I've mentioned before that I love Greek mythology and all my electronic devices have a Greek name...except my new external hard drive, I named that Minerva.
Anyway, due to my weird obsession I felt the need to track down the OPI Greek Isles collection. Released in 2004, the Greek Isles collection was of course the summer one. Full of frosty pinks and streaky whites. But I love it anyway. It's a true summer collection. Not one of the shades is a dark vampy colour, they're all bright and cheerful and I can't help but imagine myself cruising the Greek Isles when I see the colours.
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| Calling All Goddesses |
Frosty white shimmer, streaky and running. This one takes patience to apply. As you can see I didn't have quite enough patience! This was 3 coats.
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| Cream of Crete |
Cream of Crete may look like and off white creme, but it actually has a very pretty delicate shimmer running through it. Another streaky runny polish that needs a lot of patience to apply. Again 3 coats.
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| Ti-tan Your Toga |
Haha, Ti-tan, anyway...not really what I'd call tan...more a pale beige sand? A pearly finish with a lot of delicate shimmer. 3 coats again.
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| Melon of Troy |
A frosty looking peachy melony looking shimmer. This was 3 coats and like most of these shimmery shades I still have a bit of visible nail line, but nothing I'm worried about. This is a rather juicy shade. Melon ice? Maybe I'm just hungry.
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| Dancing in the Isles |
More of a light coraly pink than a pink pink, though I'm not sure it's coraly enough to be classed as coral. Again a frosty shimmer with some visible nail line, but nothing that worries me. Quite a pretty feminine colour.
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| Aphrodites Pink Nightie |
Delicate, pink and feminine. Perfectly fitting for the goddess of love and beauty. A frosty shimmer pink that was once again 3 coats. Pretty and girly. Perfect for a pink.
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| It's All Greek to me |
Wow! It's All Greek to Me is a stunning bright pink shimmery polish. It's definitely a stand out in this collection. I can see why it's such a popular polish and the more I look at this swatch the more I want to paint my toes. Again 3 coats.
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| Don't Socra-tease Me |
A another stunning colour from this collection. So bright and vibrant. A deeper red based coral with an amazing shot of what looks like blue shimmer in some lights. Rather sheer and this was actually four coats, but still incredibly gorgeous.
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| Purple-opolis |
These colours keep getting better and better. Purple-opolis is another amazing vibrant colour. I'm not sure I'd call it a purple, more a deep purple pink? Look at the gold shimmer coming through in the second photo. I've never seen that before, it looks amazing though!
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| Greece Just Blue Me Away |
And lastly the gorgeous, though far too sheer, blue from the collection. Greece Just Blue Me Away has so much promise in the bottle. It's shimmer and a gorgeous shade of blue that seems to have some purple duo-chrome. Then on the nail it's sheer. Oh so so sheer. This was four coats, and you can't see any of the duo-chrome.
