Entries for Wednesday May 23

OPI’s Pink Before You Leap

• Manufacturer: OPI
• Availability: part of the Brights collection
• Color Range: semisheer medium pink shimmer
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: USD$9 for 14 ml / .5 fl oz
• Would you purchase again: yes
• Similar shades:

I was attracted to the color and shimmer of this one - the SA told me that it was semisheer, so I knew about that aspect of the color before I purchased it. I was able to get full coverage in three coats. I suspect that it be a perfectly fine top coat or effects / layering polish, if you wanted a semisheer medium pink and some shimmer. This is a semisheer along the lines of Zoya's "opacity-3" polishes. It isn't quite pale enough for a French-mani shade, but it won't give you two-coat full coverage, either.

Zoya’s Skylar

• Vendor: Zoya/Art of Beauty
• Availability: originally released as part of Zoya's True collection
• Color Range: metallic medium denim blue with gold shimmer
• Staying Power: 4 out of 4 stars
• Cost/Amount: USD$8 for 14 ml / .5 fl oz
• Would you purchase again: yes
• Similar shades: OPI's I Don't Give a Rotterdam

Not too many companies do blues in this range, it seems…even if they otherwise have lots of blues in their inventory. Brights, neons, navies, jeweltones, if a company has blue nail polish those are the shades you’re apt to find. But not this shade. Not so much. One of the first Zoyas that caught my eye was Jo, because it was a periwinkle-slate blue where all the other blues were brights or dark navies (Kotori, Ibiza). This year, we got three blues in the same general range - Skylar, from Zoya, and two in OPI’s Holland collection.