Nail Polish Stress Test: Orly Color Blast Wonder Woman

I used to be really into superheroines as a kid. I thought Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Supergirl and such were awesome. I even had this sleeping bag! So, when I saw the Orly Color Blast Wonder Woman collection, it definitely hit me in the nostalgia. There was one polish that stood out to me from the collection, and that’s today’s test subject, Wonder Woman.

Wonder Woman is a polish comprised of small metallic red glitter, matte yellow stars and matte blue hex glitter. As an Orly Color Blast polish, I would normally wait until it went on clearance before buying , but anyone who knows me is aware I have something of an obsession with stars, so I was really interested in trying this baby out.

Be prepared to shake this up a LOT, as all the stars tend to sink down to the bottom of the bottle and stay there.  Once I had it properly mixed up, it wasn’t too hard to fish the stars out. The red and blue glitter covered evenly without having to be patched up.The finish was pretty smooth although the stars stuck up bit in places. I used four coats to get full coverage, with my usual coat of Seche Vite on top.

As this is a glitter polish with big glitter pieces in it, water marbling and stamping is out of the question.

So, how did it hold up?

Not so great, I wrecked it in one day. The main problem is the stars. When they catch on things, they get pulled off, taking a big chunk of polish with it. *sigh*

Verdict: Loser Polish

I hate, hate, hate, to give it that rating, but I can’t let personal bias get in the way here. I think if a member of Team Office Job wore it, it’d last longer, but those of us with retail or warehouse jobs should save this for a day off, or use it as a topper.  I bought mine from Walgreen’s for $7.99.

Nail Polish Stress Test: Orly Color Blast Mistress Of All Evil

I have not had a lot of luck with Color Blast polishes so far. However, I find I can get the Disney polishes from Walgreen's for $1.59 pretty consistently if I’m patient. I don't mind buying potential loser polish at that price. This time my patience has been rewarded with today’s test subject: Mistress Of All Evil from the Disney Villains 2015 collection.

I discovered is that this polish appears to be a relabeled Rainbow Color Flip from their core collection. Another Color Blast I reviewed a while back, Frozen, is a relabeled Sky Blue Color Flip.

Here’s my Disney Polishes.

Here’s the Core Polishes.

If I were a completist, this would aggravate me, but since the only place near me that sells the core Color Blasts is Kohl’s, and they never do polish sales, I’m more than happy with my Walgreen’s clearance finds.

Mistress Of All Evil is a dark gray jelly base with duochrome shimmer. Indoors I mostly saw pink, but outside the color shift really shows, with shifts to orange, yellow, pink and green. I really love polishes like this! I used three coats with one coat of Seche Vite on top.

Sadly I couldn’t get this one to stamp or water marble. It’s just too sheer.

So, how did it hold up?

This one actually made it two whole days! That’s darn good for this brand!

Verdict: Good

Hooray! Another decent Color Blast polish! I haven’t tried enough of them to make a solid judgement, but I’m starting to think that the non crème polishes are the way to go.

Nail Polish Stress Test: Orly Color Blast Follow Your Path

Orly Color Blast polishes haven’t exactly blown my socks off yet. I feel that at $6.99 for a bottle that’s half the size of a standard bottle of polish, the quality had better be up there. However, when it goes on clearance for $1.65? Bring it! That leads to me today’s test subject, Follow Your Path from the Disney Dare to Dream Pocahontas collection. Was it a worthwhile purchase? Let’s find out!

Follow Your Path is a neon purple crème. I don’t have many neons in my collection, so I was hoping this one would do well. This went on in three coats. The finish was kind of on the matte side, which isn’t unusual for a neon. I threw my usual coat of Seche Vite on top and rolled with it.
 

I was a little concerned about the durability of this polish early on. As you can see from this pic I took as I was leaving for work, there’s already tip wear. That’s not a good sign.

It only got worse from there. This is the damage I got from half a day of not that much work.

I didn’t have any luck water marbling with this polish, but it does stamp nicely.

Verdict: Party Polish

Well, that’s another Color Blast polish that falls short. I can recommend it for stamping, but that’s about it. It’s a shame; I was really hoping this one would do well.  

Nail Polish Stress Test: Orly Color Blast Frozen

A couple months ago, I reviewed Snow Queen, a polish from the Color Blast Frozen collection. I wasn’t really happy with it, although it is good for nail art. If you follow my Instagram feed, you may have seen pics I took of other Color Blast polishes that left me seriously not trusting the brand. However, on a recent trip to Walgreen’s, I saw the Frozen collection was on clearance for $3.59. Oh what the heck, one more bottle for science!

Frozen has a blue base with a duochrome shimmer. The shimmer is beautiful, shifting from green to aqua, to purple depending on the light. It reminds me quite a bit of mother of pearl. It practically looks luminous on!

As much as I like this, I do wonder about the name. This doesn't make me think of the movie, or anything icy at all. Oh well, if I ever start my own polish line, I'll make sure the names are relevant to the polish.

This polish is on the sheer side. It doesn't show in my pics, but I could see nail line even after using three coats. I added my usual coat of Seche Vite on top.

It’s worth noting that because of the sheer aspect of this polish, it’s not good for stamping or water marbling.

So, how did it hold up?

It went a good two days before the damage was noticeable.Something about the texture of it made me think it was going to be brittle. I wasn't too far off in that it chipped in odd places. With that said, it definitely surpassed my expectations.

Verdict: Good

This is more like it! I would have been sad if this had ended up as loser polish. It’s good to know this product line may have decent polishes in it, but I’m still wary. I still think the price is too high. However, if I can find more Color Blast bargains, I’ll try some more!

Nail Polish Stress Test: Orly Color Blast Snow Queen

I like Orly polishes a lot. It seems like I’m buying something from most of the collections they’ve come out with, so when I saw the Color Blast line at my local Walgreen’s, I thought I’d pick one up. Was this a good idea, or was my brain frozen from the eternal winter we’ve been enduring here? Let’s find out!

Right off the bat, this polish had something to prove. It’s $6.99 a bottle, yet it’s half the size of a bottle of standard Orly polish. I couldn’t help looking at the two together and thinking “O RLY?”.

 Snow Queen is from the Frozen collection. It’s a white crème with a blue flash that only seems to exist in the bottle. I found that to be quite frustrating because that’s what attracted me to this one in the first place. It definitely didn’t show up on my nail, and I couldn’t get it on camera either. The formula wasn’t the easiest to work with either. It was patchy as heck even though I let each coat completely dry before I added the next one. In the end I used three coats, and tried to patch up the bare spots as best I could before I finished it off with my usual coat of Seche Vite. 

 

I had pretty low expectations considering my application issues, but it turns out Snow Queen will stamp and water marble! I did not see that coming!

 As for wear, this looked pretty bad after one day. The tip wear was super obvious because of the bright white, so off it came. Bummer.

 Verdict: Party Polish

This would be loser polish if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s good for nail art. Even so, I wouldn’t buy this again unless it was on sale. A good one.