Orly Mineral FX Complete Collection Swatches!

Ok! So finally I was able to get some swatches for you guys :) It took a bit longer than I expected due to having a little shindig to attend at my kids' school. But let me start off by saying that almost all of these colors are so sparkly in real life. It was hard to capture their sparkle with my camera, but I tried :) I'm also going to include the swatches I posted lastnight so that they're all in one post.

Let's start off with the ones from lastnight. I also made a video to add so that you can see just how much sparkle the still pictures can't quite capture.

Emberstone

Rock Solid

This one didn't have it's own individual video because I swatched lastnight and this was the first one I put on and then removed it to swatch Emberstone. But I put it on my right hand today (excuse the broken nail) and it is shortly filmed on the same video as Rococo-A-Go-Go

Rock The World

Indoors

Rock It

Indoors

Stone Cold

Rococo-A-Go-Go

Rococo-A-Go-Go is actually a dupe of Zoya Valerie. I didn't want to believe it, but in the pics I have Valerie on two nails and Rococo-A-Go-Go on 2 nails. Can you tell any difference?? I sure couldn't!!! But just in case you want to know, Valerie is on my middle finger and pinky. Still beautiful!

I also have to apologize right now for the swatching. I'm not used to doing a full hand of one color several times a day. I realize that there's 'leftovers' of the polishes and my skin/cuticles just got more heinous with each color. I used cuticle oil the first couple of changes but stopped because it was burning with all the acetone!!

Rock The World looks like OPI Rally Pretty Pink, OPI It's My Year and Zoya Faye and while it's similar, it's not the same. It's more purple than Rally Pretty Pink and more of a red toned purple than It's My Year.

I really do love them all. They're all so sparkly and well pigmented. I only had a problem with the formula on Rock Solid. It was a bit gritty. I thought it would dry gritty and bally, but it evened out as it dried! But I think my favorite colors of the collection have to be Emberstone, Rock It and Stone Cold. If you already have Zoya Valerie, then you don't need to pick up Rococo-A-Go-Go. Unless you want a backup in a bigger bottle, then by all means go for it!

That's it from me for today! The first week of school and things have been busy busy!!! I hope you're all doing well and have a nice evening.

Edit: I just noticed we hit 250 followers!!! As promised, we will be having a giveaway to celebrate this. My next post (don't know when it will be, but sometime within the next few days) will be the giveaway rules, details, etc. Thank you and have a goodnight!!!

Zoya Haul and Nail Spoon Swatches :)

Hooray! So yesterday, after waiting what seemed like forever for my Zoya order, the mailman finally brought me my packages! :D I ordered on the 2nd (Saturday night), got a notice on Monday morning that most of my order shipped (Fire & Ice was backordered) and saw that my stuff was sent FedEx Smartpost. Ugh! More like FedEx SlowPokes. Either way, the very next day I get a ship notice for the Fire & Ice Collection. So finally, a little bit more than a week later, my new pretties are home with me!

I ordered:
Fire & Ice Collection
Zara
Meadow
Ivanka
Mimi

And got for free:
Remove + 2 oz
Lemon Dream Sugar Scrub 9 oz
Fire & Ice Spoons
Wicked & Wonderful Spoons
Shipping! LOL

Yeah, I'm one of those that likes to spend enough for free shipping if there isn't a code floating around :p Although, after having to wait so long, I think I might pay the extra cash next time so that my stuff doesn't go SmartPost again. Still, the sight of all these pretties after opening the boxes was wonderful! I'm not gonna lie, it made me forget about the pain and suffering I endured throughout the wait. Hey, I could have died! ;)

Now Pictures! All pictures were taken either in my lightbox or with what little afternoon light was coming through my window against the wall and without flash.

Ivanka, Meadow, Zara, Mimi

Tiffany, Gloria, Crystal

Lisa, Sarah, Valerie

Valerie and Mimi

Bottle comparison of Crystal and OPI's Reflecting Pool

Free Stuff and Spoon Swatches!!!

Tiffany, Gloria, Crystal

Lisa, Sarah, Valerie

Reflecting Pool, Crystal, Ivanka, Meadow, Zara, Mimi

Ivanka, Meadow, Zara, Mimi

Reflecting Pool, Crystal, Ivanka

Meadow, Zara, Mimi

Well, that concludes my haul post. Earlier today I did a photo and video comparison on my nails of Crystal and Reflecting Pool. So expect to see those as soon as I finish cropping and watermarking those pictures in just a little while here :) Stay tuned!