Orly Butterflies

Generally I don't participate in Pink Wednesdays, but because it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I decided to partake at least once! Cancer has been on my mind a lot lately, and so I'm happy to promote anything that raises awareness for any kind of cancer. You can check out NBCAM for more information! I honestly don't have a lot of pinks in my collection, but I knew I had these swatches sitting unused on my computer, so why not break them out!

Tonight I have Orly Butterflies to share with you. This is this first Orly polish I've featured on my blog, though it's not the only one that I own. Butterflies is from the Love Collection, which I believe was released in 2008. Butterflies is a "sheer pink jelly with a hint of coral" and indeed, it is a true member of the jelly formula family. I had to use four coats to get it to the opacity you see in my photos below and even then there is still some visible nail line (though not enough to really bother me). However, I had no problems with the formula. Sometimes I feel like it's easy to get a lot of bubbling when layering a sheer polish (generally because they require so many coats if you want them to be opaque) but this went on smoothly and dried very quick and shiny. And no bubbles, so definitely a winner. Butterflies is definitely a bright pink, but not neon.
Artificial light with flash:

Artificial light:

Natural light - shade:

Natural light - sun:

This is such fun pink polish! I bought this on a whim because it was on sale, and I have to say that I regretted that until I came home and tried it on! Now I love it. I plan to break this out a lot next summer (and heck, even maybe during the winter too, when I am craving some sun).

Wedding Polish Ideas

So I have a wedding next weekend and am trying to decide what to wear on my fingers and toes so I am looking good all around! First up: the dress!

This picture is a little dark, but I think you can get a feeling for the color-- it's a deep wine color, very purple-red (so of course my camera has a difficult time capturing it). I plan on wearing my wedding jewelry (as in, the jewelry I wore at my own wedding, not jewelry I have specifically for weddings) with it:

And here's a slightly less washed-out picture:

So now that you've seen the dress, I have come up with some ideas-- at least in terms of color. Since my dress is a purply red and my jewelry is bronzy, I came up with purple, red and brown/metallic for potential nail colors. For nails I was thinking either purple or brown/bronze and then red on my toes.

First up: Purples!

From left to right we have Orly Rock The World and Rococo A-Go-Go, OPI Catherine the Grape (one of my all-time favs!), Cult Nails Enigmatic, Essie Sexy Divide, It's Genius, and Damsel in a Dress. Quite honestly, I think I've already ruled out Sexy Divide, because it's a little too purple, and I need something slightly more subdued. I have a feeling Sexy Divide would be better used for one of my Football Friday posts! I contemplated adding Zoya Faye to this group, but my bottle is completely dried up! Seriously lame-- I have no idea how that happened.

Alternatively, we have some brown/metallics that would compliment my jewelry and makeup very well.

OPI Brisbane Bronze, Julep Boris & Nicole, Zoya Hermina, OPI Chicago Champagne Toast, OPI Glitzerland. I think Glitzerland might be a little too cool with my jewelry, though.

And then finally, on my toes, red!

Here we have Cult Nails Quench, butter LONDON Knees Up,  a-england Percival, Cult Nails Iconic, Zoya Rihana, and Rescue Beauty Lounge Moulin Rouge.

Now, the wedding is on a Husky game day... so I could wear a brown/bronze on my fingers and put the purple on my toes, although I think it might be fun to have a hidden, fun red too. Or really, any combination. I think these colors all great... I wish I could wear them all. Unfortunately, I don't have swatches of pretty much any of these and probably will not have time in the next week to accomplish that, unfortunately.

Any thoughts or other suggestions on what I should wear?

Edited to add: here are a couple of pictures of some of the polishes swatched with my dress and jewelry! The swatches aren't great-- I was just trying to get something done in a hurry. All the photos are taken with a flash. From left to right I have:  Zoya Hermina, Cult Nails Enigmatic, Julep Boris & Nicole, Orly Rock the World and Orly Rococo A-Go-Go.

At this point, I am honestly think I may go with Zoya Hermina on my fingers and Cult Nails Enigmatic on my toes.