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Saturday, January 8, 2011

OPI Katy Perry Collection - Swatches and Reviews

  Here is a collection that has gotten a lot of talk lately!  OPI teamed up with Katy Perry to create four amazing shades, as well as the crackle polish Black Crackle.  This collection is really great - I think I love pretty much every shade!

(L-R) Teenage Dream, Last Friday Night, Black Shatter, The One That Got Away, Not Like the Movies

 OPI Teenage Dream

Outdoors, shade, no flash
  This was probably the polish I was most excited about from this collection, and it definitely held up to expectations!  This gorgeous light pink is full of pink microglitter in a sheer base, with medium-sized silver holographic glitter spread throughout.  This is three coats, although two thick coats most likely would have sufficed.  The base is very sheer, but this builds to opacity nicely, and application was great.  This glitter in this was hard to capture on film, but it is very bright and shiny! :)

Outdoors, sun
  This looked really nice under Black Shatter - the combo of the girly pink and the cracked black gave it a kind of chic punk look, in my opinion.  I actually did this last and wore it all day!


OPI Last Friday Night
Outdoors, shade, no flash
  As a huge glitter fan, this is another one I was really excited for.  This polish is full of bright blue microglitter, with medium-sized silver glitter with blue/turquoise multi-colored flash. While I did like it, it was a bit on the sheer side for my personal taste - this is four coats, and there is still visible nail line.  I think it would be impossible to achieve bottle color on this one.  I also found that this one needed a few extra minutes of dry time in between coats, as I got a bit of polish smudging during application.  I will most likely use this as a layering polish in the future.

Outdoors, shade, no flash
  I did, however, love this one with black shatter!  I have always loved blue and black combos and I think this is just gorgeous.  This is black shatter without topcoat (previously with topcoat).  I wanted to show what both might look like, although the topcoat will give you a more smooth feel.  The black has a matte quality to it without topcoat.

OPI The One That Got Away
Indoors, natural light, no flash
   This polish is a deep berry pink, with fine glitter throughout.  While I think this is not the most unique color ever, I love this particular version of it.  The fine glitter really adds to the finish of the polish, and it really seems to glow.  This was three coats, although two probably would have been fine had I not messed up application on one nail... oops.  Other than my own user error, application on this was excellent.  Sorry these last two polishes will have indoor photos - I thought I had a nice sunny day when I started swatching, but freak 2 hour snowstorm kind of got in the way of my plans.  :)

Indoors, natural light, no flash
  I was not quite as big a fan of Black Shatter over this one; although still pretty, I think this is one I like best by itself.  This is shown without topcoat, giving the black a matte appearance.

OPI Not Like The Movies
Indoors, natural light, no flash
   In the original promo pictures for this collection, I thought this polish was going to be a regular foil silver.  Instead, it is a gorgeous light purple/green duochrome polish with small glitter specks throughout - beautiful!  It was a bit on the thin side, but three coats seemed to be enough to achieve full opacity.  It was also a bit thin but still had decent application.

Indoors, natural light, no flash
  This one needed at least one extra picture to show the duochrome awesomeness.  This looks somewhat similar to Deborah Lippmann Wicked Game, which I have but have not gotten a chance to wear yet.  I think I will have to do a comparison of the two sometime soon... ;)

Indoors, natural light, no flash
  I really loved this one under Black Shatter, since you could see the duochrome peeking out.  Very pretty!

Overall Thoughts
  I really loved all of the base polishes in this collection, even if they weren't all the most unique.  I think my favorite is probably Teenage Dream, but they are all really gorgeous!  You will definitely be seeing them all again in full manicures!  However, the clear star of the collection is Black Shatter - I have never used crackle polish before and I thought it was pretty awesome.  I would recommend picking up a bottle if you don't have crackle polish already!  Prepare to see a few comparisons coming up sometime soon!

DISCLOSURE: The polishes featured in this post  were provided to Polishology by OPI for review purposes.  This is an honest and independent review and was in no way influenced by the company.

5 comments:

  1. i love Not Like The Movies...need to pick it up

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  2. last fridey night looks great :-)
    i love crackle 2 :-)

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  3. I don't really get all the hype over the Katy Perry Polishes to me they are kind of Blah... Except for the shatter of course! I have tagged you on an award. Sry for link http://www.letthemhavepolish.com/2011/01/stylish-blogger-award.html

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  4. have teenage dream - love it! :)
    now im wanting the one that got away!

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  5. Wow... you definetly have talent... love the way your nails look with the stamps on all of them... I wish I had the patience to do that... Great job!!!... :)

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