It's a horrible picture, I know! This is the best one I could get...I tried 3 times and gave up!
Product Brand and Name, Price (CDN), Where Purchased
OPI Nail Lacquer in Not Like The Movies from the Katy Perry Collection, $10.00 CDN @ Enviro Trends
Reason for Purchase
I went into the store as I knew they had finally gotten in the Katy Perry collection. I was specifically looking for the shade Teenage Dream, found it, and picked this one up too.
Notable Features
The polishes are salon quality, and are formulated without formaldehyde, toluene, or dibutyl phthalate (DBPs).
Packaging
Polishes come in glass bottles with a black twist off brush cap. OPI polishes are easy to recognize in a crowd, as their bottles are round and chubby - as are the brush caps.
Experience Using Product
I was not attracted to this polish shade at all when I saw the print ad campaigns for the collection in magazines like Glamour and In Style. Once I saw the polish in person, I was drawn to it.
Not Like The Movies seriously reminds me of the MAC eyeshadow shade Vex. It looks like it’s a duo-chrome shade - the main color is a light steel grey, but in different lights the grey takes on a pinky-purple or green-blue sheen. The polish is also loaded with tiny silvery-white glitter particles.
The applied the polish very slowly, very sheerly - I have super short nails at the moment and didn’t want to end up with cuticles covered in polish. For that reason, it took 3 sheer coats for me to get a finish I was happy with. Had I applied the polish ‘normally’, I would have only needed to apply two coats of polish.
Here is what it looks like on my fingers; I put it against two different colored backgrounds so you could see how the light picks up the different colors:
Would I Re-Purchase, Recommend, or Reject
I would recommend this polish to someone interested in trying something a bit different. I have worn the polish all week for work, and love it. It is colorful, but not too inappropriately flashy for the office. Because of how much I like the color, I would likely re-purchase this shade. I am thinking about buying a ‘backup’ bottle.
You can find more information about this polish and many more of OPI's available shades by visiting their website.
