{"id":433,"date":"2011-06-07T03:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2012-03-19T02:44:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T02:44:47","slug":"beautytech-an-opi-app-that-lets-you-try-before-you-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/beautytech-an-opi-app-that-lets-you-try-before-you-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"BeautyTech:  An OPI app that lets you try before you buy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/beautytech-an-opi-app-that-lets-you-try-before-you-buy\/attachment\/opi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-434\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-434\" title=\"OPI\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/OPI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like a lot of women, I get regular manicures.\u00a0 And\u00a0like a lot of women, I\u00a0have picked out a color at a\u00a0salon only to\u00a0turn around and apologize to the nail technician when I ask her to take it off because it just didn&#8217;t look right on\u00a0my\u00a0skin tone.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even worse is when I\u00a0get stuck with a color that I purchased that I loved in the bottle but didn&#8217;t quite translate when I got it home.\u00a0 Well now, there&#8217;s an app for that!<\/p>\n<p>OPI has a free app that actually let you &#8220;test&#8221; their nail polish colors.\u00a0 On a picture of a hand, you can adjust the skin tone to match yours (and it actually has a pretty decent range), and then scroll through the different colors OPI offers to see how they would look\u00a0on your\u00a0&#8220;hand.&#8221;\u00a0 Over 200 colors are available to try out, but the app is currently only available for the iPhone.\u00a0 It&#8217;s\u00a0very useful and super-cute if\u00a0for\u00a0no\u00a0other reason than to read the awesome OPI nail color names!\u00a0 You can also\u00a0keep track of your favorites and check out new collections as they become available.\u00a0 So you get all the fun of a manicure without getting choked by nail polish remover fumes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a lot of women, I get regular manicures.\u00a0 And\u00a0like a lot of women, I\u00a0have picked out a color at a\u00a0salon only to\u00a0turn around and apologize to the nail technician when I ask her to take it off because it just didn&#8217;t look right on\u00a0my\u00a0skin tone.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/tech-life\/beautytech-an-opi-app-that-lets-you-try-before-you-buy\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[7,9,3,87,90,89,92,91,88,6,28,4],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","has-more-link","post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-health-beauty","category-tech-life","tag-apps","tag-beauty","tag-lifestyle","tag-maniucure","tag-nail-polish","tag-nails","tag-opi","tag-opi-nail-polish","tag-pedicure","tag-stephanie-humphrey","tag-tech-life-2","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amatteroflifeandtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}