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.
Jeg elsker det! — 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, en diskret, elegant gylden plomme, låner en side fra Chanels bok.
Muir Muir på veggen
Hvis du har lyst til å donere knehøye støvler, en skilpaddehals og tweed når du bruker Muir Muir på veggen, er du ikke den eneste. Denne mørke shimmery plommen er en klassisk fallskygge.
I kabelbanen Bassenget
I kabelbanen er bilen en annen ode til trafikk, men det ser ut som et glass Cabernet. Yum.
Embarca-Dare Ya!
Gullrush! Hvis du ser nøye ut, kan du se små nuggets av Shimmery Golden Glitter Svømming i Magenta Embarca-Dare Ya! – Et spill på en av byens vannkanten hovedveier, Embarcadero.
Første dato på Golden Gate
Jeg har kjørt, gikk eller løp over Golden Gate-broen mange ganger, og det slutter aldri å forbause. Jeg tror at første dato på Golden Gate får fargen riktig. Til tider er det uhyggelig hvor tett det ligner den gyldne gateens oransje-rød nyanse.
Det er alt San Andreas Feil flytende sand
De siste tre stykkene fra samlingen er teksturert. Den flytende sanden polerer, med sin gritty finish, er noe du sannsynligvis vil enten elske eller hate.
Hvis det brukes med en basefrakk, så to strøk polsk, men uten toppjakke, tørker de til en humpete tekstur som ser ut som du dyppet våte negler i sanden.
Jeg føler meg bra om taupe det er alt San Andreas Fault og Blue Wharf! Brygge! Brygge! De minner meg om fremmede egg … som freaks meg litt ut.
Wharf wharf wharf flytende sand
Alcatraz … bergarter flytende sand
Men glitrende Alcatraz … Rocks er utenfor kroken! Glitrende, sparkly og bare veldig morsomt. Hvis en polsk ser ut som noe Beyoncé kan ha på tur, er jeg inne, og jeg kan se bey blinker dette på klørne mens hun gjør det litt med hendene hennes fra å sette en ring på den. Hvis du ønsker eventyrlystne neglelager, vil du definitivt prøve dette.
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San Francisco av OPI-samlingen kommer 7. august til salonger, ren skjønnhet og ulta butikker, og også online.
Pris: $ 9 hver
Tilgjengelighet: Begrenset utgave, og kommer 7. august til salonger, ren skjønnhet og ulta butikker, og online
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Karen.