Comparison: Pink/Golden Glass Flecks

In my recent haul post, JinJit asked to see a comparison of the two polishes I had a "Oh noez, are these the same color?!?" moment about. So here they are, along with two other polishes I thought were similar.

The lineup:

OPI It's My Year - Orly Oui - Orly Ingenue - Zoya Faye

At first glance at the bottles, Orly Ingenue and Zoya Faye look much closer, so I paired them together, The first two also look fairly similar. So let's see what they look like on the nail!

One coat polish ...

Orly Oui is obviously much more purple. OPI IMY looks a little more pink, but Orly Ingenue and Zoya Faye are looking mighty similar...

Two coats...

The first two are obviously not close to the others. The last two are still looking pretty spot on.

Three coats:

So OPI IMY and Orly Oui are totally different - they have that same pretty metallic gold sparkly but OPI IMY is more pink/mauve and Orly Oui is more purple. The other two though need a closer look.

Here are these two at different angles ...

Orly Ingenue may be a touch more brown and a touch more sparkly, but I keep moving my hand around and I really can't tell a difference. Definitely not from an arm's length away.

They all dried in about the same time, I didn't use a topcoat for these pictures. Formula was good on all of them. OPI seemed to have the best coverage without the thickness. Orly seemed to be thicker, and Zoya was in the middle, but I still liked the formula. You can tell in the pictures, especially with all four nails, that the middle two fingers have thicker polish - I think that might just be Orly. Not a big deal and I wouldn't have noticed except I had different polishes on my nails all at once.

So a winner between the dupes? Zoya Faye, becuase it has a better formula. It does, however, retail for $8.00, while Orly you can find for less online ($6.50-ish) and I got mine on sale at Sally's for $3.99!

Does anyone else own any of these? Any other dupes I should know about so I can stop buying repeats of the same colors?

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