Can you tell how enthusiastic I am about the OPI Germany Collection? Haha, here I am showing you yet another colour from it – OPI Berlin There Done That!
This isn’t a colour that I’m normally attracted to, but the polish fairies must’ve waved their wands above my head and blew their magic dust over my eyes because I was really feeling this one.
Probably my intrigue with this shade is because I don’t have many colours in my collection like this since I tend to go for loud shades. This one’s soft, but it’s not boring to me because it seems to look slightly different in various lighting. That’s enough to keep my interest!
It also makes for a wonderful ‘palate cleanser’ when you’ve been wearing tons of bright shades and need to take a break so that you don’t get burned out on them. Then, you can go back to wearing the screaming neons and appreciate them more.
OPI Berlin There Done That Pictures
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OPI Berlin There Done That Swatches
All swatches have:
- Nubar Foundation Base Coat
- 2 coats of OPI Berlin There Done That
- Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat
(Hmm…none of my natural-light photos of just the thumb turned out…)
Claim: TRUSTED
√ Taupe
Key Notes
- Name: OPI Berlin There Done That
- Collection: OPI Germany Collection 2012
- Press Release: Click here to see the OPI Germany Collection press release
- Colours Available in the OPI Germany Collection: Berlin There Done That, German-icure by OPI, Unfor-Greta-bly Blue, Don’t Pretzel My Buttons, My Very First Knockwurst, Don’t Talk Bach to Me, Nein! Nein! Nein! OK Fine!, Every Month is Oktoberfest, Suzi & the 7 Düsseldorfs, Deutsch You Want Me Baby?, Danke-Shiny Red & Schnapps Out of It!
- Amount: 15 mL (0.5 fl. oz.)
- What I Paid: Nothing! (This was provided by PR.)
- Where to Buy: Trade Secrets & select spas, salons & beauty-supply stores (Available in August, but you may be able to find them sooner at smaller stores.)
OPI Berlin There Done That Review
Colour
Berlin There Done That by OPI is a colour that makes me feel very classy. Haha, but I think it’s only because I tend to wear ‘immature’ colours like greens, blues, and yellows. Whenever I sport a more ‘grown-up’ shade, I feel like a lady. I hold my pinkie up when I drink. Haha!
Seriously, though, this shade is more sophisticated than the colours I’m used to wearing. But I still love it when I’m in the right mood. Plus there’s a softness to this greyish taupe that makes it very easy to wear. (I don’t often purposely match my nails to my outfit – sometimes they clash and I don’t care, but it’s interesting how this shade seems to go with a lot of different outfits.)
Sometimes Berlin There Done That looks like a concrete grey. Sometimes it looks like it’s a very delicate taupe. And other times, I can clearly see a purplish grey! Shade shifter!
Finish
This is a beautiful creme polish that doesn’t look flat at all. There’s a liveliness to this polish, which I think is hard to achieve because this colour could easily look muddy if done wrong.
Application & Formula
Application was a joy! The polish wasn’t too thin and it wasn’t too thick – just right! And the pigmentation was terrific, too. You just need 2 coats to get full coverage.
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Final Verdict: 8/10
I very seldom wear taupe nail polish. And it’s even rarer when I like a taupe. So, trust me when I say that Berlin There Done That by OPI is a great taupe! I enjoyed wearing it, and I feel like it’s a nice change for me from the typical colours I wear.
What colour do you wear when you want a break from the shades you typically wear? Do you like taupe polishes, or do you think they look too ‘muddy’?
I totally get why you like this one!! It suits your complexion perfectly! I’m not much of a taupe person, mostly because it never looks great on me. When I need a break, I tend to go for dusty shades, grays or light pinks.
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Hey MariJo!
Really? But I can picture you rocking every colour! There have been so many times when I thought a polish wasn’t much in the bottle. Then I saw you swatched it on your blog, and it looks breath-taking. (Please let me know where you found polish fairies…because your photos are always magical!)
Haha! Thanks Mary, you’re too sweet! There are some times I’ve been disappointed though :(.
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Well, it must really take a terrible polish to disappoint someone like you who can rock so many shades.
Wow, what a color shifter!! I also usually don’t wear taupes, they seem boring to me but i think this one is really interesting!! I especially like the purple look. I might just get it when it comes out!!
Hey Gosia!
The purple is more like a tinge of purple in the taupe in certain lighting. You won’t see the intensity of purple in my flash photos in normal lighting…haha, unless you’re always under camera flashes! 😉
I like taupe polishes a lot–they’re neutral but not boring, and I like their splash of gray since I don’t feel comfortable wearing straight-up brown polish yet. Love the name and the way this creme looks different in different lights, as you described (and you did a great job of capturing that in your pictures!). My Germany collection wishlist just got longer…
Hey Jessica!
Thank you so much! 🙂 I’m glad to hear that you appreciated my photos. It was a fun lacquer to shoot because it showed me its many personalities.
I’ll need to look into more taupes. They really make nails look elegant yet sometimes edgy!
That’s a gorgeous color!
Hey Olivia Frescura!
Glad you’re liking it, too! 🙂
I love the creaminess of this color and especially that it shifts to purple since that is my favorite color. I really haven’t been too excited about the OPI Germany collection, but I know this is one color I’ll probably pick up.
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Hey Cynthia!
Same here – that touch of purple mixed with the taupe makes it soft and elegant. But at the same time, I feel like it can look edgy depending on what you wear it with.
Oh, maybe you’ll get more excited about the OPI Germany collection. 🙂 I have yet another review coming up this week. Haha, I’m on a roll. Geez, this week was nearly OPI Week on Swatch And Learn! 😛
How do you get the Seche Vite to not shrink the polish? I have tried putting it on the edge of the tip and even putting it on the underside of the nail and I still get shrinkage every time I use it.
Hey Kellie!
Sometimes it depends on the polish – Seche nearly always shrinks ones with jelly finishes, it seems. But for all other polishes, I usually wait a few minutes after my last coat of colour before applying Seche. I know that you’re supposed to use it on wet polish, but I find that’s when it causes the worst shrinkage. When I let the polish dry a little first and then apply Seche, I have the best results. (And, yes, I also wrap my tips – i.e. paint the free edge of my nails for every manicure.) 🙂 Hope this helps and that you have better luck with it.
I ADORE beige and taupe shades and this one has my name on it!!! Mary, your nails can rock any color and this truly is a lovely palate cleanser (or a vacation shade- matches with everything).
PLUS, a tidbit about me: I was by the Berlin wall when it was broken down waaaay back when I was little! I even had a piece of the wall (before they frowned upon taking pieces and chose to SELL them instead). I lost the piece of wall with grafiti on it when we moved to Canada… sigh… now I could have Berlin in a bottle 😉
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Hey Marta!
This is such a Marta polish to me. 🙂 And I think it would make for the perfect base for stamping so you can work your magic!
How cool that you owned part of the Berlin wall! Maybe it’ll turn up when you least expect it. I know that I’ve ‘lost’ a few things, and while tidying up, found them in the most unlikely places.
(Ugh…capitalism sometimes makes me very sad.)