Keeping Up With Santa
Deep red with a red shimmer. The shimmer is beautiful and it seems to glow from within. A classic holiday color just a few shades darker than the traditional bright red. Perfect smooth formula with two coats for full, even coverage. Swatches are with no top coat...
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 | Brand: Nicole by OPI Collection: Kardashian Color, Holiday 2012 Color Name/Number: Keeping Up With Santa, NI K28 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Here We Kome A-Karoling
A vampy plum purple with a fuchsia shimmer. The shimmer is best visible under bright light, otherwise it seems to hide most of the time while indoors. Despite that, it was a hit for me since I absolutely love vampy plum shades such as this. Formula was nice and smooth. Two coats for full coverage and no top coat in the swatches...
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 | Brand: Nicole by OPI Collection: Kardashian Color, Holiday 2012 Color Name/Number: Here We Kome A-Karoling, NI K32 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Deck the Dolls
A shimmery teal. This also has a nice formula and smooth application. It is slightly less opaque than the other shimmers in the collection, but still provided good coverage by two coats. I can see a hint of the nail line peeking through, but decided to stick with two coats that you see below. Swatches are with no top coat...
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 | Brand: Nicole by OPI Collection: Kardashian Color, Holiday 2012 Color Name/Number: Deck the Dolls, NI K33 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
A Gold Winter's Night (over Keeping Up With Santa)
A mix of glitter including gold micro and bar glitter and blue/green/holo color shifting bar glitter. I'm not usually a fan of bar glitter, but this might actually be the first one that I like. The bars are smaller and not as densely packed plus they are balanced out with the small gold glitter which makes a huge difference for me. It applied very well with good distribution of glitter in just one coat. Would go well with just about any color. Swatches are with a top coat...
A closer look at the micro glitter that I think balances the bar glitter out so well...
| Swatch Details | |
 | Brand: Nicole by OPI Collection: Kardashian Color, Holiday 2012 Color Name/Number: A Gold Winter's Night, NI K30 Number of coats: 1 (over Keeping Up With Santa) Top Coat: Yes Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Kardashing Through the Snow (over Here We Kome A-Karoling)
A mix of small silver, red, aqua and green glitter in a clear base. I applied one generous coat over my base color. It applied very smoothly with great coverage and distribution of glitter. This is another one that I can see working with almost any color. It might even be dense enough to layer and wear on it's own, although I think it looks great as a topper. Swatches are with a top coat...
| Swatch Details | |
 | Brand: Nicole by OPI Collection: Kardashian Color, Holiday 2012 Color Name/Number: Kardashing Through the Snow, NI K29 Number of coats: 1 (over Here We Kome A-Karoling) Top Coat: Yes Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
All is Glam, All is Bright
A mix of micro silver and red glitter with a sprinkle of aqua glitter thrown in . The overall look of the polish from a distance is silver with a hint of pink. It is very, very sparkly, the photos cannot convey it quite right. It is a full coverage glitter, very densely packed. Two coats with a top coat in the swatches below.
| Swatch Details | |
 | Brand: Nicole by OPI Collection: Kardashian Color, Holiday 2012 Color Name/Number: All is Glam, All is Bright, NI K31 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: Yes Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
When I first saw All is Glam, All is Bright, it reminded me of Nicole by OPI Look at Me, Look at Me from the Target exclusives this past March. I wanted to compare them side by side.
Look at Me, Look at Me (LAMLAM) on the index and ring fingers
All is Glam, All is Bright (AIGAIB ) on the middle and pinkie fingers
The glitter size and density appears to be the same. They are both made up of silver, red, and blue glitter, but the proportion of glitter is different. AIGAIB has more pink with just a bit of blue while LAMLAM is more blue with just a sprinkle of pink. I think comparing them side by side makes their slight color tinge more obvious...
All is Glam, All is Bright on the left and Look at Me, Look at Me on the right...
What do you think of this collection? Any must haves for you before they are gone?
Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)
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I do think I may get A Gold Winter's Night.
ReplyDeleteI NEED this entire collection.
ReplyDeleteI love A Gold Winter's Night!
ReplyDeleteOh wow really gorgeous swatches. Anutka you really make every polish you wear so super pretty. Can't even choose which to get now haha but the last two looks amazing and I think I will have to grab them now >.<
ReplyDeleteMy wallet is going to be crying!!
ok, whats the trick?!! lol
ReplyDeletehonestly your swatches are the very best I've seen, you make me wish for every single polish you wear!
You even make bar glitter look good! lol
awesome collection! <3
ReplyDeleteawesome swatches!
ReplyDelete@Traci, the gold would go well with anything. Very pretty :)
ReplyDelete@Tiffany, I like how you think! Lots of holiday bling :)
@Elaine, I surprised me! Really the first bar glitter I love. :)
@AppleliciousMe, thank you so much! You are so sweet. I'm sorry to make the decision harder for you ;)
@Natalia, Thank you! You are making me blush. This is the first bar glitter I feel I've been able to pull off. I really like this one! The larger bars just don't work for me :)
@NatalieBrooke, thank you very much! :)
@maRyya, Thank you! Thank you! :)