Orly Birds of a Feather - Fowl Play

Far Out!
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Did I just date myself? Know that movie? Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase...never mind.

Fowl Play is the stunner of the group. The others are pretty and I especially love Nite Owl, and still think it might be my favorite, but this is so unique. It's almost Nfu-Oh flakie unique.

Let's see if I can accurately describe this. It's a purple jelly base with red flakes and blue micro-shimmer. If you enlarge this swatch by clicking it, you should pick up the blue. It's amazing. There is so much going on.

Meh...I had a lot of trouble with swatches that day. Lighting getting weird, blur...this seems to have both...but you can see the polish and I think it's not so bad to have it in different lights or sometimes a bit blurry because it shows the color as you're really going to wear it. The blur sometimes just amplifies the sparkle. But..this is still not great. Sorry!

OK, now here you go. Even at normal size you can see some of that blue sparkle showing.
Now, it seems to me that this was rather sheer and the flakies make it a little tricky, but nothing you can't handle. I'm no pro and I got it on OK. From a distance this probably would just look like a nice purple, but when the light hits it...POW! Love it.

Look at the depth. Isn't this cool?

This is the last of the Birds of a Feather series! I tried to end it on a bang. I love this collection. It's fun, it's whimsical and not a real loser in the group. It's really diverse, too. They covered the bases. I think all we needed was a holo and we'd have hit most of the polish types. Plus, being available readily on line I was able to pick most of this collection up relatively cheaply, which is a bonus. I think it's worth checking out!

Happy Talons!

Orly Birds of a Feather - Nite Owl

Nite Owl...I picked it up. I put it down. I picked it up again. Put it down again. Finally...when I decided I would order the collection a lot cheaper than retail, I picked it up. So glad I picked it up. It doesn't look the best on me, others in this collection look better. I'm so creamy white that beiges tend to wash out on me, but I love it anyways. It's unique and pretty and sparkly!

 I have swatches that show it better, but look at the bottle in this shot! OOOO! Sparkly silver yumminess!

This is a nice creamy lovely beige neutral with a kick. That silver sparkle just sets this apart. It's not boring or plain, it's stunning and I love it. This is one of my favorites of this collection. It does remind me of an owl's wing, actually, the brown with the white spots...one of the cool things about this polish is that the silver sparkles distribute nicely throughout and you don't have any mess. It's so micro and so well distributed and so dense that it's everywhere.

Meh. I have definitely done better swatches. Let's try that again.

Oooo. That's what I'm talkin' about. See all that? And the shine? So pretty. So wearable! You could pair this with a staid interview suit and be showing a little personality without looking too daring or weird but this will also go just great with jeans and a sweater. Love.

 I just love this! It's not exciting but it is unexpected. Good stuff. It went on like the others: really nice formula, easy to control, good brush...typical Orly stuff. It's nice when a brand can be so consistently dependable. I can't think of a single Orly I've ever had that's been bad.

I hope you love it as much as I do!

Happy Talons!

Orly Birds of a Feather - Peachy Parrot

OOO. This is pretty. I bought Peachy Parrot and Sweet Peacock at the same time. Unfortunately, this is where my exposure started to get weird so my swatches look a bit different from the actual color. I don't know why this happened and I didn't really realize it was happening when I took them or I would have had a do-over.

 The color is actually a bit more intense and a little darker than this. However, it does have this frosty sort of feel to it, though I wouldn't call it technically a frost. Maybe because I associate "frost" with old Sally Hansen pinks from my early teen years. It does have a subtle shimmer to it.
This pretty melon color should be pretty flattering on most skin tones, I would guess. It's pretty and office suitable, it's just not gasp inducing. There isn't anything really remarkable about it.

It went on nicely, very smooth, as I expected. Some brush strokes are visible but nothing major.

You can see the pearliness here, probably even more so if you click the pic and see it larger.

