OPI - GoldenEye vs. Orly - Glitz and Glamour

I was instantly enamoured with GoldenEye.  I have been on the gold train lately! CHOO CHOO.  Glitz and Glamour has been my absolutely favourite gold for some time now.  When I saw GoldenEye I thought that they were quite similar, and I was not wrong, but they are not dupes.

Both GoldenEye and Glitz and Glamour are particulate gold foils, GoldenEye much more so.  Glitz and Glamour is much more dense and requires less coats.  Glitz and Glamour is also a lot more warm toned to my eye.

I haz been playing with some of my golds this weekend..

Anyhoo!  Here we have GoldenEye and Glitz & Glamour at 1 coat each.  I will take this time to warn you that cleanup with these bitches is, well, a bitch.  If you don't do it immediately after polishing, the polish starts to set and it will pull as you clean it up (I experienced this).  If you wait too long, you will be sitting there for an hour essentially just moving the particles from ON your nail to AROUND your nail and on your skin (I also experienced this).

GoldenEye is on the pointer and ring.  As you can see, it is far less dense.

Here they are at 2 coats each.  This is a horrible picture, but you get the idea that even at 2 coats GoldenEye has not reached his full potential.  Glitz and Glamour is shining bright on 2 coats though.

Here we have Glitz and Glamour holding strong at 2 coats with GoldenEye at 3 coats and probably needing 4.

So as you can see they are not dupes.  They are very similar though.  Glitz and Glamour leans a bit more yellow/warmer to my eye.

I decided to try out some crack I have been sitting on, no pun intended.  I bought this Bourjois Python crack from Shoppers the other day.  I spent something obscene like $10 bucks on it.  I am obviously going to need to play around with it for a bit as it does not look like snakeskin to me.  I think it cracks bigger over wetter polish.  I didn't wait for this stuff to dry 100%.  I actually screwed up the pinky and had to redo it so that one is the wettest, and it cracked the biggest.  The pointer had the thinnest coat, and it was the one that cracked the finest.. must fiddle.

What I do like about this crack is that it is a jelly.  It looks like a candy apple almost over these golds.

I need to suck it up and go get that Dior croc crack if it's even still being sold.  Yeah yeah I still like crack.  I wear it once in a blue frigging moon though.  The above is without topcoat by the way.  It could have used a few layers :\

Orly Glitz & Glamour & Gears

I was feeling a little steampunky this morning.  I suck at posting lately so I figured I should do something cool.  I think this is cool!  Orly Glitz & Glamour is my all time favourite gold (absolute dupe = Sparitual Solstice) but the cleanup is a bish.  It gets golden sparkles all over the place.  Sorry for shabby cleanup.  Sorry for lumpy nails (still haven't quite gotten the gel polish situation down perfectly) and sorry for not posting for 2 weeks!

Thanks for looking!

Lynnderella - Change

Chaaaaange?

Love it! Has become the winner in the run up for what I am going to wear to the Psychiatry Christmas party on Friday! W00t!

Oh you will look so nice with my chocolate brown dress Change..

I cannot think of this polish without this song playing in my head.

The question now is.. what will be my underwear?

Orly Glitz & Glamour? (3 coats)

Or.. (from pointer to pinky) OPI Pros & Bronze, OPI Warm & Fozzie, OPI Designer De Better and Revlon Copper Penny.
1 coat

2 coats

Sorry again for any random wipqozn and bitlets of foil polish that did not clean up, but in fact cleaned up to my first knuckle and spread around a bit. *shakes fist*

Gold Foil Comparison

Orly Glitz & Glamour has been my ultimate gold foil. A friend of mine wore it to school once, and I wanted it BAD. I ended up missing the boat and actually got OPI Rising Star instead. So not what I wanted. Still a good polish, but not what I wanted. Recently I purchased Sparitual Solstice. It is an exact dead on dupe for Glitz & Glamour which is not entirely surprising since they have the same parent company.

Sparitual on the pointer and Orly on the ring.

Rising star is obviously a bit more copper leaning. Without these to compare it does look quite gold.

The formula on the OPI is pretty bang on. The other 2 require more coats. The formula seems to be a clear base which is jaaaam packed full of golden bits. 1 coat is not enough to cover.

Both Orly and Sparitual have a rubber cap. The Orly brush stem and brush bristles are a bit longer. I prefer the Orly brush. The Orly bottle also holds more product which is always a boon.