nail polish review: orly "space cadet"

i was scrolling through ontd the other day and came across this post about the e! "mani cam" at the emmys a couple weeks ago (dumb or kind of awesome?) where people started commenting with what they were currently wearing on their nails. someone posted that they were wearing m.a.c's mean and green and i instantly fell in love but then got really sad when i realized that i'd clearly chosen to buy the wrong polish from that collection. i bought formidable! instead of mean and green and i'm only so-so on it. luckily i found out that there is a dupe for mean and green - orly space cadet. so naturally that meant that i immediately ran to ulta to find it and was so happy when i spotted it on the shelf!

it's a duochrome which means it changes color depending on how the light hits it. i was hoping it would be more pink and green like the photo on ontd but it seems to lean more purple. that's okay though because it's really gorgeous!

these photos are with three days of wear and so far it's chip-free (as orly polishes generally are for me). there is a little minor tip wear but then again i don't wrap my tips because i am layyyzeeee, so.

as always, i used my favorite sally hansen base coat and seche vite top coat.

many, many totally gratuitous photos of my nail polish collection

sometimes one gets really bored and decides to photograph and catalog all of one's nail polish because one is ridiculously anal retentive.

i am that person.

chanel

steel, particulière, black velvet, matador, graphite

illamasqua, dior, ysl

milf, dws, black sequins, gris montaigne, copyright red

nars, butter london

orgasm, versailles, the old bill, blagger

MAC, deborah lippmann, sephora by OPI

formidable!, bad romance, only gold for me, it's bouquet with me, mermaid to order

essie

mezmerised, coat azure, turquoise and caicos, jamaica me crazy

sally hansen, china glaze

laser, byte, mint sprint, for audrey

anise, avon, goldie, hard candy

grape idea!, ???, rapture, lava, hypnotic

minis - opi, orly

rapidry topcoat, eiffel for this color, louvre me louvre me not, parlez vous opi, on the list (i think)

(for scale)

OPI skull and glossbones, OPI louvre me louvre me not, orly it's up to blue, orly on the list (i think)

orly

happily ever after, naughty, luxe

orly

sheer beauty (french manicure), mirror mirror, it's up to blue

OPI

black onyx, black shatter, you don't know jacques! (matte)

OPI

OPI top coat, happy anniversary!, skull and glossbones

OPI

pompeii purple, god save the queen's nails, russian navy

rimmel

va va voom, baby pink, shocker

rimmel

highland, odyssey, climax

rimmel

zeitgeist, hot gossip, twilight

sinful colors (all purchased to do this, which i did!)

all about you, call you later, nail junkie, hottie, i miss you

reds

pinks

purples

blues

teals

greens

browns

golds

greys

blacks

clearly i am missing some silvers. any recommendations?

current nailses!

currently on my nails: china glaze - "for audrey"

(sorry about my horrifyingly dry cuticles!)

it's a really pretty tiffany blue (hence the name!). i was hoping it would dry a little more green than it did, but then i realized that if it did, it would be pretty much identical to essie's "turquoise and caicos", which i already own! so a little more blue is good.

oh, hey! this person compared the two - http://thislittlefinger.blogspot.com/2010/05/essie-turquoise-and-caicos-vs-china.html - see what i mean?

it's been on my nails for 4 days now with only a tiny bit of normal chipping (i also used a sally hansen basecoat and seche vite topcoat). this is my first experience with china glaze and i would probably buy another bottle from them.