Bottle Shot
2 coats OPI Tease-y Does It
1 coat Poshe
Tease-y Does It has a deep black/brown base with a deep pink/red shimmer with very minimal flashes of a golden shimmer. Disappointingly, this polish looks a lot more dynamic and lovely in the bottle. I should add a disclaimer. Vampy, deep colors are not my favorite. I'm sure that this is an amazing polish for those who like blackened colors. But the bottle shows significantly more shimmer with a dark pink to gold shift that doesn't translate as well on the nail. The shimmer is not very apparent. I tried to get the polish at a ton of different angles to show that there is a bit of shimmer. But I think the first photo is more accurate at how dark and... plain this polish really is. Nothing like the bottle. :(
The reason I didn't like this polish the first time was because I remember I had gone out with a bunch of coworkers and I had at LEAST 3 people comment on my "black" nails. I mentioned it's not black, but in the lighting we were in, you couldn't tell there was anything more to it. It just annoyed me because I spent money on what looks like a "black" polish to other people... and to me. That's why I didn't bother to wear it again.
If you've read my blog, you know I don't like OPIs brushes. Apart from that, the formula was perfect, opaque in 2 coats. It seemed to migrate a LITTLE towards my cuticles, but stopped before it got there. It was kind of funny, actually!
While I wasn't a fan of this polish, I just want to reiterate that if you like these nearly black colors, I'm sure you'd find this one beautiful!!
beautiful color and love your nails.
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That is a bit disappointing compared to the bottle picture. :/ Just tried my first OPI recently and, yeah, that brush is rediculously big! LOL I have pretty big nails so it wasn't a problem, but wow.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually one of my favorites! I think it's beautiful, but the bottle is misleading with the duochrome it shows. It was weird when I first wore it because before that I hardly ever experimented with dark colors.
ReplyDeleteHate it when shimmer is more noticeable in the bottle than on the nail. This one looks so pretty in the bottle - if only it applied that way! I have quite a few polishes like this.. ones I bought because I thought they were 'special' but turned out to be BLAH once I tried them on.. what a shame ;[
ReplyDeleteThere's another OPI very similar to this one. Royal Rajah Ruby? I think! It looks quite red-and-shimmery in the bottle but never quite translates on the nail, or at least not in the gloomy kind of light we get in the UK most of the time.
ReplyDeleteI also have small nails and have a bit of a fight with the ProWide brushes. Always yards of clean up afterwards and for some reason it's always much worse with a bright or vampy.
Your nails are lovely. Great length and shape.