Perfectly Polished Tips 101 - Metro Chic & You Don't Know Jacques

Sephora by OPI Metro Chic and OPI You Don't Know Jacques are two popular colors that were released this fall. I did separate posts on both of these polishes but I never compared the two. The question of are they too similar to own both comes up often. In my opinion no they are not similar at all. Metro Chic goes very purple on me while Jacques pulls a lot of brown. Jacques is also darker than Metro Chic. Of course this is going to vary from skin tone to skin tone.

The lighting today made MC look very grey, usually I get more of a purple look from it.

In real life and in natural lighting Jacques doesn't look this brown. I like it either way though.

Here are the colors side by side. You can see that the tones have changed again, which makes me think it's a pretty versatile polish.

I love both very much and I love that they are cremes even more. I switched to posting large size photos, does it make much of a difference? You can always click on the photo for a bigger one but I think that might also have to do with my photo bucket settings. Let me know what you think.

Perfectly Polished Tips 46 - Sephora by OPI Metro Chic

I wasn't too excited when I heard that OPI was making a line of polishes for Sephora. I've been so disappointed with the new formula and pro wide brushes that I didn't even want to bother. However once they started getting good reviews and I found out the brush was normal I got excited. Metro Chic is apparently sold out everywhere right now and going for $65 on ebay. I happend to see that someone on MUA had one up for swap so I jumped at my chance to get it. I absolutely love it. It applied so smoothly and even. It was opaque in two coats, and the brush was the normal skinny kind! The color is amazing as well. It's the mushroomy grey that seems to be all the rage this season but with a bit of purple mixed in. It's muted but not enough to be ugly and it's not super dark either. I'm so happy I was able to get my hands on this and will probably be wearing it a lot.

2 coats in kinda sun light. I missed the sun. It's not as dark as in this picture.


With flash, this picture is more true to life.

Sephora by OPI polishes retail for $9 and can be found at Sephora.com and certain Sephora locations. Unfortunately, this polish is out of stock and isn't expected until November. I would call though because you never know when a new shipment will be in.

Perfectly Polished Tips 15 - OPI La Collection De France You Don't Know Jacques

To be completely honest I am not impressed with OPI's La Collection De France collection. I feel like the last few collections they have put out haven't been great. I purchased three polishes from this collection; You Don't Know Jacques, Louvre Me..Louvre Me Not, and Yes I Can-Can. Jacques is definitely the stand out one of the three. Swatches of the rest can be found on Scrangie's Beauty Blog if you are interested.

You Don't Know Jacques is a muddy grey, maybe taupe color with a creme finish. The first coat leaned a lot more towards a light brown on me and that is when I almost didn't finish the mani. The second coat was more like the bottle color. I was thrilled with the application, after OPI's India and Mod Brights I was worried about how it was going to go. My bottle applied like a dream, no clumps, no streaks, and best of all no wonky brushes. I am not a pro wide brush lover however I really didn't mind it since the formula consistency was so nice. The pictures below are 2 coats of YDKJ as well as a base coat and a top coat.

Direct Sunlight

Artificial Lighting.

I kinda like this color but I'm not sure how I like it on me. Sometimes it looks grey and other times slightly brown. I guess OPI might have worked out some of their formula kinks. It's about time!