OPI Nail Lacquer Review

I had seen OPI in so many shops and heard so much about it for months. I admired the colours and the range of choice, but refused to pay nearly $20 for one bottle of nail polish. However when it was selling for $10 a bottle at a makeup sale, I decided to give it a go. I chose some amazing colours (the colour range is my favourite part about OPI), and I was so excited to get home and give myself a manicure. Applying the polish was easy, it went on like a dream and the brush spread the polish evenly, but thickly (which is how I like it for a good even coat). I tried layering a couple of colours for a feature nail and sat back and admired my new look. However, the next morning I washed my hair in the shower and the polish was already beginning to chip! Washing some dishes that night I lost some more. I have since used OPI several ore times, with similar results and become disillusioned by this product. However, a really good quality top coat will improve the stickability of this product. I have put Revlon colurstay diamond top coat over OPI and the colour lasted for about a week which I was quite impressed with. I would use OPI again, but only with a decent top coat, otherwise I feel like I am wasting my time.

I have quite a few OPI nail polishes in my collection, 20 in fact 10 full size 10 minis, and I do and will continue to use them, but I won't be recommending them to my friends. The good thing about OPI nail polish is there colour range, every color you could possibly think of OPI has, but I dont think its worth the price and I personally think they are over rated. I brought my OPI Take Ten minis from a sale for $35 and 10 full size OPI's from trademe in a bulk sale for $50. The only pros I can say about OPI is the colour range, the brush and that they don't go gloopy and thicker over time. The cons, I find the consistency to vary, The quality of chipping/staying power/ opaqueness vary between colour. For example i have the colour Mod About You (light blue based pink, think M.A.C St Germain in Nail Polish form) and you only need 2 coats to get full, opaque strong color payoff, unlike Heart Throb which looks like a sheer strawberry milkshake colour even after 3 layers. I just think there are better or the same quality of nail polishes on the market that are cheaper, like for example Jordana, Sally Hansen, Revlon Nailpolishes are damn worth it.

Has the nicest range of colours!! And apply with a nice thick coat, as well as lasting longing before chipping, if you can't afford the gel nail polishes :)

I found the formula way to thick witch made it hard to apply and chip off way to easily. I'll definitely have to give it a go but after a couple tries I'm not the biggest fan.

I have a love/hate relationship with OPI's nail lacquers. Some of the colours are lovely and opaque, getting the perfect coverage in just two coats, while others are more sheer and don't give a good coverage or beautiful colour.

For example, I bought "March in Uniform", a deep navy that looked gorgeous in the bottle, and "Gift Of Gold That Never Gets Old", a champagne gold. March in Uniform ended up being quite sheer and didn't look navy blue once applied, it was more of a sheer mid-blue, even with three coats. Gift of Gold was gorgeous, it applied well with just two coats and was perfectly opaque.

It's really hard to tell with OPI's colours if they're going to be sheer or opaque, and they should have some kind of indicator on the bottles to indicate this to purchasers. Maybe a sticker or marker somewhere on the bottle to indicate the formula of sheer, creme, shimmer, glitter, etc.

If there is an indicator, I haven't figured out where to find it.

First of all, the colors are amazing, so props to OPI for that.

Where this falls down is its staying power, it just doesn't last, about a day or two later and it's chipping already, I've tried using their long lasting top coat, nothing helps.

Using this on my toenails is fine, it doesn't chip there.

Some of the colors can be hit or miss too, some aren't as opaque as they look in the bottle and some aren't as sheer as you might want. Overall I don't think it's worth it.

The colour on screen and on the bottle looks so gorgeous.. A rich plum colour. I loved the look of the colour so was super stoked to have been selected to review. I was however disappointed when the first coat looked more like brown than rich plum. A second coat didn't help either and many friends thought it was actually black. In the sunlight however, the rich plum look came through and it looked super pretty but that was about it. Apart from colour, the two coats lasted about 3 days without a top coat. Love OPI , but sorry muir muir, I wasn't at all fascinated.

I went and brought some of the OPI nail lacquer's after hearing all about them. I had high hopes but once I tried the them i wasn't so impressed. I had to do 3 layers to get the look that was acceptable.

When I brought this I did have high expectations. It was less than four days before it started chipping. For the price I thought it would last longer.. So a little disappointed...

I love using this glitter polish. I especially love putting it over the top of a black or deep blue polish for something a bit different. The only thing that I found was it was really really hard to remove and did ruin my nails at bit as I had to try so hard to get it off. Otherwise apart from that love the glitter polish.