Sinful Colors Blue by You vs. ORLY Royal Navy comparison and video

As I sit here writing this blog post I am reminded why I want my own stretch of land far, far away from anyone else. Today is a perfectly lovely day, nice breeze blowing and some clouds. Oh yeah, and then there is my neighbor across the street with the doors on his beat up jeep wide open, blaring "music" so dang loud that my walls and windows are rattling.

I am going to repeat that just so there is no confusion: the walls and windows of my house, are RATTLING. Because some inconsiderate window licking douche nozzle has decided it is ok to flood the world with "musical" noxious clouds of obscenities and misogynistic hate.

Anyway, this ex-con isn't going to change any time soon; this is NOT the first time this has happened. I'll just have to hope his meth lab gets discovered... or blows up. He's woken me up so many times now that I'll take either one. #sarcasm (kind of...)

ANYWHO!

I have another video up! Yay! Click here for a direct link! 

This video is comparing Sinful Colors Blue By You to ORLY Royal Navy. Sometimes I will look at colors in my collection and think "I already have you... why do I have more than one of you in different brands?!" The answer is because I am a nail polish addict. 

I am CEO, Queen and Grand Royal Empress of La Lacquer League.

That doesn't mean that Her Royal Highness doesn't like a good deal! And I KNOW I can't be the only one! So I am going to be swatching different colors in my collection side by side to see if they really are dups for each other. Just because they look the same in the bottle doesn't mean that they actually are. We are all familiar with finding a polish that is BEAUTIFUL in the bottle and suddenly an evil stepsister when it gets on your nail. 

I also don't believe that being the same color in the end constitutes a dupe. At least not in my book. The end result might be similar, or exactly the same, but what if the higher end polish only required 1-2 coats while the lower end polish required 4-5. Personally, that is a big enough gap that I would still purchase the higher end product. We all know how long it takes for 4+ coats of polish to dry!

That is why I am not just going to show you final results but actually record videos of the application process. You can see exactly how it applies and then judge the final result for yourself. 

 Left: Sinful Colors Blue by You, Right: ORLY Royal Navy

 I truly had to try very hard to get this picture. The ORLY polish IS darker than the Sinful Colors polish, but it is by such a small amount that it is hardly noticeable. The Sinful Colors polish is not a perfect dupe for the ORLY polish, however, I feel that it is close enough.

 
Based on the price, application, color and finish, I suggest the Sinful Colors polish. The ORLY polish is so much more expensive and I did not feel like it truly delivered something that was worth the increase in price. Unless you are truly on a journey of collecting polish, you will be just fine with only one of these in your stash.

You can always check out my nail polish collection on google docs here: My nail polish collection

If you see any polishes in particular that you would like me to swatch, review or compare just let me know!

 

Introduction to TMNTCupcake!

This being the first post of my blog, I feel it is important to make it clear what I want this blog to be and give some background on my nail polish addiction!

When my collection started and how it brought me here

I started using nail polish on a, somewhat regular basis, about 5 years ago. This was back when there seemed to be hardly any choices available. There was a small section in Walgreens, Walmart and Target for some Sally Hansen polishes, and on the other end of the spectrum was Wet 'n Wild with a few random bottles. Other than that, Sally's was the only place to get nail polish. At the time Sally's seemed SOOO expensive for polishes and nail care.... Oh how times have changed!

I started truly collecting polish about 2 years ago and have not looked back! Like most Nail Polish Addicts I think we don't realize just how many we have for a while, and then suddenly BAM! it hits us.

It hit me when I was reorganizing my collection. I sat down and actually cataloged all of my polishes in excel.

If you would like to see my catalog of polishes you can view it in google docs here: Nail Polish Collection Catalog. For some reason it is showing two extra pages (9 & 10), and I cannot figure out why, so please just ignore them.

What will this blog be?

While cataloging all of my polishes, and all the other odds and ends in my collection, I realized that there are so many things that I wish I had not purchased. Or at least, I wish that I had known more about them before purchasing. In my collection I have polishes that are either exact dups, or so similar, that I do not need both and I wish I could have seen side by side comparisons. Looking up swatches is great, but lighting can change the color of a polish, and without seeing them in the same light, side by side, it can be difficult to tell if they are similar or not.

I am not saying there are not reviews out there. There are. However, the majority of the time they do not cover what I need to know.

So I decided to start my own blog and Youtube channel (TMNTCupcake's Youtube Channel) to review, demonstrate and compare products in a way that would have helped me. My hope is to help other people find products that work, nail polishes that are dups for higher priced brands, and to save others time and money when considering purchases.

I am always open to suggestions on making my blog and youtube channel more interesting and helpful. So please, if you have any constructive criticism, ideas, products you would like to see compared/reviewed, please let me know!