Comparison: Jade "Deja Vu" VS KBShimmer "Whole Lava Lovin'"

Hi everyone!  How are you doing on this cold Sunday?  Is it cold where you are?  Yesterday it was about 75 degrees here, and then the temperature dropped all through the night.  The high today was 55 at 12:05 AM!  Just after midnight.  And then it was in the 30s all day and there was sleet and snow!  Urgh!!  When is spring going to come and stay for good??

Anyway, today I have a comparison for you.  When I was fishing out all my red holos, I realized that Jade "Deja Vu" and KBShimmer "Whole Lava Lovin'" looked pretty similar.  Here are a couple bottle shots:

Here they look pretty similar.

Here I think you can see that the Jade is a little lighter red, and has a slightly stronger holo.

And here they are on the nail:

Overall, I think you can see that the Jade has a stronger holo effect, and I think that's what makes it look a little lighter.  They're both beautiful though, and they're different enough that I can justify having both!

If you guys ever have any comparisons you want me to do, post them in the comments and I'll do them if I have the polishes!

Thanks for reading!

Comparison: Finger Paints "Twisted" vs piCture pOlish "Festival"

Before Gosia and I went to the orchid show the other day, we went through each other's new polishes to see what we wanted to try :)  When looking through mine, Gosia wondered if piCture pOlish "Festival" was close to Finger Paints "Twisted".  I happen to still have her bottle of "Twisted", so I decided to do a comparison!

First bottle shots:

These are both multicolored flakies (red, blue, green, yellow, even a little purple!) in a yellow-ish base.  The base of "Festival" seems a little lighter, and the flakies seem more abundant in "Twisted".

As an aside, aren't the little sayings on the piCture pOlish bottles cute?  "Come together, flake it, flake it!"

Here is one coat of each over OPI Malaga Wine:

"Festival" on the index and ring fingers; "Twisted" on the middle and pinkie.  So you can see the flakies in "Festival" are more sparse, and it looks like there are bigger particles in "Twisted".
Sorry for the messy cuticles here!  You can see I'm not actually perfect! :-P

And here is two coats of "Festival" compared to one coat of "Twisted":

Two coats of "Festival" on pointer and ring fingers; one coat of "Twisted" on middle, pinkie (and thumb in the last picture).

These seem pretty close!  "Twisted" was part of Finger Paints' Winter 2012 collection.  It is discontinued and very hard to find now!  Luckily,   "Festival" is still available.  It can be found at llarowe.com.  It is out of stock right now, but it will be back!

What do you guys think?  Are these close enough that "Festival" makes up for "Twisted"?