OPI DS Original

OPI DS Original (Designer Series)

Light plum linear holographic

Sunshine! That calls for holographic nailpolish! I’ve got quite a few in swaps recently, so I actually had a hard time deciding which one to try on first!! I went for OPI DS Original from their Designer Series. I’ve read so much about it, so I was dying to try it on. I had read that no special base coat was necessary, so I just slapped on my Miss Sporty base coat.

Application was easy, the polish just glided on. It was on the sheer side, so I kind of regretted that I hadn’t used some kind of coloured underwear for it. But I thought that this way I could see what this polish was really about. I ended up applying three coats. I didn’t have any problems with pulling on already applied polish or bald spots or anything. Easy peasy!! I didn’t apply a topcoat, because I’ve read that it dulls the holo effect, and that’s the last thing I wanted.

And look at how is makes little rainbows in the sunshine! 

I took about a million pictures to make sure that some of them would actually show the beauty of this polish:

Let me show you another reason why I regretted not having used this as a layering polish:

It’s so dull when it’s out of the sunshine, and too pale to look good with my skin tone.

Something weird happened later! I was applying some oil on my hands, and rubbed it in around my cuticles, like I do every evening. But the polish obviously didn’t like that, because the polish went all tacky and weird, and it dulled the holo effect more than any top coat could possibly have done! So I think that I’ll apply a top coat next time, in order to be able to rub oil into my hands :)

Have any of you experienced that holographic (or any other) nail polish didn’t work very well with subsequent use of hand creams/oils/lotions? I’m really curious to hear if I’m the first one experiencing this.

The verdict:

Opacity: 5/10
Colour, prettiness: 10/10
Durability: N/A/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 7.6/10
Buy again: Yes