Very pretty. **shrugs** I love the name....seriously, it's a very pretty polish, it's just not original. With birds for inspiration, this is really what they came up with? That's a pretty rich inspirational pool and the others are all pretty unique so...OK. I like it, don't get me wrong. It's pretty and I'll wear it. It looks good on me, too and it's good for any occasion. It's kind of summery...but I don't go on the season schedule as you might have realized.

What do you think? Picking this one up? Already have nine like it? Can't find it in your local Ulta? (Check on the bottom shelf!)

Happy Talons!

Orly Birds of a Feather - Sweet Peacock

Sweet Peacock....sweeeet. It's a lovely bright blue metallic sparkly thing. It's bright, it's cheerful, it's lovely.

I wore this as a pedi, actually, and it wears nicely. It was one of those spur of the moment, don't have a color with me kinds of pedicures. I don't know how they did it now, but pedis don't wear the same as mani's anyways, so it wouldn't really matter.

See the lovely sparkly flecky thing going on in there? I love this color, too. It's a nice tealy kind of blue, but you wouldn't ever call it teal.

Because of the metallic sparkle in it, it shows a different aspect in different lighting. Here I had my hand more curled up and wasn't sure how it would look so I did it again, trying to extend my fingers to show the polish better and you get:

Remember that one little collection Orly did? The one with Rage in it? This has that same quality to it. You know, you can see it well here, the almost gritty sparkle feel, but that looks like tiny fireflies, not like cheap dollar glitter polish. Those are great for their purpose, but this is much prettier, and dries smooth!

Last one. I love how the light hits it and it looks like water. I didn't do anything to this pic, that's just how it looks. Such incredible shine. I don't think a top coat would hurt this that much. As it's just a swatch this has no top coat on it, but...it might dull the sparkle some. A thick top coat may tone this down a little but I don't think it would hurt it. It's too alive and happy. I love this.

Happy Talons!!

Orly Birds of a Feather - Sea Gurl

Sea Gurl is a steely silvery grey. It has some taupe in it as well, it's a nice complex edgy color that you can easily wear at most offices, I would think.

You can see a touch of the silvery speck here, as well. It's not really a chrome...It's really pretty. I think I have other similar polishes, but each has it's own charm, I believe!

See the kinda sparkliness? It's certainly not an out and out glitter, but it's got a little shine, it likes to be noticed.

Like all Orly's, it applied nicely and is opaque with nice pigments. The tell tale sign, I have nice clean cuticles, so you know this went on beautifully.

You can see the hint of taupe here. It's a nice wearable color. It's not common or ordinary, this isn't pink! But this is pretty neutral and should compliment any outfit you wear with it.

I think it's a nice one!!

Happy Talons!

Orly Birds of a Feather - Lucky Duck

The Orly Birds of a Feather collection was one I found tucked away on a bottom shelf at my local Ulta. I thought this was odd because it's really kind of a neat collection and I like the concept. It's fun and the colors are pretty. Why they would have set it up to fail in an obscure location is beyond me. But then again, my local Ulta is sort of weird.

The first I swatched, yeah, I've been doing a lot of swatches lately rather than going for wear. I'm sorry about that. I've been putting my nails through hell and there has been a lot of breakage and problems...it just seemed more fair to you guys as the readers to give you more swatches for right now until I can reflect normal wear not nail boot camp. Of course, swatching is kind of hard on the nails, too. Regardless...do I digress or what? My head isn't in a good place this evening, I apologize.

Lucky Duck. That's the first one of this collection. It's a lovely dark mallard-y green, but not as blue. It's pretty. I was surprised I like it as much as I do because I never really jumped on that green band wagon. It's just not my favorite color.

I had a lot of lighting problems, I apologize, but I think this is pretty true to it.

The label shot. I don't know if those are helpful?

One last shot for the road. This is two coats, no top coat. Note the lovely shine! These applied just like Orly's should, creamy and easily with nice coverage. Typical good Orly formula.

What you think? You feeling lucky, ducky?

Happy Talons!