Lately I have been trying to actually post my purchases a little more. Usually I make time for products sent for review, and set aside personal purchases to post later… and then it never happens.
I actually spend way more than I should on cosmetics of all kinds and want to do at least 1 post a week that is a what I bought. This week, it’s the Orly Baked Collection for Summer 2014. I eyed this for awhile and when I was buying the China Glaze ‘The Giver’ Collection, I saw they carried this too, so why not?
Let’s take a look at these 6 sizzling colors!
Hot Tropics
Hot Tropics is my favorite of the bunch. This is a bright pink toned purple with intense gold glass flecks. I used 2 coats for these photos.
Ablaze
Ablaze is a neon orange with gold glass fleck shimmer in it. Super super bright and the shimmer really gives it even more oomph.
Tropical Pop
Tropical Pop is a yellow based orange neon creme. This one is super bright and the formula was a DREAM to apply! I used 3 thin coats for these photos.
Neon Heat
Neon Heat is a neon pink creme. I used 2 coats for these photos.
Saturated
Saturated is a deep and vivid violet creme. My photos are coming out a touch blue, and it’s much more purple than my camera would capture. This is the darkest of the group, but very pretty still. I used 2 coats for these photos.
Lush
Ever buy a polish just to complete a collection? That’s pretty much what happened with Lush. I like the sheer yellowy green jelly base and gold shimmer, but the silver holographic bar glitter isn’t my style. I used 3 coats of Lush on it’s own for these photos and while I’m not a fan of bar glitter, they did behave well for this mani. Had the bar glitter not been there, I would have loved it.
Overview
AM I happy with my purchase? Yes! 5 of the 6 polishes I absolutely loved. Lush was ok. If I wasn’t obsessive about completing collections, I probably wouldn’t have bought it. Application was good on all of the polishes and it’s definitely a nice, bright collection!
Price: $4.25
Where To Buy: 8ty8Beauty Website
Do you have this collection by Orly? What do you think of it?
25 comments
I really like this collection, but yep, Lush is the ugly stepchild…
Yeah, that’s just not my thing! The rest of the collection was awesome though :D
Oh wow, your swatches have me drooling!
Pretty colors! I love Hot Tropics.
I cannot find Hot Tropics ANYwhere and I neeeeeed it!
Saturated oh my
I love it so much I just
might buy it right now
#haiku #boom
I have these polishes. Ablaze is on my nails as I type this. Your swatches… Fab as always.
Hot Tropics is very pretty
I’m surprised that this nail polish is affordable! I will hoard!
I don’t think lush is that bad… I like bright greens :)
Saturated love
Lush is fiberglass on nails
Can’t win all the time
couldn’t resist. :)
I think I am in love with this collection.
Ablaze is just gorgeous! I think it is my favorite of the bunch.
Very pretty shades!
Both saturated and lush look amazing!
The bar glitter really made Lush a huge fail for me, I thought it was such an odd polish, especially from Orly!
Lush is a love-it or hate-it polish. I love it, mostly because it’s different. I’m usually not a fan of the long bar glitter (I love the micro bar glitters), but it works in this one. I love that Orly always has a combination of finishes in each collection, even though they are only 6 polishes. As much as I am not really a green fan, this one turned out to be a favorite for its uniqueness.
I agree completely. It is a love it or hate it, and for me, bar glitter I just cannot love. But it is unique and I can’t say I have one similar in my collection – whereas I do have close dupes of the rest.
Saturated! I’ve been looking for a color like that.
I LOVE Ablaze :) Great swatches.
I love all those colors!
Love that purple!!
Lush is so sheer that it needs to be layered. I love it. Look it’s got little threads and tiny glitters. How pretty that is.
Ablaze is amazing!
Ablaze is amazing!
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