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Prepare yourself, as this is going to be a bit of a catalogue of errors. First things first, the name. Pedant that I am, I wish OPI had omitted the “to” from the title of this. Like the old joke about your aunt going to the West Indies, surely “How Jamaica Million” would make more sense?
Long discontinued, this is from OPI’s 1996 Caribbean Collection, now giving this polish the title of “oldest in my collection”. It’s a sheer frosty shade that I have seen looking amazing on various other people’s nails but my experience was fairly bad.
Any way. This is sheerest of the sheer and in order to get this to the opacity I wanted, it would have involved about seven coats, maybe more. I ended up layering this over an opaque silver (Color Club’s
Silver Lining ). However, it absolutely refused to dry or harden, hence all of the dings and marks and bubbles on the surface. What a total pain, especially as it’s not often that I come across an old or discontinued OPI that doesn’t really work well.
It’s a shame really as this is the kind of thing that I usually love. I’ve been hankering after a soft grey creme with a pink flash for rather a long time. I kind of wish that the pink flash was stronger here though as that might make me a bit more happy with it.
It makes me sad when you track down a hard to find polish and it doesn’t really live up to expectations. Still, I guess that’s why you read blogs like this one, so that you don’t Jamaica the same mistakes.
Helen
This sounds weird, but try it over a different polish, maybe one that isn’t 3-free. It could be that the two just didn’t play well together. I know it seems odd, but give it another chance.
It could also be the topcoat you used, if you used one. Sometimes they just don’t play well together.
While this polish looks really nice on you, I have a feeling it would look zombie-ish on me. I think that’s one reason I love polish so much… I love the variety, I love sharing stories with each other, I just love color!
And you’re so right. At first I thought you added the “to” in, and I couldn’t figure out why! Leaving it out would have made so much more sense!
I, too, was eager about this one as it was about to arrive, but I made pretty much the same experience you did. I just didn’t like it. It looked terrible on me, and I did, probably, two or three coats with no “underwear”, and I just looked like a granny. It went in my swap pile, despite being so haussed, and looking so good on for example Scrangie – but to date, no one has ever requested to swap for it. I guess that says it all!
“Jamaica the same mistakes.” PMSL
Rubbish polish, innit tho’?
So sorry you had such a terrible time with this. I haven’t the faintest idea what to do about this. I guess you could try different topcoats and different underwear!