Bourjois - 68 Vacances a Hawaii

Dear all. Hi again!!! I have had so many banked up that needed blogging. Here is the starter, a pretty tangerine with a flamingo shimmer. Sadly the shimmer barely shows on the nail and I don't mean on camera but in real life. Sad clown. :(

Anyway, I am still finding these tiny Bourjois bottles hard to handle. Gah, and the polish itself dries so quickly that it makes them quite difficult to deal with.

Now the jelly. Well, I didn't expect it to be one. I thought this was actually quite creamy when I got it. However a really sweet jelly finish at one and two coats but sadly, as I said, formula issue and it was quite patchy on every nail. Therefore I actually ended up doing four coats on each which in the end was terrible, it really looked like I had put some kind of clumpy poster paint all over my nails during an art project gone wild.

Soooo I wore it for a day and then it was goodbye.

I'm sorry, number 68, but I love you better in the bottle.

Dior Addict - 330 Trigger Orange

A shimmering apricot. Hard formula to use. Very touchy to apply. The brush is a tad long bristled and hard for me to get a handle on. The bottle is so cute though. This came from a stash of samples that mum gave me.

Overall not really a colour I would go for and too much hard work to get it right. The shimmer was lost in translation and on the nail the colour looked like a very creamy orange instead.

Catherine Arley - 806

Like the gold one, this orange one the colour was interfering too much to be able to see the holographic effect. It must be something about that part of the colour spectrum. It just does not bounce off, no one can see it unless they stick my hands right under their eyes.

Formula - spot on. Never any trouble with the 3 Arley's I've tried so far. Doesn't need a special base coat like the Make Up Store one did. So gorgeous to work with, its a dream. Very tangy orange colour. Not really my colour range, I think it makes my hand look very orange toned.

Can't wait to try out the rest.