Zoya Marley and Essie Nice and Nice... Face-off

Is there anything more annoying or wonderful then a dupe (it really depends on the situation). In this case I was nearly sure these two were dupes, but they turned out not to be. Both are incredible gorgeous, and, depending on your level of OCD, different enough to hold onto both. Here they are together:

To test out whether they looked different enough to tell I went and flashed my manicure to my husband who said, "Ummm are you aware that some of your nails are darker then the other ones?" Point made.

Now for some pros and cons. Zoya Marley is lighter and slightly more pastel. It has a definite shimmer in the light. Essie is cream with no real shimmer present but slightly darker so a little less pastel for this one. Both are 3 free, extremely pigmented (you are seeing 2 coats for both colors here). Where Essie wins for me is that their formula dries so much faster then Zoya making it much more mommy manicure friendly.

Previous two were indoors and this is outdoors.

Now I'm not normally a purple person or a pastel person but this one grew on me and I did not want to change it. Ended up wearing it for *wait for it* almost a week! Both chipped at nearly the same time ending this wonderful mani that I will definitely be doing again.

Stamp it out: Electric Pineapple

So I tried out that nervous color Electric Pineapple by China Glaze (see Enabler Haul the Third). Gotta say it's actually a rather nice color and will probably be a favorite in fall. More yellow then green (which is a difficult color to wear for me) it took three, thin coats to get a nice application:

So I went ahead and topped some of my fingers with Sally Hansen Crackle in Vintage Violet - pretty yummy right? But I wanted to stamp a bit so I thought I'd see how four different brands in creams stamped out. The contenders:

EDIT: I am posting the colors above the pictures they are shown stamped in from top to bottom. Thanks KB for helping me out and letting me know - that was sure confusing!
1. NYC Black Lace Creme: this black has a serious brown (instead of blue) base to it and faired pretty well. Didn't do fabulous, but I'll try it again.
2. Zoya Marley: Fantastic pastel purple but boy she just did not want to pick up. In the end she barely stamped and barely showed up. I'll give her another chance but she failed big time this round.

3. Sinful Colors Nirvana: This was the WINNER and this combination will probably a fall fave. The colors look so nice together and this polish stamps out beautifully and easily.
4. Wet N' Wild Bird Bath: This nail polish stole my heart with it's incredible gorgeous robin's egg blue, but that's where it stopped. Pretty much a fail in all ways it failed here too. Will try stamping it one more time, but I think this nail polish will have to leave my collection....so sad.

The plate used is from Bundle Monster (their first collection that doesn't cover the nail very well) - bm21.