{"id":8542,"date":"2023-08-08T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noae.nl\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2025-04-07T21:30:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:30:55","slug":"my-vintage-black-label-opis-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noaenails.com\/index.php\/my-vintage-black-label-opis-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"My vintage black label OPI’s, part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It feels a bit weird to type ‘black label’ OPIs because ever since 2015, all OPI’s shades have had black labels again. However, what people in general mean with ‘black label OPI’s’ or ‘BLOPI’s’, is pre-2006 black label OPI shades (the label being the sticker on the bottom). From the start of OPI until approximately mid-2006, OPI produced shades with black printing on the bottom. Starting mid-2006, OPI changed their label to a label with green printing to show that some chemicals were removed from their formula, and to show that they introduced their pro-wide brush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Evolution of OPI labels over time. There are some exceptions: DS shades have a different label, OPI’s X collection, California collection, and Yokohama collection have different labels. Sometimes, a completely different black label is used instead of the green label (possibly PR, not listed here).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Among nail polish collectors, the pre-2006 black label OPIs are viewed as collector’s editions, mainly because the shades are known to dry fast and have amazing finishes. The only downside of these shades is that they’re super difficult to find. The only place you can usually find them is on eBay (for a lot of money), or you need to stumble upon an old beauty supply store that is selling its old stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never thought that I would be able to own black-label OPI shades, but it happened that I stumbled upon a beauty supply store in Paris that was getting rid of its old stock. I couldn’t go there myself, so I just asked them to ship all the shades that they still had. The result: I got a huge box with almost 400 black-label OPI shades! Of course, there were many duplicates (later more about that), but there were so many unique shades that I had never seen! It definitely felt like Christmas (even though I had to pay for it myself)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It inspired me to start this series: I suddenly have a lot of OPI Black label shades to show you! Most shades are easy to find on other websites, but some shades are super unique and I wasn’t able to find any other swatches. For now, this series will just be a random bunch of black-label shades, but maybe in the future, I will group them by collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you immediately want to skip to your favorite shade:<\/p>\n\n\n\n