Nails I Love
OPI – Merry Midnight
Helloooooo
Goddesses.
Today we have Holy
Lemming No 1 – Merry Midnight. There’s a
reason it’s so beloved – it’s a fricking work of ART.
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| with flash to show the amazing base colour |
There are several
reasons MM floats my boat –
- Base colour – purple – nuff said
- It had flakie holo pieces
- It looks like Christmas
- It’s sheer happiness for the nail
- It’s an explosion of lusciousness
MM has a purple
base, but way over on the maroon side. It
looks like the blackcurrants and the cranberries decided to have a fight in the
bottle, and are still going at it. I’ve
included a couple of flash pictures, because the undertone is truly special.
So, not only is the
base colour gorgeous, it has frosting and shimmer to it that flash blue in the
light. THIS is why it reminds me of
Christmas J
Then of course you’ve
got the holo flakes. Most of the time
they glint pink, but they happily turn to orange if you so much as wink at
them. Better still, get them alone and
start flirting and they turn GREEN as they shy away from the light.
There’s a whole lot
of colour going on here, and if you think about it, it really shouldn’t work –
purple, pink, orange, green and blue ?
All at the same time ? And it
keeps changing ? It seems insane they
can co-exist so perfectly and not inspire nausea, but they do.
The secret is in the
magical cloak of mystery MM likes to present to the world. She likes to pretend she’s a respectable
purple-maroon-magenta kind of girl, a cloak of many twilight colours, but
really she’s a kaleidoscope ready to freak out!
So, is it worth the
hype? Actually, I’m not that sure. As the day has worn on I have loved her more
and more, and in return she has shown me more of herself (she certainly wasn’t
flashing her blue shimmer at me this morning, and it took me til lunch to find
the lime green). At first I thought I could
do as well with a good purple and some KleanColor black holo, but d’you know
what, I can’t.
There’s no way to
replicate the enormous blend of colours going on here, and that’s what makes MM
so amazingly special. How else do you
combine colour, shimmer, glimmer, frost, holo, flakie goodness in a combination
of hot and cold colours ?
This also reminds me
of a Christmas pudding – please, bear with – it’s got the warmth of the berries,
the fruit and the brandy and then the clash of the blue flame once it’s lit.
This is super
special, and in what has until now been quite a bland year, a timeless reminder
of what OPI can do when they really make an effort.
Enjoy J
Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.
