Monday, January 2, 2012

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OPI I Lily love you over black

At the end of November I saw a swatch of OPI I Lily Love You over very dark purple on Shatter me Claire's blog.  I hadn't realised until then what an amazing flakie and irridesent glitter polish this was.  I'd seen swatches of it on it's own, but it really grabbed my attention over the dark colour.  So because of her blog post, off I went and grabbed this polish.

The base to I Lily Love You is a really sheer pink jelly.  I don't think you would be able to get it opaque on it's own.  Here is two coats, layers over a black base. 


The particles in this are so varied and complex.  There are irregular shaped pieces in various colours,  smaller square pieces, and even smaller round glitters.  All of the glitters and flakes are iridescent and really pop over a dark base
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Thanks to your blog post Sarah Claire, I now have this beautiful polish.

Do you have I Lily Love You?  And have your tried it over a dark colour?

18 comments:

  1. That's really beautiful, I wish I had bought it now! You get a similar effect if you layer China Glaze's Snow Globe or GOSH's Rainbow over black too :) xx

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  2. I was just about to try OPI Rainbow Connection over a plain black polish to see how it would look! What a coincidence that I saw this post haha. I'm not sure if it would suit the Australian summer weather right now though :(

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  3. Look really great!!
    Reminds me Color club covered in diamonds!

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  4. This nail polish looks gorgeous over black!

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  5. I got I Lily Love You in the mini set but I kind of wish I picked up a full size bottle :) It's a really fantastic interesting top coat.

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  6. What an awesome polish! It looks great over black.

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  7. Ohhhhh....I love this! I haven't seen or heard of this one before! I must find it! :)

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  8. Ohhhh Im gonna try this :)) I have tried Last Friday night over black but never thought og this combo :)) Fab post, thanks lovely!!xxx

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  9. Never thought to try it over a dark base, Ive kept it with pinks. I for sure will try this soon!

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  10. I saw the combo of ILLY on dark colours either on Scrangie's blog or Fashion Polish, can't remember, but when I wanted to try it, I discovered that my mini-bottle, though neatly stashed in the box and the box in my helmer, had completely dried out! No amount of thinner could do anything, so now I have to watch other people do the combo and sigh... but it looks really pretty on you, I love it! :)

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  11. I have it on now!!! I've been looking for I Lily Love You for ages and found it yesterday! Currently am wearing it over China Glaze First Mate with an extra top coat of PP Festival to add some more colours. It's awesome!

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  12. I Lily Love you looks fantastic over a dark color!

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  13. I tried it over dark blue and it looked gorgeous :) Looks amazing mattefied over dark polish too x

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  14. Wow that is amazing, fab flakie, thanks for sharing x *goes off to see if I can find this on Ebay* !!

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  15. This looks so fantastic over black!

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  16. looks fab! i really want try it! where did you get the OPI i lily love you??

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