Orly Fowl Play Swatches & Review

It's already mid June, time really flies eh? I am a bit lagging behind on my 2012 resolution, hopefully I still can meet my goal in the remaining 6 months :)

Hmm, today I have Orly Fowl Play from Orly's Birds of a Feather Collection to show you. This color was not a love at first sight for me, I was initially eyeing on Nite Owl from the same collection but ended up getting this. I am glad I have made the right choice the moment I paint it on my nail. 

This is a very complicated color, it is a bit jelly-ish dark purple with flakies, glitters.. Okay, I know I am lousy at description, let the pictures do the talking. :)

Pardon my dry cuticle. I went to a saloon which I have never visited before for manicure and pedicure last week. Not sure what they did to my nail, my skin around my cuticle had became so dry and started peeling. But my toes are fine, so it taught me a lesson to carefully choose manicurists next time. I was a bit regretted of signing the pedicure package with them, or I should be happy that I had only signed pedicure package.. lol

All these photos are taken under sunlight, you could see the multi-color flakies/glitters that is absolutely stunning! 

Here a a macro shot to give you a better idea

Bottle shot

How do you think of this color? I am totally in love with it. I think you wouldn't want to miss this if you love purple or dark polish. I swear it looks much better in real life. :)

Some bloggers had done a color comparison of this color with OPI Merry Midnight that had been discontinued. You may want to get this if you have missed the OPI one like myself. Check out the comparison posts here and here. 

Have a great weekend! :)

Til next time... Esther

My Birthday Mani - OPI Fly

So, It's my birthday today! Okay, it's officially over in Malaysia. But who cares, it's still my birthday else where! :)


Since this is my special day, I have decided to put on a color which I do not usually wear and it's OPI Fly from Nicki Minaj collection. It's a pretty bright teal leaning towards green. It's the first color I have got from this collection and I love this color at the instant I put it on my nails. The application is effortless and can be opaque in just 2 coats. It looks a bit jelly-ish on the first coat, but after the 2nd coat, it looks creme.

OPI Fly

OPI Fly

Do you think this color is lovely? I do think this color is superb, but I feel that it's a bit plain just having 2 coats of polishes on my nails. It's my special day after all, I should have more special nail than my normal day right? So I rummaged my storage box for nail art tools and decided to paint some stripping lines on my nails inspired by the gift boxes below. I knew I wouldn't be receiving any present, so I decided to turn my nails into a gift.. lol

Gift box, picture copyright belongs to respective owner

Here is the end results.. I used stripping pen with OPI Alpine snow to draw the straight line and added a little rhinestone to spice things up a little. Do my nails look like a gift boxes? :):)  

OPI Fly with OPI Alpine Snow stripping line

I definitely need more practice on drawing straight and even lines.. lol


Til next time... Esther