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Wednesday 27 February 2013

OPI Lights of Emerald City - Swatch and review

I'm not sure if I like this polish or not. I love square glitter, and I love matt white glitter, and I love iridescent glitter - so all the parts are there for me ~ I'm just not sure about how this fits together as a whole.

Most of the swatches I've seem have been over light pinks, in particular OPI I Theodora You, the baby pink from the OPI Oz Collection. The PolishAholic did her swatch of Lights of Emerald City over this one - take a look here the polishaholic OPI-Disney Oz The Great And Powerful Collection Swatches & Review. So I choose to swatch over a couple of darker colours - Elevation Polish Colline du Charf and Essie Power Clutch. I took my pictures in the low light of late afternoon to try capture the sparkle of the iridescent glitter.

Here is Lights of Emerald City over Colline du Charf
OPI Lights of Emerald City

OPI Lights of Emerald City

OPI Lights of Emerald City
OPI Lights of Emerald City over Elevation Polish Colline du Charf

It looks OK from a distance I guess, and I love how the smaller glitters glow and twinkle. My problems are with the white glitters - maybe they are bit too big? - but whatever, I think they make the polish look a bit tacky. And there are some practical issues with them; because they are big, and flat, they don't lie well on my nails, they stick out a bit and are kinda funny looking, like how post-it notes don't lie flat on what you stick them to! I thought this was because my nails have a very high c-curve, but when I looked carefully at the Swatchaholic's pics again, it looks the same on her nails. And there's a quality problem with these white glitters too - they haven't cut properly so a lot of them have got a little extra tag on the corner - ugh!

Here it is over Power Clutch:
OPI Lights of Emerald City

OPI Lights of Emerald City

OPI Lights of Emerald City
OPI Lights of Emerald City over Essie Power Clutch

A couple of blurry ones for fun to show the rainbows in the iridescent glitter:

OPI Lights of Emerald City

OPI Lights of Emerald City
OPI Lights of Emerald City over Essie Power Clutch

And a macro (well the best I can do for a macro with my little camera so you can see properly the tags on the white glitters and how they don't lie flat to the nail).

OPI Lights of Emerald City
OPI Lights of Emerald City over Essie Power Clutch

Both the colours I used as bases for these swatches are beautiful in their own right so it's only fair to show them on their own! Here's Elevation Polish Colline du Charf, this is a difficult colour to describe but it's a sort of light dusty taupe with a lavender tinge.

Elevation Polish Colline du Charf



Elevation Polish Colline du Charf

Elevation Polish Colline du Charf
Elevation Polish Colline du Charf

It has a slightly jelly finish, I took the pics above without topcoat just before I put the OPI on. This is two coats.

Essie Power Clutch is a classic and I love it. If it's not a staple in your collection, it should be! This is three coats with SV.
Essie Power Clutch

Essie Power Clutch

Essie Power Clutch
Essie Power Clutch


What do you think about OPI Lights of Emerald City - are the white glitters too big?

I purchased OPI Lights of Emerald City from a seller on Amazon.co.uk. Elevation Polish Colline du Charf is available directly from Lulu at her website here http://elevationpolish.bigcartel.com/product/colline-du-charf and Essie Power Clutch is readily available from shops and on-line stores.

I've also posted a review and pictures of OPI Lights of Emerald City with some light green polishes :)


4 comments:

  1. i love your combo with power clutch!! im still debating if this is a glitter i need... i love the square glitters though!

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    1. Thanks! Maybe you could franken a better version if you can get hold of suspension base and some better quality white square glitters? Or maybe ask one of the indie makers to do a custom polish for you :)

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  2. I almost want to buy the glitter you're right I don't hate it and I don't love it but I do like it. The white chunky glitter does seem pretty big. I like this best over dark polishes.

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  3. I can't believe the appalling quality of these white glitters with the tabs - BAD OPI. I do quite like the concept of this polish though so maybe I'll make a PMP version...

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