OPI Texas collection

So being a Texan I had to pick up the collection and see for myself this “sorbet” finish. This is going to be a huge post with swatches and whatnot 😛

We have the sorbets here. Oh look.. Don’t two, maybe four, of them look SIMILAR already??

The … not sorbets.

FYI: The sorbet shades were dry when their pictures were taken. I do like this finish, I can imagine it would look adorable on toes and nubby fingers. With my kind of long nails (they’re not that long, but if I can’t take my contacts out easily– that’s long to me :P) I had an issue with the visible nail line– three to five coats each for the sorbets just to have some coverage!! Anyway, this finish makes you look like you have constantly wet nails– the finish is very “juicy” and like some bloggers say, between a creme and jelly. I’m not saying it’s juicy just because this finish is named sorbet, not at all…

Onto the swatches!

Guy Meets Gal-Veston. 

Ok I’ve been to Galveston and it doesn’t deserve a pretty shade like this. It’s a berry, definitely– berry with a hint of orange/pink? Grapefruit kinda shade.

Too Hot Pink to Hold ‘Em

In the bottle it appears to be a cherry red sorbet, but again, appears pink on the nail. In the line up picture up on the top, this bottle is on the far right and it’s pretty color accurate.

Big Hair Big Nails.

This color is TOTALLY a dupe for Guy Meets Gal-Veston. I’m incredibly disappointed with OPI for this– did they just not want to release 11 shades so they stuck in another bottle of the same color and slapped on a different label?? I will prove it’s dupe-ness in a second.

 Houston We Have a Purple

The color in the bottle is accurate, it’s quite grape.

Do You Think I’m Tex-y?

This is a cherry wannabe, but I found it to appear purple on the nail and it seemed to me, similar to Houston We Have a Purple up there.

 Y’all Come Back Ya Hear?

Chop job, the thumb picture is the most accurate color.

YAY an orange! It looks delicious, and I want to eat it. I’m thinking this would be adorable on the toes in the summer. I actually love this shade.

I think the problem with this sorbet finish and OPI’s insistence of releasing a “gradient” of pink to purple shades is that they all end up very similar on the nail. I think out of every one, Houston We Have a Purple and Y’all Come Back Ya Hear? are the most unique ones. The other four could look similar and nobody would ask you or comment if you wore a different color on each nail.

Now the not-sorbets:

 I Vant to be a Lone-Star

 This is the most color accurate photo I could take of this enigma. It’s cool!! It’s grey, with white and silver shimmer. In the bottle it looks blue as you can see, but appears  silvery on the nail.

San Tan-tonio

Kind of looks like poop in this photo, but on the nail it’s interesting. Not something I would pick up, but it’s dusky and reminds me of the Texan ranch I grew up on… (What ranch? Yeah right :P)

 Don’t Mess With OPI

This is a nice forest green creme, however I’m not sure how unique this is. I’m already having ideas of its twins.

Suzi Loves Cowboys

I love this brown! It’s just a brown. Not purple brown, black brown, tan-brown.

 It’s Totally Fort-Worth It

Check out that pink shimmer! It’s a grey duochrome, with pink shimmer hiding in it and in the bottle the pink definitely flashes. A lot of people like this for layering, and it’s pretty sheer. 

By the time I got to this (It was the last bottle I swatched) I was just tired of painting the whole nail and just did my thumb 😛 You can see my naked nails in the background!

Austin-tatious Turquoise

I don’t understand this name very much, but whatever. It’s a pretty color but very, very sheer. You can see I missed some spots when applying the three/four layers, and there are bald spots on my thumb. If the formula was thicker, I think I would like this color more, it’s pretty accurate of Austin. 

NOW THE DUPES…. 

I dare you to tell me which is Big Hair Big Nails and which is Guy meets Gal-Veston!! Even I couldn’t see it AT ALL in person. Give up? It’s okay, I did too.

Now that you see it, Big Hair Big Nails is “slightly” darker than Guy Meets Gal-veston but whatever!! When getting this, just pick the name you like better. They’re exactly the same, I swear.

As for Houston We Have a Purple and Do You Think I’m Tex-y? I thought they might be dupes so I checked..

Not really. Houston We Have a Purple is definitely a lot more purple than Do You Think I’m Tex-y? which is much more red. 

