Orly Nail Lacquer - Clear - #20039

This is the French Manicure for a mermaid!I love this magical pinky polish. It reminds me of L'Oreal Sea Lily lipstick (from decades ago). This shade is fun and classy and it goes with everything (especially fish tails).

I have a few gray polishes and I like this one the best. Application was really smooth and something about this gray was cool tone, and not dreary. I paired this with a pink maxi dress and got so many compliments on my polish and several workers at ulta asked what color I was wearing. If you look really closely, once polish is applied, there are these dark little speckles(they are not very noticeable but are a nice touch). I am glad I splurged on this shade. Its the only gray I own that is cool toned enough to wear in the summer time as well as the winter.

Great color. Good quality. With a base coat and a top coat, it lasted 3 days before chipping. But why does a good nail polish comes with a crappy brush??!! That brush totally ruin the whole good impression I have for Orly Nail Polish. It's so small. Makes it impossible to brush the polish on evenly. Therefore it comes out thick and streaky. I put on two coats and it looks a little better but it's still uneven.

Orly's Raspberry Ice is a blue-based medium-light shimmery pink in the bottle. On the nail, however, what I ended up with was a dull, chalky, muted pink. The application was very streaky (but opaque in two coats) and the finished result was not matte but definitely not shiny. This one needs a top coat, which helps but still. . . . one would expect there to be some sort of shine to the polish. The only thing going for this polish is the rubberized handle which is a Godsend. Overall, I give this two thumbs down because it just looks awful.

I'm surprised at the bad reviews for this. This is really a very sheer wash of blue based pink with some iridescence in it. It's *very* similar to Bare Rose by Orly which is just, again, a very sheer wash of blue based red/pink meant to make you look like your nails are naturally rosy. Honestly Des Fleurs reminds me of Bare Rose *with* Magnifique as a top coat that has 'optical brighteners' that makes it looks a bit iridescent, only Des Fleurs is *more* iridescent than that. I think it's lovely, and I can't imagine it being considered garish, but admittedly I have only used it with one coat. I think the very point of this polish is to look natural. I do sometimes put on more than one coat of Bare Rose and I might try that with Des Fleurs, too, but one coat makes it look, I think, how it is supposed to look.