OPI My Private Jet

Here's one of my dark favourites, OPI My Private Jet:

I like dark polishes but I find black ones too hard and way too dark for me and my girlish style. I'm so pale that they make me a little bit too gothic-like... That's why I like this color: dark enough but not black. Indoors (upper picture) MPJ looks almost brownish grey (with holographic shimmer), but outdoors (lower picture) there's no brown, it actually looks like dark, bluish grey (with holographic shimmer). And as you can see the holographic shimmer is awesome! I used three coats in this picture. With two coats the color was great, but the shimmery effect wasn't so obvious so I added one more coat.

MPJ doesn't overtake the overwhelming OPI's Brand New Skates or Lumene's Beyond the Dark (Pimeän taa in Finnish) but it's definitely better than Dior's Black Sequins or OPI's Baby It's "Coal" Outside. I do like this, but I'm not in love with this.

How do you like My Private Jet?

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China Glaze Visit Me in Prism

Today I'm wearing China Glazes Visit me in Prism:

This is sooo cute! It's quite pale-colored but the smooth and even glitter makes it hologram-like, but I would still not call it hologram polish. If I have to try to name the color it would be light, grayish lilac.

I made a comparison between this and Make Up Store's Madeline, here's a picture:

I'm wearing Visit me in prism, but on thumb I'm wearing Madeline. The color is quite same, but Madeline has the actual hologram effect and as you can see, VMiP just seems like an ordinary glittery nail polish when they are next to each other.

I have to say that I just love this color (and Madeline also!). I have noticed that at the moment I'm really into polishes with light and boring undertone but with some little special thing or effect (OPI's Brand new skates and it's shimmer, Glamour Game and it's shimmer...). And in this polish those holo-glitters are The Thing.

And by they way I'm also going grazy about how they play on words with this polish names. OPI does that well and so does China Glaze. This "Visit me in prism" didn't open me at first, but now I get it ("Visit me in prism" is almost like "Visit me in prison" if you didn't get it eather).

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