January 21, 2010

Polish of the Week: OPI Brand New Skates

OPI Brand New Skates, three coats, with flash

The Polish of the Week this week is one of my top ten favorite polishes- OPI Brand New Skates. Brand New Skates came out in the 2008 OPI Holiday collection. This is a totally unique polish in my collection and I just stare at it constantly every time I wear it. Brand New Skates is a medium smoky gray almost jelly finish polish with loads of very fine GOLD shimmer. It's the gold shimmer that makes this one different. You can see the gorgeous shimmer in my picture with flash above. In low lights (like the picture below), this polish has a stunning smoky look to it that I love. Even in low lights, you can see the gold shimmer particles, and sometimes the gold and gray together has a little greenish look to it as well. I just adore this polish so much!!!

OPI Brand New Skates, three coats, low light, no flash

I always take my no-flash pictures near the big sliding glass door in my house. This door leads out to our patio and my mom likes to throw birdseed and peanuts out that door for the wide variety of birds that live in the woods behind our house. But when you feed birds, you also get...

My new swatching buddy, Peanut the Squirrel!

That board that he's sitting on is supposed to be preventing him from leaping into the house when we open the door, but you can see it's probably just making it easier for him to come right on in LOL. He sat there the whole time I was taking pictures; I guess he likes OPI Brand New Skates too!

In other news, Sephora by OPI Leaf Him at the Altar is available on the website right now!!! Yay!!