Lippmann Collection

I went to the mall for brunch with some friends. I wasn't going to buy anything. And then, my companion wanted to go to Neimans and look at the handbags. I have long loved Neimans makeup department. I wasn't even looking for nail polishes. And then, tucked off in a corner, right next to the $400 jeans, I saw them. The Lippmann Collection polishes. I was really only looking to see if they had Happy Birthday, their tenth anniversary (SPECIAL EDITION!) polish.

They did. They also had the three-pack with Superstar, Ruby Red Slippers and Funky Chunky. Oh. Em. Gee.

they came home with me.



I went for Funky Chunky first. I did the pigs first. And I stupidly used a top coat. If you have a polish that is meant to be sequiny and chunky, as its name implies, do not put a super glossy top coat on it. So, I had a better idea of what I was doing by the time I got to my fingernails.

I started with the first coat. I noticed that the sequins were sticking mostly to the bottoms of my nails. I tried spreading them around. I decided to use three coats. I wish it dried faster, since I am addicted to Poshe fast-dry topcoat. The thumbnails just looked smudgy to me.



Removal of the Funky Chunky was quite a challenge. Glitters are pretty hard to remove, but this doesn't have glitter. This lovely black has little black sequins, which turned silver as I used pure acetone for this job. I was finding those little silver sequins all over my hands for about a day.

Next up, I decided I was in the mood for a brown hue. I was looking right at my Superstar. I need some sparkle in my life, and Superstar has it aplenty! I went for three coats, because I wanted the glitter to be deep. It's so pretty.




This is also where I discovered that the camera on my new phone is much stronger than my old one. YAY!

Sinful Colors I Miss You and Lancome Blind Date

All right, I promised my best friend that I'd update. She said to find somewhere to take a picture, and just do it with my cell phone. It'll have to do, until I win the lotto and am able to purchase a decent digital cam. I love love loved the sparkle of the I Miss You, so I went out into the driveway to take this picture.

Hi! I'm still here, and still painting every day. I have been using a lot of Sinful Colors. They're toulene, formaldehyde, dbp annd camphor free, and they're 2 for $3 at Walgreens. I went looking for an affordable glitter, and now somehow I have 12 of their polishes.

I have also been frankening my own polishes. I mix together colors that I am almost out of (and therefore clearly loved deeply), and name the results after my friends.

So, I *will* be getting a digital camera, and I *will* be updating more once every two months. Because my nail polish love isn't abating.

here's the deal: I'm still painting my two tones daily. But my camera phone sucks at picking up the true beauty in some of the polishes, so it makes me mad. So I don't post the crappiest ones. And ever since I moved, it's darker in this house and the pics don't come out, so they're all crappy.

I need a suggestion for a digital camera for under $200 for a really bitchin' setup. Thoughts?

happy 233rd birthday, America!

True red, white & blue. I will Konad the tips of the blue ones with the stars and stripes from plate m45 before I leave here today.

China Glaze Seduce Me and Nfu-Oh #60

I forgot to take pics of my nails for several days. Things were a bit chaotic. Blah.

One of my coworkers asked for black and red. Having just done black & white, I didn't want to hue too similar. I would like to try the Nfu-Oh with a copper color, since the flecks appear copper in the soft lighting at work.

my first franken

I had two bottles of Lincoln Park At Midnight, which is a shimmery version of Lincoln Park After Dark, which is the greatest OPI ever. I also had just a little It's Sheer Luck left. So, I mixed those with a mostly empty Seche Vite dry-fast top coat. And threw in a little Wireless for some suspended glitter. Then I threw in some Color Club French Tip to lighten it up. And then, I had a random mini Sally Girl shimmery that seemed pretty close to LPAM. I give you Kitchen Sink (since I basically just threw whatever in there). I probably should've shaken further and let it set overnight. But I just mixed it up and slapped it on, because I liked it. It is pretty close to Catherine the Grape from the 2007 Russia collection, but with silver undertones and glitters. I need to give it to a girlfriend, and get a real world review of it. My polishes tend to stay on my fingernails for just a day, so unless it's an egregious offender (I'm looking at you, Chanel), it doesn't get a chance to chip.

So, here's my ingredients:


And what it looks like in the bottle:


and what it looks like on the toes: