OPI Nail Polish

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My love affair with nail polish started when I was knee high to a grasshopper. My Aunt always had impeccable nails, and well, what more does a young girl dream of other than pretty things, pink things, dress up...and well, in my case I was also...   +

My love affair with nail polish started when I was knee high to a grasshopper. My Aunt always had impeccable nails, and well, what more does a young girl dream of other than pretty things, pink things, dress up...and well, in my case I was also dreaming of marrying one of the New Kids on the Block. Sure, I started out dipping into my Mom's cast-away bottles, and my standards were not what you would call "high". My ranking was basically a "how non-goopy is it?" and "can I get it on my nail?". However, fast-forward through high school, 2 university degrees, and s few years of adult-like working-gal city-livin', and my standards have been elevated. For me, now, price and long-lasting are essential. Sure, there are nail polish option in the high-end boutique stores that cost $30-$40 or even more. Seriously? It's nail polish! Maybe I would buy it if the purchase of the bottle came with an actual manicure, or at least a little neck massage to compensate for the whiplash I received when I noticed the price on the bottle! Listen, drug store nail polish is perfectly fine. Sure, it may chip after 4 or 5 days. But, come on, as if boutique nail polish wouldn't! It's called real life, ladies. We don't sit around all day with our hands in the air. We work, we type, we do dishes, we carry bags, we search through the bottom of our purses for the ever-hiding lip gloss, we peel off those annoying covers on the top of wine bottles....our hands are our tools! So, for my tool-hands, I always turn to O.P.I. for honest-to-goodness quality. I don't know about ingredients, I just know it lasts, it works, it goes on great, and unless I happen to have been scrubbing my bathtub sans gloves, it stays pretty darn shiny well. While I never want to be that gal who gets sucked in by cutesy names (hello, wine makers, enough with the targeting...if your wine were actually any good you wouldn't need to call it something all pink and girly!....but I digress), I fully admit I love the O.P.I. nail polish names. I think I almost adopt a Russian-vixen accent when I put on my "Vodka and Caviar" polish. So, to make a long story short (I know, too late...it's just not in my make-up....hahaha, make-up, get it?...a beauty review!....hahaha, I crack me up!!)...OK, so, as I was saying, just go and buy O.P.I. It's good. It's worth it. And, whether or not you all of a sudden start speaking Russian, or any other collection-language, you'll be happy with the end-result.    -