The Sephora by OPI line has, as far as I understand, been recently discontinued from Sephora stores. Consequently, it's been popping up at discount retailers, including Hautelook, which is where I got mine. I figured I'd put up a quick review of the polishes I picked up in their $3 sale for anyone else who might see them on sale and be curious what the quality is like.
L to R: It's Bouquet With Me, Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild, Indi-go With the Flow, Cover Me in Petals, Go With the Flow-er (over Cover Me in Petals), I Come in Peas, Casting Call, Shiny Dancer, Already Famous
First up, the three glitters. It's Bouquet With Me was the most disappointing, partly just because I didn't like the color. I'd looked up swatches of these online before I bought any of them, and this one must have looked a lot more interesting online, because I would never have picked out a polish that was just silver and pink glitter. It applied with decent coverage, though. Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild is a pretty mix of small lavender hexes and large holographic lavender hexes. It applied fairly well, too. Indi-go With the Flow was one I was hoping would be a dupe for Essie's Stroke of Brilliance, but alas, this polish applies with all the goopy, awful coverage of the Spoiled polishes which retail for a dollar or two. What you see in the swatch above is four coats, with a lot of playing around to make the glitter somewhat even.
Cover Me in Petals and Go With the Flow-er are a very nice coordinating match. Cover Me in Petals applied quite nicely, opaque in two coats, and without a goopy application. Like most glass fleck finishes, Go With the Flow-er was still sheer after 4 coats, so for this swatch I put two coats over a coat of Cover Me in Petals. Both these polishes are a tad more red than my camera would pick up, but they both have that same almost neon intensity that the picture shows.
I Come in Peas was one that I bought pretty much just for the name, but I like the color, too. It's a deep green creme polish, and it doesn't lean too close to black, teal, or anything else. Two coats gave good opacity, and like all the cremes I got, it applied very smoothly, without streaking. Application was the same for Casting Call, it went on very smoothly in two coats.
Shiny Dancer and Already Famous were the two I was most excited about, but also the two that were the most annoying to work with (besides Indi-go With the Flow). Shown here are 4 coats each. You could maybe get away with three, but as you can see from the lumpiness on the swatches, I had a little accident with my swatch wheel and was trying to cover up the gouges. They're both very pretty colors, and could probably be worn with only two coats over similar colored undies, or used for a glitter gradient over a creme polish. Shiny Dancer is a slate blue and silver foil looking polish, and Already Famous is a taupey-gold.
And now for some bottle shots:
My overall impression of these is that I'll likely use them, but I didn't need them, and I'm not terribly excited about most of them. They're not unlike anything you can get at a drugstore, and since the quality wasn't exemplary, I'd stick to cheaper polishes unless you find an amazing deal on these.
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