Thinner vs. Acetone

Hi girls,

There is a thing I have been wondering about.  It's about nail polish, obviously. Or thickened nail polish, to be more precise. Some nail polishes tend to grow thicker over time. Not all polishes, but it's a fact that some do.

What to do about that? 
If you ask that question, most nail bloggers will say: Only use nail polish thinner to thin your polishes with, don't ever use acetone or nail polish remover. And when I ask why, the words are almost the exact same: Because nail polish remover is made to break the polish down, and nail polish thinner is made to build the polish up. 

These two bottles cost
approximately the same

I haven't been able to find facts that back that statement up. I'm not saying it isn't true, I'm just sceptical.

Thinking of the price difference between nail polish remover and thinner, it's obvious to think that it's a statement the thinner manufacturers made up to sell their product. The price difference between acetone and thinner is outrageous if you ask me!

And seriously: Before I started nail blogging and reading nail blogs, I had never even heard of nail polish thinner, so when a polish got gloopy I made it nice and smooth again with a couple of drops of acetone. And I have never experienced that it "ruined" the nail polish.
- So please enlighten me: How exactly does it ruin the polish? 

So what I'm asking is basically: Have any of you girls access to some basic and reliable facts about why it's such a sin to use acetone as thinner for your polishes? Or have any of you experienced that a polish was actually ruined after adding acetone or nail polish remover? If so, please do share. I'm eager and curious to hear about it. Until then, I allow myself to remain sceptical.

Thanks for your time and have a great Sunday! :)

Color Club question

Hi girls,

You've been a great help before, and now I've got another question for you. I bought a Color Club polish in a blog sale, a greyish glitter. I quite like it! 

But it doesn't look like any of my other Color Club polishes at all. First of all there's the height of the bottle. It's the polish on the left, I'm talking about. The one on the right is "Magic Attraction".

You can see that Magic Attraction is a fraction taller than the other one, and the cap is matte, whereas the unnamed polish's cap is shiny. 

And there's something else with the cap: 

There's no flower on the left one! 

Here are the polishes seen from the back: 

Magic Attraction doesn't have any writing on the back at all. That's all in the bottom of the bottle: 

And the left bottle doesn't have any writing at the bottom at all. 

The last thing that I've noticed is that the smell of the two is different. Magic Attraction smells like any other Color Club polish I own. The other one doesn't smell like it at all. It has a glue-ish smell to it. 

Can anybody help me out here? Have I got a fake bottle of Color Club, or have I just gotten my hands on a polish that was sold as a set and therefore different than their usual line?

Input wanted, please!

Hi girls,

Today I’d like to hear your opinion about something that happened to me. Here's how it went:

In the middle of April I get in touch with another blogger. We’ve been commenting on each other’s blogs, and have now decided that it would be fun to do a swap. We email back and forth about what we like and what we don’t like, and we agree to swap for a certain dollar amount.

As we shop, we keep each other informed about the progresses we make, and by the beginning of May we’re both ready to ship it all off  to each other. We agree to ship it the cheapest way possible, in order to spend the saved amount on more polishes.

I send my parcel to her, and four days later, the girl emails me and tells me she shipped her parcel the day after I shipped mine. In the same mail she tells me that her mum has been in and out of the hospital, so it’s been a hectic couple of days for her.

Five days later I email her and ask her if she and her mum are OK. I receive no answer to that email.

Four days after I sent the email, she puts up a blog post where she mentions that “not so good life stuff is happening”. The following day she puts up two blog posts, but she doesn’t mention anything about her “personal situation”. She doesn't write any emails to me and she completely stops blogging after these two posts.

A month after I sent the parcel to her, I write her another email, asking her if she’s OK, and if she’s received her parcel. I also write that I haven’t received my parcel yet. I receive no answer to this email.

Nine and a half weeks after I sent my package, I suddenly receive an email from her. She writes that she’s happy with the polishes I sent her. She also knows I didn’t get my parcel and that the post office doesn't know why I never received it. She says she has shopped for another parcel for me, to make it fair. She writes that her mum has gone through surgery, and she and her mum have been out of town after that. Her mum is supposed to go through surgery again the day after, but the following day the girl will ship my new parcel and via airmail this time. She writes that she will send me a picture of the parcel this time. I never receive such a picture.

After that I’ve written six emails to her, which all remain unanswered.

Now it’s been 13 weeks since the first parcel was shipped, and 4 weeks since the second parcel supposedly was shipped.

I checked the shipping times on the Canadian postal service’s website, and it states that the cheapest shipping option takes 4-6 weeks for the goods to arrive in Denmark. And 6-10 business days if you ship via air mail.

Now – what would you think if you were me? And what would you do?

Orly question

Hi girls,

Are any of you Orly experts by any chance? 

I was sorting my stash the other day. The new polishes from swaps had been piling up, so I decided to tidy up in my polish collection. I sorted the polishes, first by brand and then by colour, and when I got to my Orlys I was in for a surprise.

I have (what looks like) two identical Orly polishes. 

Take a look: 

It almost looks like a mirrored picture, don't you think?

The problem is not that I have two identical polishes. The problem is that they can't possibly be identical. 

One of them is "Mysterious Curse" from the Dark Shadows collection. The other one... I don't know. Let's take a look at the bottom of them: 

As you can see it's Mysterious Curse on the left. The other one hasn't got a name, but is marked with a number: LAB4402-A.

I received Mysterious Curse in a swap. I bought the other one in a blog sale before the Dark Shadows collection was even out!

Can anybody help me figure out which one the other Orly polish is?