OPI Burlesque Pt. 3

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for :) The OPI Burlesque glitters!

Show It and Glow It is a fuchsia purple glitter mixed with silver.  There are a few other colors of glitter in there but the overall color is very purple.  This is two thick coats.

My favorite out of this half of the lacquers is Sparkle-icious.  It's a Mardi Gras color scheme glitter bomb.  A little more sparse than the others, there are only three colors of glitter in this guy- purple, gold, and blue.  Very pretty and closest to the elusive Mad As A Hatter polish that everyone loved so much from the OPI Alice in Wonderland collection.  This is three coats.

Shimmer and Simmer is a weird name for this blue babe.  Gorgeous with an overall ocean blue color with a silver cast.  It has the same little bits of other colors, yellow, green, and red.  This is two thick coats.

Glow Up Already is overall silvery green with hint of gold.  This looks a lot like Rescue Beauty Lounge Locavore, if you are looking for a cheaper alternative.  This is two thick coats.

Bring On the Bling is a very light gold overall.  This is really gorgeous, the bits of colored glitter mixed in make the cool gold just POP!  Two thick coats.

Extra-Va-Vaganza is also a weird name.  I get what they were going for but yeah, it doesn't work.  This really reminds me of Halloween and would be a great color to release around that time, good thing these came out at the beginning of October huh?  Cool orange color with silver pops out the most.  Two thick coats.

As a whole, this collection is really special.  I would've liked a few cool toned foils maybe to round it out but a few really jumped out at me and earned "must have" status in my opinion.  It still doesn't make me want to watch the movie though, haha.

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

These products were provided to for an honest review.

OPI Burlesque Pt. 2

Hey kids! I hope your weekend is going well, I know mine has been pretty fair so far :) Here are a few more swatches from the OPI Burlesque Collection, inspired by the movie starring Cher and Christina Aguilera.

The Show Must Go On, Let Me Entertain You, Take the Stage

Rising Star, Tease-y Does It, Ali's Big Break

Tease-y does it is probably my favorite out of the non-glitters from this collection.  It's a dark plum brown crème with dark burgundy shimmer with a hint of gold.  There is also a bangin' duochrome going on in the bottle, but sadly it doesn't come out on the nail.  It's alright though, this color is pretty fantastic anyway!  This is two coats.

flash

lamp light

Rising Star is a warm gold copper foil.  Very "star" like so the name is very fitting.  Probably my second least favorite from the collection, but still a winner.  OPI did a great job with this collection, very flashy and reminds me of a Vegas show.  This is three coats.

My least favorite from the collection is probably Take the Stage.  And I really like oranges so I was sad about this one not making my heart leap.  It's cousin to Rising Star, same great metallic foil but the burnished orange just doesn't work for my skintone so I had to say "blech" to this one.  Although I'm sure someone out there pulls it off beautifully.  This is three coats.

Ali's Big Break is really stunning.  Along the same lines as classics like China Glaze's Ruby Pumps, but slightly brighter.  This cherry red jelly is full of pinky gold micro glitter that makes it a hot little ticket that I loved wearing.   This is three coats.  I apologize for not including a full hand photo of this, but my sun pictures of it turned out uber weird and no amount of color correcting will fix them :(

Coming up: the glitters!!

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

These products were provided to me for an honest review.

OPI Burlesque Pt. 1

the lovely burlesque collection from opi came out at the beginning of october, a collaboration opi has done for the movie Burlesque, in theaters soon. i'm not super interested in the movie but the polishes are pretty fab! there are 12 polishes in the collection, six shimmers and six glitters.

right away, out of the shimmers, the show must go on just called to me. it was definitely the most talked about amongst the beauty community i think as most folks were thinking it would be a dupe for mac's bad fairy nail polish (it's not). it's a coral pink metallic polish with big particles of shimmer and an orange gold duochrome. very pretty and enigmatic. two coats.

 

let me entertain you certainly entertains me! magenta bordering on raspberry, even looking like jam or preserves haha, this glass fleck shimmer is really gorgeous. there is a tinge of pink in the sparkle that i really like. two coats here as well.

i finally fashioned myself a lightbox, now just to finagle the lights and my camera to work the way i need them to!  it's that season again *sigh* the time has changed and the sun has started to disappear from my mountain town so in order to get my swatches done in a timely manner, i needed a solution. bare with me while i get it all figured out :) look out for more swatches from this collection folks!

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

These products were provided for an honest review.