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"   So you&amp;#039;re at your standing manicure appointment trying to decide between &amp;quot;You Don&amp;#039;t Know Jacquesi&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Lincoln Park After Dark,&amp;quot; and you find yourself wondering: Who is the creative mind who comes up with these fantastically punny nail polish color names?  Mystery solved: It&amp;#039;s Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, the co-founder and artistic director of OPI, who was kind enough to let us pick her brain. Cosmo: So, how does the nail polish naming process work? Suzi: I create all of the shades first. Soon after, six of us sit in a boardroom to come up with the clever names. Usually you can find us eating something unhealthy; it really gets our ideas flowing! If you notice, some of our polish names even take a play on food. &amp;quot;Suzi is Hungary Again&amp;quot; is one of the most popular. The idea for this name was me around 3pm asking around the office if any one has a good snack. Many of the names come from our life experiences\u2014good and bad\u2014and our travels.  Cosmo: Do you ever take suggestions? Suzi: We don&amp;#039;t take suggestions outside the boardroom, but sometimes we invite someone on staff to sit in as a guest listener. I&amp;#039;ve found over the years that our guests have some of the best ideas! Cosmo: What is your favorite polish name ever? Suzi: I love polishes with names that tell a story. In 2006, we had the OPI Mexican collection color, and My Chihuahua Bites!\u2014a bright orange polish that earned its name because the weekend before, I was bit by a chihuahua. Ouch! Not the best story, but a great name and polish certainly came out of it.  Cosmo: How do you decide on your colors? Suzi: I always look to the fashion trends from Paris and Milan so I can see what fabrics and color schemes the top designers are using for the upcoming season. Then I try to envision what would look best in nail polish. Our themes run alongside what is current in pop culture. With the release of the new Disney movie Oz: The Great and Powerful, we created an OPI line with names from the movie alongside colors that best fit the characters. Two times a year we do our seasonal collection. I find the most inspiration for colors in countries I have visited.  Cosmo: You&amp;#039;ve done polish lines with Mariah Carey and Katy Perry\u2014are there any celebs you&amp;#039;re dying to work with in the future?  Suzi: I am so lucky because when it comes to celebrities; they love the brand. I don&amp;#039;t have to do much to approach them. The new celebrity OPI line is someone I have been wanting to work with forever, I can&amp;#039;t tell you who, but I know you will love them!  Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images Follow Danielle Adone on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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