OPI San Francisco Collection For Fall/Winter 2013 Swatches and Review

  San Francisco by OPI brings street chic style with West Coast flair to nails and toes for Fall/Winter 2013. This new collection features a palette ranging from sky and sea-colored hues of blues and gray to reds, burgundies and browns inspired by some of the city’s most iconic elements – Chinatown, the Golden Gate bridge and the Embarcadero. This fall mélange is mixed with texture, seen in three new Liquid Sand™ nail lacquers in earthy hues of taupe, blue and gray: It’s All San Andreas’s Fault, Wharf! Wharf! Wharf! and Alcatraz…Rocks. Liquid Sand lacquers dry to a textured, matte finish, infused with reflective sparkle.

“To me, the women of San Francisco and the city itself really epitomize today’s multifaceted beauty consumer,” explains Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, OPI Executive VP & Artistic Director.  “San Francisco offers a European flair with distinct West Coast attributes. These elements inspired a collection of urban chic nail lacquer shades, thanks to the sophisticated combination of high fashion and eclectic street style.

 “With twelve colors ranging from moody grays and blues to garnet and ruby jewel tones, these lacquers are designed to accessorize fall’s hottest looks, from military details to winter whites,” continues Weiss-Fischmann. “On fall runways, models were seen wearing luxurious textures from head to toe. The three new Liquid Sand nail lacquers incorporate the texture trend through nails, with rich matte finishes in colors to complement the season’s fashion.”

A-Piers to Be Tan
I shore do like this chocolaty tan.

Dining al Frisco
Just feast your eyes on this fresh-air blue!

Haven’t the Foggiest
Can’t tell you why I love this misty gray...I just do!

Peace & Love & OPI
This holographic sage and eggplant is far out!

Keeping Suzi at Bay
There’s no holding back this assertive navy blue.

Incognito in Sausalito
You better keep this almost-black blue under wraps.

Lost on Lombard
Oh garn-et! I’m all turned around!

I Knead Sour-Dough
Are you bready to wear this toasty warm brown?

Muir Muir on the Wall
This trailblazing plum is the fairest of all.

In the Cable Car-Pool Lane
Good golly, Miss Trolley, this rich burgundy takes me away!

Embarca-Dare Ya!
Betcha can’t pass up this marvelous magenta.

First Date at the Golden Gate
You and me and this shimmery ruby make three.

It’s All San Andreas’s Fault
I’d move mountains to get this textured earthy taupe!
 

Wharf! Wharf! Wharf!
Dog-gone it...fetch me that textured matte blue!

Alcatraz...Rocks
There’s no escaping this arresting textured gray.

    The formula on all of the colors in this collection was really great, they applied smooth and even and they dried really fast. I used two coats for all of these, other than First Date at the Golden Gate which needed three coats. All of these are shown without top coat. I really really liked all of these, but my only complaint would be that the creme shades seemed to chip faster than the shimmer/duochromes after I'd had them on for a few days.

  When I was swatching these, some of them really surprised me. I didn't really like a couple of these when I saw them in the bottle,(Embarca-Dare Ya!, I Knead Sour-Dough) but when I saw them on the nails in the sunlight they were really beautiful.

  My favorites from this collection were Alcatraz...Rocks,  Peace & Love & OPI, A-Piers to Be Tan, In the Cable Car-Pool Lane, Muir Muir on the Wall, and Keeping Suzi at Bay.

*These were sent for review

Color Blocked Neon Stripes

    Hey guys, what's up? Today I have some neon color blocked nails to share. Is color blocking still in? Probably not, but oh well, I'll still rock it.

    For these nails I started with a base coat of white. I used two coats of Essie Blanc. Then, with a striper brush, I used some black acrylic paint to do the black stripes on all of my nails. After I did the black stripes I went in and added the gray stripes to all of my nails using Zoya Dove and China Glaze Recycle. I let all of that dry for about a minute and I added my neon stripes using Sinful Colors Neon Melon.

   I wasn't really going for a pattern here, I just went with what I thought looked nice and tried not to put two of the same color next to each other. Next time I do this I'll probably add more, skinnier, black stripes.

   Like always, I finished this off with one coat of Seche Vite.

Quick! Guess the color!

  If you guessed China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, you were right! This super bright neon coral is one of my favorite colors for summer. Scratch that, this is one of my favorite polish colors period.

  I used two coats of this and one coat of Seche because neons dry matte.

  I'm surprised that my camera was able to capture the color so well after it completely freaked out while taking the fist couple of pictures like the one below.

4th of July Nails!

  Hey guys! Happy (almost) 4th of July! These are the nails I'll be wearing tomorrow.

  The colors I used for these nails were Essie Blanc, Ciaté Power Dressing, and OPI Red Hot Gift. I used a stiper brush and OPI Red Hot Gift for the stripes on the accent nail, I would've used tape for nicer lines, but me and tape just don't work very well together. I freehanded the little star inside the halfmoon with some white acrylic paint and a small striper brush.

  I did wait a while to put top coat on these because I didn't want the red and white to smear, but this caused the blue to bubble really bad. Oh well.

Wham! Pow!

  Hey guys!  Today's post features some neon and holographic glitter, it's like a rave on my nails.

   This orange is Color Club Wham! Pow! and the name is fitting because this color is crazy bright! I needed about three coats and I really should've put this over white, but I didn't. The formula on this one was really meh too, it's kinda thick and it dried before it could even out. I guess the end result is worth it though, because it's so bright and pretty.

  The gold glitter I'm wearing is Stun from Floss Gloss. This is a holographic gold glitter and wow, this is awesome. I love everything about this nail polish. I only needed two coats of this and the formula was really great for being a glitter.

 
     The picture below shows the holo-y-ness of the glitter. Super pretty, right?

Born Pretty Store Cone Studs Review

     It's really no secret that I like studded things, so today I have a review for these edgy spike studs from Born Pretty Store.

 
  These cone shaped studs come in a set of 10 and come in both gold and silver. These turned out to be much bigger than I'd expected them to be, but they're still pretty cool and they didn't get in the way as much as I thought they would.

   I started out with two coats of nail polish and then top coat and let that dry before I attached these. When I did attach them, I put a tiny amount of nail glue on the bottom of the stud and a dab of the glue on my nail. I just picked these up with my fingers becuase they were big enough, and I placed them where I wanted them and let the glue dry.

  When the glue was dry, I used my top coat again to go around th base of the studs to smooth out any bumps that the glue left and to secure the studs more.

  The studs stayed on my nail for about two cays before they started to come off, but I think that was my fault for not using enought glue to secure them. They didn't really get in the way either, but they made my finger feel really heavy because they're metal.

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  The nude polish that I used for these was Zoya Avery and the gold gradient was done with Julep Oscar.

  I did change my nail shape before doing these, but I'm already back to square haha.

 *these were sent for review

Daft Nails!

   Do you guys like Daft Punk? I do, and If you're like me and you've been waiting for this album for 7 years you're probably excited too.  I did these nails because their new album, Random Access Memories, came out today. I've been listening to the leak for about a week and I think it's pretty awesome!

  
   For these nails I started with two coats of a regular black, I used Essence Black is Back, on each finger.  For the logo on my thumb, I used white acrylic paint. The glitters on my index and middle fingers are Thomas and Guy-Manuel from Daring Digits Daft Punk set that I don't think is available anymore. Thomas (on my index finger) is a silver shimmer with silver hexagons, large red squares, and small black and red squares. Guy-Manuel is a gold base with multicolored square glitters and gold hexagons.
 
  

  The glitter on my ring and index fingers is just some loose black glitter that I poured over a coat of wet black polish. I used that because I think it looks like those really cool YSL sequin suits that they're wearing now.

 I used two coats of top coat on these just to be sure that everything was nice and smooth.