Deborah Lippmann - Raise Your Glass

Howdy folks! I wanted to show off a recently acquired polish love of mine, Deborah Lippmann Raise Your Glass. This was created for Holt Renfrew celebrating their 175th anniversary back in 2012. I didn't know who/what that was at first, but I found out it's a Canadian department store. So this was a Canada exclusive polish, making it double hard to find as it was also very limited edition. I finally was able to get a hold of it by purchasing it on a blog sale a while ago, after trying to get it for almost two years, score!

Raise Your Glass is a deep magenta creme that has glorious small fuchsia hex glitters running through it. Since it's a creme rather than a jelly, I find using a ridge-filling base coat helps make it more even, so the glitter doesn't sink into the color as much. I also find it to be a "thirsty" glitter and dry a little flat so I used two coats of top coat to give it a more glass-like surface. This color is darker indoors, almost murky looking, but with the bright sun shining on it you see through the depths and the suspended glitter just radiates. This is two coats.

This was one of my major lemmings and I am so glad I finally own it. I really love how it looks with my skin tone. It's also an interesting color, leaning cool and warm at the same time and the base & glitter color combo is unique to my collection. Lippmann polish usually retails for $18-20 but like I said, this particular one is a little hard to find haha. Have a great weekend!

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Lippmann Collection - Lady Marmalade

Deborah Lippmann's Lady Marmalade was a giant lemming for me. It is long discontinued and I figured I would only find it if someone was selling it on a blog sale. I found a gal on MakeupAlley while talking about a potential swap that was willing to part with it. Score! This polish is a warm strawberry pink with smooth glass fleck that has a slight violet tinge. This is three coats.

I love slaying lemmings! What your most wanted discontinued polish these days? I still have a long list of them, but it's always awesome to cross one off.

Deborah Lippmann - Believe

I have a beautiful metallic lacquer to show you today. Deborah Lippmann created this polish with the inimitable Cher! This excerpt from an interview with Deb explains the story behind the polish: "I was doing Cher’s nails for her tour and she had been layering four colors to achieve a look she had in mind. We were waiting forever between coats, so I said, maybe we should put this entire concept into one bottle. That’s how “Believe” was born. The color is silver and gold. It’s fantastic onstage and goes with everything she wears."

I freaking LOVE this color. It's not thick and gritty like super metallics can be, it applies as smooth as a crème. The color is rather unique, a warm toned silver/gold hybrid with the slightest teeniest glint of pink (I'm talking almost invisible, but I swear to Cthulhu it's there!). This is two coats. This is amazing, pictures do it no justice. Plus it's so wearable!

I got this from a swap a while ago (I think haha), it's an older "edition" because new bottles say "Deborah Lippmann" on the bottle and this says "Lippmann Collection". But it was re-released in one of two sets that Lippmann collaborated on with Juicy Couture during last year's holiday season that included two new polishes. I would've loved to have gotten that set, called Precious Metals, as it contained a gorgeous metallic pewter called Jewel in the Crown, but if I recall they were kind of expensive. If you have it and don't like it, send it to me! :D Anyway you can purchase Believe from www.lippmanncollection.com for $16. RUN don't walk and get this gorgeous babe!

Red Nails with a Hint of Bling

Hi friends! Hope your weekend is going well :) Here is a mani I wore a few weeks ago that really brought a smile to my face. This is such a killer combo, hot red with an accent nail of gold bling!

The red is Sation Overdressed Party and the gold is Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Groove Thing. The gold does take quite a few layers to get total coverage, I think this was five or six coats, but I love the end result. Doing it as one nail helped minimize the effort.

Products provided for review.

Deborah Lippmann - Mermaid's Dream

Happy Sunday :) I've debated about showcasing this particular nail polish, because I cannot for the life of me get a decent looking photo of it! I know everyone I've talked to likes it, loves it, went crazy over it, so I couldn't NOT blog about this gem. Deborah Lippmann Mermaid's Dream is a fierce polish, I just can't capture it on "film" the way it looks to me in real life, which is beyond frustrating.

It's described as a "seafoam splendor (glittered shimmer)". It has a fab pale ocean blue-green metallic base, tons of microglitter in gold and green, and medium sized blue hex glitter. It dries like a foil, and I found it can look shriveled if I applied the second coat before the first one was dry. The glitter was easy to work with, no worries about each piece placing correctly on the nail. This is two coats, which is impressive for an all glitter shade.

