Obscure brands help!

As you know I'm off to Egypt on Monday morning and I'm scouring to try and find brands of polish sold over there in the hope I can bring back a nice haul

Thus far I have found OPI is stupidly expensive (though on one site its coming in at around £6 a bottle) but a few brand names have popped up and I wondered if anyone had heard of them and what they thought of them?

Golden Rose Paris Nail Laquer:
http://goldenroseuk.co.uk/71-paris-nail-lacquer.html

This seems to be CHEAP. Starting at 18.00 EGP thats about £1.80 give or take a few pennies. Oddly I've not seen this in the UK.

Orly
Starts from 28.00 EGP (£2.80) to 54.00 EGP (£5.40) is this reasonable? And I dont own any Orly so would like to know if its ok.

Essence
Roughly £5 a bottle. Again not a brand Im familiar with?

ELF Studio
£2 a bottle

Love & Beauty
£3

Milani
£3.50

FM
£5.40

Chi
£7.00

Nitro Canada
£2.00

Hits
(is this the same as the ones Sally Sells?)
http://egypt.souq.com/eg-en/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B6%D8%A6-4794111/i/

£8 though

Most of those I don't know, but the Orly prices are good (normally same as Opi-China Glaze), and the Essence prices are way too high - they should be close to Barry M prices or less.

The Hits picture looks like it's the Brazilian brand so it's cheaper to buy from Lady S's website.

I've got a few Orlys I've bought from TK Maxx and I was impressed as I was swatching. I've only worn one on my nails yet but it was great. I like it far better then the few OPIs I've tried, and £2.80 is a good price I think.

Thanks ladies, will definitely keep an eye out for the Orly then and avoid the essence

Hopefully I'll return with a good haul!

I hope you have a fantastic holiday!

I have been thinking about placing an order for some of the cheaper HITS ones in, so they would retail at about £3

They would be similar to the one in the photo above. What do you guys think?

Get a few in and see how they sell?

I am just putting together my virtual order now. This means I stick everything on the list I want, then I whittle it down.

So far there are 300 on the list LOL

Ohhh what's on the list???

Lady S wrote:I have been thinking about placing an order for some of the cheaper HITS ones in, so they would retail at about £3

They would be similar to the one in the photo above. What do you guys think?

What photo above? The glow in the dark ones?

Yeah the glow in the dark ones But they aren't all glow in the dark, there are some full coverage glitters in a multitude of colours, and some normal coloured nail varnishes.

Not sure about the glitters but I could go a few glow in the darks!

I've not looked closely - and am basically being lazy now - but what are your postage rates?

Oh and would you put a link to the shop in your posts on this thread if no-one else minds. I keep losing it and having to page backwards. Or maybe edit your first post to include it - that would be easy to find.
And before anyone says - yes I've bookmarked it, but I have so many bookmarks its a chore to dig through them and everytime someone mentions something I want to go and look at it! It seems I've even a magpie with bookmarks;)

Okay, I will do if no one minds. I didn't want this place to be ALL about my shop. I want it to be still about us chatting stuff about polish and the like.

You know I'm a sucker for glitter so I'd buy the glitters over the UV ones

I can order a few of them all. If I buy I have to buy in proper bulk anyway. So, its okay to do it like that.

I want to try a glow in the dark one. Not sure about the other glitters as I have loads similar to that from color club.