Today I will be reviewing my first OPI Infinite Shine Gel
Effects Lacquer System! I was sent for
review, a box of the Infinite Shine colors and the base and top coat from
Preen.me as part of their VIP program.
This will really be my first time trying one these new pseudo-gel
lacquer type systems. Shall we just get
past all the formalities and onto the polish?!
Let’s go!
To use these polishes you will need to buy into the 1-2-3
Gel Effects Lacquer System with the primer base and gloss top coat (that cures
in natural light). The primer base
applied fine and dried pretty quick!
Always nice. For my base color I chose
Set in Stone. A dark taupe that has
hints of purple to it, it reminds me a lot of OPI I Sao Paulo Over There. I held them next to each other and Set in
Stone may be just a little darker but very close. This was a very pigmented polish, almost
covered completely in 1 coat. It wasn’t
thin or thick, just kind of that perfect consistency that makes it very easy to
coat the nail and not flood the cuticles.
I would say the formula is slightly thicker than regular OPI polish and
it has a stronger smell. Nothing I couldn’t
handle just wanted to note it. I used 2
coats here, it dried pretty shiny and pretty fast! Defintely faster than regular OPI
polish. I left my base to dry without
top coat so that I could add some stamping.
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This beige neutral is Maintaining My Sand-ity. It’s a medium sand beige that has just a hint
of green to it. I compared it to OPI My
Vampire is Buff and it is 1-2 shades darker with a little more of that hint of
green/brown to it. This one was a little
thinner than Set in Stone. I used it as
an accent nail base on my Cindy hand to test opacity and it was completely
opaque in 2 coats. This also dried fast
and shiny. I stamped with Maintaining My
Sand-ity using using Qgirl 026 stamping plate.
I used the same plate and Rica Polish Black Out over.
Here are a couple of macros to better see the color. You can see how the Gloss top coat smeared my
stamping. I had a feeling it would since
mixing different brands of top coat and stamping tends to do that. It wasn’t as noticeable in person The Gloss top coat did dry pretty fast
considering I don’t think they are marketing this as quick dry, not as quick as
a traditional quick dry like Seche Vite but I’d say my nails were set and
smudge-proof in 20 mins and completely dry in 1 hr. To me that is better than when I use regular
polish and non-quick dry top coat. On my
Cindy hand I didn’t do any nail art and just did 2 layers of color and then top
coat. I may have applied the gloss top
coat too quickly as it did that weird wrinkle line-y thing almost like little
cracks? But on my swatch hand that I allowed
the base to dry I did not get the lines.
The top coat is actually very very shiny, more so than the regular OPI
top coat. 2 thumbs up for shine!
Regarding wear time, I can’t really comment on that as I
typically wear my manis for 1 day. This
claims to provide mirror like shine for up to 10 days. It does seem like it will be long wearing but
10 days is hard to believe. But who
knows stranger things have happened haha!
If I find myself going away for a long weekend, which I will be next
month, I may put these to the test!
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