I still am not one hundred percent happy with how this picture turned out, it is totally a million times better in person. And if you own it already, you know that. If you don't, what the hell are you waiting for?! You can get it at Deborah Lippmann's site for $18 or at Nordstrom stores.

Claire's - Candy Shop

I suppose Deborah Lippmann could take it as a compliment that her polishes have been duplicated so often these days. Yesterday I showed you a Revlon take on one of her creations, and today it's a Claire's version of her pink glitter bomb. Candy Shop by Claire's is a dupe to Lippmann's Candy Shop. They really pulled out some creativity on this one huh? Haha. This is three coats.

You can get this at Claire's retail stores for about $5. They always have a BOGO 50% off sale on cosmetics, so be sure to take advantage of that.

Whimsical Cinderella

Sinful Colors has really stepped it up in the last few years on their polish selection. They had the same tired selection for like ever, then suddenly they started producing new colors every so often. Cinderella is one of the new ones, a beautiful glass fleck sky blue lacquer. The shimmer is pink/orange tinted which makes the polish unique, in my collection at least. It is rather sheer but layers up nicely. This is four thin coats. It's got a slightly jelly finish so it can gum up if you layer on coats too quickly.

Next, I decided to put Revlon Whimsical on top of Cinderella. This is a dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Glitter In the Air. It's much cheaper and a smidge less sheer, but otherwise exactly the same. It's a pale blue milky base, small glassy blue glitter, a little bigger round metallic pink glitter, and large metallic pink and blue hex glitter. This is two coats.

Sinful Colors are found in Walgreens for $1.99 each and Revlon nail polish can be found at most large retailers and drugstores for about $4 or so.

Deborah Lippmann - Good Girl Gone Bad

HIIIII everyone :) I have moved back to Nevada, to my hometown. My Mom has been having some health issues and I decided to move back to help out. I moved the day before Christmas and am just now getting a chance to breathe haha! I have a lot of junk, and an unbelievable amount of polish.

I decided to wear this polish on New Year's day, it was a Christmas present from my Dad & Step-Mom. Good Girl Gone Bad is a re-released shade from Deborah Lippmann, it was originally released in a limited edition miniature set called "Party Like a Rockstar" in Winter of 2008. She put out a full size bottle this Holiday season along with some other colors.

Good Girl Gone Bad is a "bold, cabernet glimmer". I love the glitter in this babe. I can't quite decide whether to put it in my red drawer or my purple drawer, though it will probably end up in the purple one. I used three coats for this mani and it dries rather dull unfortunately so I used two coats of top coat, my current holy grail, Cult Nails Wicked Fast.

'Til next time, have a great New Year everyone! Wooo hooo!!

Deborah Lippmann - Don't Call Me Baby

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well :) Be sure to check out my guest post over at The Swatchaholic! In it I feature Deborah Lippmann's polish My Romance.

This polish is one of Deborah's older line, Don't Call Me Baby, layered over My Romance. It gives the classic pink polish a bit of a kick. This sheer pink reminds me of a glaze of strawberry jam with crushed up Pop-Rocks and crystals! This is two coats over My Romance.

Have a great day!

Some of the products pictured were provided for review.

CosmoProf North America in Las Vegas: Part 2

Howdy there folks! I am finally going to do my part two rundown from the CosmoProf North America convention that I went to last week. You can see my photo spam from the event with all the products and collections coming out soon here on Part 1. This is the real spiel, the lowdown on what really happened and just how spectacular it really was. I went to the conference with my beautiful older sister Clarrisa. She went to attend some skincare seminars for her business. We got to stay in the beautiful Mandalay Bay hotel where the conference was being held and got a slick rental car to cruise around in courtesy of her company. The flight there was not very fun though, I hate to fly! It makes me sick-o.

Clarrisa and me on a tram

our hotel!

