DEBORAH LIPPMANN - Lady Sings The Blues

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DEBORAH LIPPMANN Lady Sings The Blues

Hi Goddesses

Tonight I have something so incredibly special, unbelievably gorgeous, breathtakingly beautiful and just plain hot damn awesome …. Goddesses, take your seats for a performance from DEBORAH LIPPMANN Lady Sings The Blues.

Phew.  I need to catch my breath.  This is quite simply and without doubt the most beautiful nail polish I have EVER worn.  The colour is perfect, the glitter is perfect, the shine is perfect ….. ah, I could just stare at it ALL day.  And I have.  Literally.

Lady Sings The Blues is a very sheer navy jelly packed with the patented Deborah Lippmann house special – micro glitter, and different pieces of hex glitter, all tonally similar.  For LSTB, the glitter is grey, lavender and blue and flashes different shades in different lights.  In the car, some of the glitter flashed turquoise which was HOLY MOLY, but I haven’t been able to recreate it in the house L

There’s just something about the perfection of this navy that drives this polish beyond the bounds of what beautiful should be.  There’s such a perfect juxtaposition between the dark and decadent navy gloss and the light-catching sparkle of the glitter … this is like staring at a galaxy all day – deep, mysterious and utterly compelling.

Although the base in Lady Sings The Blues is dark enough to wear on its own, I prefer to layer mine.  I put this one over 1 coat of Color Club Blue-topia, an amazing navy jelly that’s almost a one coater, and this gave LSTB a perfect base from which to sing and soar.  I also added 2 coats of Poshe after LTSB, and the 2^nd coat made a massive difference.

For those that are interested, I also did 1 accent nail in Across The Universe, Lippmann’s other special blue, and I was surprised by how much contrast there was.  As I’ve said before, ATU is all about ocean greens, and LSTB really highlights that.  ATU also has a much paler base – more of a dark teal.

If you don’t own this nail varnish, you must.  Simple as.  Lady Sings The Blues is glamourous, fabulous and scandalously divine.  You know by now that I Don’t Do Blue polishes, but seriously, if I was only ever allowed 1 polish in the world it would be this one.

Stunning.  Spectacular.  Intense.  Stellar.  Compelling.  

I hope you get the chance to enjoy her for yourself J

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

Green Nails for Depression Awareness Month

Nail Fun

GREEN = October is Depression Awareness Month

Hi Goddesses

So as you know, I don’t really do green but I really really wanted to do something for Depression Awareness Month.  As someone who has suffered with depression on and off for probably half my life, I couldn’t let the occasion go un-noted. 

So I made a special effort.  I don’t own many greens – Zoya Dree (which didn’t match what I had in mind), CG Starboard (see here for her own post), OPI Stranger Tides, a KleanColor glitterbomb and a wee Color Club called UNDER THE MISTLETOE – pure green liquid sparkle.

I almost did this as part of Blue Week, but didn’t really have any other ideas for the greens, so stole it ha ha.  It started with the idea of copying the famous mummy nails that Nailside does so brilliantly, but as usual, I improvised a little (well, quite a lot) and did something different for each nail.

I love the thumb, and the index finger, and have plans to make these into full manis.  I used a dotting tool for all the effects (I personally prefer them to brushes, but I’m weird).

They feel a little Christmassy to me - this is probably the artiest nails I have ever done (I have a LONG way to go).

Whatever you’re doing today, I hope you’re having fun J

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

Nails I Love - COLOR CLUB Wink, Wink, Twinkle

Nails I Love

COLOR CLUB – Wink, Wink, Twinkle

Hellooooo Goddesses.

Today I have for you the many wondered Wink, Wink, Twinkle from Color Club’s Starry Temptress Collection.  A few weeks ago, I bought another colour from this range – Ultra-Astral – and HATED it.  I didn’t like that it went on matte, or that it was quite neon, and I hurriedly ushered it into the reBay pile.

Then I saw someone else’s post (sorry, I have looked but can’t find who it was, but I think it was someone from PAA) about this little beauty, and I hhhmmmmed and thought it was worth a whirl.

