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OPI San Francisco Nail Polish Collection

As I sat in the back room of the salon I work at, eating my caprese sandwich and flipping through one of the salon’s magazines, I saw the ad for OPI’s fall/winter 2013 collection: San Francisco. I immediately let out a loud “ooooo!” because it is one of those collections that I was instantly drawn to because of its cohesive and successfully represents a central theme. Another thing that stood out to me about the collection was that I found myself really liking each color, which is very rare. Usually there are a few, if not more, colors (or pieces if we’re talking fashion) that just does not really appeal to me. In this case, however, I really do like each color and could see myself buying and wearing all of them.

 

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Even though I like all of the colors, the three that stand out to me the most are “It’s All San Andrea’s Fault”, “Keeping Suzi At Bay” and “Muir Muir On The Wall.” Those three are definitely my favorite from the pictures so far and I cannot wait to try them! I especially like that the collection includes both the regular polishes and the liquid sand line because I’ve really been into grainy finish polishes lately. The texture is really cool and the shine/sparkle always looks better to me somehow.

After OPI’s last release, “Rock Goddess” the Halloween 2013 collection, seeing the “San Francisco” set was very refreshing.  I’m sorry but the Halloween collection was just so bad. I mean there are endless possibilities with Halloween, especially when you name the collection something interesting like “Rock Goddess”. Unfortunately the four colors they produced were a big letdown, which makes the arrival of such a beautiful collection that much more enjoyable! Make sure to keep your eye out at Sephora and other stores that carry and sell OPI this fall for their beautiful new “San Francisco” collection.

30 Day Nail Polish Challenge Kelsey Bowen’s edition

             Some of us are not that lucky to own a plethora nail polish colors. So I decided that I wanted to do a 30 nail polish challenge with one color.  Let’s be honest even if you do own a ton of nail colors you buy that one color that you love and you know you want to wear it for more then a week so here are come creative ideas to use the same color for more then one weeks worth of wear. The nail polish I choose was from the OPI; Oz the Great and Powerful collection called I Theodora You.

 

  1. The first design I choose was the leopard print. I love konads (http://www.konadnailart.com) nail art plates because I am not very good at doing designs on my own. I was happy to have a stamp kit so that I could have the same awesome look as everyone else.  I liked that the pink came through so nicely under the leopard and sorry it was a messy picture!

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  1. We all know that if we fall asleep with out nails even a little wet they leave a mark. I thought for week two I was in the clear till the next morning which I saw sheet prints. So what’s the best way to solve this? GLITTER! I have been obsessed with Which is Witch from the same collection. I thought it was the perfect way to cover up the flaws that had occurred over night rather then repainting my nails.

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  1. I love blood splatter. I don’t think that this is just a Halloween exclusive kind of thing for me. I like how the red looks on the pink background and this is again from the konads stamp pallet. I like with this stamp that you can make each nail look a little different by how you place the stamp on the nail.  For this kind of design it does not need to be uniform.

week 3

 

 

  1.  Where would this nail art design be if I didn’t have at least one week with fairly plain nails? Let’s be honest some weeks you are just too lazy to do fancy nails so instead the one fancy nail was enough. I used the Miss Piggy glitter from the Muppets OPI collection.  I wasn’t too happy with how this glitter looked on my nail but I was too lazy to change it so I stuck with it.

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This was my thirty-day nail challenge. It was not as exciting as Desirae’s but I do not have the same skills as were or the same patients. I love the konads stamps so that I can achieve a different kind of look on my nails and I hope that some of you that had not heard of it will take a look at the site. Hopefully this will give some inspiration to what can be done with a single nail color!