Showing posts with label Deborah Lippmann. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Deborah Lippmann. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Top 20 of 2011 - Part 1

Hi everyone! So here is the first half of my Top 20 picks!
I know some of these were released before 2011, but I'm going to choose from polishes that I've acquired over the past year. I think next year I'll stick to the top 10 polishes released in 2012. :D

So these aren't in any particular order at all. Some of these polishes haven't been posted on the blog before, but they may be featured in their own post sometime in the new year!

Chanel Peridot

China Glaze Ahoy! - This is the most awesome raspberry pink glass fleck EVER.

Deborah Lippmann Across the Universe

 A England Tristam - Smooth, beautiful scattered holo goodness.

Zoya Neeka - I love the finish. It's like a bird egg!

Zoya Yara - I love the gold shimmer-glitter in this! it reminds me of a speckled bird egg.

 China Glaze White Cap - One of my favourite layering polishes.

OPI Warm and Fozzie

Glitter Gal Lizard Belly - Eye-catching dark green linear holo!

Cult Nails Let Me Fly - Gorgeous, gorgeous shimmer. UGH. <3

Thanks for reading! I'll be posting part 2 soon! :D

Marisa

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Guest Post #2 by Jennifer

Hi guys! For all of you who are unfamiliar with who I am, I'm Jennifer, Marisa's sister. I've done one guest post before a while back, but this is only my second one. Usually I do them when Marisa is plagued with exams, shuts herself in her room, and unintentionally neglects her blog (Marisa says sorry), which is the case right now. In fact, I've barely seen her outside of her room even thought my room is diagonally across from hers on the same floor. It's funny how that works. Anyways, I'm just here to add some life to this blog drought.

A couple of weeks ago, we got some polishes from the Models Own company in Britain. The bottles kind of look like super-sized Joe Fresh bottles, but the colours sent to us were very pretty and thus I have nothing to complain about. The colour I'm featuring in this post is Pinky Brown. It's a nice red/ purple - gold/ bronze duo-chrome. The application was fairly good. If I can remember correctly, my nails in this photo had two coats of the polish for it to be opaque.


Pinky-Brown - Models Own

The next manicure is actually one I did quite far back ago, during the summer. I really liked Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air polish, but I found that it was a bit sheer on its own, so I decided to layer it on top of some polishes (in this case, Planks a Lot by OPI and Lemon Fizz by China Glaze) to create a pastel-coloured semi-glittery manicure. It kind of reminds me of Easter. I put about two to three coats of Glitter in the Air on top of the base colours just to get a good amount of the glitter distributed evenly on each of my nails.

Glitter in the Air - Deborah Lippmann
Planks a Lot - OPI
Lemon Fizz - China Glaze

That's basically about it for this post. I do my nails quite often, but I rarely go on the computer (which is strange, seeing how I'm 14 years old and all of my other peers generally spend hours on the computer) and I'm often too lazy to transfer the photos from my phone to the computer. Since school has started, though, I've been preoccupied with school and so that has left less time for my nails to be pampered. I also play volleyball and other sports, so that didn't (and doesn't) really help at times. However, I'm not playing any sports at the moment as volleyball season just ended and I wasn't very interested in basketball, so my nails get a fair amount of good treatment from me. The other reason why I'm not very active at the moment being is because during volleyball I may have re-torn my knee ligament... It's been hurting for the last two weeks since volleyball has ended and as I'm typing this it is still hurting. Hm, maybe I should see my doctor..

Anyhow, enough of my random rambling. There's one more picture that I wanted to show y'all, and it's pretty funny (in my opinion, or else I wouldn't have taken it.). Here it is:

Darth Vader has a secret liking for nail polish. Does he use the Force to attract the bottles?

This was taken in the late summer, when I would do my nails so often that I would be too lazy to put away the bottles and instead leave them on my night table. Coincidentally, the Darth Vader bobblehead that we bought from the Smithsonian Air & Space museum in D.C. was also on my night table. Somehow the bottles just naturally ended up accumulating around the vicinity of Darth Vader. As you can tell, Marisa and I are Star Wars fans (or else we probably wouldn't have a bobblehead, t-shirt, paper weight, etc..). Who would have known that the gift shop in the Air & Space museum would have so much Star Wars paraphernalia? We were going to get a Yoda backpack too, but we were kind of running out of time.. I just found this scene funny. The contrast was very comedic. 

I hope you found this guest blog entertaining! Well, I at least hope that it put a temporary end to the lack of blog posts. Marisa has, as I said when I began this post, been plagued with final exams and so forth, so she hasn't gotten around to consistently posting on here. She apologizes! Her last exam is on December 14th, and she'll do her best to announce the winner of her giveaway on the 15th. 

Thanks for reading! 

- Jennifer

Friday, 3 June 2011

A little something interesting

Morning everyone,

I don't have any new polish pics for you today, but I was sent this interesting (well, I think it is) video (after I posted the Deborah Lippmann post) and I would like to share with you all!



I thought this video was interesting because (aside from the fact that all of the names were from songs) I didn't know the reasoning behind it all.. and because I know whenever I pull out Across the Universe or look at it on my nails, I start humming (and occasionally singing to myself -yes, looking like a crazy lady all at the same time) it.

Anyhow, please enjoy the video, and we'll return to our normally scheduled programming soon!

-Marisa

Saturday, 28 May 2011

Deborah Lippmann polish-a-thon and I need help!

Good afternoon everyone!

I've very excited to be writing today's post.. I've finally gotten my paws on some colours that I've been dying to try! Unfortunately, these are only lent to me by my sister. *sigh*

I'm sure if you've probably seen these a million times already.. but now you can see them again!

So today, I have Deborah Lippmann's Across the Universe, Glitter in the Air and Lady Sings the Blues!

Sorry the pictures above are so dark.. I got over excited and took these reaaallly late last night!

So first, we have Across the Universe
Isn't it beautiful? Yes, I had to flip this because the picture managed to be taken upside down.. that's why the text is backwards ;)
And another just for the heck of it..

Next up we have Glitter in the Air
I'm really glad I got to try this one out.. from the swatches online, I was thinking that this may be a polish that I had to get.. but after trying it on, I'm not sure if I like it's sheerness.. I couldn't find any nudes in my collection to layer this over, so I wore this over China Glaze's Snow. I'm hoping I'll like this better over a nude. It is still pretty though.

Next up is Lady Sings the Blues. I didn't have enough hands for this one, so I have my little sister modelling this one. This was pretty.

Okay, so now.. the exciting news. I usually don't buy Deborah Lippmann's polish because it's a bit out of my price range (no matter how pretty it is!) at around $20-$22 a bottle. However, my sister got a $10 off card for the store she purchased these at (I think it was buy $50 or more and get a $10 off coupon at Murale), and so I'm planning on picking up a bottle of Deborah Lippmann polish soon! These three were at the top of my list.. but I need help deciding! What is your absolute drop dead favourite Lippmann polish? I'm leaning towards a glitter, since she does that so well!

Just a last few pretty bottle pictures.. I couldn't resist :D



Thanks for reading, I hope you all have a lovely Saturday!

-Marisa