OPI Simply Smashing & Black Shatter

Hello from Hong Kong! 

After a pretty crappy start to my trip (long but awesome flight because I got upgraded to business class!! yay!!) I'm now here in my parent's apartment on Hong Kong island. I have a whole week here to relax and go shopping and I'm really looking forward to it!

Before I left home, I did swatches of a whole bunch of colours so that I still had stuff to post while I was away. Today I have OPI's Simply Smashing and Black Shatter to show you. I'm a little late to the party with this one, but I still wanted to show you guys anyway.

Simply Smashing is one of those ugly pretty colours in my opinion. I'm not really convinced I like it, but it is an unusual colour so it wins points on that account. It was a little sheer, but it built up with the second coat. However you could still see VNL. This colour definitely reminds me of a tennis ball!

Simply Smashing was released in a set with Black Shatter, the black crackle polish. I added a coat of this over Simply Smashing. I personally am not a fan of this duo.... I love Black Shatter, but I'm just not feeling it over the top of this colour.

It's just a quick post for today. I'm still trying to get used to the time zone and I want to get up early tomorrow to go out shopping (and hunting for nail polish!). Hopefully the nail polish fairies are on my side and I find some awesome stuff to show you while I'm here -  wish me luck! 

OPI Katy Perry

Hey everyone! Hope you are having a great weekend! Today I have some swatches of the recent OPI Katy Perry collection. I know you have probably seen them a million times before so I'm doing a condensed post with all the colours in one photo! 

From left to right: Teenage Dream, Last Friday Night, The One That Got Away, Not Like The Movies

Teenage Dream and Last Friday Night are a little on the sheer side as you can see. I used three coats for these photos and you could still see VNL. The One That Got Away and Not Like The Movies were more opaque and only needed two coats but I did three for consistency. 

I then added a coat of Black Shatter to all of them. I ended up liking Teenage Dream and Black Shatter the best so I wore that as my mani. As to be expected with glitter, it was a complete PITA to take off (I ended up using the foil technique even though I hate soaking my nails for that long) but I was surprised that the two polishes actually wore really well. I think I got about 4 days without any chipping or flaking! 

Which ones do you like best? And don't forget that you can win a mini set of the Katy Perry collection in my 500 Follower Giveaway!

OPI Giveaway! NOW CLOSED!!

Hey everyone!

I finally received all my OPI Texas, Katy Perry and China Glaze Anchor's Away polishes today! I can't wait to swatch them over the weekend! 

The reason I was so anxious to receive them is because when I placed the order for everything I actually got a few extras of some of the colours to giveaway to you guys! I will be giving away some of the polishes in my big 500 follower giveaway, but I wanted to do a separate little giveaway for these OPI polishes because I absolutely love the colours!

Austin-tatious Turquoise - Black Shatter - It's Totally Fort Worth It

The Rules for the OPI Giveaway are:

1. Be a follower.

2. Leave a comment with your follower name and email.

3. Following me on Twitter gives you one extra entry (you gotta tell me your twitter name!)

4. Blogging about the giveaway gives you one extra entry (please leave a link!)

5. Giveaway closes on 7 March 2011. 

6. The giveaway is open internationally.

Please include all info in one comment only.

OPI Not Like The Movies & Black Shatter

Hey everyone! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! I spent my weekend doing wedding stuff. I think I have finally found my bridesmaid dresses and shoes, and the gifts for my guests, so I'm really excited!

Today, a package finally arrived with some of the OPI Texas and Katy Perry collection colours I ordered, but much to my dismay, half the order was missing!!! I'm just hoping that the other polishes are just on back order.

The only Katy Perry colour that arrived was Not Like the Movies, so that's what I have on tonight.

Not Like the Movies is a silvery lavender duochrome that flashes green and pink. It also has some sparkle thanks to the silver microglitter. 

This blurry pic really shows the sparkle of this polish! 

Check out Black Shatter after the jump!