Humility and Lippmans

Dear 2013,

You better not suck.


I am starting off the new year with a bit of humility.  I took a few pics of some Lippmanns I got for xmas.  Upon examination, it appears that these are horrible pictures, mostly due to my shiz application.  I was going to not post them, but here I am.  Why am I posting ug pictures?  Because I am a human, and sometimes humans fuck up, but the polish is still pretty right?  It's like organic vegetables.  Maybe they are a little wonky looking.. but they are better for you? Sometimes? :D  Or maybe my sanity is rapidly dwindling..  I will embrace this.

Anyfrigginghoo, here is Sweet Dreams with a big stupid fimo flower on it that I now regret.

 3 coats + SV

So I figured I would try layering it.  Here is 1 coat over top of Ask Oh So Aubergine which I still maintain is a stupid name, but the formula is a 1 coater if you are fast and careful.

Apparently I dipped the bottle in some fuzz before presenting it for the masses.

 I should not quickly wrap tips with dark polish and too much of said dark polish on the brush.  You will see more of this later.

Okay so here is where things really start sucking.

After layering it over purple, I decided I wanted to try it over blue.  This happened to coincide with my wanting to comp Nfu-oh JS31 to Revlon Royal.

They look similar in the bottle.

NOT.  4 coats of each + NYC GCS

So apparently quickly putting on 4 coats of nail polish and then NYC Grand Central Station wasn't a good idea.  I can't even.. I mean you have eyes right? You can see the many ways in which this was such a bad decision.  Also, these are the GOOD pictures.

A little bit of bubbly to ring in the new year? No?

Okay so the pointer and pinky both have 1 coat of Sweet Dreams on top.  The middle 2 fingers have 2 coats, mostly because I fucked up.

But does it shift? Yes'm.

Keeping up with poor application, poor pictures and poor decisions.  Here is Cleopatra In New York, 3 coats with no topcoat? Why did I not put topcoat on?  Also keep your eyes peeled for incredibly shitty clean up.

In case you did not see the shitty clean up job, I have pointed it out for you.  Although, I currently feel I should have put that on the pinky too.. and maybe all of them :S

So this is 1 coat over top of Orly Glitz & Glamour (favourite gold in case you forgot). I thought it might look kinda cool like Rock Coat or something.  I think it looks kinda neat.

Thanks for looking at my pictures and probably just skimming my text if that!  I hope you all have a less shitty 2013.  If your 2012 wasn't shitty, then 2013 being even less shitty than not shitty would be pretty good!

Ask - Nailwear Review

Along with my tiny bottle of mighty remover I was sent the following 4 polishes, a bottle of top coat and a bottle of base coat.

These are swatched without base because my ridges really create a super nice.. effect on the nail?  Okay it was a foolish oversight.  I normally try to swatch with ridge filler on.  Hopefully these are not too heinous.  I didn't use top coat because I want you to be able to see what a polish looks like on its own.

These all dried very quickly.  Most of them were 1 coaters.

Romantic Sunset - I cannot say I love the name.  In the bottle I was a bit meh on the polish.

On the nail I really quite like it.  One coat!

 There is a very subtle hidden silver shimmer in this polish which you can see a tiny bit of in this picture.

I wanted to see what it would look like with a coat of Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat.  Nice, and yet still office appropriate.

Always with the hairy bottle bums.  Here is Oh So Aubergine.

One coat!  I am really glad to have these polishes in my stash I have to say.  More and more 1 coat is really ringing my bell and becoming tres important.

I actually needed to add a few drops of thinner to this one.  I do not consider this a bad thing.  I am very much pro 1 coat polish.  Adding a few drops of thinner which I always have hanging around is not a big deal.

Rich Sapphire.  This was not a 1 coater.

This is 3 careful coats.  This one likes to pull.  The first 2 coats were very thin, and the last coat was fairly thick.

This one is very jelly like and squishy.  The first 2 coats were quite transparent.  It does build up nicely.  I would lean more towards calling this a jelly than a creme.  It's not a jelly that you can sandwich, but a jelly.

Finally here is Classic Peacock.  This is a lovely teal.

Another 1 coater.  This one also needed a few drops of thinner.

The above pictures were my having reswatched.  I swatched originally the week before and didn't check them until this weekend, discovering that they were ugly pictures.  Below here is a picture from my original swatchings.  I put Classic Peacock on Sunday afternoon last week.  I wore it until Thursday evening, took this picture and removed it as I had a large chip in my thumb.  This is an illustration of the tip wear.  Starting with the pinky I am wearing Ask base coat under alternating nails.  The tip wear is not as bad on those nails.  Note that I did not wrap the base coat so really all it is helping to prevent is the tip wear crawling higher up the nail as it has done on the other nails.  This picture was taken indoors.

I then decided to take this opportunity to illustrate the difference between Finger Paints Sparkle Top Coat and CND Crimson Sparkle as I had heard someone say one day that they were essentially the same and that if you had one you would not need the other.  In hindsight, they might have meant Raspberry Sparkle which I do not own because although these are similar, they are not dupes.

The pinky and middle finger are Sparkle Top Coat.  The pointer and ring are Crimson Sparkle.

I do not believe these are up for sale yet.  When they are, you can find them at the Ask Cosmetics website for $9.95/bottle.

These products were sent to me for review.

Fin.