Nicole by OPI Target Exclusive Collection for Fall 2012 Swatches and Review

Nicole by OPI has more Target exclusives this year and they are quite interesting. Two of them are dupes of recent "mirror chrome" colors you may already have, but the rest of them are completely unique and awesome.


Nicole For Gold Times Sake. This is a polish made up of many different colors of microglitter. The overall color of the polish is an olive gold with red/orange duochrome flash. It shifts colors from earthy dirty olive to pinkish red bronze depending on the lighting. I can see gold, green, light blue, purple, pink and red iridescent particles in this polish.


Nicole If The Blue Fits.... This is another multicolored microglitter duochrome. The overall color is a vibrant indigo blue with green and purple duochrome flash. I can see pink, purple, blue, green, gold and red iridescent particles in here. All the little speckles of shimmer/glitter in here change color when you tilt your nails.



Nicole Iris My Case. Oh.... another one of these purple chromes with slight orange duochrome. Yawn. Okay, okay, it's not a bad color at all, in fact I really like it, it's just... I have three dupes of this already. I love the finish and the duochrome, but can we have a new color now? This and every Peridot dupe might be this year's OPI Catch Me In Your Net.



Nicole Just Busta Mauve. This is just the coolest thing I've ever seen from Nicole. What a crazy polish. It's just like For Gold Times Sake and If The Blue Fits..., except this one is red-bronze based and all the colors really clash and stand out. It's amazing. There's a dark pink and bronze base with lots of orange, gold, blue, purple and red and a strong gold flash with just the tiniest hint of a green duochrome at the most extreme angle.


Nicole Mer-made For Each Other. Blue-green-teal-gold multichromatic chrome-like shimmer. Looks a lot like China Glaze Unpredictable. It's not a Chanel Péridot dupe, but it's in the same family.

The formula on all was just right. The glitters were extremely fine (more of a flat glass fleck or a very small foil particle than a chunky glitter) and very opaque. The chromes were smooth and even, not particularly thick or thin. None of them gave me any trouble to apply and they all looked fantastic at three coats. Drying time is fast on all shades, but the chromes are faster than the glitters. The glitters don't dry dull, but they do sparkle more with topcoat. The chromes don't need topcoat at all (unless you want it, but it doesn't make a difference in the shine).

Amazing set of exclusives this year. The Target exclusives are usually good, but this time they're extra awesome. I could have done without the chrome clones, but they're still really pretty. I would have definitely preferred two more colors of this new multicolored glitter duochrome formula for sure. The multicolored glitter duochromes are unique in my collection and are definitely worth checking out if you see them on the shelf. I'm really impressed that Nicole has done something completely different than anything else I've seen lately. Bravo. These glitters rule.

This collection is available now exclusively at Target.

(This was sent for review.)