March 2012

Monday 26 March 2012

OPI's The Amazing Spiderman Collection (coming soon in May)

Posted by OBS at 07:02

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN

From left to right: Shatter The Scales (shatter), Your Web or Mine?, Call Me Gwen-Ever, Into The Night, My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Number One Nemesis, Just Spotted the Lizard

Green Shatter

Friday 23 March 2012

NOTICE to customers who ordered the NYC Ballet Collection series....

Posted by OBS at 18:21

Hi All,

Hope you have been well.

To all the ladies/retailers who have ordered collections from the NYC Ballet on and/or after March 19:

Due to the overwhelming orders for this series, we have re-ordered and will deliver your orders earliest by 29th March 2012.

We seek your kind understanding on this matter.

To those who have ordered before March 19, I trust that you have received your NYC Ballet bottles/mini series.

Thank you for your support thus far.

Thursday 22 March 2012

Color List for Axxium Soak-Off Gel Lacquers & Gel Colors

Posted by OBS at 02:58

OPI Axxium Soak-Off Gel Lacquer

Alpine Snow
Aphrodite's Pink Nightie
Barefoot in Barcelona
Bastille My Heart
Big Apple Red
Black Cherry Chutney
Black Onyx
Bogota Blackberry
Brisbane Bronze
Bubble Bath
Cajun Shrimp
Chick Flick Cherry
COsmo-Not Tonight Honey
Dulce De Leche
DS Radiance
Glitzerland
Happy Anniversary
Hawaiian Orchid
Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow
I'm Indi-A Mood For Love
I'm Not Really a Waitress
Italian Love Affair
Kyoto Pearl
Lincoln Park After Dark
Louvre Me Louvre Me Not
Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous
Lucky Lucky Lavender
Over the Taupe
OPI Ink
OPI Red
Malaga Wine
Meet Me on the Star Ferry
Miami Beet
Moon Over Mumbai
My Private Jet
Passion
Pink Before You Leap
Pink Flamenco
Pompeii Purple
Princesses Rule!
Rosy Future
Russian Navy
San Tan-Tonio
Strawberry Margarita
Suzi Loves Cowboys
The Color to Watch
Up Front & Personal
Y'all Come Back Ya Hear?
Yodel Me On My Cell
You Don't Know Jacques

GEL COLOR LIST

A Good Man-Darin Is Hard to Find
A Grape Fit!
Alpine Snow
Bastille My Heart
Big Apple Red
Black Onyx
Bogota Blackberry
Brisbane Bronze
Bubble Bath
Cajun Shrimp
Cosmo-Not Tonight Honey
Funny Bunny
Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow
I'm Not Really a Waitress
Kyoto Pearl
Lincoln Park After Dark
Louvre Me Louvre Me Not
Malaga Wine
Miami Beet
My Private Jet
OPI Ink
Passion
Pink Flamenco
Pompeii Purple
Princesses Rule!
Russian Navy
Samoan Sand
Strawberry Margarita
Suzi Says Feng Shui
You Don't Know Jacques

Main differences between the OPI Axxium Soak-Off Gel Lacquers & the OPI Gel Colors are

1. Axxium coloured gels and OPI Gel Colors are both soak-off formulas.

2. Axxium is stocked in 50 popular OPI shades whereas Gel Colors is stocked in 30 popular OPI shades.

3. Both must be cured in UV lamps and require extended direct contact with pure acetone for removal at the salon..

4. Axxium comes in a honey-gel texture. It comes in little pots and is thicker on the application brush than polish. Gel Color is also a gel which is more like a shellac texture (in between a gel and a polish). It comes in opaque bottles that look like normal OPI polish bottles.

5. Axxium requires 2 minutes per coat under fluorescent UV light bulbs to cure. Gel Color on the other hand, being an LED-sensitive formula takes shorter. On average, Gel Color basecoat cures in 10 seconds under LED UV light bulbs and Gel Color colors cure in 30 seconds per coat under LED UV light bulbs.

6. Soaking off Axxium takes about 20 to 25 minutes in pure acetone. Gel Color seems to take about five or 10 minutes less than Axxium.