This collection came out shortly after OPI’s summer of discontent, when it was suing etailers for selling its products without having a retail agreement with OPI…and it was also suing bloggers for posting promo pics of up-and-coming OPI collections. They were claiming that posting such pictures gave other companies the ability to copy OPI’s collections. And then this collection is released, and wow, doesn’t it bear a striking resemblance to the already-released China Glaze Vintage Vixen collection? (You’ve got to shake your head at some folks’ antics.)

At any rate, this collection contained:

• Color So Hot It Berns — bright red creme
• Cuckoo for This Color — rich blue-green microglitter
• Diva of Geneva — metallic mauve rose microglitter
• From A to Z-urich — clear burgundy-red creme
• Glitzerland — metallic champagne gold microglitter
• I'm Suzi & I'm a Chocoholic — brick red creme
• Just a Little Rösti at This — dark red creme
• Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous — metallic pewter-grey microglitter
• Ski Teal We Drop — teal blue creme
• The Color to Watch — semisheer ultraviolet duochrome sheen
• William Tell Me About OPI — dark raisin-purple creme
• Yodel Me on My Cell — bright aqua-teal microglitter

There are several near- or exact-dupes in this collection for other existing shades, from China Glaze and from OPI itself. Glitzerland is brighter than China Glaze's Swing Baby, but is otherwise the same. Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous is the same as China Glaze's Jitterbug. The Color to Watch is the same as Wet n Wild's Virtual Violet. Diva of Geneva is incredibly close to China Glaze's Hey Doll. Cuckoo for this Color is a near-twin to China Glaze's Emerald Fitzgerald. I thought it was a little irritating that OPI made such a big deal out of "secrecy, secrecy, we've got to have secrecy, so we can't have bloggers posting anything"...when by the time this collection was being debuted on blogs (and just as quickly taken down when OPI sent legal threats) China Glaze had already sent out promo pics of its Vintage Vixen collection, and there are quite a few dupes or near-dupes between this collection and that one.

The polishes in this collection aren't necessarily of bad quality (though if you dislike sheer polishes, don't get The Color To Watch - it's definitely a 3- or 4-coater.) They just cost the regular OPI retail price, and you can still - over a year later - buy the China Glaze polishes at 30% less per bottle.

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