OPI South Beach kolekcija – Teeny Bikinis

OPI has released a collection of 12 shades called South Beach for spring/summer 2009. From the pictures I’ve seen I can say that this collection looks really promising. I ordered a set of four minis. The set is called Teeny Bikinis and contains: Out Done In Deco, Suzi & the Lifeguard, Overexposed in South Beach and RapiDry Top Coat. Each bottle contains 3,75ml of contents.

Out Done In Deco is wonderful cream lilac shade. At first I wasn’t sure if I’d like this colour but than it grew on me. And now I like it a lot! It’s such a fresh shade! I didn’t have any problems with the application. Two coats were enough.

Suzi & the Lifeguard is such a lovely soft pink shade with dense pink and silver shimmer. Also with this one I didn’t have any application issues. I needed three coats for it to be opaque. It is probably the prettiest soft pink shade in my stash. I really love it!

Overexposed in South Beach was the disappointment in this bunch. I had great difficulties with the application. Polish just didn’t go smooth on the nail. The first coat was really streaky and bumpy. The second coat smoothed the things out a little bit, but not enough. I needed the third coat to get it to look OK, but way from perfect. The surface still wasn’t smooth. You could see bubbles and bumps. I don’t know what caused it. Maybe it’s just my bottle or maybe it came to some strange reaction between the basecoat and the polish. I added one coat of RapiDry, which also didn’t smooth out the surface. And it also not the fastest drying topcoat ever. For now this is my NOTD, but I don’t know how much longer I can keep it on my nails. The shade alone is pretty dark magenta purple with purple and blue shimmer.

Overall, I’m satisfied with all three shades and I’m already thinking of getting a few other shades from OPI’s South Beach collection.

OPI je za pomlad/poletje 2009 izdal kolekcijo z imenom South Beach. Kolekcija vsebuje 12 odtenkov. Iz fotografij, ki sem jih do sedaj videla, izgledajo skoraj vsi čudovito! Za začetek sem zase izbrala kar komplet minijev, kateremu so nadeli ime Teeny Bikinis.

V kompletu so 4 stekleničke po 3,75ml, ki nimajo ProWide čopiča, ampak navaden okrogel čopič, s katerim se da dobro manevrirati. Od leve proti desni: Out Done In Deco, Suzi & the Lifeguard, Overexposed in South Beach in RapiDry Top Coat.

Out Done In Deco je čudovit lila krem odtenek. Sprva nisem bila prepričana, ali mi je všeč na mojih nohtih ali ne, a bolj ko sem ga gledala, bolj mi je bil všeč. Poseben svež odtenek. Pri nanašanju nisem imela nobenih težav. Dovolj sta bila dva nanosa.

Suzi & the Lifeguard je izredno lep nežno roza odtenek z roza in srebrnim drobnim šimrom. Tudi pri tem odtenku nisem imela težav z nanašanjem. Za popolno prekrivnost sem potrebovala tri nanose. To je verjetno najlepši nežno roza odtenek v moji zbirki. Resnično mi je všeč!

Overexposed In South Beach je pa zame razočaranje. Pri nanašanju sem imela velike težave, saj se lak ni lepo razporedil po nohtu. Prvi nanos je bil izredno lisast in neenakomeren, drugi nanos je sicer nekoliko omilil prvi nanos, a potreben je bil še tretji nanos za enakomeren nanos.  A na moje ponovno razočaranje površina sploh ni bila gladka.  Ponekod so bili spodaj mehurčki, ponekod “hribčki”. Dodala sem še eno plast nadlaka RapiDry, ki površine ni zgladil oziroma izravnal. Tudi pretirano hitrosušeč ni. Zaenkrat je to moj NOTD. Ne vem, kako dolgo bom lahko zdržala s takšno manikuro. Odtenek je sicer lep temen magenta vijoličen z zelo diskretnim vijoličnim in modrim šimrom.

Resnično ne vem, ali je kaj narobe z mojo stekleničko ali je morda prišlo do kakšne reakcije s podlakom. Vsekakor bom poskusila znova in ponovno poročala.

V splošnem sem nad vsemi tremi odtenki izredno zadovoljna in že razmišljam, da bi naročila še kakšen odtenek iz South Beach kolekcije.