Orly Metallic Matte Collection

Been on vacation but I am back!!

As you can probably tell from the pictures, these are a lot like OPI's Suede Collection. A nice satiny finish with a ton of metal shimmer underneath. Tons of texture and depth. They give us a couple nice new shades for matte, gold and bronze, and we have the black already but it's very nice in the satin/suede finish!

These apply just like regular polishes, and do not dry too fast. But try hard to remove any overlap, or brushstrokes that clump, because it will show up in the final polish. Just mess with it til it is smooth.

Orly Glam Rock:


Orly Iron Butterfly:


Orly Solid Gold:

MollyHell's Grab Bag! - Orly Golden Jubilee

How about a nice warm harvesty golden color for Turkey Day?

Orly Golden Jubilee:

MollyHell's Grab Bag! - Orly Midnight Star

Yeah, I don't like frosts, but this one's color, and the metallic quality make it a huge favorite of mine.

Orly Midnight Star:

Orly Matte Couture Collection and a Note About Basecoats and Matte Polishes

Orly made a decent stab at mattes. I'd call these an eggshell finish, rather than OPI's hideous flat finish. They manage to have a bit of depth and not look like if you scraped your finger over these it'd sound like fingers on a blackboard. That said, they're a sophomore effort and nice, but I'll reach for other mattes first. But they're decent polishes, and I am in no way horrified by them. They have a beautiful formula, not gloppy or sticky at all, and you have plenty of time to get them where you want them before you dry. they take a tad longer to dry than other mattes, but in my opinion it's well worth it.

Also I wanted to say a word about basecoats and matte polishes. I ALWAYS use base coat. not only does it improve adhesion, but it fortifies my thin nails, protects them, and - this is hugely important - smoothes out my ridges. Every picture I have ever posted of matte nail polish, and there have been many, I am wearing base coat. It in no way harms the polish's ability to give a lovely matte finish. So don't be scared to wear basecoat with mattes.

Orly Purple Velvet is my favorite, a reddish purple with a nice depth.


Orly Blue Suede is a great light navy shade which we've been lacking in mattes.


Orly Matte Vinyl is your standard black.

Orly Femme Fatale Holiday 2009 Collection!

Got a terrific surprise today in the mail! Orly sent me a preview of their Holiday 2009 Femme Fatale Collection! A hot bright red, a berry/plum creme, and a deep red shimmer make up this collection that Orly means to embody "infectious feminine charm". These are incredibly shiny, even without topcoat, like a patent leather type polish. This is a nice addition to the Once Upon a Time Collection. I have no real information, but I am betting we will see more Orly polishes this year in addition to these. I hope so anyway!

Siren, a medium bright red - almost a neon - is a creme. Keep your brush lightly coated with this and it'll give you tons of color. Very richly pigmented. I may compare it to Zoya's America to see how similar they are.
Orly Siren:


Orly Goddess is my favorite. A berry/plum creme, a thick coat could give you easy one coat perfection. This is also incredibly shiny.
Orly Goddess:


Temptress is a dark burgundy shimmer jelly, with a lot of depth. You can use it one coat for a bit of sheerness and a slightly lighter color, or two coats for a deep rich full coverage that's just as shiny as the first two. I like that it has two ways to wear it. Pictured is two coats.
Orly Temptress:


These come out in November! Enjoy!

Information From Orly Regarding Once Upon a Time Collection

I got an email from Orly regarding their Once Upon a Time Collection and wanted to pass it on to you!

Here's a link to my review of the Collection!


Once Upon A Time

ORLY Fall 2009 Collection

Make Your Fairy Tale Come True


...And we all lived perfectly polished with ORLY’s NEW Once Upon A Time Collection! The Fall 2009 color treasures whisk you away to a fantasy world of deep magentas, burnt reds, muted blues and many dreamy colors in between. Meet your Prince Charming and live Happily Ever After in these beautiful new shades.


