A Butterfly Moment - "This sophisticated and frosty tan nude has us all a-flutter"
Nude metallic-y frost with a golden shimmer. This has a great formula with easy application. Brush strokes are really minimal for a frost and the OPI brush really helps. Nice coverage with just two coats which was a rather pleasant surprise. I really like this shade and ended up wearing it for a few days. I'll show you the nail art that followed in a few days. Swatches are with no top coat...
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: A Butterfly Moment, NL M41 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Sprung - "Fall hopelessly in love with this shimmery copper"
Copper brown and gold flecks. This is very sparkly and beautiful. I personally love these shades that seem to be made up of different colors of flecks. It starts out sheer and builds up to full coverage at three coats. The formula is nice. No top coat in these swatches...
This just needed a close up... am I the only one that goes crazy for these "complex" colors?
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: Sprung, NL M42 Number of coats: 3 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Anti-Bleak - "This deep, creamy purple will lift your spirits"
A dark mulberry wine cream. It has a nice creamy formula and gives full coverage at two coats. It looks very classy and sophisticated to me. Swatches are without a top coat...
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: Anti-Bleak, NL M44 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Pink Yet Lavender - "This pink glitter with lavender shimmer has superstar shine!"
Clear base with pink hex and small silver holo glitter. The holo or color shifting effect of the small glitter is hard to see in these photos. Look at the bottle on the photos to see some of the flashes of color. It is gorgeous and sparkly on the nail as well. I did use to top coat over the glitter to get a smooth finish...
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: Pink Yet Lavender, NL M43 Number of coats: 1 (layered) Top Coat: Yes Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Liquid Sand
The following shades are the new Liquid Sand textured polishes....
A black tinted base with with red glitter. It looks like hot lava on the nails and is absolutely gorgeous. It is certainly one of the most unique polishes I have ever seen. I'm wearing it as I type up this post and keep starring at it every few minutes. Can't begin to tell you how much I love this one! Application is the same as any regular polish. Dry time is longer than a typical matte polish and is possibly longer than a regular polish as well. Two coats for full coverage. Swatches are with no top coat as they are intended to be worn...
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: Stay the Night, NL M45 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Get Your Number - "Wearing this matte blue with sparkles is a great call"
A blue tinted jelly base with different sized blue and holo glitter. It starts out fairly sheer and builds up to nice coverage with three coats. As much as I love Stay the Night (above), this might actually win over because of the variety of glitter and the amazing sparkle. These photos don't do this polish justice. Look at the bottle in these photos to see a bit of the flashes of holo glitter. No top coat in these swatches...
Looks like rock sugar candy to me...
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: Get Your Number, NL M46 Number of coats: 3 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Can't Let Go - "Hold onto this matte purple with dazzling sparkle"
A purple jelly base with purple glitter in different sizes. This is also a gorgeous polish and really I can't resist a good purple. This has a great formula and needed only two coats for full coverage. I'm sure you guessed by now, but swatches are with no top coat...
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: Can't Let Go, NL M47 Number of coats: 2 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
The Impossible - "This matte fuchsia with star confetti will never give up"
A raspberry red jelly base with pink hex, holo stars and small pink glitter. The star glitter settles down to the bottom of the bottle and doesn't readily get picked up. I flipped the bottle over for a few minutes prior to using to get the stars up to the top. Three coats provides good coverage and no problems with application. No top coat...
The star glitter is best seen if it happens to be in the third coat as shown on the nail on the right. The nail on the left had a star in the second coat and almost completely disappeared after the third coat...
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 | Brand: OPI Collection: Mariah Carey Color Name/Number: The Impossible, NL M48 Number of coats: 3 Top Coat: No Free of Formaldehyde, Toluene, Dibutyl Phthalate (DBP) |
Just a few thoughts and comments on the new Liquid Sand polishes...
Application: Easy to apply just as any other polish. Opacity builds up with multiple coats.
To top coat or not... I personally really like the texture and the matte look and choose to wear these without a top coat as they are intended to be worn. For that same reason I chose not to swatch them with a top coat. Also, these glitters are very top coat "hungry" and it would take multiple layers of top coat to get a smooth finish. After three coats of polish applying three coats of top coat is the last thing I want to be doing.
Dry time: Dry time is longer than a matte cream polish and about the same as a regular polish. It takes a while for it to turn completely matte.
Removal: Similar to a glitter polish since it is largely made up of glitter.