While I personally love the sorbet finish, I just wish they threw out a blue or a green to replace two of the four very similar colors. 😦

OPI Texas collection

So being a Texan I had to pick up the collection and see for myself this “sorbet” finish. This is going to be a huge post with swatches and whatnot 😛

We have the sorbets here. Oh look.. Don’t two, maybe four, of them look SIMILAR already??

The … not sorbets.

FYI: The sorbet shades were dry when their pictures were taken. I do like this finish, I can imagine it would look adorable on toes and nubby fingers. With my kind of long nails (they’re not that long, but if I can’t take my contacts out easily– that’s long to me :P) I had an issue with the visible nail line– three to five coats each for the sorbets just to have some coverage!! Anyway, this finish makes you look like you have constantly wet nails– the finish is very “juicy” and like some bloggers say, between a creme and jelly. I’m not saying it’s juicy just because this finish is named sorbet, not at all…

Onto the swatches!

Guy Meets Gal-Veston. 

Ok I’ve been to Galveston and it doesn’t deserve a pretty shade like this. It’s a berry, definitely– berry with a hint of orange/pink? Grapefruit kinda shade.

Too Hot Pink to Hold ‘Em

In the bottle it appears to be a cherry red sorbet, but again, appears pink on the nail. In the line up picture up on the top, this bottle is on the far right and it’s pretty color accurate.

Big Hair Big Nails.

This color is TOTALLY a dupe for Guy Meets Gal-Veston. I’m incredibly disappointed with OPI for this– did they just not want to release 11 shades so they stuck in another bottle of the same color and slapped on a different label?? I will prove it’s dupe-ness in a second.

 Houston We Have a Purple

The color in the bottle is accurate, it’s quite grape.

Do You Think I’m Tex-y?

This is a cherry wannabe, but I found it to appear purple on the nail and it seemed to me, similar to Houston We Have a Purple up there.

 Y’all Come Back Ya Hear?

Chop job, the thumb picture is the most accurate color.

YAY an orange! It looks delicious, and I want to eat it. I’m thinking this would be adorable on the toes in the summer. I actually love this shade.

I think the problem with this sorbet finish and OPI’s insistence of releasing a “gradient” of pink to purple shades is that they all end up very similar on the nail. I think out of every one, Houston We Have a Purple and Y’all Come Back Ya Hear? are the most unique ones. The other four could look similar and nobody would ask you or comment if you wore a different color on each nail.

Now the not-sorbets:

 I Vant to be a Lone-Star

 This is the most color accurate photo I could take of this enigma. It’s cool!! It’s grey, with white and silver shimmer. In the bottle it looks blue as you can see, but appears  silvery on the nail.

San Tan-tonio

Kind of looks like poop in this photo, but on the nail it’s interesting. Not something I would pick up, but it’s dusky and reminds me of the Texan ranch I grew up on… (What ranch? Yeah right :P)

 Don’t Mess With OPI

This is a nice forest green creme, however I’m not sure how unique this is. I’m already having ideas of its twins.

Suzi Loves Cowboys

I love this brown! It’s just a brown. Not purple brown, black brown, tan-brown.

 It’s Totally Fort-Worth It

Check out that pink shimmer! It’s a grey duochrome, with pink shimmer hiding in it and in the bottle the pink definitely flashes. A lot of people like this for layering, and it’s pretty sheer. 

By the time I got to this (It was the last bottle I swatched) I was just tired of painting the whole nail and just did my thumb 😛 You can see my naked nails in the background!

Austin-tatious Turquoise

I don’t understand this name very much, but whatever. It’s a pretty color but very, very sheer. You can see I missed some spots when applying the three/four layers, and there are bald spots on my thumb. If the formula was thicker, I think I would like this color more, it’s pretty accurate of Austin. 

NOW THE DUPES…. 

I dare you to tell me which is Big Hair Big Nails and which is Guy meets Gal-Veston!! Even I couldn’t see it AT ALL in person. Give up? It’s okay, I did too.

Now that you see it, Big Hair Big Nails is “slightly” darker than Guy Meets Gal-veston but whatever!! When getting this, just pick the name you like better. They’re exactly the same, I swear.

As for Houston We Have a Purple and Do You Think I’m Tex-y? I thought they might be dupes so I checked..