Me and Jen (the Polishaholic) grabbing some grub

The first day is when I met up with a couple bloggers I know and strolled around the show floor like mad women. I was lucky enough to get to meet a few of the faces of some of my favorite brands. Katie Cazorla from the reality show Nail Files, was at the Nubar booth with Noubar himself, promoting her line of polishes by Nubar called The Painted Nail, like her salon. Let me just tell you that this woman ROCKS!! She is a huge ball of energy and smiles and jokes and just happiness. It is so infectious being around someone like that, I loved meeting her. She is so tiny and beautiful, just like a blingy Barbie! She showed us her new polishes that recently launched and they are all gorgeous, I NEED THEM ALL!

Me, Katie, Katherine (Manicure Addict), and Jen (The Polishaholic)

Katie chatting about her polishes

Katie making me LOL, you know she used to be a comedienne!

I also wandered into the OPI meeting room (even though I didn't have an appointment) with fellow blogger Jen and we got to meet Suzi! Holy wow, it was awesome. She IS OPI, guys. She was very nice and sweet. We also got a peek of new OPI collections that are on the horizon, visit Jen's blog to see them, I didn't manage to take any photos of them, boo.

Me and Suzi, courtesy of Jen

That night we went out to dinner with Katie Cazorla and a huge group of bloggers, some of my favorite ladies were there! We went to a Russian restaurant (i.e. tons of vodka) called The Red Square where stuff was expensivo, yikes, but it was fab. I just wish we'd have all played musical chairs throughout the night so we could've talked to everyone haha! Omg, I really cannot reiterate how much I LOVE Katie, she's beyond words.

Blogger Dinner with Katie Cazorla

The Red Square restaurant

After a crazy long dinner, my feet and head were killing me even though I would've loved to hit the town with some of the girls like Maria and Kisten from Polish Pauper, I had to call it a night. The next day we all (the bloggers + some new ones like Temptalia (EEK! awesome), BellaSugar and A Girl's Gotta Spa) had a breakfast meeting with Deborah Lippmann! It turned out to not be a "breakfast" but just a gab session where Deborah talked and we all just listened with stars in our eyes. If I could've I would've listened to her for hours, she really is an awesome woman. She told us all about the new Fall polishes that have just been released, how she names colors, and how she created some of them. One of the most interesting things she mentioned was that by naming a polish a song title as opposed to a color name, gives the consumer a chance to see the polish as some unique to them. She creates all her polishes to go on in two thin coats, so ones that may take four coats to get opaque weren't necessarily designed to be that way, it's the way YOU see it, ya know? Everyone see color differently and everyone has their own preference of how to wear polish. Cool huh? Or as Deborah would say "SICK!" ;)

Deborah Lippmann

Me, Deborah and Clarrisa

After that we had a heck of a time navigating around the show floor again, as the previous day had already done some damage to my poor feets! We visited a couple booths I hadn't made it to the previous day, like China Glaze, Color Club, and Orly/SpaRitual. Got mucho info on what is coming up with those brands. I took many photos and posted them on my first rundown of CP here.

Edited: I completely forgot to put up the picture of Zoya Reyzis, the head of Zoya nail polish! OOPS! I didn't get a meeting with her but a lot of other girls did and they said it was great. She was so funny when we were taking the picture, making sure that it was taken "not including the waist" haha!

Me and Zoya

Then me and Clarissa decided we needed to soak up some sun, so we headed out the pool! It was way fun, the Mandalay has a big wave pool and a lazy river which was really nice because it was freaking HOT. And if you know me at all, I DO NOT do hot haha. Lots of lemonade and quick dips in the pool helped keep me cool. P.S. the sand on their "beach" was so GD hot I know I freaking burned my feet on it, like almost blistered!

Guess the sun didn't agree with me too much, because after a shower and change of clothes, I was not feeling great, a giant migraine had crept up on me. My sister decided to go shopping for a while and left me to rest in our hotel room. I was so very sad, but because of my migraine I missed going out for dinner that night with the girls and the brand manager for Jesse's Girl Cosmetics. They picked everyone up in a huge limo and took them to dinner at a nice steakhouse. I am told it was a great time and they even got to meet YouTube beauty guru Julie G.! I am still bummed I missed it :( You can see some photos of the event on Maria's page here and on Gia's page here.

Later that evening, like way later, I started feeling better and was able to go out with Clarrisa to get some dinner. We went to the Rio casino because everyone had raved about their buffet to us, and of course, we had to pig out a little. It ended up not being that great, and it was 15 minutes til closing when we paid, which they neglected to tell us, so it was the tail end of all the food and we had to rush. :/ Not cool. Although, the Rio is home of the Chippendale's show so we poked our head in there and took a quick look see ;)

Sexy!