Texture: It is slightly gritty to the touch, similar to sand paper. It is not sharp and doesn't seem catch on things. As you can see from this angled view it is slightly bumpy, but nothing extreme....
Have you tried (or will be trying) any of these? What do you think of them?
Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)
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I was born in 1993, I was listening to Mariah while I was still in the womb, (my mom said I would always get so excited and dance to her music, creepy right? hahaha) I love her music and I LOVE nail polish. OPI did a fantastic job here. I NEED this collection so bad! I can not wait until I can get it![:
ReplyDeleteI got pink yet lavender and get your number and I love them! They are so pretty and I love the liquid sand!
ReplyDeleteI'm planning to buy Stay the Night and Can't Let Go because I'm on a low-buy and those are the two that I know I would regret not buying. BUT I know that if I wasn't on a low-buy it would probably be impossible for me not to pick all of these up. I just love all of them!
ReplyDeleteYour swatches are just lovely!!
ReplyDeleteGet Your Number and Can't Let Go are my favourites! You're right, Sprung is beautiful! :-)
ReplyDeletei didn't try any of these but they are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI really need to pick up Stay the Night. Gorgeous swatches!
ReplyDeleteI always love your swatches <3 My sis and I also listened to her songs a lot and sing a long (at home) or perform at playback shows. Like here older songs such as Hero, All I want for Christmas, Always be my baby (also the video clips) ahhh good old childhood memories :)
ReplyDeleteThese are really pretty!
ReplyDeleteLovely, might grab the two liquid sand I see here.. Pretty awesome :)
ReplyDeleteI was undecided on the liquid sand polishes but intrigued at the same time. Since I couldn't decide which on I wanted to try and didn't want to pay $8.50 a piece for each of them, I opted for the mini set of all 4 of them ($12.50 at Ulta, thankyouverymuch!) Anyway, I applied Can't Let Go last night and I love it!! It looks like more of a pink-purple to me than the blue-purple in your photos but it's still gorgeous. Of course, looking back I'm thinking I should have worn Get Your Number for Blue Friday today. Gotta support my Hawks!! :)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh! I thought I already replied to all your comments! Sorry it took so long :(
ReplyDelete@Emma, I think that is so cute! I love her music also, while I was not in the womb in 1993, I was dancing to it for sure :)
@Brianna, I'm so glad you like them! Liquid sand is really fantastic!
@marioshutup, some colors are just so hard to resist! I know you will love them :)
@Jamie, thank you so much!
@Tatjana, I could love to see what you create with these! I'm trying to figure out a way to do nail art with them without ruining the finish :)
@Tina, I'm glad you like them! Thank you :)
@Rebecca, it really seems to glow like lava! You will love it if you get it :)
@Diana, I'm right there with you on those older songs! Those were my favorites as well. Hero was really on repeat all the time. All I Want for Christmas is still my favorite during holiday time! Great memories :)
@TikiBarbie, I'm so glad you like them! Thank you :)
@AppleliciousMe, The liquid sand are wonderful! Definitely get some to play around with! :)
@Dawn, I'm glad you were able to get your hands on the minis! They are gorgeous indeed and really not as rough as the photos make them seem! So glad you like them :)
Oh, it's sooo my new favorite nail-blog ;)
ReplyDeleteI got the mini collection with all liquid sand polishes. I wold have preferred if 'cant't let go' &'the impossible' didn't have big glitter but just more of the small ones. A bit like 'stay the night'. I swatched them all, first without top-coat &then 1/2 of the nail with to coat, difference is not that big with just one layer of top coat. I'm doing my nails for whole week (with matching pedi) and how a polish wares is important for me. For this week i went with 'Can't Let Go'. The big glitter is a bit downfall, when there is no top coat as it looses color after 2 days of normal ware. Also tips-ware is an issue but it is not a big problem as the sandy formula makes repairing it quick and there are no visible lines after applying polish just to the tip of the nail.
I think hat the polish got a bit thick after I did my toes (I always do toes first and then fingers) but this may be, because I have the mini bottles. I've noticed glitter getting thick verify fast when applied from mini bottles. Nail polish thinner did solve this problem and with the coarse texture you don't need to worry about waiting some time after mixing thinner in polish and shaking.
I'm exited to try other 3 for a whole week as well.
@Grete Oll, Thank you very much! I don't tend to wear the same polish very often so it is great to know you are testing them out for an entire week each. The large glitter doesn't bother me as I generally do like glitter. It is good to know that it is so easily fixed and blends in without seams :)
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