Comparison post

So, I was at Old Navy the other night, and I saw a Tip Toe polish called "Orchid Fever." It's a bright red-leaning purple with a lot of blue and pink glitter in it and it immediately reminded me of China Glaze Flying Dragon. Since I have a problem, and since I really like Flying Dragon, but it has some issues, I had to grab it.

As you can see, in the bottle, Flying Dragon is a lot more pink than Orchid Fever.


But Orchid Fever has a lot more glitter.


On the nail, well, they're not all that different. Flying Dragon is more opaque. Also, I think my bottle of Flying Dragon has thickened up quite a bit (which is a good thing, it once was way too thin), because when I did my comparison, I was able to get it opaque in two coats.

Orchid Fever is WAY sheer. I had to use four or five coats to get it opaque.

Here's Orchid Fever on its own. Pardon the tipwear, this was after three days of wear. The last few days have been a bit busy. :D


In this photo, I have Orchid Fever on my pointer and ring fingers. Flying Dragon is on my middle and pinky fingers. They ARE quite similar. I sort of prefer Orchid Fever, even though it's really sheer, simply because the glitter is more apparent.

Tip Toe

So, this is Tip Toe polish from Old Navy. Who knew Old Navy had nail polish? I certainly didn't. I quit shopping there when they stopped carrying anything other than jeans in short length. And their jeans fit funny now, AND I still walk on the hems of their jeans, even in short length.

But I got dragged to Old Navy earlier this week when I was out and about with the boyfriend, and I noticed that they had nail polish on clearance in one of the containers at checkout. Score! I think this was either $1 or $1.50 on clearance. They only had four colors left -- the two I didn't get were a bright orange and a gold that had exploded all over itself. I own two bright oranges already, and orange doesn't even look good with my skintone, so I skipped that one.

These polishes are surprisingly good! The brush is weird and moppy, but it applies like a dream.

This shade is called Platinum. It's a silver shade. I've used better metallics -- remember Sally Hansen Chrome Nail Makeup? Man, I loved that stuff when it was out, years ago.. 2001ish? Anyway, I think the Sally Hansen Chromes ruined me on metallics forever, because nothing I've bought since measures up. It was shiny shiny, and this is not.


This shade is called Memory. I LOVE IT! It's a vampy, blackened purply eggplant color. It's probably my favorite vampy shade that I own. It did, however, take three coats for full opacity.
Here is Memory in the shade, where it looks very dark:


And here it is in sunlight, where you can see more of the purply eggplant-ness: