Sugar High Collection.  Sweet Dreams is a gray-ish taupe with pink and purple shimmer.  Candy Shop is a dark mauve crème (which was also used in the previous post).

 

Nails - Orly Sweet Dreams

Tips - Orly Candy Shop

Orly Sugar High

This spring Orly released the Sugar High Collection of 6 polishes.   Orly's description of this collection is,  "Deliciously whimsical colors take your inner girly girl on a candy-coated romp through the incredibly edible treats of childhood. Buttery frosting, delicate pink, a twist of lime, licorice and raspberry indulge your innermost cravings."

In addition to the full size polishes, they offered a set of 4 mini's which is what I chose to purchase.  I did a gradient using 3 of them. 

Cake Pop is a very pale pink toned crème. 
Key Lime Twist is a yellow pastel neon crème. 
Candy Shop is dark mauve crème.
  

 

Orly - Cake Pop

Orly - Key Lime Twist

Orly - Candy Shop

Design - KSP White, Image Plate BM310

Orly Sparkle Collection

Christmas time may be over, but I've got several 2014 holiday polishes that I haven't even worn yet!  I recently got to enjoy the Sparkle collection by Orly and really loved it... with the exception of one shade (which I will comment on later in this post). 

First up is Bling, a gold holographic polish that is unlike anything that I've seen and unlike anything that I have in my collection.

Mirrorball is my favorite polish of this collection.  It's a silver holographic micro glitter.  I wore this beauty on New Years Eve and love it!

 

Steal The Spotlight is my second favorite in this collection.  I love the sprinkle of pink glitter with the teal.

 

Glitter Bomb is a multicolored glitter in a clear base.  This one would work well as a fun glitter topper.  I used several coats here to make it opaque.  (Thank God for OPI's glitter off base coat!)

 

Tinsel is so fun and festive and just screams Christmas.  I loved it!  This is two coats over white polish.  You can guarantee that this will be used for many holiday seasons to come. 

 

Explosion of fun was my least favorite, which is odd considering that it's pink (which is my favorite color of all time).  This was clearly meant to be used as a topper, which I've seen in other blogger swatches.  I wanted to see if I could make it opaque.  That was a major fail.  I can't tell you how many coats this is.  I lost count after seven.  If I reach for this polish again, you can guarantee that it will be used as a topper only. 

NOTD

Orly - Galixy Girl.  This color had been on my wish list since I first saw swatches of it on the blogs.  Thankfully, Santa left it for me!  My photo of it is pretty sad.  No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't capture the beautiful teal blue flash that this color has.  But, it's been swatched over a million times before so, I'm sure you've seen those amazing images of this color at one time or another.