The new Liquid Sand formula features a groundbreaking technology that offers a textured and matte finish, infused with a reflective sparkle. When worn without a top coat, the Liquid Sand polishes give a textured matte finish.
All swatches include three thin coats of the Liquid Sand polishes over the OPI Natural Nails Base Coat. There is no top coat on any of the swatches, but within the next couple of weeks these polishes will be featured in NOTD's; with a top coat and without a top coat.When a top coat is worn with these polishes, they give the appearance of polished stone.
When applying the nail polish to the swatches, I could feel the grittiness of the textured base through each brush stroke.
Stay The Night is a matte black with red glints of glitter particles. The nail polish was the sheerest out of all the Liquid Sand shades, so when wearing this, I would wear a thin coat of a black nail polish underneath if you like the look of full opaque nail polish (unless you want do do more than three coats). The polish also only contains one size glitter; a very fine glitter that looks red or pink under different lights.
Get Your Number is a matte blue with dynamic sparkles. I love the textured base in this polish with the very fine holographic glitter throughout it sparsely; as well as other different size holographic glitter. If this nail polish didn't have a Liquid Sand finish, it looks like a blue version of OPI Teenage Dream, and the bright blue colour with the glitter reminds me of OPI Absolutely Alice (both colours mentioned are discontinued).
The Impossible is a matte fuchsia shade with confetti stars. The base of this colour is similar to Get Your Number; however it contains larger hexagon-shaped holographic glitter, the fine pink/red glitter that is seen in Stay The Night, and holographic stars! The problem I had with the stars were that they all had sunk to the bottom of the bottle. After standing the bottle upside down for ten minutes, some of the stars had moved, but I luckily found one around the neck of the bottle to fish out and put in my swatch.
Can't Let Go is a matte purple with a dazzling sparkle. The base of this colour is textured with very fine purple glitter throughout it sparsely; as well as slightly larger purple glitter and larger purple hexagon-shaped glitter. The colour was the most opaque out of the Liquid Sand colours.
What do you think of the new Liquid Sand technology from OPI?
Let me know in the comments below.
Let me know in the comments below.
Disclaimer: This post is not sponsored. All products mentioned were purchased by myself.
I'm not quite sure I like the idea of liquid sand. I prefer to have smooth shiney nails, plus these seem like they'd be a real pain to try and take off. However I do like the look of The Impossible.
ReplyDeleteIf you put two coats of top coat over the Liquid Sand, it gives it a smooth and shiney surface giving it the appearance of poloished stone.
DeleteFrom looking at other blogs, it is only a tad harder to remove than regular, but still a lot easier to remove than glitter nail polish.
If you like the idea of them being matte, but don't like the texture, you could try two coats of a matte top coat to smooth them over.
DeleteI heard about these recently as well, and am curious to see what the polishes look like in person. The purple is probably my favorite. :)
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Don't think these are the sort of thing I'd like enough to pick up, but OPI are definitely getting creative with their formulas! I like the look of Can't Let Go the most, but the blue shade is pretty as well :)
ReplyDeleteAt first I wasn't interested in it, but then I can't turn down any OPI that have glitter in them. I can't wait to see the gold-ish Liquid Sand shade in one of the upcoming collections.
DeleteYou're right Jaci!! That blue one DOES remind me alot of 'Teenage Dream'! These nail polishes look so cool.. I really want to try them, but it'd be hard to pick only 1 shade.. Sad! Thanks for the swatches though!
ReplyDeleteIf you find it hard to remove, you can use DIY peel off base coat by using PVA glue as a base coat! Then you won't have to struggle with removing it! =)
I'm wearing the blue one (Get Your Number) at the moment. With a top coat, it looks just like OPI Teenage Dream, but in the colour blue and with a jelly finish to it.
DeleteI don't like the idea of the PVA glue base coat as I'm worried I would be somewhere and as it is water soluble, it would jsut dissolve on me. I don't have a problem removing nail polish as long as the remover contains at least 80% acetone.
I'm on the fence with these. I think it's a texture thing. But I like the idea of a top coat making them look like polished rocks!
ReplyDeleteWhen I put a top coat over them I used a cheap one initally as it literally just "eats" it up.
DeleteIf you don't like the texture feel, but still want it to be matte, you can put two coats of a matte topcoat over it.