Wink, Wink, Twinkle is deeply pigmented.  Deeply.  She’s a perfect violet, magenta with serious blue undertones.  I just can’t express to you how deep this colour is.  There is nothing wishy-washy or half-hearted about this girl, she’s a full-blown, melodramatic, look-at-me diva!

The polish is packed with glitter – teeny tiny dust particles that just add to the depth.  This looks like how a starry night would look in Barbie-Land – dark and sparkly, all at the same time.

When this dries, she dries matte, and for someone who hates matte (surely nail polish should look polished, no?) that wasn’t so good, but even I could appreciate the beauty of the dull finish (altho why you would want to make a sparkly polish dull doesn’t compute for me) …. Anyhow, long ramble, blah blah where was I …. Oh yes, anyhow, whether you like matte or not, this dries quickly and beautifully.

Better than that actually – it dries like concrete!  This is one of the most durable looking polishes I have ever work.  She looks like a proper acrylic manicure, and the photos were taken ofter 2 days – still no chipping or tip wear. My nails looks INDESTRUCTIBLE with this on – no word of a lie, I think they would go the whole week without chipping. Amazing.

All the photos are glossy, so what did I use to get rid of the mattness ?  Well, I didn’t use Starry Temptress topcoat, I used something else that arrived in my nail mail that day – NORTHERN LIGHTS by Out The Door, a holographic top coat.

This adds the tinsiest bit of fairy sparkle to your nails – delicate without being over-powering.  After having some SpectraFlair moments lately (thanks, Lori) it amuses me that whatever holographic element OTD use ALSO sinks to the bottm.  Amuses me a LOT.

This may not be the most beautiful colour I own, but WWT has impact, flair, drama, chutzpah and a gluelike formula.  Definite winner.

J

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

Nails I Love - Color Club - CATWALK QUEEN

Nails I Love

COLOR CLUB – Catwalk Queen

Hi Goddesses.  I am so in love with Color Club right now.  Fabulous bottle, great application and wooooooah stop the clocks, amazing colors.

with flash, and with allsorts of mess that wasn't there before I took the photo!

Today I have Catwalk Queen – isn’t she amazing ?  I LOVE dark colours. I can’t tell you how happy I am that we’re heading into the darker half of the year and I can vamp away to my heart’s content J  Just putting this on made me feel happy and …. me.

Catwalk Queen is just pure splendour.  A rich dark purple with enough burgundy and hints of blood to just make it look *dark*.  This is one of those great gothic colours – is it black, is it red, is it purple – and it’s so pure in its dark deviance.  It’s genius.

More than anything, this is plum or grape skin.  Purple, but blackened.  There is a depth and intensity to this that I love.  It’s almost fathomless, and the purple looks layered over itself due to loads of little shimmery dark amazing glimmer pieces.  My camera is crap, but I wish you could see what I mean.  This is definitely what the twisted goth fairies are wearing.

I am fighting like mad to keep this *out* of my Top 10 Polishes because it’s another purple, and I really do feel the rest of the rainbow should be allowed at least 1 representative in there lol, but I AM profoundly in love with this. 

Profoundly. 

Have fun J

  

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.

Nails I Love - Color Club WORTH THE RISQUE

Nails I Love

COLOR CLUB – Worth The Risque

Hey gang of goddesses.  I have to confess, I’m a little bit in love with Color Club  right now.  I hadn’t heard of them in the UK, and then through various blogs came across them.  I’ve bought quite a *ahem* few, and I LOVE!  The bottle is chunky, they apply easily, they do the best ever range of purples AND they do holos.  And this, my lovelies, is the holo-tastic Worth The Risque.

(sorry, only 1 coat because I have other things I need to do with for my PAA Monday mani)

This really isn’t my sort of colour.  It’s light, it’s bright, and I of course am a dark, vampy child.  However this is HOLO and it would be rude to only buy the dark ones.  Right ?

Worth The Risque is a lovely light meringue of silver-grey and pixie dust.  It’s a super light confection of a colour and just so damn pretty!  This is what all the fairies would be wearing in FairyLand if we were lucky enough to spend a day there J

It has beautiful holo going on AT A REASONABLE PRICE.  Really, there’s nothing not to love about this.

Goddess bless Color Club!  J

  

Top Tip – if you’re ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give you plenty of contrasts and compares.