Welcome to another edition of “vs.” featuring another reader request!
This time we are pitting OPI Over The Taupe against Sonia Kashuk Tauped.
You will see there are definite differences in these two lovely taupe colors.
OPI Burlesque for holiday 2010 features twelve new colors. I showed you the shimmer ones the other day and today I have the glitter half.
Glitters. What a pain in the arse! I was kind of dreading swatching these because of the removal. Now I am starting to see why some bloggers just show one finger because the removal is so much easier that way!
Ok so now that we established that there are a chore to remove, even under the best of circumstances, we can move onto the colors. They are all pretty cool. A couple I feel like I may have seen similar ones, but most I liked.
All of these were three coats to get the most amount of glitter on the nail, but none are totally opaque. Maybe if you used super thick coats or 4 coats.
Oh and for some reason my camera DID NOT like taking photos of these, so they aren’t my best, sorry. It refused to focus on all four nails at once. Canon-freak-out-over-glitter-explosion-o-rama! 
OPI has released a collection of 12 new colors called Burlesque for holiday/winter 2010.
All of the new colors are either shimmery glitter or are super colorful chunky glitters. Today I’ve got the shimmery glitters to show you. These are all very rich and saturated.
The formula was pretty good with all of these. They had good coverage for the most part and were not too thick or thin. Removal can be a mess since the tiny shimmery bits tend to get all over your fingers, but it’s the price we pay!
OPI wants us to Go Goth this Halloween with their mini-set of four dark, vampy nail lacquers.
Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year so I am always happy to check out what cute collections are out.
Mini bottles aren’t my favorite because they are hard to work with. What do I have hamster hands? But I do love all these colors even though they all have dupes or close-to-dupes for them.
The formula was decent, no issues really. They all managed to cover nicely in two coats.
What’s up!
Today I’ve got the second half of the OPI Swiss collection for fall 2010. This is made up of 6 creme colors, 4 of which are reds…Having said that I must confess: red looks good on me! As much as I am disinterested in most reds when I first see them, it almost always happens that they wind up complimenting my skin tone. Go figure.
I must say that the first half was much more interesting to me both because the colors were more my type and I favor shimmers. But there were a couple in here I really like also.
The formula on these was great, not a single issue whatsoever. They totally flowed smoothly, nicely, and all were just two coats.
Color So Hot It Berns
Color So Hot It Berns is a bright, cool, poppy red. These kinds of reds always amaze me when I put them on because they look…so…darn…good! But I DO have a bunch like this so it’s nothing I haven’t seen before.
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