I painted my toenails with OPI nail polish close to one month ago, and you won’t believe me when I tell you, unless you are a converted OPI user, that the polish is still intact...no scratches, chips, picks or pockets (or pickpockets). It’s stayed on so long and so well, as I was just saying to my friend Sheila (whose also-purple toenails inspired this entry), it’s darn right creepy.
Sitting here, I am trying to think what other polish products I know that hold up to their promise as well. In my experience, Essie, Sally Hansen and Revlon don’t even come a close second, third and fourth and, memory serving, I don’t recall any product that has pleased me the way OPI has.
Certainly, no mascara has ever held up to its longer, fuller, non-clumping, waterproof promise/s, and there is no lipstick save Mac that has been true to its no-bleed, long-lasting assertion.
I shouldn’t gripe, though, especially when I think back to my teen years of training brassieres (my mother called them brazz, rhymes with has) whose stuffing morphed into off-putting crunchy-tight crumbs within weeks; panty hose (we called them nylons) hoisted on garters and snagging within seconds of wearing, and sanitary napkin contraptions that would baffle an architectural engineer.
I felt an odd wash of relief the other day sitting on the streetcar admiring the style solutions of one, then two, then three young women who separately boarded the car, bra straps deliberately in view. I couldn’t even begin to imagine what they would do suffering garters and girdles and such. (Mind you, I suppose they spend their time worrying about injections and peels and weight loss solutions. Can a woman win?)
Anyway, I only meant to say that I have been won over by OPI, and I am excited to try a selection of colours. The only thing I worry about and wonder is how am I going to get the stuff off? I mean, given its resistance to abrasions, is there a polish remover that can do the job, or am I going to have to resort to something quite frighteningly caustic?
Thus, ladies...the small price of beauty.
