OK, so how many exclusive sets did the Great Deb Lipp put out??? I tried to find them all. I did. And yet....trolling around the blogs I found yet another. Given that I had been trolling while, and by that I mean trolling like trolling for bass in a bass troller, not leaving vile and nasty comments to annoy people, before I found it. It wasn't in the obvious places, at least not that I found. Neiman Marcus had this one. Most of the others have hit Miss Lipp's website but this one hasn't yet. May not, as we're well past the holidays.
This one is actually really pretty. You know that I had kind of felt that they weren't terribly original, there were some real duds in the fleet, but this one is nice. Everything is pretty, they're all kind of unique and all wearable and nothing really holiday specific about them except the names.
Once again, not on my computer, not edited on my computer so I can only hope these turned out OK. I think this monitor is REALLY bright. I don't know. When I can get to see these swatches on my own computer where I'm used to the settings we'll see. You'll get the idea, though.
Sorry for the glare. I took these at night. You have an amethyst purple, a dusty red and a blue jean blue. The box is a fuschia purple and is the standard issue Lippmann gift set box.
The inside, which does a better job with the bottles, though it is a bit fuzzy. Had I been drinking or something?
This is the amethyst. It looks really blue here. I think the deal is that the camera is picking up the flash. This is a bit duochromey, not that I'm complaining, OMG, I am so not! I actually love duochrome better than even holo, it's my favoritest thing evah.
If you look around the the bottle, you will see the true purple of this. I'm sorry these weren't more color true. I was having trouble finding a comfy spot with decent light to do these. However, the blue flash makes this very special. It's unique, I have nothing like it.
This is the dusty red. It has a lot of silver in it, which you can see in the bottle, which is what gives it that dusty feel. It's really a pretty metallic red, but not a chrome. It went on nicely, as all of these did, and it has a highly pigmented feel and look. Very opaque.
This is a better shot of the polish itself, though it's rubbish of the label. This is "This Christmas". I really liked this. I don't wear a lot of reds (too obvious) but I liked this and would wear it, fo' sho'. It even looks good on my nubbins.
Blue jean blue. No, it's not called that, but that's what it makes me think of. It's nothing like the Chanel blues, really. I had been afraid it would be. I have those, I will be swatching them because contrary to popular myth, I was able to find them online from an actual retailer.
This was the thinnest of the bunch, look at the streaking there, but probably a good base coat and another coat of lacquer will even that right out. It wasn't that noticeable in person or I would have painted them again.
This has the same frosty feel as the others, but I think that's kind of appropriate in a holiday collection. I really liked this one. I love how it's darkening as my nail curves.
Very nice collection. I just wish there hadn't been 4000 of them. I do argue that even at what seems a steep $45 price tag these are a bargain. You're getting three Lippmann's for $15 each, which is a nice deal. These would be $18 individually. As ButterLondon's have gone up this year to $15 a bottle, that puts these down a half step in price.
So glad I went on my butter spree before the holidays now.
So...thinking of picking this up? Once again, Neiman's is the only one I've seen who has it. They still had it, this arrived last week. (Fast service, free shipping...I'll check out Neiman's for other things I'm looking for in beauty. Can't afford much...but I'll look!)
Happy Talons!
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