Deborah Lippman's Get This Party Started Trio!

Still being MIA. I know, I'm sorry. I started my spring semester this week, so it's been a little hectic. Anyway! Today I have for you guys Deborah Lippmann's Get This Party Started set. I got this for Christmas (yay for holidays) after telling my mom about it. I was very easy to shop for this year.. nail polish, nail polish, nail polish! So I finally tried these beauties on so I have the swatches for you to see.


Happy Birthday

This polish consists of multicolored medium and small hex glitter in a clear base. The clear base makes it obvious that unless you want layers and layers of glitter on your nails, your best bet is to pair it up with a base color. In this picture, I'm wearing three coats of Happy Birthday. The glitter is an great range of colors: silver, magenta, red, blue, orange, yellow, and green.


Here is one coat of Happy Birthday over naked nails. Excuse the staining, I rarely ever leave my nails bare!


Here's an up close shot of the polish. I have up-close shots of all three colors, and they're all pretty blurry. Sorry about that, I guess I have to play around with my camera a little more to figure out how to make it less blurry.

Candy Shop

Here is Candy Shop. It's got the same glitter that was in Happy Birthday, but this is suspended in a baby pink jelly. The lighting that I took this picture in doesn't necessarily capture the pinkness of this color, but it's really cute! I liked this a lot. This is two coats of Candy Shop.


Here is a perfect example of how the pink doesn't really get picked up. It looks very peachy/nude in this picture and it's definitely not.

Forget You

Forget You, again, has the same glitter we saw in Happy Birthday, but this is in a black jelly base. You'd think that the black base would hide most of the glitter, but it didn't! The glitter showed up really well which makes this my favorite out of the three! I love this it's just kind of edgy, but obviously girly. This is two coats of Forget You.


Close up of Forget You

Deborah Lippmann polishes I don't come by too often. Retail values vary, but they are kind of on the expensive side. I've found them at Lord & Taylor's and I know they're available at her website www.deborahlippman.com.

Finger Paints Special Effects Flakies!

Hey guys, sorry for being so absent lately. I actually got off track because I'm trying to build a nail polish rack. I'm working on it, but I don't see it being done anytime soon.

Anyway, I know I'm not the first to post about these beauties Finger Paints released, but I'm sure you guys aren't too tired of seeing pictures. I know I'm not. So this collection was exclusive to Sally's and I'm really not a Sally's shopper, so I definitely didn't think I was going to be able to get my hands on them, but I did! The lady acted like she didn't know what I was talking about, but then it must've clicked because she brought them out from the back room for me. Yay!

The pictures I have are each of the five flakies layered over OPI's Black Onyx (which is actually the only black polish I own: fun fact). I also decided to show you the pictures I took indoors because I found that they showed the flakiness much better than my pictures in the sunlight. Okay so less talking and more pictures, right?!

Flecked



Flecked is a bright green flake in a clear base. In these pictures you can see some blue at certain angles, but trust me it is definitely predominantly green. All I could think about is that it would be fun to play with this for a St. Patrick's Day mani. It also made me think of Halloween.. not too sure why, but it did. It was so bright and it stood out so much. Out of all of them, this one was the one that had the most flakes in a brush stroke.

Flashy



Flashy is a mix of orange flakes that turn yellow, green, and dare I say purple at some angles? Anyway, this is the kind of flakie we've seen before. I think it's pretty similar to Essie's new Shine of the Times flake from their Luxeffects collection. I haven't put them side to side, but I know that Essie's does have a lot more coverage than Finger Paints. That's okay though, this is still a beautyy.


This is a picture of Flashy in sunlight. See all the mix of colors and dimension you would have missed if I only put in sunlight pictures? The indoors/shade definitely makes the colors pop against the black polish.

Motley



Here is Motley. This flake has blue, teal, and aqua mixed in. It's kind of similar to Flecked, but 1) not as opaque, and 2) obviously more blue, not so much green.

Asylum

This is one coat of Asylum over black. It didn't stand out as much against the black as a one coater, so I decided to do another coat. This is the only one that I did this with.


Now that's much better. It stands out so much more with two coats, and I love it. This one just looks like Flashy, but with dark blue flake added. I can't wait to layer this over some colors to see the awesome effect I can get!

Twisted



This is Twisted, and it really just reminds me of a carnival, and then paint splatter all at the same time. Paint splatter at a carnival? I don't know, but it's fantastic. Such a great combination of colors that really stand out and just scream fun.

That's it! So yay for a collection of flakies and to my first Finger Paints I've ever bought!