Today I have the second half of swatches from the OPI All Stars Mini Collection, and this half is the richer shades where the last half was the pinks and nudes. 🙂 If you want to see the first five swatches make sure to check out the first post!
The first shade I have to show you is one of my favourites out of all ten. This is OPI That’s Hula-Rious! and it was originally released in the 2015 Hawaii Collection.
It’s a cool minty green creme that was a bit patchy in application but that I could build up to full opacity with three coats + top coat. I like this colour enough that I will put up with the patchiness, not gonna lie!
This is the only shade I already owned (and already loved!) out of the ten shades. OPI Do You Have This Color In Stock-Holm? is from the 2014 Nordic Collection and it is a FABULOUS blurple creme polish. This one had zero application issues and required three coats for full coverage. 🙂
Okay, so I know this polish looks black but stick with me – it isn’t! This is OPI Lincoln Park After Dark and it’s a dark dark blackened raspberry crelly. It was originally released with the Deliciously Dark Collection in 2007 and has been a staple for OPI ever since. 🙂 They even released a matte version in 2009!
Pictured here is three coats, but as expected the more coats you do the deeper the colour. If you don’t mind a bit of a messy look you could probably layer one or two coats over a lighter base to get a colour that looks less like black (lol). You can get a hint along the side of my pointer finger of what that might look like, where I didn’t paint evenly.
If you’re looking for a quintessential red crelly polish, OPI Big Apple Red is as far as you have to look. 🙂 It’s a very sexy traditional red! It was originally released with the 2000 New York City Collection and pictured here is three coats with top coat.
This one is a little sheer so if you do thin coats you might also want to do some white undies so you don’t get visible nail line. Just fyi!
I always want to call this Magdala Wine and I don’t know why. This is actually called OPI Malaga Wine and it’s a deep vampy red. It came out waaaaaay back in 1989 with the Launch Collection and has been a Classic Shade ever since! I used three coats with topcoat.
I feel this is the nighttime shade to go with the daytime shade of OPI Big Apple Red. Wouldn’t that be fab if there was a thermal that went from one to the other? Ah!
So that’s all ten! From this half That’s Hula-Rious! and Do You Have This Color In Stock-Holm? are the clear winners for me, but there are lots of gorgeous shades in the set. I can definitely see why these shades are considered ‘All Stars’!
As I mentioned I got this set re-gifted to me by a friend (thank you Michelle!) but if you’d like to pick it up you might be able to find it at Winners or Marshalls if you look around. I know they often bring in older sets of OPI minis. 🙂
If you haven’t already make sure to check out the first half of swatches from this set, and then let me know what you think! Which shade is your fav?
Thanks for visiting! xx
