Orly Fall 2009 Once Upon A Time

Way to go, Orly (YARLY!), this is a really cool collection!


Enchanted Forest. Deep green creme. The star of the collection, in my humble opinion. It's just too gorgeous. The sunlight picture washes it out slightly, but it's a rich, dark green that doesn't look black! Before you ask, it's absolutely nothing like Nars Zulu. But it is super beautiful, deep and dark but not too dark. It's a little more on the blue side rather than the yellowish side.


Happily Ever After. Medium red purple shimmer. This is an unusual color- it's a very dark pink or perhaps and extremely red-toned purple. It reminds me of beet juice, actually. It has a very subtle but very interesting bright pink-purple shimmer. Much, much prettier in person- my pictures don't really capture the play of shimmer against base color.


Pixie Dust. Shimmering grey. This is so cool! It's a very light blue-leaning grey creme with little glassy flakes of shimmer. They look like broken glass on cement. Fascinating to look at.


Poison Apple. Red-Orange creme. This is pretty similar to SpaRitual Intrigue. It's a very, very orange-toned red... I'd almost call it more orange than red. It looks more red in some lights, more orange in others, but I'd say the overall tone of the polish is a rich orange color.


Prince Charming. Taupe-brown creme. I love these types of colors. I'm glad they have been so popular the past couple of years! This is a little lighter than some of the other taupe-brown shades out there. It's really milky looking, almost chocolatey but heavy on the grey. Really cool.


Mirror Mirror. Very light grey creme. Of course, I had to stick my finger in it while the polish was still wet and then try to cover it up with another coat of polish... That didn't work so well... Please excuse the giant smudge. Anyway... This is a plain grey cream, slightly blue-toned. It's much lighter than the other grey cremes in my collection, lighter even than Illamasqua DWS.


The formula on these was pretty good. I normally find Orly's formula to be pretty thick, but these are much more thin and even than a lot of old Orlys in my collection. The opacity on all of them was very good- two to three coats each, I did three coats just because. The drying time is a little bit longer than I like, but not quite as long as some of my old Orlys. They must be tweaking the formula, and if so, I like it!

Overall, I love this collection. Nothing too wild or crazy, but still full of colors I adore. Grey, green, murky taupe. I love the fairy tale theme, I love the cute names (even if they don't seem to match perfectly with the colors). I'm thrilled to bits about Enchanted Forest especially.

The deep forest green, the dirty grey-brown, the muted shades the fairy tale theme all remind me a little of this:

Awesome.