{NOTD} On the 10th day before Easter, a bunny rabbit gave to me...

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... a little teaser "Not Like the Movies" from OPiiiiiiii...

And what a teaser! Meet "Not like the Movies", one of the 5 polishes from the Katy Perry Collection. OPI describes this as  "A great gunmetal which has undertones of green and purple depending on the light". I call it a light grey duochrome with iridescence of lavender and light green. It's beautiful. As with any duochromes, only expert photographers (i.e not total noob and amateur like me) would know how to capture it so please excuse my poor attempts.





My photos show 2 coats of smooth and very to apply polish. It would benefit from  but 3, but 2 coats don't bother and offers ample coverage for me. It's my little teaser and I want to make it last as long as I can.










The polish looks a bit gritty, but fear not, it is as smooth as a baby's bottom. I love moving my fingers in the air, and love seeing them lavender or green as I move them. It's a cute and very unique little polish.








As a fan of Kary Perry, I am pretty chuffed to own it. Thank you mystery Easter bunny rabbit!
Do you own a polish from Katy Perry. Feel free to spam me with your (relevant) link ^_^

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OPI – My Private Jet Nails

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Why did I buy this again? Oh yeah. It was part of a blog sale held by a lovely girl, and as I am a sucker for blog sales, I succumbed and bought My Private Jet from Opi.






This is a lovely shade of dark brown with very delicate and intense micro glitter in it. It’s very pretty. Application as with most OPI polishes I’ve tried is a breeze, albeit a little bit runny. No hint of patchiness, or streakiness, the polish glided on my nails effortlessly. After my recent experiences with ‘bronze boogie’ the cheapest nail polish which has ever graced my nails, applying My Private Jet on my nails felt like a luxurious experience.






Happy purchase then? Well yes and no. My nails looks very elegant and very sparkly. Yet they feel as elegant with funky cosmic polish from eyeko and with my ’Missfit’  freebie from Misssguided and Cosmopolitan at half the price.

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OPI Eiffel for this Color - NOTD

My first encounter with an OPI polish happened just 3 weeks ago and it was love at first sight. I couldn’t wait to try some more OPI polishes. I was so happy because I finally understood why people had been raving about OPI polishes so much. So when I saw ‘Eiffel for this colour’ available on a blog sale at half price, I just had to have it. But maybe I should have had done some more research about it beforehand...





The colour is undeniably gorgeous: dark purple with a lovely lighter purple shimmer at the heart of it, when the light hits it. What a crying shame the application was an absolute ordeal. This is my 3rd poor attempt (the first 2 were nowhere near decent to be photographed) and it’s still not right. It actually made me doubt even more about the (little of) nail application skills I had achieved so far. 






While I was in the middle of it, I applied for reassurance purposes a quick coat of OPI ‘I’m not really a waitress’ (yum!) on the thumb of my other hand and everything was right with the world again. There is definitely something not quite right about the formula of Eiffel for this Color’, and I can’t put my finger on it. I found it helped if I applied 2 thick coats rather than 3 thin coats but still had so much trouble arriving at an even smooth application and to have neat edges. For some reason as well, the brush felt like a trowel in my hand, it felt like the product rather than the brush was controlling the application and wanted to lodge itself right onto my cuticles. 







What a shame. I would only recommend this nail polish for the more advanced nail aficionados who really like this colour in particular, and only those with a patience of an angel. Otherwise, you might want to skip it.




Now if eyeko (this reminded me actually a bit of the vampira one for some reason) did something similar, this would make me very happy. Seen any dupes of this colour? I’d love to know! Have you also got some non recommendations for OPI polishes?

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Hopi Halloween everyone :) - My first OPI NOTD

Words are just buzzing in my head. I feel I am unable to organise my thoughts. I am deeply moved and without the shadow of doubt I am wearing the most gorgeous nail polish which has ever been created. Introducing the red mini polish from Opi part of the get-in-spider-ed mini set from years ago which landed on my doorstep, as a sumptuous Halloween gift from my sweet sweet @drew692 aka debbie harris aka beauty begins.





If you think I am usually posting way too many pictures of my nails whenever I do a notd, you're in a for a shock  because I am finding it hard to narrow my selection ever more than usual.
In one word (or thereabout) possibly THE most gorgeous nail polish which has ever graced my nails and I am not saying this because this is a present from my blog BFF. I have never tried an OPI nail polish. (I find the bottle a bit too big, heavy and in your face) I knew it was good stuff but good grief I didn't know it  was this good. If I thought barry m polishes applied like a dream, it was until I applied this red (almost one coat) wonder).




You could almost apply it with your feet it's that easy: it just glides and just wants to apply by itself within the parameters. My application is not tip top by no means but for my standards, it's pretty chuffing good. Here it is, with 2 coats on and with no clean up whatsoever (I know I am still applying it like 2 miles away from edges)


 




Also part of this set, a gorgeous black polish which dries to a lovely glossy finish. You will need 3 coats with this colour but the layers dry reasonably quickly. On the ring finger for this manicure, I only applied only one coat of red to give you an idea of the 'pigmentation'. And now photo with the obligatory glow in the dark spider ring.







And last but not least, part of this set, the glow in the dark polish. Application was as easy as applying tippex on your nails with a toothpick and is rather messy but the result makes up for it. If you were to wear this polish out, I would suggest you would apply a coat of nail tip whitener first on the whole surface of the nail, and then a coat of the glow in the dark. Now, taking photos of this was quite err interesting. I am in love with my beautiful gift. Thank you so much drew!  I am in love!

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