Deborah Lippmann Porn 6, The Grand Finale

Sick of Lippmann's yet? I hope not! I have one more Christmas set. Yeah...I kind of went bonkers and bought them all. I don't know why I did this. It's the same reason I beat my brains out on Assassin's Creed 3 trying to catch those stupid Almanac pages. I already want to slap Benjamin Franklin for coming up with Daylight Savings and convincing everyone it's a great idea (Repeal it, Indiana! DO IT!) but now he invades my AC3 with his stolen almanac pages? **SLAP** And no, beer is not proof God loves us. Moscato is. Get a grip.

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What was I on about? Oh yes, Lippmann's.

This is my favorite set of the lot. I almost didn't get this because it didn't look that original to me in the pictures, I was like ooo, shimmers for Christmas. *yawn* In the end that "Just gotta get it!" thing took over and I hit "add to bag". Glad I did.

So here's the box shot:

Lovely royal purple, the bottles nestled inside. It's just like the others, I don't think I took another picture of the inside.




This is Sugar Shack, a plummy shimmery mauvey thing. These are all a bit sheer, so I would be prepared with a good base coat. Maybe butterLONDON Nail Foundation or Orly Nail Armor. They do help with these more sheer polishes by adding a nice nude base that helps with the opacity. Then you don't spend so much getting your $18 Lippmanns or Rescue Beauty's to look nice. Recommend doing that, seriously. Plus, the Nail Armor in particular is just good for your nails. It has silk protein in it, so be sure to seal your tips.
Back to Sugar Shack. I am severely easily distracted today!
It has this lovely shimmer in it, which is very nice, but it dries a bit rough. Nothing bad and since you're putting top coat on anyway it's not a problem. Right? But just be forewarned, this is one you're not going to want to slap on and run out the door. This set, that is. However, it's not chunky glitter rough so you should be able to handle it just fine.

Label shot for you. Bloody silver metallic labels make pictures challenging! But you can really see the polish here.

OK, here you can see how much purple this has in it. It's a nice red plum color. It has some blue shimmer there, it's not quite a flash effect. A little in the right light, I suppose.

You can really see the blue here. It adds so much depth. I love it. These are really the stars of all the collections, which I'm going to show you in tons of pictures. I got really picture happy with these.

You can see the sheerness I'm talking about here really well. It wants to be a little streaky. Once again, though, I think a strong base coat will help. This is just on bare nail so..you know, take these swatches with a grain of salt. To be honest, I can't take the time or the resources to do a full manicure when I swatch. My preferred base coat is becoming difficult to get for some reason.

 Sugar and Spice is a lovely darker shimmer. It has a more brownish base color. It's not really brown...it's greyed out? I don't know how to describe it. It's gorgeous. It has a peacock and red shimmer to it, those tiny little particles adding depth and contrast. This is a sorry swatch and I apologize. I was having a ton of lighting problems taking these. It just wouldn't cooperate!

 The label shot. Ugh. Terrible! I'm so sorry!

At least you can see the peacock blue shimmer particles?

 OK, this is more like it. You can see what I mean here about the more brown base. It's not brown. It's...mocha? It's...brown with some purple in it? Well, however you choose to describe it, it's lovely and very wearable. I think most of us can wear this with no problems.

 Nice tidy cuticles, you can see I had no real problems with application, they were all lovely and easy to work with.

 I tried to do an extreme close up and it kind of worked. I wanted you to see the formula is almost like a bunch of individual particles suspended in this lovely base. You can see the peacock and red here. It's just gorgeous. If you pick up no other set, pick up this one. That's my advice.

This one kind of does a better job showing you what I mean about the suspended particles. I love this.

 However...very sheer. So just lay the right foundation down and you'll have a real winner here.

The last one is Sugar Rum Cherry and is the lightest and cheeriest of the set.

Also the sheerest. But it's lovely. I liked this a lot. It's not red, but it hints at it.

This one is packed with red and silver mini micor itty bitty bits. It's in a brownish red...chestnut, if you will, base.

And is a streaky mess. About 3 more coats or a strong base coat as I've mentioned is what is wanted here. It's lovely, it just needs a little help.

See? I think this is the streakiest of the lot, but with the right foundation it won't be a problem at all. And you can see here too, that the particle foundation idea of these leaves a rough surface. It's not a problem at all. Just do the pre-reqs and you'll be fine.

Last one!

Over all, this was definitely the winner for me. The colors aren't going to change the face of nail polish for generations to come, but they are the prettiest, I think, of all the Lippmann holiday collections. This one is the Bloomingdale's exclusive. We don't have a Bloomies around here, I got this on line and I believe I got a free polish with it, so there you go! These sets all retail around $42, which if you do the math, that's not to shabby for full-size Lippmann's. If you take into account that I received a freebie, and one I didn't already have at that, then you're talking Ulta kind of prices. We're in Zoya and OPI territory.

I hope you like these as well as I do. I still have some of her other holiday ones to show you, just no more sets and I don't have them swatched yet. I don't think they're particularly "Holiday" colors so I didn't swatch them with these. One of them I like so well I duplicated it. I'm currently trying to decide if I want to offer you guys a give away or if I'm going to return it. After all the polish I've bought in the last few weeks returning it is prudent! I hit the Sephora sales, the butter sales, the Illamasqua sales.

Speaking of which! OO! I need to alert you guys! Shorty post coming right up!

Happy Talons!