I finally came across Serena Williams’s collaboration with OPI, Simply Smashing with the Black Shatter top coat just before I headed over to my friend’s place for some Friday night wine! I was really starting to wonder if I was going to miss out on it because the stores that I usually shop at haven’t been stocking anything new and I was really itching to get my hands on it. Now I have mixed feelings about it. Why? Two words: Black Shatter...
See, I think that Simply Smashing looks great all on it’s own, granted that you’ll need three coats and not two (as pictured) if you want more even coverage and I find it suits my skin colour, but I can’t say that I was really feeling it when I applied Black Shatter on top of it:
It just seems like the polish underneath just gets lost under all that crackle. Granted, it applied well, dried quickly and performed as advertised but I wasn’t wild about it. Now that I come to think about, I kind of don’t like not having the option to choose the polish that I really wanted and being forced to buy something that I might not have in the first place. I don’t know what OPI has planned for the remaining Williams polishes but I hope that it will include more choices.
I think that I will try Black Shatter with some different colours and see if I don’t find a combination that I like. I noticed that other nail bloggers are using a bright pink base but I’m bored into tears with that colour combination...too tweeny for me I guess.
And now, for no other reason than this is the CD that I am listening right now, The Damned with the Shadow of Love:
Until next time, don't break a nail!
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