Nick chose Wet n Wild Wild Card for me to wear. I test swatched it on my thumbnail and saw that this stuff was gonna be SHEER. So I layered it over black because I’m a rockstar.
Isn’t it lovely though?! It’s a maroon duochrome. 😀 I dipped my ring finger into glitter. Next time I would just sprinkle it on instead of plunking the fingertip into a pot of glitter xD I “smoothed” it out with a topcoat.
Aw yeah duochromes!
Nick chose Wet n Wild Wild Card for me to wear. I test swatched it on my thumbnail and saw that this stuff was gonna be SHEER. So I layered it over black because I’m a rockstar.
Isn’t it lovely though?! It’s a maroon duochrome. 😀 I dipped my ring finger into glitter. Next time I would just sprinkle it on instead of plunking the fingertip into a pot of glitter xD I “smoothed” it out with a topcoat.
Aw yeah duochromes!
How many of you missed my cheesy blog titles?!
I began with Sinful Colors Last Chance, an awesome dark green. My swatch of it is kind of bad, I didn’t realize it was blurry 😦 
Then I covered it up with Nicole by OPI’s Brilliant Idea. You can find this at Target– I think this is in their new spring/summer collection. It’s an awesome, densely packed, multi shaped chartreuse glitter. 
Isn’t it awesome? Here, have some moar pics 😀
Another one of my great closeups. I’m getting so much better at these!
Sadly this slipped right off the next day when I was doing cleaning 😦 I’m blaming a nail strengthener that I put underneath. It was like gel, and had an interesting wet consistency. I think that compromised the polish’s ability to stay on. Or maybe because this was like five layers!
How many of you missed my cheesy blog titles?!
I began with Sinful Colors Last Chance, an awesome dark green. My swatch of it is kind of bad, I didn’t realize it was blurry 😦
Then I covered it up with Nicole by OPI’s Brilliant Idea. You can find this at Target– I think this is in their new spring/summer collection. It’s an awesome, densely packed, multi shaped chartreuse glitter.
Isn’t it awesome? Here, have some moar pics 😀
Another one of my great closeups. I’m getting so much better at these!
Sadly this slipped right off the next day when I was doing cleaning 😦 I’m blaming a nail strengthener that I put underneath. It was like gel, and had an interesting wet consistency. I think that compromised the polish’s ability to stay on. Or maybe because this was like five layers!
You thought I was done with my Lippmanns, didn’t you? So did I! The other day I went to a photography exhibition and my friend, Liane, presented me with this:
Glitter in the Air! So my theme week has gone on for an extra day, making it a total of about 9 days. Wow! 🙂
This is a GORGEOUS polish. I have ordered my own bottle actually. I had to. I couldn’t NOT have this.
Brief swatch. I thought/hoped that the murky grey/pale blue or lilac base would transfer onto the nail, and no dice as you can see above. That was about two coats. It’s a mix of pink and blue hex/round glitter.
So I decided to layer it on a pastel baby blue and wow is it ever gorgeous. It’s a very Easter-y color, too. I chose Avon Vintage Blue:
Then I layered Glitter in the Air over this!
The only issue I had with this was that it was very hard to align the glitters, but I think that’s just a thing we deal with when dealing with glitter toppers. The sheer murky base muted the pastel blue down and it was PERFECT. However I logged on this morning and found out Chloe did the EXACT same look! GRR. 🙂 I should have gone with yellow or grey. Liane did lilac, (American Apparel L’Esprit if I remember correctly) with matte and it was gorgeous. Oh, speaking of matte…
Yep! I felt that the matte topcoat gave it a lot more Easter feel, it was like an eggshell you know?
However this one reacted badly with the Seche Vite and I felt like it shrank by the hour. Horrible. You can see some tip wear already, and I think this was definitely over 15 hours of wearing it. 😦
You thought I was done with my Lippmanns, didn’t you? So did I! The other day I went to a photography exhibition and my friend, Liane, presented me with this:
Glitter in the Air! So my theme week has gone on for an extra day, making it a total of about 9 days. Wow! 🙂
This is a GORGEOUS polish. I have ordered my own bottle actually. I had to. I couldn’t NOT have this.
Brief swatch. I thought/hoped that the murky grey/pale blue or lilac base would transfer onto the nail, and no dice as you can see above. That was about two coats. It’s a mix of pink and blue hex/round glitter.
