OPI Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Collection

Perfect, perfect, perfect shades for the Spring!! Maybe because this collection contains a purple and I'm a sucker for purple polish but I love the shades in this OPI collection!! As per the press release, these colors "were inspired by a world filled with mythical mermaids, gleaming treasure, and high-seas adventure. With shades ranging from sage and lavender to khaki gray and pastel pink..."

"Skull & Glossbones, "Sparrow Me the Drama," "Stranger Tides," Steady As She Rose," "Mermaid's Tears," "Planks Alot"

Of course the first one I had to try was "Planks Alot" and I love it.

I also painted my sisters toes with this color and then applied the "navy shatter." (sorry, no picture) It didn't turn out as good as my blue on blue shatter but it that was my fault with the poor color combination. But regardless, her purples toes looked good!

I love the fall and winter with dark painted nails and have never been a big fan of summer colors on my hands. Toes, I'm fine with whatever. I just don't think the lighter colors look good on me with my fair skin. Maybe that's why I was so excited for this collection. There are fun summer colors which I can pull off with my milk white skin. :-)  And I'm not stuck with just normal pale pinks, which I like even more.

Next up to try, "Mermaid's Tears." Love this sage color, very different and very pretty but not too green so I think it would be a color you could pull off any day of the week!

OPI Blue Shatter

I wasn't sure what this "shatter" nail polish was like and had only seen the black shatter until I recently received these 3 blue shatter shades. As soon as I got them I had to test them out!

There are 3 blue shatters:

"Turquoise Shatter," "Navy Shatter," "Blue Shatter"

I opted for the light blue from the Nicole by OPI Justin Bieber collection as my base coat then used the "Navy Shatter." I let the first 2 light blue coats dry completely before I applied the shatter. The shatter goes on a little funny. I found you need to make sure you have enough on the brush when you apply it the first time so you don't need to dip the brush back in the bottle to get more polish. It seemed the shatter would dry that quickly and adding more made it look a little messy and took away the good effect. The shatter should go on as an even coat and within seconds you can see it start to separate and "shatter." It was really neat and I have no idea how this works!

Check out these tootsies...a little funky but cute!!

Once again, OPI didn't disappoint me! I really didn't think the shatter look was for me but I think this is a very fun look for the toes!! I'm looking for a good maize color polish so I can do that and blue shatter in the Fall for Michigan football games. GO BLUE!!