Both polishes have the exactly same color scheme, true medium purple with color shifting elements that show up silver, green, blue or purple depending on the light, but in each the color scheme is manifested differently. In Lil Miss Sunshine, which you'll see pictures of in this post, the color shifting element is micro flakies. In Lil Miss Cyanide, the color shifting element is micro shimmer. Love this paired concept, love the colors, loved the price. Love, love, love!
For Lil Miss Sunshine I picked out a medium purple polish called A Grape Fit by OPI as underwear. I had swatched A Grape Fit one night a ways back so there's no bottle pic (forgot, my bad). The pics of this one on the nail were taken with flash. It is a more milky purple than the purple in Lil Miss Sunshine, but has excellent coverage and overall I thought it worked well as a base.
On top of my Nail Envy basecoat I applied one coat of A Grape Fit, three coats of Lil Miss Sunshine and a topcoat of Orly Sec 'n Dry. The next time I wear this polish, I will skip the underwear and go with three coats of Lil Miss Sunshine by itself (plus the usual base and topcoats, of course).
First, the few photos of A Grape Fit by itself...
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| OPI A Grape Fit, swatched before the tragic nail breakage |
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| OPI A Grape Fit |
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| OPI A Grape Fit... I quite like this creamy medium purple polish! |
Now for Lil Miss Sunshine...
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| What I used, left to right: OPI Nail Envy, CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine, Orly Sec 'n Dry (not pictured: OPI A Grape Fit) |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine bottle shot |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine bottle close up showing lots of fabulous color shifting micro flakie goodness... |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit with bottle showing a wee bit of the blue color shift -- I found this almost impossible to capture on the nail with my camera... |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| at the window |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine lookin trés silvery over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit, a little blurry but shows the purple very nicely |
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| CrowsToes Lil Miss Sunshine over OPI A Grape Fit |
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| extreme close up whoa... see how the green is showing a little bit? |
I love this kind of flecky finish! It reminds me a bit of the finish on Zoya FeiFie from my Three For One post. There's sense about it of old metal that has been handled and tarnished over time. There's also something very beachy about it, to me. Like the wear anything gets when it's subjected to the wind and water and sun by the ocean. When I showed Lil Miss Sunshine to Fuzzy she said it reminded her of her paintings where she incorporated pure aluminum powder into the paint. Did you know that when Fuzzy paints she mixes all of her oil paints from scratch? True! And very cool.
Be on the lookout for Lil Miss Sunshine's partner polish, Lil Miss Cyanide in an upcoming post.
love,
Aunt Liz
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