Nicole by OPI Kardashian Kolors Collection for Holiday 2011 Swatches and Review

Nicole's holiday collection is a little bit bigger this year. Instead of twelve shades, we get fourteen! There's a little something for everyone in this set. Personally, I'm a fan of the glitters.... But you knew I was going to say that. These glitters are really good, though! I mean it, just look!



Nicole All Kendall-ed Up. Hot pink creme. Slight blue tone. Bright, dense and pretty but not unique.



Nicole Disco Dolls. See what I mean about the glitters being awesome? This is a super fine gold glitter with rainbow/multicolor (not holographic) round glitter accents. The glitter is fine and smooth and the rainbow glitter accents are big enough to be noticeable but small enough to be smooth and delicate. I love this one so much that I've worn it twice already.



Nicole Follow Me On Glitter. Kickass color, silly name. Follow me on Glitter? I assume Glitter is supposed to rhyme with Twitter, alluding to the fact that Kim Kardashian has over eleven and a half MILLION followers on Twitter? Whatever the case, it's a great color. Smoky tinted base with grey-silver and black microglitter and larger round multicolor glitter accents like in Disco Dolls. That's basically what this is: the black glitter version of Disco Dolls. Both are amazing.



Nicole Hard-Kourt Fashionista. I used flash on this one to bring out the base color. It's a deep brown creme.



Nicole It's All About The Glam. A white shimmer. This one is very pretty and delicate. It has silvery-white and iridescent clear tiny flecks of shimmer. It looks clean and bright, but because of the sparkles it looks soft and twinkly, not harsh or stark. I really like it. Unfortunately, this is the one polish in the collection that had streaking issues so I needed to do four coats.



Nicole Kendall on the Katwalk. Another crazy good glitter with an awful name. One of my biggest pet peeves is spelling English words with a K instead of a C. For example... Kar... as in one of the most irritating jingles ever... 1-877-kars-4-kids, K-A-R-S cars for kids... ANYWAY.... This is a sheer blue tinted base with blue, green and purple glitter. The glitter is fine textured but not quite microglitter. It is gorgeous. It's sparkly, it's richly colored, it has green and purple accents peeking through the dominantly blue base color... Two thumbs up from me.



Nicole Kim-pletely in Love. This one surprised me. When I first saw it I thought, "Ugh... not another sheer pink." But then, when I took a closer look at the bottle, I completely changed my mind. This is a soft girly pink, but it's packed with duochrome microglitter! More like tiny glass fleck particles than true glitter, it lies completely flat and smooth and doesn't really have a texture to it. It shifts from purple to blue and at some angles it looks like it has gold and green in it. I'm normally a bit of a pink hater, but this I like.




Khloe had a Little Lam-Lam. Very dark teal creme. This teal seems to have a little more of a neutral tone to it than most teals, so it looks better on my skin than a lot of other teals. Because of that, I like this one more than most teals.



Nicole Kourt is Red-y For a Pedi. Isn't this gorgeous? It's a very bright coral-red with an awesome milky jelly finish. I love the squishy look of it. The bold color combined with the fascinating finish makes this my favorite non-glitter shade of the collection. You could probably see this color from a mile away.



Nicole Listen To Your Momager! Medium bordering on dark blue shimmer. Pretty, but not unique.



Nicole My Empire... My Rules. Mushroomy taupe creme. Again, pretty but not unique. I like wearing this type of color, but I don't need a dozen from each brand.



Nicole Rainbow in the S-Kylie. Multicolor glitter in a clear base. It has small, round silver, green, yellow, pink, orange, blue and red glitter and two sizes of larger hexagon glitter in the same colors. Similar to OPI Rainbow Connection, Lippmann Happy Birthday (new version), Milani Gems, et cetera. I'm getting really tired of all the rainbow glitter clones. This collection could have done without this and My Empire... My Rules.



Nicole Sealed With a Kris. Wine red jelly. Applies lighter than it appears in the bottle.



Nicole Wear Something Spar-Kylie. This one is a bit like OPI Excuse Moi without the multicolored glitter circles. It's a warm pink microglitter with a little lighter pink shiny glitter in a pink tinted base. It's sparkly and very smooth, perfect formula. It doesn't have any larger pieces to give it that '3D' look like the other glitters, but it still has depth. I like it.

The formula on these was great. The only ones that gave me trouble were It's All About The Glam, which was streaky, and Rainbow in the S-Kylie, which was thick and weird to apply. Otherwise everything was perfectly smooth, even and opaque. I did three coats of all except It's All About The Glam, most only needed two for opacity (including the glitters), but the third coat intensifies the color nicely. Good dry time, good wear time. These have a normal brush instead of the hilariously bad "Perfect Stroke" brush (or whatever it was called).

My only true complaint is that there are too many overdone colors. They could have replaced the pink creme, wine creme, rainbow glitter, taupe creme, blue shimmer and brown creme with some brand new colors and the collection would have been perfect. Nicole's superfine glitter formula is really, really nice... Wish they would have done more of those instead.

Overall, I think it's still a pretty great collection. It doesn't feel like a holiday collection at all and there's really nothing particularly wintery or Christmassy about it, but the colors are mostly very good. Some boring, easily duplicated cremes and shimmers in there, but the amazing glitters make up for it. I would definitely recommend all the glitters except Rainbow in the S-Kylie (do we really need another Happy Birthday knockoff?) plus It's All About The Glam, Kourt is Red-y for a Pedi and Kim-pletely in Love from the non-glitter portion.


(This was sent to me for review.)