Polish Comparisons - Oranges

Okay, here is another in my series of polish comparisons, this time we are covering the oranges.......

China Glaze Peachy Keen, OPI In my Back Pocket
and OPI Chop-sticking to my Story

Rimmel Pro Orange Bliss, Barry M Orange
and China Glaze Orange Marmalade

All polishes were pictured with two coats, all applied very well indeed and gave a great finish.


China Glaze Peachy Keen - a very opaque creme in a light to mid peach shade. Opaque in two coats.

OPI In my Back Pocket - a mid orange creme, not too bright, slightly muted in tone. Very pretty and opaque in two coats.

OPI Chop-sticking to my Story - a rich burnt, darker orange creme, Very opaque, two coats used here.




China Glaze Orange Marmalade - a slightly more sheer polish in a rich bright mid orange, filled with glass type flecks. Very pretty indeed and great coverage in two coats, three may be better if you prefer completely opaque.

Barry M Orange - a standard bright orange creme. Opaque in two coats

Rimmel Pro Orange Bliss - a more deep peachy orange creme. Opaque in two coats.


All very pretty. My personal favourites are China Glaze Orange Marmalade, as it is so pretty with the glass flecks.......and OPI Chop-sticking to my Story, as it is just so opaque and a lovely shade of burnt orange, when you want to be more subtle and not so in your face.

Konad M77 - Rimmel Frisky Clover

I have been going through some real stress with my nails lately. They have been breaking constantly, so I am trying not to punish them too much and rest them for a bit to recover. So please excuse the short nails and the badly shaped thumbnail, it ripped off really bad and low on one side, ouch!
All this polish and acetone is taking its toll.......

A few days ago I posted a swatch of Rimmel's Frisky Clover, this can be seen here.


I used one of the new Konad plates, M77 and the grass type design. I used Konad Pastel Green to stamp the design. It is a very sweet design, delicate and spring-like.




Been buying some more polishes too, so will have to do a haul post when they arrive. Will get busy and try to do more konads, I am missing doing them as often as I used to, need some prettiness back in my life!

Have a lovely weekend!

Rimmel polish - Frisky Clover

I have a Rimmel swatch for you today, a pretty shade called Frisky Clover.

It is a rich pinky, peachy creme, it has a teeny bit of shimmer to it though, not a flat creme. It comes from their 60 second range, it applies quite gloopy, but is very opaque. Great with two coats and a pretty nice finish.



I quite liked this one. I wasn't too sure in the bottle, but on the nail it looks very pretty and spring-like. Will have to try a konad on it too, will show that next post.

Rimmel Match Perfection Concealer review - my new HG?

I am always buying new concealers, it is a bit of an obsession with me, I just never seem to be able to find my Holy Grail concealer!


I saw this one in Superdrug and decided to try it out. It appears to be similar to YSL Touche Eclait, which I hate. I think it is a very over-rated product that does nothing for me personally and it is so expensive too. This one looks similar and costs only £5.99 rrp though Superdrug had it on offer at only £3.99! Much cheaper than YSL which cost me around £23 last time I bought it.

This claims to conceal and highlight in one, as well as blend to your skin tone, Mmmmm, I wasn't so sure about that claim!! I got the Ivory shade as I am fair to medium toned skin. There were two darker shades available too, though none were very dark, so maybe they should create more shades, three seems a bit sparse.

I do suffer with dark circles, lack of sleep really shows on me and I never seem to be able to cover them convincingly, improve them yes, cover no.

The concealer I normally use the most is Benefit Boing in Fair, though it is a bit too light for me. I find it does give okay coverage for under-eyes, but it is drying and can settle into fine lines after a few hours, not a great look. I always applied lightly with a brush then patted it into my skin. It was okay, better than most, but just not quite there for me. At £15.50 it is not cheap either.


So I gave this new Rimmel a try, very sceptical about its claims........well, it goes on very smooth. It has a built5 in brush and the concealer is squeezed through the brush (same as YSL), the concealer is a lightweight cream, not claggy at all. I used the brush to sweep a small amount over the dark area under my eye, then patted it into place. It covers very well and the colour matched my skin to perfection. I was very surprised about the colour match to be honest, most Ivory shades tend to be a tad too light for me, but this is perfect. Maybe the match perfection claim is true!?

My husband even said he could see a huge difference when I showed him, he was very impressed and thought it made my dark areas almost invisible. I too was very impressed, but how would it wear? After all it is very cheap......well, by the end of the day, a good eight hours later, it had not moved at all, it still gave the same coverage it had when I applied it, and even better, it had not settled into my fine lines!

before blending, not quite my shade, fairly obvious on my skin
(swatch done on my inner arm, so it is very light, my face is a little darker)

after blending, virtually invisible!
(swatch done on my inner arm, so it is very light, my face is a little darker,
but it still blends the same!)

I have to say, I am hugely impressed with this and I think I may have finally found my Holy Grail of concealers ! I love this stuff, cheap, easy to find and it actually works and stays put all day and leaves your fine lines alone.

Available from Boots, Superdrug and most UK supermarkets.

Konad M7 - Rimmel Shocker/Green with Envy

Hi Girls, another Konad for you, this time a real fun one!

This time I used two colours, Rimmel Shocker which I reviewed earlier, and Green with Envy. I used two coats of Shocker on the whole nail first. Then I painted two coats over only half the nail in Green with Envy, which is a daft name as I think it has a lot of blue in it, more of a teal really, this is even more obvious when layered over the pink!

Once dry I used plate M7 and special polish in black to stamp laces over the join in the colours. I used the full design on ring and thumb nails but only the lacing and no bow on the rest.



I thought this was cute and a lot of fun to do. I can't wait to try over other colour combo's.

Rimmel polish - Shocker

This is Shocker from Rimmel, part of the 60 second range.

It applied well, very opaque and had a shimmery look to it. I felt it needed two coats to achieve bottle colour. It is a proper shocking pink, with a hint of blue/purple as the light hits it, not duo-chrome though, just a glow from it.
Application was okay, it was a bit thicker than say OPI, and you needed a good glob on the brush otherwise it dragged. I think this may have been down to the 60 second formula, however it took a fair while for two coats to dry considering this is supposed to be a quick dry polish, it really seemed about the same as usual to me.
These are okay polishes, they don't really do much to get me excited as say China Glaze, OPI or Nubar. But hey, I can get them at my supermarket, so I can drop one in the basket each time I go, so they are great for that! LOL
I could not capture the blue tint to this polish no matter how I photographed it, roll on Summer and nice lighting again!


Got a funky konad coming up with this as a base.........