OPI I Lily Love You

Thought I would add some glitter to Russian Navy as I was going out at the weekend so I looked through my collection and chose OPI I Lily Love You.
This is is a very pretty glitter in a pink base although over a colour as dark as Russian Navy, the pink is not apparent. It is made up of tiny microglitter, hexes and chunkier glitter in all sorts of colours and catches the light beautifully. This is one coat, the glitter distribution was good and it dried quickly. A couple of the larger chunks did need pressing down a bit, and I ended up using 2 coats of top coat for a completely smooth finish, otherwise I would have spent the evening bothering the flappy bits !

OPI I Lily Love You

 

 

OPI Russian Navy

Today is my son's birthday, so I let him chose a colour. Rather predictably he chose dark purple, so I checked my spreadsheet for dark purples that hadn't been tried yet, and there were none! Then I remembered OPI Russian Navy, I showed him the bottle - oh yes that one!

Russian Navy is a gorgeous navy with a pink/purple shimmer which is more apparent to the naked eye than these pics show and I should probably list this as a blurple on my spreadsheet.

Interestingly the first coat was quite streaky and looked more like a green blue, but the second coat just brought it all to life and it is just stunning. I am hoping it will meet with my son's approval, it certainly meets with mine.

OPI Russian Navy