Beauty Test Lab: OPI's New Topcoats Are Like Watercolors For Your Nails

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These days, we'll gladly pass on dying Easter eggs. As pretty as those watercolor shades are, we tend to prefer our eggs hard-boiled on our kale salads, thank you very much. However, nails that are tinted the perfect hues of translucent pastel? We'll take those â along with a side of jelly beans, please!   And, that's exactly what you get (minus the candy) with OPI's Sheer Tints Collection. For the full experience, our intrepid senior editor Sharon tried out these see-through topcoats both on her natural nails and over white polish. Check out our video above to see Sharon's results. And, trust us, these looks are sweet.

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00:07So today on Beauty Test Lab we're trying out the new OPI Sheer Tints. They're these

00:12translucent colors that you can either apply on their own for a springy pastel

00:17sheer watercolor effect or you can put it on your existing manicure for the

00:22Skittle Tints. So let's give them a whirl. I'm gonna start layering the polishes on

00:27a bare nail on my right hand so that we can see how they look on their own. So

00:32I'm beginning with the yellow polish and I'm just gonna layer a second coat here

00:37to get a true color payoff. You can see that it's translucent and sheer but you

00:45read an actual color which is interesting. As you can see you can layer on as many

00:49coats as you want for a more intense color so it's your choice but you still get

00:54this like gummy effect and they just look a little bit candy colored which is fun.

01:00So I'm gonna start painting on my existing white manicure and we're going

01:04with white so that we can see the true color of these sheer tints. I'm gonna start

01:09with my yellow. You can see the total difference between the white yellow and

01:15the bare yellow over here. You truly get that watercolor effect and it's actually

01:21really pretty and I feel like with these top coats you can have a lot of fun and

01:27get creative with your existing nail polish arsenal. So between the two I like using

01:32these sheer tints as a top coat on an existing mani. You can mix and match with

01:37other opaque colors to get this really fun jelly-like finish and it really does look

01:42like candy which I'm digging for spring.

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