Deborah Lippmann Razzle Dazzle

Razzle Dazzle, ready to go in line! This is the second day of my Lippmann theme week (and a day).

It’s a lovely ruby red shimmer/small glitter suspended in an extremely vampy raspberry base. Fitting for a Friday, I think, however I spent this evening watching L’Abbe de L’Epee, an awesomely funny satire.

Spam! Not the canned kind. What? You hungry or something?

Check out this! It required about three coats, but that’s because I wanted things to be all even and nice. Three coats for polish doesn’t bother me as it might for some people.

What’d I do next then, after wearing this all day? Broke out the matte topcoat of course! (Probably much to the chagrin of my cousin Shauna, who believes matte polish should be banned from using on polish like this.)

Nee ner nee ner, I actually like the matte version a little bit more better.  I’m weird like that!

In my humble opinion, it brings out the sparkles. This picture pulls way too purple though.

Thumb closeup. Please excuse the cuticles, the tiny glitter made it a biatch to clean up.

Deborah Lippmann Razzle Dazzle

Razzle Dazzle, ready to go in line! This is the second day of my Lippmann theme week (and a day).

It’s a lovely ruby red shimmer/small glitter suspended in an extremely vampy raspberry base. Fitting for a Friday, I think, however I spent this evening watching L’Abbe de L’Epee, an awesomely funny satire.

Spam! Not the canned kind. What? You hungry or something?

Check out this! It required about three coats, but that’s because I wanted things to be all even and nice. Three coats for polish doesn’t bother me as it might for some people.

What’d I do next then, after wearing this all day? Broke out the matte topcoat of course! (Probably much to the chagrin of my cousin Shauna, who believes matte polish should be banned from using on polish like this.)

Nee ner nee ner, I actually like the matte version a little bit more better.  I’m weird like that!

In my humble opinion, it brings out the sparkles. This picture pulls way too purple though.

Thumb closeup. Please excuse the cuticles, the tiny glitter made it a biatch to clean up.

Across the Universe in a Week!

After sporting my Lippmann polish today, I realized a very important thing….

I have amassed eight Deborah Lippmann polishes. (I was also an idiot and told my nail fanatic friend that I had seven, but it’s eight. Because I didn’t count today.) So naturally, I promptly declared, on Beej’s Nails, today to be the start of

Deborah Lippmann Week!(and a day)

To kick off this week, we have Across the Universe standing in the front of the polish line! Look– isn’t she proud to be first?

Gorgeous, gorgeous blue and green hexagonal glitter suspended in a sea of black jelly with slight duo-chromatic shimmer. 

Hell yes.

 Just showing off my engagement ring. hee!

My camera is kinda poopoo, so if you google this you will see a hella lot better swatch photos. After wearing it all day today, I had to matte it down of course (and plus a new matte topcoat came in, Butter London’s and I think I love it.)

Isn’t it awesome? It really brings out the glitter and sparkles.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! We’ll be featuring the lovely lady, Razzle Dazzle.

Across the Universe in a Week!

After sporting my Lippmann polish today, I realized a very important thing….

I have amassed eight Deborah Lippmann polishes. (I was also an idiot and told my nail fanatic friend that I had seven, but it’s eight. Because I didn’t count today.) So naturally, I promptly declared, on Beej’s Nails, today to be the start of

Deborah Lippmann Week!(and a day)

To kick off this week, we have Across the Universe standing in the front of the polish line! Look– isn’t she proud to be first?

Gorgeous, gorgeous blue and green hexagonal glitter suspended in a sea of black jelly with slight duo-chromatic shimmer. 

Hell yes.

 Just showing off my engagement ring. hee!

My camera is kinda poopoo, so if you google this you will see a hella lot better swatch photos. After wearing it all day today, I had to matte it down of course (and plus a new matte topcoat came in, Butter London’s and I think I love it.)

Isn’t it awesome? It really brings out the glitter and sparkles.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! We’ll be featuring the lovely lady, Razzle Dazzle.

Across the Universe in a Week!

After sporting my Lippmann polish today, I realized a very important thing….

I have amassed eight Deborah Lippmann polishes. (I was also an idiot and told my nail fanatic friend that I had seven, but it’s eight. Because I didn’t count today.) So naturally, I promptly declared, on Beej’s Nails, today to be the start of

Deborah Lippmann Week!(and a day)

To kick off this week, we have Across the Universe standing in the front of the polish line! Look– isn’t she proud to be first?

