Orly Ingenue and Alabaster Verve

I recently posted a swatch of Orly's Alabaster Verve.  I don't have a lot of Orly polish in my collection, so when I was at the store I went ahead and got myself three bottles.  I also purchased Ingenue, when was labelled with a little "new" ring around it but really isn't new- it's from the winter/holiday collection.  It is a pink based loaded up with tiny, shimmery gold glitter.  It is also basically identical to a bunch of other polishes floating around, but I don't own any of those and this was on sale so into my bin it went, and onto my fingers.  I love it layered over Alabaster Verve.  This is two coasts AV and one coat of Ingenue with Seche Vite as a top coat.

I'm really not a fan of gold.  I'm much more of a silver/white gold person as far as personal taste goes.  However, my skin tone disagrees- gold looks pretty great on me (if I do say so myself, heeey!).  I love this color with my skin tone!  

Swatch: Essie Pure Pearlfection

The last one from LuxEffects (I didn't buy the gold one- As Good as it Gets) is Pure Pearlfection.  This is beautiful!  It's this wonderful shimmery color with these itsy bitsy microscopic glitters.  It looks so good on this black base- it reminds me of gunmetal, it makes my plain black polish look metallic.  I can't wait to use this all the time, I rarely layer plain colors with topcoats like this.  I wish I could've captured all of the colors in this polish- it looks primarily silver, but in the bottle and close up, there were little flecks of pink and green and blue!

Gorgeous!

Swatch: Sally Hansen Dura-Pearl

I'm on a mission to find an amazing color to wear in engagement photos, so I picked up this lovely sheer/shimmery color from Sally Hansen the other day.

I like it, but I still don't think it's what I want for my photos.  But it will be great when I start my internship in a few weeks.

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails in Dura-Pearl

Orly Space Cadet- Picture Heavy!

I don't really even have words for an introduction, so I will let these (many) photos speak for themselves....

Right?!?!?!  Where do I begin?  There are so many colors here.  There's pink (which was hardest to capture), green, bronze, gold all set in a blue/teal base.  Every time you move your hand you see a different color- or a different shade of a color you knew was there!  It's so cool!

The pictures about show three coats.