The Last of My Recent OPI Black Labels

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I finally got around to doing some quick swatches of the last three OPI black label shades that my hair salon gave me. Again, nothing terribly rare, but I find an odd sense of excitement when I'm able to locate older polishes!

Above: Canadian Maple Leaf is my favorite from this group. From the Fall 2004 Canadian Collection, this burgundy micro-shimmer flashes blue and purple shimmer. All photos are taken with an Ott lamp and I used coats.
Below: Red-Y To Help was an American Red Cross promo polish, with some of the proceeds going to that organization. I believe this came out in 2006. This is a darker red shimmer, but not quite a burgundy.

Below: Charge It In Milan was part of the Shopping Around the World Holiday 2005 Collection. It's a deep copper shimmer, but not particularly to my liking because of the strong orange tones.

I don't know what it is about finding a discontinued nail polish, but it's always fun for me. Half of the fun is in researching which collection they're from and then figuring out which ones I still need to make up a complete one. I have a bag of some others I picked up several months ago at an Asian salon, so I need to get those out and then make a list of which ones I'm closest to on having the entire collection of. They didn't speak English at this particular salon, and when I asked if they had any black label OPI's they looked at me like I was crazy! But the one fellow was very nice about getting down on the floor and looking up at the glass shelves, then pulling them all out for me to see. Sadly, I paid retail for them, but even at that, it was a fun and entertaining treasure hunt!

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