ORLY Hope & Freedom Fest Mani Minis
Hello there! Today I have an exciting launch from ORLY to share with you. I stopped by their booth at ISSE to find their entire spring collection, Hope & Freedom Fest, available for purchase! I decided to be a good girl and just grab the mini set, but you can see the other 2 colors on my ISSE post. I didn’t intend on purchasing anything, but after seeing the gorgeous imagery and unique colors I decided it would be a good idea.
Elation Generation, Melodious Utopia, High on Hope, Coachella Dweller
This collection has 6 shades total: 2 cream finishes, 2 shimmery polishes, and 2 glitters. I’m missing 2 shades, Peaceful Opposition and Boho Bonnet, which you can find swatches for on ThePolishAholic! Boho Bonnet is a pretty cream blue shade, which is nothing too unique. On the other hand, Peaceful Opposition is an ultra-special sheer white polish that is packed with different shapes of silver glitter.
I was most attracted to Coachella Dweller, just because the name is so awesome to me. It’s a beautiful dirty sage green.
High On Hope is a navy packed with pink shimmer that almost has a yellow shift to it…cool!
Melodious Utopia is a cream yellow with some hidden pink shimmer. It is hard to notice at first!
Elation Generation was probably the least exciting to me. It’s a sheer hot pink with holographic silver glitter.
The thing that I like most about this collection is the promo image and the names of the polishes. I like how these shades are all quite different from one another, and not too many of the same finishes/shades.
Now…onto some swatches!
1 coat swatches
The first coat isn’t very exciting. They’re all actually pretty sheer actually. I had a ton of problems with Melodious Utopia applying super unevenly…major drag! Coachella Dweller is very watery and needs a solid 3 coats, which was a bummer. The other shades make a good 2 coats.
2 coats in direct sunlight
After two coats, most of the shades are looking pretty good. Melodious Utopia looks very bad because of the huge bald spot line in the middle of my nail.
2 coats with flash
I had to include a flash shot to show the shimmer in Melodious Utopia, which I found somewhat hard to capture. I’m thinking of maybe layering it over another yellow to prevent all of the streakiness.
Check out the shimmer in Melodious Utopia & High on Hope!
The shimmer in Melodious Utopia and High on Hope shows very well in the sunlight!
I will be doing full NOTD’s with these polishes soon! Get excited!
Which shade is your favorite?
