Rich Plum - Orly Rococo A-Go-Go

Today I've got ORLY Rococo A-Go-Go from their Mineral FX collection. =) Jme previously swatched this in a post here, but I was planning to use this shade as a base for some nail art (which is coming up in a couple of days!) so here's my swatches of it!

[Bottle to nail: Orly Rococo A-Go-Go (2 coats)]

Look at that gorgeous purple-orange duochrome effect in the bottle! Unfortunately, as many bloggers have found, this does not translate well to the nail (although you can see a hint of it at the extreme angle my nails are at in the photo above).

[2 coats: Orly Rococo A-Go-Go]

Rococo A-Go-Go has an amazing formula, with one coat enough for my little nubbins. I did an extra thin coat just to make sure everything was even anyway, but it probably didn't need it.

[2 coats: Orly Rococo A-Go-Go]

Despite the lack of duochrome, it's still a gorgeous deep plummy colour with a glass-fleck finish that glows. I attempted to show some colour shift but eh, don't expect to see it on your nails. As a lovely dark glowy shade, ORLY Rococo A-Go-Go excels!

A French Twist - Revlon Peach Smoothie, Orly Au Champagne

Howdy! Ev made a comment that this is an unusually girly mani for me, which is quite true. I really like French manicures, but when I try to do my own, I can't just do a normal one. It's practically a compulsion to spice it up. So here we have it!

[Base: Revlon Peach Smoothie
Top: Orly Au Champagne]

This is quite easy to do. The base coat is Revlon Peach Smoothie, which I'm aware isn't exactly a French mani type of polish. But Peach Smoothie has these gold-ish microglitter which I can't seem to capture on photo, and it's very subtle while giving the mani a nice little zing. I used freehand to apply Orly Au Champagne on top, and voila, done!

Fools Gold - Laced Gold nail foil transfer, Essence Rose Glam

This is a kinda old transfer foil manicure, so apologies for the crappy photos. This is Laced Gold nail foil transfer over Essence French Glam in Rose Glam.

[Gold veins]

I was trying to go for a subtly fancy manicure, but I don't think it quite worked out how I imagined!

[Bottle to nail: Essence French Glam in Rose Glam (2 coats)]

I started with two layers of Essence French Glam in Rose Glam, a milky creme/jelly (crelly!). Although it's called Rose Glam, there's barely a hint of pinkness to it, mostly just a neutral cream shade.

[2 coats: Essence French Glam in Rose Glam]

The finish was a bit patchy unfortunately, but I figured, hey, I'm gonna slap on a transfer, let's see how we go...

[Base: Essence Rose Glam (2 coats); Foil transfer: Laced Gold]

Hmmmm... not really what I was going for! I think the areas between the gold are quite spacey so it doesn't translate well. Would definitely look better with a coloured base, I reckon! Oh well! That's an experiment for next time! ;)

Top Tips - Canmake #30

I went through a brief period of not liking strong colours on my nails but still wanting to play around with polish so here's a twist on the french manicure that I ended up using.

[Bottle to nail: Canmake #30 (2 coats)]

I picked up Canmake #30 while I was in Japan last year. This one is an aqua jelly base packed with iridescent glitters of various sizes, mostly shifting between shades of blue and gold. 

[Tips: Canmake #30 (2 coats)]

I used two coats of glitter polish on the free edge of each nail before putting a generous layer of topcoat over the full nail to even things out! My nails look a bit yellow in these photos for some reason but they definitely were fine in real life! It was pretty interesting to have a more "subtle" manicure (in my books, anyways!).

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On Fire - Sally Hansen Lava

Everyone has seen this gorgeous nail polish on the market and in swatches, but I couldn't resist putting up my photos anyway.

[2 Coats: Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Lava]

Obviously, this is Sally Hansen's Lava, from the Lustre Shine collection. I have so many multichromes and duochromes that I wasn't too sure I would get this too. I gave in anyway because I'm weak, but I have no regrets!

Lava is a duochrome foil, which makes for a much better finish than shimmers - mostly because I find duochrome shimmers to be streaky. Lava is a rose-pink to gold-orange duochrome. The colour shift on Lava is amazing and hard to miss. Any slight streaky-ness and the visible tips of my nails are due to the fast dry nail polish.