Not really. Houston We Have a Purple is definitely a lot more purple than Do You Think I’m Tex-y? which is much more red. 

While I personally love the sorbet finish, I just wish they threw out a blue or a green to replace two of the four very similar colors. 😦

Putting my grumpy panties on.

Really OPI??? I’m obsessed with pirates like whoa. Seriously– it’s bad. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one, probably 40 times in a year.

Anyway. I don’t know about you, but when I think of pirates I think in terms of these colors: metallic, dark gold; blood red; maybe a shimmery gold-black; browns; seaweed green? NOT pastels!

I understand that pastels are going to be big this spring– and I love me some pastels. But it’s just not appropriate to jump on the POTC and pastels bandwagon! One thing I will say, OPI does have the “scheme” right– silver, pink, purple, green… Just think there needs to be a brown in there. I give props to whoever came up with the names though, and will probably order this just to have it.
I also am looking forward to Silver Shatter, hell yes. But why not gold?! Something darker than OPI Bling Dynasty would be perfect. Not all lights…

Thoughts?

Putting my grumpy panties on.

Really OPI??? I’m obsessed with pirates like whoa. Seriously– it’s bad. I watched Pirates of the Caribbean, the first one, probably 40 times in a year.

Anyway. I don’t know about you, but when I think of pirates I think in terms of these colors: metallic, dark gold; blood red; maybe a shimmery gold-black; browns; seaweed green? NOT pastels!

I understand that pastels are going to be big this spring– and I love me some pastels. But it’s just not appropriate to jump on the POTC and pastels bandwagon! One thing I will say, OPI does have the “scheme” right– silver, pink, purple, green… Just think there needs to be a brown in there. I give props to whoever came up with the names though, and will probably order this just to have it.
I also am looking forward to Silver Shatter, hell yes. But why not gold?! Something darker than OPI Bling Dynasty would be perfect. Not all lights…

Thoughts?

Math!

Nick made me practice with my left hand… He was tired of my left hand being perfect, while the right would be a little “special.” So he offered himself, and with Wet N Wild Black Creme and a white nail polish pen from Claire’s, I diligently practiced on his hands and came up with a math theme since he’s a math major 🙂

They’re all different formulas, and math symbols, and on the top index/middle fingers are the numbers from 1 to 7.  Remember these were made with my left hand…

I drew a really great graph on his thumb but he painted glitter over it for no good reason. When he saw my shocked face he said “Oh it’s okay! I’ll just wipe it off!!!” and grabbed a tissue, then promptly destroyed the whole thing. Sigh… Men and how they think they know everything. So that’s why there are no thumb pictures.

Math!

Nick made me practice with my left hand… He was tired of my left hand being perfect, while the right would be a little “special.” So he offered himself, and with Wet N Wild Black Creme and a white nail polish pen from Claire’s, I diligently practiced on his hands and came up with a math theme since he’s a math major 🙂

They’re all different formulas, and math symbols, and on the top index/middle fingers are the numbers from 1 to 7.  Remember these were made with my left hand…

I drew a really great graph on his thumb but he painted glitter over it for no good reason. When he saw my shocked face he said “Oh it’s okay! I’ll just wipe it off!!!” and grabbed a tissue, then promptly destroyed the whole thing. Sigh… Men and how they think they know everything. So that’s why there are no thumb pictures.

Understated

Here we have a OPI Russian Navy in Suede. Suede is an interesting finish and I love this– it’s between matte and shimmer, it has the texture of matte but is still glossy. I painted on a top coat on the very edges– trying to make a glossy french tip kind of look, but it’s really hard to detect because of the suede finish. You kind of have to *look* for it.

And my thumbnail broke.. 😦 I hate the winter!! I am totally blaming Orly Nail Defense as well– I don’t believe my nails peel or break this easily.

Understated

Here we have a OPI Russian Navy in Suede. Suede is an interesting finish and I love this– it’s between matte and shimmer, it has the texture of matte but is still glossy. I painted on a top coat on the very edges– trying to make a glossy french tip kind of look, but it’s really hard to detect because of the suede finish. You kind of have to *look* for it.

And my thumbnail broke.. 😦 I hate the winter!! I am totally blaming Orly Nail Defense as well– I don’t believe my nails peel or break this easily.