OPI will be releasing a nail polish collection made with Nicki Minaj in January 2012, so I am dubbing 2012 the "year of Nicki Minaj". Let's see how correct I am, I am betting on a fragrance release and tons of other color products coming out in the upcoming year. This collection contains six brand new shades, five of which are regular shades and one of which is a crackle finish top coat. Personally, I am the most excited for the Viva Glam lipstick but I am looking forward to this collection too.
The fact that Viva Glam teamed up with Nicki Minaj was actually the only reason that I ever gave her music and style a chance. I used to gag at every wig that she wore and I would refuse to ever listen to her songs. But when she teamed up with MAC, I downloaded a few of her songs from iTunes discovered that I really liked her. Thank god for MAC!
The shades that are in the Nicki Minaj and OPI collection are either bright or glitter finishes, but I would expect nothing less from a collection that was inspired by Nicki Minaj. This would not be a collection of boring reds and pinks and that is exactly what OPI needs to keep up with Illamasqua and China Glaze. This collection might inspire me to buy crazy shades from OPI, something that I rarely ever do. Normally, OPI is the company that I go to for reds and sheers. This is a whole new concept for me and might actually make me love OPI a bit more than China Glaze for the moment...
First we will start with the regular nail polish shades...
The first shade in named Pink Friday, after the title of Nicki Minaj's first album. On first glance, this is my early favorite shade of the collection. Lately, bright pinks for both lips and nails have been my style and I can see this going right into the spring. I am over the holidays and just so ready for spring! I am just so looking forward to spring shopping....
Pink Friday is the first shade is the collection. It is a light blue pink and we all know how much I love blue pinks! This is a great light blue pink shade and I imagine that this is will be the best shade to match the upcoming Viva Glam Nicki shade. This is a light blue pink and I wish that I could tell if it has a shimmer or a cream finish but the picture isn't exactly forthcoming as to what the finish of this shde is. It is the perfect light blue pink and I love it it. I can't wait to buy this shade and rock it all spring, this is a great shade and I can't wait to wear it. The second of the the new shades is Did It On 'Em, a bight green that is is so ready for spring. This is a bright yellow green that is reminescent of a shade that I wore in middle school. This is another shade that I can't tell if it is a shimmer or a cream. I doubt that this shade is one that I would use very much on my nails but would use more on my toe nails. I wish that OPI had a few more details of these shades, I can't really tell what I want to buy from it.
The next shade is named Fly, a shade that would be great for the spring and summer months. It is a bright robin's egg blue cream that reminds me a lot of the China Glaze shade For Audrey, a favorite polish of mine already. I really like this shade but I have to see it in person first because I might not need this if it very close to For Audrey, however unless it is an exact dupe, I will most likely end up buying it because the shade is so pretty. This is the last of the non-metallic shades, we will look at those two shades next.
The two metallic shades are very very heavy on the silver and chrome, both shades are able to be worn now and well into the spring. The first shade of this finish is named Metallic 4 Life, a deep metallic charcoal shade. This one will work best this time of the year but I don't know how well it will translate with the spring trends of light and bright polishes. In the warmer months, this might be better as a pedicure shade with black or silver sandals. I will reserve full judgement in this matter until I see it person. The second shade in the metallic finish is Save Me, a chrome that looks like it has holographic shimmer in it. This is the wildest of all the shades and another one that would work well in the winter time but also might be better with sandals in the warm weather. I really like the Metallic 4 Life shade but I think that I will be skipping over the Save Me shade, I doubt that I would get all that much wear from it.
The last polish is one with the popular Crackle finish that was first introduced in the Katy Perry collection last spring. I thought that the Crackle polishes were really unique and pretty when they first came out but I am now waiting for the trend to end. Putting a black crackled top coat over a light cream polish looked great but now taking the trend all the way to metallics is beginning to look cheap and trashy, I doubt that I will ever wear a Crackle again after seeing some of the looks that have been created with it. This shade is named Super Bass Shatter and is my least favorite shade in the collection, it is deep plum metallic Crackle top coat. I have a feeling that this will take the trend to new level of awful, I can't even imagine how bad this will look over any of the polishes from this collection. I am skipping over this polish and I cannot wait for this Crackle trend to end!
I love the pink and blue shades in this collection, the pink will look so pretty when paired up with the Viva Glam shade that should be coming out within the next two months!
photo courtesy of OPI
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