Gorgeous, gorgeous blue and green hexagonal glitter suspended in a sea of black jelly with slight duo-chromatic shimmer. 

Hell yes.

 Just showing off my engagement ring. hee!

My camera is kinda poopoo, so if you google this you will see a hella lot better swatch photos. After wearing it all day today, I had to matte it down of course (and plus a new matte topcoat came in, Butter London’s and I think I love it.)

Isn’t it awesome? It really brings out the glitter and sparkles.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! We’ll be featuring the lovely lady, Razzle Dazzle.

A Challenge From Nick

Create a manicure based on this!

Challenge accepted, I said:

Here it is! 😉 But to keep the authenticity of the inspiration, I mattified it all down and the final product (viz., what I have on my nails now) would be this:

Base: Orly Cashmere Cardigan (it pulls too blue in this picture though, it’s a lot more periwinkle and purpley)
Black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree? freehanded
Stamp: Konad M64 with Icing by Claire’s Sterling Silver

A Challenge From Nick

Create a manicure based on this!

Challenge accepted, I said:

Here it is! 😉 But to keep the authenticity of the inspiration, I mattified it all down and the final product (viz., what I have on my nails now) would be this:

Base: Orly Cashmere Cardigan (it pulls too blue in this picture though, it’s a lot more periwinkle and purpley)
Black: Color Club Where’s the Soiree? freehanded
Stamp: Konad M64 with Icing by Claire’s Sterling Silver

spam

I’ve been back from Florida (which has been great to me, by the way) since Saturday and have gone a bit crazy switching my manis out. So I bring to you a spam of pictures and manicures that I’ve done.

 Base: Rimmel Night Before

Stamped: Pure Ice Outrageous
Bundle Monster plate

 Base: Milani 3D (holographic collection)

Checkers: Zoya Savita

I wasn’t nuts about this one. You Just Wait would make a nice base for a muted down french, but I couldn’t get the french tip stamp to cooperate with me.. See how they all kind of lopside?

 Base: Sinful Colors You Just Wait
Stamped: Color Club Where’s the Soiree?
Bundle Monster plate

 Base: Essie Nice is Nice (From their Spring 2011 collection)

Stamped: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Jumpin’ Jade
Konad

I bring to you my official favorite yellow as of now. Needs about three coats as it is streaky, but evens out and builds up nicely. Also looked great on me.

Avon Sunshine

What I have on now. Nummy. 

Avon Powerful Pink with Nfu Oh 48 layered over.

spam

I’ve been back from Florida (which has been great to me, by the way) since Saturday and have gone a bit crazy switching my manis out. So I bring to you a spam of pictures and manicures that I’ve done.

 Base: Rimmel Night Before

Stamped: Pure Ice Outrageous
Bundle Monster plate

 Base: Milani 3D (holographic collection)

Checkers: Zoya Savita

I wasn’t nuts about this one. You Just Wait would make a nice base for a muted down french, but I couldn’t get the french tip stamp to cooperate with me.. See how they all kind of lopside?

 Base: Sinful Colors You Just Wait
Stamped: Color Club Where’s the Soiree?
Bundle Monster plate

 Base: Essie Nice is Nice (From their Spring 2011 collection)

Stamped: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Jumpin’ Jade
Konad

I bring to you my official favorite yellow as of now. Needs about three coats as it is streaky, but evens out and builds up nicely. Also looked great on me.

Avon Sunshine

What I have on now. Nummy. 

Avon Powerful Pink with Nfu Oh 48 layered over.

Glistening Gold

lolol bad title. Shrug. here be the pretty.

Orly Pure Gold swatch. A beautiful matte, and the formula is to die for in mattes, IMO. It dries very quickly but not TOO quickly– like to the point where you can’t correct or else you’ll pull up the first layer.

Nummy. Baby blue chrome, what’s to hate?

I got a big ass Avon haul in today, and among these was the Avon Mirror Shine collection which I had heard was wonderful for stamping (I have been on a chrome polish collecting prowl lately I admit) so I got all their colors. Not to mention, they are having a big sale on their polish online as well.

Base color: Orly Pure Gold
Stamping Color: Avon Mirror Shine in Glisten
Bundle monster stamping plate