Coral Fixation: Chanel Orange Fizz

Oh hey Friday.  Nice to see you.  So, everything that could have gone wrong with this polish went wrong with this polish for me.  I put it on at around 8pm, and around 2am when I was home and getting ready for bed a huge chunk came out of it while I was unbuttoning a particularly difficult button on my vest.  Then when I woke up I had sheet marks all over my left hand.  Not cool, Chanel Orange Fizz.  Not cool.  But you're really pretty, so I'll give you a pass.

Chanel Orange Fizz, I believe from the spring of 2009, is really, really close to my perfect coral.  It's just a little, teeny bit darker on the nail than it is in the bottle; if it looked exactly on the nail as it did in the bottle, I'd call it perfection.  It's not too pink, it leans just slightly orange, and it's really lovely and soft-looking.  I personally had issues with the formula.  It was really thick, and after two coats I noticed weird bald patches, so I did a third.  Then apparently it never dried, as you can see in the pictures of my left hand.  Maybe I just have to be more careful and use thinner coats; I don't know.

Now you might say, "Oh dear Stephanie, it's too bad that your [almost] ideal coral is Chanel and so terribly expensive!"  I would say that you're sweet for the lament, but that we can find a dead-on dupe of Chanel Orange Fizz at any Ulta store for 99 cents.  It's Essence brand, it's called What Do U Think?, and I've misplaced my images of it.  I assure you though, that any differences between What Do U Think? and Orange Fizz are not detectable to the human eye.  I may even have given away my Essence polish because I have the Chanel, but I can easily pick up another one for under a dollar if I feel like I have to.  And there is the solution to our Chanel price-hike, at least in this one instance.

Any thoughts on Chanel Orange Fizz?  Have you sprung for this one, like me, or have you contented yourself with a dupe that costs pennies?  

Happy Friday :)