OPI Pirates Of The Caribbean Swatches, Part 2: Mermaid's Tears & Stranger Tides!

A little later than I had hoped, and also less photos than I wanted to do (none with the bottle done outside as it was so, so cold that my hands could take no more – you may be able to tell from the pictures) but I think these show the colours fairly well anyway. Excuse the manicure; it’s not the greatest as I hadn’t tidied up after painting them.

The polish scent reminded me a bit of pear drops – weird! Anyway I found that I needed 3 coats with each of these shades, but gave 4 to be on the safe side. Out of the 2 I think Mermaid's Tears was probably the more opaque one, even though they had the same amount of coats in the end – I just think you could possibly get away with 2 thicker coats if you were in a rush with this.

Drying time was very reasonable and they do seem to last well on the nail – even without topcoat! Also I’d say that whilst the photos show quite true to colour, they’re possibly just a little murkier in real life... nothing too drastic though, in my opinion.

L-R Mermaid's Tears, Stranger Tides (With flash):

 

 No flash:

 L-R Mermaid's Tears, Stranger Tides, Planks A Lot, Sparrow Me The Drama (With flash):

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OPI Pirates Of The Caribbean Swatches, Part 1: Planks A Lot & Sparrow Me The Drama!

Happy birthday to me! I’m 30 today – not particularly loving the fact that I have now officially left my twenties, but I’m still planning on having a bloody good day to make something about this birthday happy.

Anyway moving onto the real reason for this post... which is that I’ve now got my hands on 4 of the OPI Pirates of the Caribbean collection (which I have been very excited about) so can now swatch them for you; although I’ve decided to do the swatches of the shades I have from this collection in 2 separate posts.

This is firstly because I didn’t want to overload one post with lots of pictures of all 4 shades, and also because I had difficulty getting the colours to show accurately on the pictures, so I’m going to have to redo the greens (Stranger Tides & Mermaid’s Tears) later on, or tomorrow, but up first we have ‘Planks A Lot’ (purple-y) and ‘Sparrow Me The Drama’ (pink). Please excuse my cuticles, they’re not in the greatest condition, nor is my manicure the best I've ever done - but we're not looking at that anyway as it's the colours that are of interest here, non? :-)

No Flash:

 Flash:

Actually, even though I have redone these photos I still think that ‘Planks A Lot’ especially isn’t showing true to colour in some of the pictures; it is actually a little bit darker, and with slightly less of a blue tinge to it than the photos show it to have. If pushed I guess I’d describe it as a grape-y grurple. I found that this needed 3 coats (not too thick) but I gave it 4 to be on the safe side.

No Flash:
 

Flash:

Also, ‘Sparrow Me The Drama’ is again slightly darker than the photos show and a little duskier too. This was pretty opaque at 2 coats, but I gave it 3 just to be sure. It looks a bit patchy in the pictures but I think that’s just the way the light/flash is reflecting off it as it doesn’t look like that now, and it didn’t when I was taking the pictures either.

I love both these shades; they’re girly but still have an edginess to them that stops them from being overly pink and fluffy. I can’t wait to try the Silver Shatter over the top of them.

Available from May, priced £10.50 each at http://www.lenawhite.co.uk/

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OPI 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' & 'Femme De Cirque' Collections For Spring/Summer 2011

Today was the launch of more OPI shades for spring/summer 2011 and whilst I couldn’t make it down there for the launch event, I have been kindly sent the information so I’m putting it up straight away for you all to see.

The first collection is a ‘shimmering sea of colour’, aptly named the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ collection because it has been created in collaboration with the new Disney film.

The collection is set to be released in May.

There are 6 new shades which is fabulous enough.... but there’s more, there’s also a silver, yes SILVER shatter top coat – I am so excited to try this, I almost let out a squeal of excitement when I saw it.

Anyway without further ado, here are the Pirates of the Caribbean collection shades:

Next up is the Soft Shades Femme De Cirque collection, a pretty 4-piece collection which consists of light pastel-y pink shades, with what looks like a very light grey and a cream in there too. Great for neutral nail lovers, I feel. This collection is due out in April.

Also available: Femme De Cirque Minis £12.75

Individual shades £10.50 each. http://www.lenawhite.co.uk/

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OPI Spring/Summer 2011 Polish Collection!

I’ve had this in my inbox for a while and rather embarrassingly I forgot all about it, until now; but with all the excitement over Burlesque and the Katy Perry ranges that I’ve had – I can be forgiven, surely?

We may not even have got through Christmas yet, but this is OPI’s Texan themed Spring/Summer 2011 collection, and it's ready and waiting to get on your nails in 2011. I couldn’t make it to the press launch unfortunately, but I do hope to have some swatches for you as soon as I can; until then here are some official images for you to feast your eyes on.

The stand-out colours for me are: It’s totally fort worth it, Guy meets Gal-veston, Austin-tatious, Don’t mess with OPI and Houston we have a purple... but I actually like most of the collection, can’t wait to try them for myself.

What do you make of the collection? Is there a stand out colour in there for you?

Available from Lena White, priced £9.95 each.