The OPI San Francisco Collection, new for Fall/Winter 2013
Before I met El Hub and moved across the golden gate Bridge from the city to Marin county (oh, the things we do for love!), I called San Francisco’s outer Richmond district my home.
I lived in an apartment at the corner of 36th and Geary, about five minutes from the typically foggy beach. At night, the 38 Geary Bus would rumble past my window as low fog horns from the Bay lulled me to sleep.
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I was in my 20s then, savoring life in the city right at the height of the dot-com boom. I loved the excitement and everything the city had to offer, but truth be told, the experience also kicked my @ss…in a good way though.
I learned a lot — about myself, about what I wanted out of life, what I didn’t want, and even after a decade removed from the city, I’m still awestruck every time I cross the golden gate and see the city skyline.
I love that town.
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Needless to say, I’ve been hella freakin’ over the moon about the new OPI San Francisco collection.
And, yes, I said hella. because that’s how we do it here, babe.
The 15-piece release, new for fall/winter 2013, feels authentic to me, like OPI did their research. It’s like they took postcards of some of the city’s most iconic places and spaces and poured them into the bottles.
The clouds above San Francisco…
May I be your tour guide? I’d love to show you around San Francisco by OPI
For starters, I think it’s fitting that OPI chose fall for a San Francisco collection, seeing as how it’s such a wonderful season around here. generally sunnier, warmer and less crowded than summer (yup, it’s the micro-climates here). September through early- to mid-November is my favorite time of year in the city.
Very much like a song sung about SF, the collection embodies the urban aspects of SF — sure, it’s a city — but it also has some very stunning parks and lush outdoor areas, like the greens of golden gate Park and Land’s end (could you think of a shade of green inspired by the Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill?? I die!).
Walking along the Embarcadero…
Instead of going that route, though, OPI chose something more street chic, with nautical blues, sandy taupes, foggy grays, golden Gate/Chinatown reds, burgundies and browns. It’s not urban in an industrial way. more like a hike up and down steep city streets surrounded by epic views and high-rise buildings.
One of the city’s many piers with Angel Island on the right…
The collection features 12 shades in OPI’s regular polish formula, encompassing a mix of creams and shimmers, as well as three textured liquid Sand shades, and the entire color palette is meant to go with fall’s fashion trends, specifically looks with military details and winter whites.
For me, most of the polishes require two coats, although some of the more glittery shades, like Haven’t the Foggiest and Alcatraz…Rocks, work well with one. They all boast OPI’s signature bad-@ss brush, which is nice and full and wide and makes it very easy to cover an entire nail evenly in two or three swipes.
Hop aboard this cable automobile with me, and let’s take a look.
A-Piers to Be Tan
A-Piers To Be Tan is a creamy orange-brown. call me cat lady, but it reminds of Tabs’ tum more than anything else. It’s one of my least favorite shades here, but I do like the way it contrasts with the rest of the colors in the collection.
Dining al Frisco
Dining al Frisco, a super smooth, non-streaky medium blue with shimmer, exactly matches the color of the Bay on a sunny day.
Haven’t the Foggiest
There’s a spot near Sausalito on the 101 highway going south toward San Francisco where you pass through a wall of fog spilling drastically over the hilltops. Haven’t the Foggiest, an intense, glittery gray, looks just like that. It’s a stunning one-coater!
Peace & love & OPI
Holographic peace & love & OPI is like MAC Club eyeshadow’s nail polish cousin, flashing from teal to purple to gray in the light.
Rakastan sitä! — and if I had to pick a favorite from the collection, this would be it.
Incognito in Sausalito
Keeping Suzi at Bay, a navy blue, is a shout-out to OPI executive VP and artistic director Suzi Weiss-Fischmann. It’s creamy and smooth like buttah.
Incognito in Sausalito
Ironically, I’ve actually been Incognito in Sausalito, another of the colors from the release, exploring the seaside town with my stunna shades, LOL! one of the standouts for me, this creamy, dark blueish black shade looks like calligraphy ink.
Lost on Lombard
Lost on Lombard probably should have been named, “Stuck in traffic on Lombard,” because that’s usually what happens to me on this famous street. maybe if I wore this dark creamy garnet on my paws, it would make those traffic jams more bearable.
I Knead Sour Dough
Ha! This one’s name. I Knead Sour-DOugh, aliarvioitu, tyylikäs kultainen luumu, lainaa sivun Chanelin kirjasta.
Muir Muir seinälle
Jos sinusta tuntuu, että polvi-korkeat saappaat, kilpikonna kaula ja tweed, kun käytät muir Muir seinälle, et ole ainoa. Tämä tumma shimmery luumu on klassinen Fall Shade.
Kaapeli-auto-altaan kaista
Kaapeli-auto-altaan kaista on toinen Ode liikenteeseen, mutta se näyttää lasiltä Cabernet. Yum.
Embarca-Dare Ya!
Kultakuume! Jos näytät tarkasti, näet vähän nuggets of Shimmery Golden Glitter Uinti Magenta Embarca-Dare Ya! – Pelaa yhdellä kaupungin rantakappaleen, Embarcadero.
Ensimmäinen päivä Golden Gateissa
Olen ajautunut, käveli tai juoksi yli Golden Gate Bridge monta kertaa, eikä se koskaan lakkaa hämmästymästä. Mielestäni ensimmäinen päivä kultainen portti saa värillisen oikein. Ajoittain se on hämmästyttävää, kuinka tiiviisti se muistuttaa Golden Gatein Orange-Red Shade.
Se on kaikki san andreas vika nestemäinen hiekka
Viimeiset kolme kappaletta kokoelmasta ovat kuvioitavia. Nestemäinen hiekka kiillottaa, heidän hienolla viimeistelyllä, ovat luultavasti joko rakastamaan tai vihaa.
Jos levitetään pohjakerroksella, niin kaksi kiillotusta, mutta ilman yläkerroa, ne kuivat kuoppaan koostumukseen, joka näyttää märkä kynnet hiekkaan.
Minusta tuntuu oikein Taupe Se on kaikki San Andreas vika ja sininen Wharf! Laituri! Laituri! He muistuttavat minua ulkomaalaisista munista … joka kumoaa minut vähän.
Wharf Wharf Wharf Nestemäinen hiekka
Alcatraz … Rocks nestemäinen hiekka
Mutta glittery alcatraz … Rocks on pois koukku! Glittery, Sparkly ja vain todella hauskaa. Jos puolalainen näyttää jotain Beyoncà © voi käyttää kiertueella, olen, ja näen bey vilkkuu tämän kynnet, kun hän tekee sen kädet laittaa rengas siihen. Jos kaipaat jännittäviä kynsien värejä, haluat varmasti kokeilla tätä.
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