Now here's another one of the few eye dusts from Jesse's Girl that I wasn't in love with - Sparkle Gold. The color itself lacks just a bit of punch for me... mostly because it is so close to my skin tone but also just because the sparkle wasn't nearly as sparkly as I had hoped.
Here in the shade, I feel like the color struggles against my skin to show up... not really something I look for in an eye shadow. I think this would be best used with darker skin tones but this is one I'd pass on if purchasing again.
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I love this color so much that I'm going to give one of you a bottle of your own! All you have to do is be a follower through Google Friend Connect and fill out the form below. Open internationally, giveaway ends 10 August at midnight GMT (or 6 p.m. on 9 August CST).
WHOA. I wrote "October" at first, and I did NOT mean October. Please ignore that in the Google Form. This giveaway ends 10 AUGUST.
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From the Glam Slam! England collection, today I tried Servin' Up Sparkle. Now it's been said that this is a lot like China Glaze Shooting Stars or one of the other colors from the Glitters & Cremes (also known as the Specialty) collection and they are right but for now, let's just see this beautiful girl on her own.
I decided to try just one coat over yesterday's manicure. Afterwards, I added a top of OPI Top Coat.
I absolutely love how you have a bright mix of tiny rainbow glitter and the slightly larger hexagonal reflective glitter pieces. The more coats you use, the better chance you have at grabbing more hexagonal glitter. This does have a clear base so you can layer it over anything (and trust me, I have).
Even in the shade, this color likes to reflect everything! It's definitely a fun way to get another day out of a manicure or add something special on top of a normally drab color (not that this was a drab color to begin with!).
Indoors with the flash and just look how lovely this is. Definitely an instant favorite of mine. In fact, I like it so much that one of you is going to win my spare bottle! Yes, that's right! Details will be in my next posting - so stay tuned!
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I love Fruit Punch so it was pretty awesome to see an eye dust from Jesse's Girl named as such. This color reminds me exactly of having a red mouth after drinking too much of it as a kid. It's a soft red, not too pink with some light pink shimmer.
I really love how opaque this is in the shade. I've recently started wearing more reds on my eyes and it always gets compliments - try it sometime!
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My final color in the Texas/Deep In The Heart of Color Collection - OPI's Summer 2011 series is Do You Think I'm Tex-y? I was talking to a former nail tech the other day who said that she absolutely loves OPI's bottle names. I do think that consistently, they are the most creative and I do like the running theme of Suzi having a color named in there. This last sorbet/jelly polish is supposed to be more of a berry from their press release but again doesn't look much like it's promo picture.
I used a base of OPI Natural Nail, 3 coats of polish and a top of OPI Top Coat.
I really do hesitate on if this is a red or a purple. I feel like it leans more red but then I can see the whole berry purple thing in there too? This color seems more opaque than some of the others but it's still not like a creme.
In the shade it still holds it own and no VNL but I'm still not convinced. The whole jelly/sorbet thing is so weird to me and as much as I thought I liked them - I don't. I prefer opaque colors as I've been reading most of y'all do too.
Even indoors with the flash, this color just seems to glow and not get lost in the shuffle. I definitely think it's going to have to be played with some more, and again you can always add some crackle when the sheerness gets to you. I am glad to be done with this collection though. As excited as I was to see my home state covered in nail polish, I didn't enjoy all the colors as much as I hoped. I'd still buy for novelty sake but I don't know how often these colors will be reused in my stash.
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