The next day we met up with some of the girls in the CosmoProf press room to say our goodbyes. It makes me sad that I don't get to see all my girls all the time! I really love them all so much, they're wonderful ladies. I wish I'd have gotten more time with them all. Thanks to Krystal from Polish Galore who organized our little get-togethers with Katie and Deborah!

Kimmi from The Plastic Diaries, me, and Krystal from Polish Galore

Whew, I'm sure I'm leaving out tons but I just can't process it all right now haha. Let me know if you have any questions. It was a fabulous experience and I learned a lot and had a great time. I don't know if I'll go next year, but it's a possibility :)

Deborah Lippmann - Fashion

I wasn't sure I really needed this "not-so-typical taupe" crème from Deborah Lippmann, considering I already had her perfect nude in Naked which came out earlier this year. However, I decided I just really had to have Fashion, I couldn't resist! I'm guessing this is named for the David Bowie song, which is just badass. I love me some Bowie! I would say this is a touch darker and more taupe than the more nude Naked shade. This looked fab and opaque in three thin coats.

Hope everyone has a great week! I'm on vacation, spending time with my nephew who's visiting for the weekend :) I have the new BB Couture collection to swatch for you so look for that coming soon!!

Hot New Deborah Lippmann Shades: Sneak Peek!

Hey friends! I have the inside scoop for you for a bunch of new Deborah Lippmann shades, these look a-maaah-zing!

WARM UP WITH DEBORAH LIPPMANN’S FALL 2011 SHADES

I have worked directly with some of the world’s top fashion designers on everything from ad campaigns to fashion shows. When I set out to select nail looks for the fall 2011 collections, I noticed a common theme among all of my collaborators: warmth. The clothes featured vivid, lush earth tones—think lush greens, rich reds and intense golds.

I wanted to capture a similar heat and earthiness in the accompanying polishes, but with an added punch. BILLIONAIRE, a moody hunter green, BRICK HOUSE, a shimmering rust, and SINGLE LADIES, a flirtatious red, all have warm undertones, which give them a beautiful intensity, but also have a jewel-like quality so they really make nails pop. 

SHADE DESCRIPTIONS

Billionaire: moody hunter green (creme)

Brick House: shimmering rust (shimmer)

Single Ladies: flirtatious red (creme)

Deborah Lippmann’s new shade, STORMY WEATHER, is a collaboration with fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez.

Usually Narciso requests a nude nail to complement his minimalist designs, but for fall 2011 around he wanted something bolder—a color with strength and edge to offset both his collection and the softness of the hair and makeup. For the perfect custom finish, I mixed (and mixed) a new shade by hand in just 24 hours. The final product: an edgy granite that emanated power and intensity. The models who walked the show (and who rarely, if ever, comment on the nail color) gushed over the shade. And so STORMY WEATHER was born an edgy granite (crème) for a strong fall statement.

Just in time for the holiday season,

Deborah Lippmann Gets the Party started

Nothing says ‘Party’ like the magnetic sparkle of glitter. So for the biggest party season of the year, I’ve created shades that truly dazzle. Get This Party Started, a set of three glitters, was inspired by the overwhelming demand for my best selling Happy Birthday, a glittery party in a bottle. The set includes Happy Birthday, along with two new variations of the sparkling shade: Forget You and Candy Shop. They’re both packed with the same unique hexagon-shaped glitter that gives Happy Birthday its magnificent glint, only Forget You has a sheer black base and Candy Shop a bubblegum pink.

I love how festive all three look and feel, whether wrapped a round a champagne glass or peeping out of a glamorous pump. But what I truly love the most: how a few coats of any shade instantly transform you into the life of the party.

Happy Birthday: a party in a bottle (glitter)

Forget You: party all night (glitter)

Candy Shop: bubblegum pink (glitter)

For these next shades, I have no press information right now, but they look unbelievable! Can't wait to see them in person :)

Top: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy, Glamorous Life, I Love the Nightlife

Bottom: Shake Your Groove Thing, Good Girl Gone Bad, Stairway to Heaven

Images provided via manufacturer/PR.