The six new lacquers in the Once Upon A Time Collection include:




Live Happily Ever After in magenta shimmer

Throw Pixie Dust in the air with icy blue shimmer

Stroll through an Enchanted Forest with dark green crème

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who has the fairest nails of all? You! in grey crème

Careful with that Poison Apple in burnt red crème

Find your very own Prince Charming in brownish grey crème


All ORLY Nail Lacquers including the Once Upon A Time Collection are free of DBP and all traces of Toluene and Formaldehyde.

The Once Upon A Time Collection Nail Lacquers will be available starting September 2009 for $7.50 each. ORLY Nail Lacquers and Treatment products are available at orlybeauty.com, Sally Beauty, Ulta and other purveyors of beauty throughout the U.S. and in over 66 countries worldwide. For more information contact LaForce + Stevens or visit the ORLY web site at orlybeauty.com.


Jeff Pink founded ORLY in 1975 with a simple idea: to innovate natural nail care. By creating leading-edge products and tools designed not only to beautify, but to respond to the needs of salon professionals, ORLY’s beauty experts have redefined nail care and nail fashion. ORLY’s dynamic color palette includes over 150 lacquer shades that are completely free of DBP, formaldehyde and toluene. As much a trendsetter as a nail care innovator, ORLY also introduced the first-ever iconic nail look: the Original French Manicure® and reinvented lacquer application with the award-winning Gripper Cap™. ORLY embodies quality that beauty professionals in over 66 countries worldwide rely upon.

Orly Once Upon a Time Collection!

I no sooner heard about this in an email than it was in my hot little hands! I can't find info on it anywhere on Orly's site, so I have no real information other than what it says on the box. It says "6 Pix from the Once Upon a Time Color Collection". So I don't know if there are more, if this is Fall or Winter, or what. "Once Upon a Time... Orly's collection of modern nail lacquer shades, inspired by the darkness and drama of classic fairy tale stories". Update: This is a Fall 2009 Collection that comes out in September!

The collection pretty much does bring out that feeling for me. It is a change from the brighter more jeweled colors and mattes being offered. It has a typical decent Orly formula, I had a few mishaps but nothing horrible. The colors are richly pigmented and except for Pixie Dust, were easily two coat perfect. It's a nice palette of cool tones, a chocolate brown creme, a medium red jelly, a light grey creme, a light bluish grey shimmer jelly, a dark bluish green fir tree colored creme, and a dark pomegranate with purple shimmer.

Prince Charming, a sort of melted chocolate ice cream colored creme. Not my idea of Prince Charming, but it meshes with the collection nicely. Manages not to look like poo.
Orly Prince Charming:


Mirror Mirror is a light grey creme that really floats my boat. Apparently I have a grey fetish where other people have a green fetish, I am coming to learn. That suits me just fine. I love this color. Reminds me of urban camo.
Orly Mirror Mirror:


Poison Apple is my least favorite. It is simply not apple colored, this is a tomato. It's a jelly on the opaque side. A richer candy apple red would have meshed better with this collection, IMO.
Orly Poison Apple:


Orly Enchanted Forest, a kind of dark, solid wall of foreboding blue green fir trees sort of creme. Well done!
Orly Enchanted Forest:


Pixie Dust is a bluish grey, almost denim. It's light, and it's a sheerish jelly. This was 4 coats, but you could do three, I probably only needed 4 on one nail. or you could do one for a sheerer look, which would also be pretty! It's got a ton of shimmer, I think it's very nice.
Orly Pixie Dust:


Happily Ever After is a juicy reddish purple with a darker purple shimmer. Very sexy, one of the best of the collection.
Orly Happily Ever After:


I hope I helped you make some decisions regarding this collection!

Orly Minis! Try Some Orly...Cheap!

I'm ALL into the cheap. And if you have a lot of nail polish, let's face it you will never use it all. I have easily enough polish to wear a different color every day for a year and so when exactly will I use up a whole bottle??

Even if I did, at $1.79 at Transdesign, how can you go wrong? Orlys are pricey pretties. They also often sell a mini sampler of new collections. Why not save some cash?

Orly Calypso Breeze:


Orly Grape Glitz:


Orly Entourage:


Orly Life's a Peach:


Orly Razzmatazz:


Orly Witch's Blue:


Orly Last Dance: