L'Oreal L'Orange was my manicure polish during the last week of July. I really loved this orange nail polish. In the pictures below it looks red, but it's spot-on orange in real life. My iPhone's camera just refused to show the orange as anything other than red. The color reminded me of orange Tic Tacs, but I think Tic Tacs are a darker shade of orange.
The formula is a thin cream. Maybe it's a crelly. I had visible nail line at two coats, and I still had it at three coats, but I was getting darker than the polish bottle color, and I didn't want to have more coats, so I stopped at three coats. The polish had a good formula, and it dried quickly. The cleanup was easy, too. It was very shiny even without top coat. The brush is wider than Revlon's traditional thin brush.
I don't see as many blog posts about L'Oreal's polishes; I think that may be because many bloggers won't use products from companies at all involved with animal testing or whose parent companies conduct testing on animals.
I love orange-colored nail polishes, so I noticed when the Pantone Tangerine Tango polishes came out in Sephora stores earlier this year. I had also heard that Sinful Colors Citrine was a dupe for Tangerine Tango. Rite Aid sold Citrine months ago, but we don't have Rite Aids in Florida, and my local drugstores didn't carry Citrine . . . until a month or so ago when I spotted Citrine at a Walgreens display of Sinful Colors. After asking for permission, I tested Citrine on my nail polish wheel right next to L'Oreal L'Orange, and they were identical. They are 100% dupes. So, I didn't buy Citrine then. A few weeks ago I finally bought the Pantone Tangerine Tango polish set, and while L'Orange is close to Tangerine Tango--just as close as Citrine--it's not a 100% dupe. But, if you own one of the three, you don't need to own the other two . . . unless you're a nut about orange polishes like me, and even I don't own all three, just two that are not 100% dupes. Tangerine Tango is sold as part of a four-polish set for about $17, L'Oreal polishes retail for about $7 or $8, and Sinful Colors is normally priced at $2 but often goes on sale for $1.
In the pictures below, I have on base coat, three coats of L'Orange, one coat of Seche Vite, and a coat of Revlon Quick Dry Top Coat. I didn't get much shrinkage from the Seche Vite. The pictures were taken on day two of wearing the manicure and on day three I took the bottle pictures.
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| Direct sunlight. My camera could not focus on the color when it was in direct sunlight. In direct sunlight, the polish started to "glow" with an effect similar to the glow that I love from Revlon Chili and Hits Hula. |
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| Direct sunlight. This is the "glow" from another angle. |
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| Direct sunlight. "Glow" from another angle. |
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| Direct sunlight. Polish at a slightly different angle to the angle that created the "glow" above. |
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| Indirect sunlight. Very shiny! You can see some tip wear after a day of wear. |
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| Indoors. |
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| Indoors. |
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| Indoors, on day three. |
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| Indoors, on day three. This may be the most color-accurate photo if you look at the shade of orange of the polish in the bottle. |
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