OPI Nail Lacquer – It’s a Winner

With more than 100, interestingly named (to say the least) hues to choose from, the OPI nail lacquer line is anything but limited. With monikers like “Have a Tempura Tan-Trum,” and “Italian Love Affair,” it might do one better when shopping on the OPI Web site (www.OPI.com) to choose, rather, from their optional, Select by Tone pull-down menu. Even the hippest among us might find selections easier with hints like “Red Tones,” “Mauve Tones,” and “Burgundy Tones.” All are offered in Frosted, Shimmer, Sheer, and Two-Tones, and many of them coordinate with OPI lip liners and lip colors.

Collections 

To celebrate 25 years in business, the company has introduced a dozen new OPI nail lacquers to pay tribute to their anniversary: “Birthday Babe,” “25 Colorful Years,” “Happy Anniversary!,” “Did Someone Say PARTY?,” “Decades of Shades,” “Oh…To Be 25 Again,” “All Lacquered Up,” “OP-I Love This Color,” “Quarter of a Cent-Cherry,” “Mauve-lous Memories,” “It’s a Doozi, Says Suzi,” and our favorite, “Who Comes Up With These Names?,” are all the latest and greatest offerings OPI has introduced to acknowledge their long-time presence in the field of nail and lip cosmetics.

Other collections of OPI nail lacquers include their Mexico Collection, Designer Series, Classic Colors, Holiday 2006, and Brights (Brighter by the Dozen) – all available for viewing on the OPI Web site.

Better Bristles

Marketing to 75 countries on six continents, OPI nail lacquers obviously please women the world over. One of the secrets to their success lies in the simple, yet ingenious design of the brush used to apply their lacquers. Dubbed the ProWide Lacquer Brush, it holds more polish, allowing the user to spread it on faster and more evenly, culminating with a streak-free application. The ProWide brush features stacked bristles, as opposed to the space-in-between bristle placement of regular nail polish brushes. This, along with the wider profile, allows a much cleaner-looking result and an easier way to apply nail lacquer.

Web-Site Wonders

OPI nail lacquers can be viewed on the company Web site with the help of its Try It On Studio. A model’s hand, along with every shade of polish offered by OPI to the right of it, is displayed. When the viewer mouses over each lacquer color, it is displayed on the hand to let you know what the shade will look like when applied to all five nails.

From Professional Shops, Only

OPI nail lacquers can only be purchased through licensed nail professionals. To locate one near you that offers OPI products, the Web site features a Where To Buy tool wherein you simply scroll down to your state and a list appears giving the viewer the names of salons, technicians, the physical address, and the phone number of every entity within your chosen state that uses its products.

Professionals that use OPI nail lacquers and other products do offer an in-between-visits Hand and Nail Maintenance Kit to clientele. This kit supplies the most essential items necessary to keep nails in shape between professional visits.

OPI nail lacquers have become and will continue to be one of the major players in the nail and lip cosmetic industry. Their quality products and glib advertising no doubt will catapult the company to even greater heights – but only for a reason: OPI makes good products. So check them out for yourself. You’ll no doubt become an OPI aficionado, too!