Orly Thorned Rose with CND Crimson Sparkle

Orly Thorned Rose
Orly Thorned Rose

Orly Thorned Rose is a dark reddish-burgundy color, with a purple tone.  It’s from Orly’s Spring 2010 collection, and I do think it’s a nice dark red for spring, since it leans more purple than brown.

I used three coats for opacity, and it went on nicely.  I also used Orly’s In a Snap topcoat for the look below, which I was happy with-it came free with two other Orly bottles I bought at Sally Beauty, and I’m in search of a new top coat since my China Glaze Fast Forward has basically died.  The Orly went on pretty thick but seemed to thin out and spread as it dried, which I liked.

Orly Thorned Rose
Orly Thorned Rose

Then on the second day, I added a layer of CND Crimson Sparkle.  I just got the Crimson Sparkle, since I was thinking that a pinkish sparkle would be nice for spring and summer.  I really like this one–it has little flakie glitters that flash more gold than I thought it would.  The gold flash is almost a duochrome look-in the picture below you can see that the right side of my nails are goldish while the pink sparkle comes out on the left side.

CND Crimson Sparkle
CND Crimson Sparkle

This shows the pink more:

CND Crimson Sparkle
CND Crimson Sparkle

I liked the textured look the Crimson Sparkle gave.  With the Crimson Sparkle I was able to wear this for four days and I just had a little bit of tipwear, so I could have kept it on longer.  That’s kind of a long time for me!  I recently had a bad break in one of my nails and had to cut the rest of them shorter, so that might have also helped.  I usually get chips right down at the bottom of my nails, but they’re so much shorter now that they don’t touch my keyboard as much when I type.

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