Hello ladies,
Today I have a polish I picked up right after Christmas, OPI's Brand New Skates. This polish was from OPI's holiday collection from 2008, Holiday in Toyland. I never had interest in this polish before, but I was kind of on a buying frenzy on boxing day when I picked it up! That day the sun made this polish look very interesting so I figured I would try it out, when I got home I had mixed feelings. In the bottle indoors it didn't look like anything special, almost even frosty! But when I finally got around to trying it on, I fell in love :)
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The polish colour and finish were super hard to capture! In the bottle picture above, the right side of the bottle is the most accurate depiction of the colour/finish in all of my photos, so please enlarge! The base colour itself is a medium to light charcoal with blue undertones. The shimmer is what really makes the polish interesting, indoors it looks more like a white, sliver flash, but is is actually a yellow/gold/green colour in other lighting.
Very true to it's name, it reminds me very much of a skate blade :)
Natural Light
This colour also reminds me of the pictures I've seen of Sally Hansen's Opulent Cloud. It's not as fosty/smooth and doesn't have a duo-chrome, but the gold and grey together in this polish are similar to SH, OC.
Application was only okay, I needed 3 coats to reach opacity as the formula was pretty thin, and I probably could have gotten away with one final coat. Other than the polish being thin, it applied very well with the pro-wide brush :)
Natural Light
In my photos, it almost looks like the the polish has a chrome, frost, or foil finish, which it does not. Amongst the shimmer there are little tiny flecks of gold, VERY pretty and super hard to capture in a photo.
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Overall I am very happy I picked up this polish on boxing day spontaneously, if not then I don't think I would have even bothered to try this polish. What do you think of this one?
Oh wow so pretty!! love the shimmer!!!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a really pretty color. Are the gold flakes similar to Zoya Crystal?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like OPI´s Lucerne-tainly Looks Marvelous, but better I think!
ReplyDeleteThanks ladies :)
ReplyDeleteMegan - I don't own Cyristal, but I want it so bad! sorry, I don't know how they compare. In photos I have seen the flakies look much larger and more reflective than the ones in Brand New skates which is almost more of a shimmer
sonidlo - In the photos is does appear that way but it does not have a foily finish. This colour was so hard to capture! Its more of a shimmer than a foil.