Cien: Orchid Love

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Cien: Orchid Love
Orchid red crème

Today’s polish is bought in Lidl of all places. It’s been a while since I saw nail polish in Lidl – but I always check, just in case they come back!

The formula of “Orchid Love” is great and it’s almost a one coater. I used two coats for today’s manicure. The drying time is really good.

I topped it with Painted Polish’s flakie topper “Top O The Rainbow”.

I stamped on top of it all. The design in from the stamping plate “BP-L003”. I stamped with El Corazón’s stamping polish “Peach Echo”.

This is the final design, including a layer of topcoat.

I really like the flakies!

Here is “Orchid Love” alone; two coats and no topcoat. It’s a super pretty colour.

Cien: Orchid Love

And here are the polishes I used today.

“Orchid Love” is a great polish. It’s a gorgeous colour, great formula and drying time. The price was really good too. I love it.


Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Really good
Finish: Crème
Overall impression: Great quality polish
Buy again: Yes

Nails Inc.: Chelsea Embankment Garden with Venique: Crushed Icicle

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Nails Inc.: Chelsea Embankment Garden with Venique: Crushed Icicle  
Pastel yellow and baby pink hexagons, bar glitter and flower glitter and a bit of baby blue flower glitter. Venique is a blue textured glitter

Nails Inc.’s “Chelsea Embankment Garden” is a glitter topper with bar glitter, hexagons and flower shaped glitter mostly in super pastel yellow and baby pink but also a bit of baby blue. I decided to layer it over a blue polish from Venique, “Crushed Icicle”. I have had “Crushed Icicle” for 8 years and I have only ever used it for nail art!

“Crushed Icicle” has evaporated a bit over the years and I needed to thin it before I actually applied it. The formula was good after the thinner had been added, and the polish was easy to apply. The first coat dried pretty fast and the second coat took a wee bit longer.

I applied one layer of the glitter over it. I did fish the flower glitters out of the bottle and placed them by the base of the nails.

This is the end result, including a layer of topcoat. The photo is taken in daylight on a rainy day.

Venique: Crushed Icicle and Nails Inc.: Chelsea Embankment Garden

I think pastel yellow looks cool over the blue.

Venique: Crushed Icicle and Nails Inc.: Chelsea Embankment Garden

And here it is, finally alone: Venique’s “Crushed Icicle”. Look how pretty it is!

Venique: Crushed Icicle

Here are the two polished I used today.

Venique: Crushed Icicle and Nails Inc.: Chelsea Embankment Garden

I like both these two polishes, but Venique the most. I think it’s such a nice blue.


Number of coats: 1 over a base colour
Drying time: Good
Finish: Glitter
Overall impression: This glitter topper requires fishing of the flower glitters. It’s quite dense too
Buy again: Probably