Twinsie Tuesday: OPI I Lily Love You

This week's Twinsie Tuesday was a toughy: a polish from your favorite brand. It's really hard to pick a favorite from all the different brands I've tried, but ultimately I settled on OPI. OPI was my first love and the brand that got me really into polish. I still have a huge soft spot for OPI and I always get excited for new collections from the brand.

As for which polish to show, I went with something a bit rare from OPI: a flakie. I Lily Love You has a pink tinted base with several different colors and sizes of iridescent flakies. There's a nice mix of smaller flakes with larger mylar pieces and the flakies show up as different colors depending on your layering base. For this mani, I used OPI Play The Peonies, a pearly pale pink which, like I Lily Love You, came out in last year's Nice Stems Collection. This is two coats of I Lily Love You over three coats of Play The Peonies.

You could wear I Lily Love You by itself if you don't mind the lack of opacity, but personally I think layering it really makes the flakie colors pop. Over Play The Peonies, I see purple, pink and orange shades in the flakies, but over black, for example, you see more blue. It's interesting to experiment with this polish and see all the different sides it has to it. I probably do this particular combo the most though just because I think it looks so adorable and girly, like candy cupcake sprinkles!


Have you discovered any other fun layering combos with I Lily Love You? Which polish brand is your favorite? I can't wait to see which brands all of the other Twinsies pick as their favorites today!

 

Amanda: http://amandalandish.blogspot.com/
Anna: http://goingtotheshowing.blogspot.com/
Anne: http://grapefizz.blogspot.com/
Ashley: http://artevolve.blogspot.com/
Brandi: http://thecollegiatenail.blogspot.com/
ChiChi: http://beautystarr1009.blogspot.com/
Cordia: http://srslyswatched.blogspot.com
Jenn: http://allthatisgorgeous.blogspot.com/
Jenna: http://www.jennafroggy.com/
Katherine: http://hauloffame.blogspot.com/
Marisa: http://marijonails.blogspot.com/
Meredith: http://polishandcharms.blogspot.com/
Nory: http://fiercemakeupandnails.blogspot.com/
Rachel: http://topcoatit.com/
Sarah: http://seesarahswatch.blogspot.com/
Tara: http://polishyoftruth.com/