While wearing OPI Last Friday Night, I was thinking it looked similar to the China Glaze Blue Hawaiian, one of the 50 Glitters and Cremes (also called Specialty collection) that came out last year. Small down and dirty comparison here.
On my pointer and ring finger, I had OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 3 coats of Last Friday Night and a top of OPI Top Coat. On my middle and pinky fingers, I had Seche Natural, 3 coats of Blue Hawaiian and a top of Seche Vite.
While both are blue glitters in blue bases, you can really tell that these two colors are not dupes. Oddly enough, you can really see how light the OPI blue is when it looks DARKER in the bottle. Oh fun times.
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The other glitter in the OPI Katy Perry Collection was Last Friday Night - yet another one of her songs that I don't know. I thought I was a Katy Perry fan until this collection, haha since I haven't heard of these songs! I used to call her "Katy Pretty" on Twitter when I'd write to her... for the record, she never wrote back :\
I used a base of OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 3 coats of Last Friday Night and a top of OPI Top Coat. This is a blue glitter suspended in a blue base - much like Teenage Dream is a rainbow silver glitter in a pink base but this is not the same opacity at all. I quit at 3 layers because I was getting impatient.
As you can see in the sun, this color is lacking in opacity by far - instead of a blue base with blue glitter - it almost gave my nails a frostbitten look.
The shade was a bit better but you can still see VNL quite clearly.
Here's a shot of it with Black Shatter.
Again, unlike Teenage Dream, this color just didn't pop out nearly as well - it just needed a thicker base to it. I'm sure it would amazing layered over an existing blue but on its own, it just didn't work for me.
OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [official website].
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Happy Sunday!
First today is Daily Polish. Owner Sara does really blog daily, although her most recent posts have been guest writers while she's on vacation in Israel. She has short nails and has a LARGE selection of polishes to check out.
Next is Deez Nails. This is one of the few blogs I've seen that uses false nails normally. She wears both Nailene Active Square and Fing'rs brand Trophy Wife length. There are many benefits to wearing false nails, and she has a great post on application and removal. In addition to colors, she also has frankens and nail art.
Last today is Emerald Sparkled. This is the awesome blogger who made the graphic used on mine and many other blogs. Her name is Deniz, she lives in Turkey, and she has some amazing pictures and nail art in her blog! Seriously, she's one of the best polishers I've seen - her nails always look beautiful.
How many colors do you count up there? It looks like a green, a blue, almost a pinky purple... I thought this color was going to be my new obsession. OPI's Not Like the Movies from the Katy Perry collection is listed as a sultry silver but I really didn't see too much silver... except for the silver microglitter that was running through the bottle - quite a surprise to me!
I used a base of OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 3 coats of Not Like the Movies and a top of OPI Top Coat. I found the formula to be good, just a bit thin and not as build-able opaque as I hoped.
This is a bit what I would think deborah lippmann Wicked Game looks like - a different color at every turn of your hand.
Update: Jenny from Polishology has a great comparison post here!
Check out this awesome view of the duochrome (trichrome?) in action with the green on my first two fingers and the purple gray on the last two fingers. This was fun to play with it, for sure but overall wasn't quite what I expected. I have to admit, it's much more fun in person than in pictures - I couldn't quite capture the range of colors you see on the nail.
And finally, a layer of Black Shatter over it all.
Unfortunately for me, all the purple disappeared after Black Shatter was applied and you were stuck with the purple. While it's a beautiful purple, I loved all the swirling colors.
OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [official website].
Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration. For more information, please read this post.
It's January and the OPI Katy Perry Collection has launched! If you've been following OPI's Facebook Wall, you know that this collection has been in HIGH demand and shipments are delayed as many as six weeks for some retailers. WOW! Go Katy!
OPI Teenage Dream is a pink based polish packed with small disced rainbow glitter (silver that reflects light).
I used a base of OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, 3 coats of Teenage Dream and topped with OPI Top Coat. Application wasn't bad. Pink can be a hard color to wear because you're not sure if it's opaque or not when suspended with glitter, so I used three coats to be sure but I could have gotten away with 2.
In the sun, this color just looks a bit drab against my skin tone. You can tell there's lots of glitter in the bottle, but it doesn't bounce around on my nails as much. I'm wondering if it's because of the sun being so low in the sky, or what.
Indirect sun - you can see a bit more of the glitter, especially on the pinkie.
In the shade, you can see there is a lot of glitter that is transferred to the nail.
Also in the Katy Perry is a bottle of Black Shatter, so I went ahead and put a layer over after putting on OPI Top Coat. I then sealed it with Seche Vite to give my nails a smooth feeling.
I loved this. I loved it so much I made it my NOTD (Nail Of The Day) and wore it to the gym where I was constantly staring at my nails. The crackle/shatter works so well when paired with a glitter. Uber win.
My only real complaint was removal. The glitter was a pain to get off my nails - so much so that I used pure acetone instead of my normal Zoya Remove+. Otherwise, this is a great shade.
OPI is available at Professional Salons, including Beauty Brands, Beauty First, Chatters, Dillard’s, JCPenney, Pure Beauty, Regis, Trade Secret, and Ulta, for $8.50 ($10.95 CAN) suggested retail for each Nail Lacquer. Please visit their website for details [official website].
Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration. For more information, please read this post.
