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via TheGloss » Beauty by Lilit Marcus on 1/26/11
Dani Stahl's column in Nylon magazine, Factory Girl, requires her to travel around the world visiting clothing and product factories. It's always a fun read, and it's nice to learn about the processes behind a lot of popular brands. This month, she visited the OPI nail polish factory in Los Angeles, and I never realized how little I knew about one of beauty's best brands.
- There 160 active OPI shades at any given time. Colors are retired every year (like crayons!) so that new ones can be unveiled.
- OPI stands for Odontorium Products Inc. In case "odontorium" wasn't on your vocabulary list last week, that means the company made dental equipment.
- Some of the same materials used in dentistry doubled as materials for acrylic nails. OPI realized there was a different market for their products and created a mix of liquid, powder, and primer that eventually became the OPI Traditional Acrylic System.
- The company makes 55 million bottles of nail polish a year.
- One of their most popular shades of all time is called Glitzerland. It's a sparkly bronze color.
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