Deborah Lippmann Porn - Halloween Edition 1 - TrueBlood Forsaken minis

I have a bunch of new Lippmann's swatched, I kind of went on a little spree, which was a stupid thing to do, but I did it so...I get to live with it. Colors are never a waste, is my view.

What I'm showing you today, though, is sort of Halloween related, if you dig the TrueBlood connection.


First up...Lippmann's have traditionally come in really classy boxes. This is not true of these. I don't know if it's because these were initially a HSN exclusive? I bought mine on www.lippmanncollection.com a little later. I did miss out on one color I wanted because she's not offering it, but I guess I can deal. Here is a bad picture of this box:

Pretty enough. These are three minis in one pack. This one is the Bad Things set. I have another really bad picture of the box open:

And that would not add in without distorting. I apologize. Sometimes it just doesn't work.

But as you see, the bottles are nestled in a tray which comes out of a rather flimsy cardboard box. The red interior is a nice touch.

Three colors, very distinct. Let's take a look!

I apologize that label is so blurry. This is Bad Blood, the darkest of the set. This was the one I was really excited about and it is pretty but I was disappointed. It's very sheer, which to me always looks messy. If you read this blog at all, you've probably realized, because I'm not shy about it, that I hate sheers. This is two coats over nothing so maybe with an opaque base like Orly Nail Armor this would be OK. As you can see it's a red plum color. Pretty. Would have been prettier opaque.

Much better picture! Strange Love. A more rose colored but still pretty sheer polish. Meh. It's pretty. Would have liked it better as a straight cream, but it is interesting. I actually wound up liking this better than Bad Blood. Probably because it's more opaque and there is something kind of dirty about it. It has a dirty feel to it, like the color just has a hint of muddiness which keeps it from being a boring rose pink/mauve. Meh.

New Flesh, and boy is it. This is about as nude as I can get, I think. It blends right into my hands. it has a pinky peachy feel and it's...boring. It's kind of classy, but it looks kind of unfinished to me. I don't even know how to explain that. It just does. It's sort of...blah. I had wanted to really love it, but it...well...blah.

Disappointed. I wanted these to be MORE. Maybe I just wanted too much. I will probably really wear these, but none of them screamed TrueBlood to me, they kind of seem like a marketing ploy, which they may well have been. I just really wanted to love them and instead I'm more "shrug".
Poo.
I think I just wasn't feeling where the inspiration came from with these. They could have been released just as new colors. Nothing screams Ancient Viking Vampire who calls children "teacup humans". Where is the humor? I just didn't find these to be that fun. The names are fun, but I found the colors to be meh. **sigh**

I will show you a really fun Halloween manicure that MDAMO and I schemed together on. No, no real nail art, but I did try something different for me and I enjoyed it!

Happy Scary Talons!