So I decided to layer it on a pastel baby blue and wow is it ever gorgeous. It’s a very Easter-y color, too. I chose Avon Vintage Blue:
Then I layered Glitter in the Air over this!
The only issue I had with this was that it was very hard to align the glitters, but I think that’s just a thing we deal with when dealing with glitter toppers. The sheer murky base muted the pastel blue down and it was PERFECT. However I logged on this morning and found out Chloe did the EXACT same look! GRR. 🙂 I should have gone with yellow or grey. Liane did lilac, (American Apparel L’Esprit if I remember correctly) with matte and it was gorgeous. Oh, speaking of matte…
Yep! I felt that the matte topcoat gave it a lot more Easter feel, it was like an eggshell you know?
However this one reacted badly with the Seche Vite and I felt like it shrank by the hour. Horrible. You can see some tip wear already, and I think this was definitely over 15 hours of wearing it. 😦
We’re nearing the end of our Lippmann week, and I have something unique this time. Today Was A Fairytale was layered over a fantastic red creme, well this time, I layered it over a new arrival: Illamasqua Milf.
Buddies, all ready to go 😉
Milf is a gorgeous mint pastel creme. GORGEOUS. Very eye-catching too, and looked great with my skin 😀 Totally worth the money.
Boom Boom Pow is suspended in a clear shimmery base, with gold hexagonal glitter mixed in with small round glitter.
Boom Boom Pow is said to have the dust of 24k gold. 😉 Gold glitter looks extremely luxe on mint polish, and I’m glad I took Liane’s recommendation.
No matte shot, because I forgot. 😀
Don’t forget to go here and vote for me in the Bundle Monster nail art entry!
We’re nearing the end of our Lippmann week, and I have something unique this time. Today Was A Fairytale was layered over a fantastic red creme, well this time, I layered it over a new arrival: Illamasqua Milf.
Buddies, all ready to go 😉
Milf is a gorgeous mint pastel creme. GORGEOUS. Very eye-catching too, and looked great with my skin 😀 Totally worth the money.
Boom Boom Pow is suspended in a clear shimmery base, with gold hexagonal glitter mixed in with small round glitter.
Boom Boom Pow is said to have the dust of 24k gold. 😉 Gold glitter looks extremely luxe on mint polish, and I’m glad I took Liane’s recommendation.
No matte shot, because I forgot. 😀
Don’t forget to go here and vote for me in the Bundle Monster nail art entry!
We have a salmon-pink Lippmann glitter, perfect for Pink Wednesdays!
It’s a salmon hex/round glitter suspended in a clear base. Like Boom Boom Pow/Today Was A Fairytale, they would never be sheer. This time I took a brief swatch on a naked nail to give an idea:
This is actually about two-three coats. 🙂
So since I was wearing this for Pink Wednesday I chose a pink base, but I was torn between two colors so I combined them.
The base is China Glaze in Diva Bride. A very light pastel baby pink creme. The tips are Essie Mod Square, a bold bright pink creme.
I liked how it turned out 🙂 The tips were created using scotch tape.
I was curious, so I took out China Glaze Matte Magic. It’s still sparkly, and the photos don’t show much difference but in person you can see the difference. With the matte topcoat on, the glitter comes out while for the glossy version it was seche vite doing the shiny work.
I like both. I feel like the matte version is “cleaner”or more professional. I don’t know. =)
We have a salmon-pink Lippmann glitter, perfect for Pink Wednesdays!
It’s a salmon hex/round glitter suspended in a clear base. Like Boom Boom Pow/Today Was A Fairytale, they would never be sheer. This time I took a brief swatch on a naked nail to give an idea:
This is actually about two-three coats. 🙂
So since I was wearing this for Pink Wednesday I chose a pink base, but I was torn between two colors so I combined them.
The base is China Glaze in Diva Bride. A very light pastel baby pink creme. The tips are Essie Mod Square, a bold bright pink creme.
I liked how it turned out 🙂 The tips were created using scotch tape.
I was curious, so I took out China Glaze Matte Magic. It’s still sparkly, and the photos don’t show much difference but in person you can see the difference. With the matte topcoat on, the glitter comes out while for the glossy version it was seche vite doing the shiny work.
I like both. I feel like the matte version is “cleaner”or more professional. I don’t know. =)
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