Sparkles

I encourage you to click ’em to make ’em bigger. I’m starting a new system of linking back to my Flickr account, because Picasa washes out my pictures and makes me pout and frown.

Awesome huh?

The base is Color Club Where’s the Soiree? The version of this color that I have, is a simple black creme. It is topped with Orly Prisma Gloss Silver an amazing holographic topcoat. It is AMAZING let me reiterate!! I want to have babies with it.
I taped off the ends for a funky french. It was so rock star. I told Shauna that she had to have this polish, and these pictures are why!

Here’s a closeup/blurry shot to show the SPARKLES.

mmmm. Sparkles.

Glitter in the Air

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. 😦

Glitter in the Air

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. 😦

Today Was a Fairytale

 For Monday, we have the sixth Lippmann featured! This one is Today Was A Fairytale and it has diamond bits in it! (They probably said that to justify the price, but you could go around saying “I’ve got diamonds on my nails.” and feel luxe)
Pictured next to Essie Limited Addiction, a polish I used to layer the Fairytale polish with.

 A pic of Limited Addiction. The color is much darker than this, and I think this is my “the Red.” I am not sure. I need to do research.

 This is one coat. You can see why I chose to layer this polish because one) hello price tag and two) it’s silver glitter suspended in a clear jelly base. It would never get opaque!

Hexagonal and small glitter, a la Bad Romance and Across the Universe. Purdy! Unfortunately I destroyed this manicure quickly so I took it off before I remembered to take out the matte topcoat D:

Today Was a Fairytale

 For Monday, we have the sixth Lippmann featured! This one is Today Was A Fairytale and it has diamond bits in it! (They probably said that to justify the price, but you could go around saying “I’ve got diamonds on my nails.” and feel luxe)
Pictured next to Essie Limited Addiction, a polish I used to layer the Fairytale polish with.

 A pic of Limited Addiction. The color is much darker than this, and I think this is my “the Red.” I am not sure. I need to do research.

 This is one coat. You can see why I chose to layer this polish because one) hello price tag and two) it’s silver glitter suspended in a clear jelly base. It would never get opaque!

Hexagonal and small glitter, a la Bad Romance and Across the Universe. Purdy! Unfortunately I destroyed this manicure quickly so I took it off before I remembered to take out the matte topcoat D:

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink

Some lacquer girls got together and created this “club” and I’ve jumped on the bandwagon 😉 If you watched Mean Girls you’ll know what’s up with this. Every Wednesday will feature a theme of pink polish, and I have one for this week.

Essie Bachelorette Bash. It’s hard to see in this picture, but it was topped with Essie Kisses & Bises, a rainbow duochromatic sheer topper. 

It’s been a while since I did the shatter look, so here it is! After a hiatus my Shatter bottle formula went a bit wonky and ruined an entire hand, which I had to redo D:

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink

Some lacquer girls got together and created this “club” and I’ve jumped on the bandwagon 😉 If you watched Mean Girls you’ll know what’s up with this. Every Wednesday will feature a theme of pink polish, and I have one for this week.

Essie Bachelorette Bash. It’s hard to see in this picture, but it was topped with Essie Kisses & Bises, a rainbow duochromatic sheer topper. 

It’s been a while since I did the shatter look, so here it is! After a hiatus my Shatter bottle formula went a bit wonky and ruined an entire hand, which I had to redo D:

On Wednesdays We Wear Pink

Some lacquer girls got together and created this “club” and I’ve jumped on the bandwagon 😉 If you watched Mean Girls you’ll know what’s up with this. Every Wednesday will feature a theme of pink polish, and I have one for this week.

Essie Bachelorette Bash. It’s hard to see in this picture, but it was topped with Essie Kisses & Bises, a rainbow duochromatic sheer topper. 

It’s been a while since I did the shatter look, so here it is! After a hiatus my Shatter bottle formula went a bit wonky and ruined an entire hand, which I had to redo D:

Go Rangers!

My alma mater (lol, high school) is here at my university because we host an academic competition, so they’re here to participate. Currently I think they are winning 7 to 2, and will play in the national section tomorrow. Our colors are royal blue and white, so I painted Sally Hansen Insta-Dri In Co-bolt Blue, which is gorgeous! Over it is China Glaze White Lightning crackle.

Go Rangers!

My alma mater (lol, high school) is here at my university because we host an academic competition, so they’re here to participate. Currently I think they are winning 7 to 2, and will play in the national section tomorrow. Our colors are royal blue and white, so I painted Sally Hansen Insta-Dri In Co-bolt Blue, which is gorgeous! Over it is China Glaze White Lightning crackle.