Twinsie Tuesday - Revisit

Hi everyone! Today's Twinsie Tuesday theme is Revisit, so all us twinsies are going back to themes past that we haven't participated in and revisiting the theme.  I'm choosing a theme from before my time as a twinsie: First Polish Posted on Your Blog.  (Insert Xzibit "Yo Dawg" meme about revisiting here.)  I thought I'd do this theme since I recently had my 5th year Blogiversary (June 6th) and just let it pass by without really acknowledging it.

And now I present to you OPI DS Glow.  It's a beautiful shimmery polish with bits of bronze, copper and gold.  I used 2 coats.  I'm not sure if it's discontinued, but it's pretty easily available online.

And if you'd like to check out how far I've come since starting this blog, check out the original post!

Check out what themes the other Twinsies picked out and also don't forget to enter my giveaway (you could win $200 or $40 PayPal cash!).

Tiffany at Polished To Precision

Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les

Marisa at Polish Obsession

Lisa at The Polish Playground

Lakeisha at Refined and Polished

Jessica at Blue Velvet Lacquer

ChiChi at I'm Just Me...ChiChi

Chelsea at Nailed Blog

Bridget at A Painted Nail

Amber at Nails Like Lace

Amanda at Fashion Footing

Amanda at Amandalandish

Alaina at The Little Canvas

OPI DS Original

OPI DS Original is a lovely purple/lavender holo.  The holo is pretty intense, but definitely not as linear as China Glaze OMG polishes or Nfu Oh's.  There's something unique about the older OPI holos that I can't quite put my finger on and I haven't seen it duplicated.  Anyways, on to the pictures!

This is 2 coats.

OPI DS Shimmer over China Glaze Snow

I've been lemming Glitter Gal's Light as a Feather for a while now, so I decided to see if I could tame it by layering Shimmer over Snow.  I've worn Snow before, and I have to say, it's probably my favorite white.  It goes on in 2 coats and levels itself out.

I absolutely love this combination and I wish my pictures could do it more justice.  The white base makes it difficult to capture the holo, but it's definitely there.  The Shimmer is thin and see through enough that it doesn't over power the white and make it look silver.

Has anyone else tried this combination?

2 coats Snow, 1 coat Shimmer

OPI DS Fantasy

A beautiful deep blue with a very subtle holo shimmer.  This is another one of my favorite OPI's.

This is 2 coats.

OPI DS Desire

I've had the flu for the past week and I'm still sick.  I'm convinced I have strep throat, it hurts so bad.  Anyways, this is OPI DS Desire, a gorgeous brown holo.

OPI DS Glamour

Oh Glamour how I love thee.  Medium blue holo?  More please.  This is the first polish I payed big bucks for and in retrospect, I was ripped off.  Two, maybe three years ago, I'd seen this polish on MUA and various blogs and knew instantly that I needed it.  So I searched and searched and found a site that sold it, and they had an actual store in Los Angeles.  So I drove past the Grove and into Hollywood and found this small beauty supply store.  I asked for Glamour all excited.  They brought it out from the back and rang it up for $25.  I wanted it so I payed for it and my bank account cried for this poor college student.  When I got it home, it was all I thought it would be and more.

I then went to ULTA and found it on sale for $6 -_-.

OPI Designer Series Divine - The Japanese Version

I came home for Thanksgiving break and my mom surprised me with all of these pretty OPI DS polishes.  I was so excited, but the names weren't matching up with what I thought the colors where supposed to be.  I looked on the bottom of the bottles and they all had the little JP.  I almost flipped my shit.

To show you the difference of the bottom of the labels, here are the labels for OPI DS Shimmer.  The one on the left is the Japanese and the one on the right is US. (The Japanese OPI DS Shimmer is gold holo while the US version is a silver holo):

Anyways, observe the awesomeness that is OPI DS Divine - JP:

 

Do you see the holo??  This picture doesn't even do it justice.  This polish came on sheer at first, but 3 thin coats and it was perfection.

OPI DS Glow

I was sitting here trying to decide what color I'd start my blog off with and after much thought and consideration, I figured I'd make it easy on myself and post the polish I'm currently wearing.

Glow is one of the more recent Designer Series releases from OPI.  It's a gorgeous gold/copper/bronze with a blinding foil/shimmery finish.