DL Candy Shop

  This was one of the gems I bought for a ridiculous price last year... Deborah Lippmann's Candy Shop!

My nail broken (mentioned in a pervious post)

  Ok I TOTALLY TOTALLY TOTALLY LOVE THIS!  I wore it to my cousins Bar Mitzvah and my grandmother thought I had fake nails, haha.  Everyone knows I bite mine (hence why they are short now...).
  There are no words for this, I LOVE IT!!  Three coats of pink suspended love on my nails and I'm all good :).

Happy spending,
Em

Icing Pre Game

  I shall start out with the average black creme!

  Now... we add the glitter!

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  Icing Pre Game.  Very similar to Icing After Party.  I did have a bottle comparison photo of them, but I can't find it :(.  Oops.  But they both have shards, just some different colors.

  I'm not a hundred percent sure whether some of these pictures have matte top coat on them or not.  But it really doesn't matter.

  Over Wet n Wild Black Creme.

Happy shredding,

Em

Zoya Ali and Love and Beauty Pink Speckled Glitter and Pure ICE Don't You Wish

  Hello peoples!  I am sorry to photobomb you later in this post but I couldn't choose many good pictures so I just included a ton of them :P.
  While I was shopping at a random mall last weekend, I came across this at the huge Forever 21 that they have there.  Like my local one is big, but this one is like four times the size of mine.  Mega.  And in there I found THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  In real life, it looks like OPI I Lily Love You, or this if you see it.  It looks rediculously close to it, but the Love and Beauty one has less flakies and more iridescent glitter.  But it is still close!  I only got it because I was so angry that I missed out on the OPI one.  This was a nice, (so much) cheap(-er) alternitive.  But my bottle is THICKKKKKKK and I wish I had known that.  The brush was all wonky too but I could still deal with it.
  I didn't want to go all amazing that fast so I started out layering it over Zoya Ali, a medium-ish neon-ish pink.  A pink that I can kiiiiinda deal with.
  And as an accent nail, I put two layers of Pure ICE Don't You Wish (which is the same concept as CG Fairy Dust but not the same thing (bigger glitter in DYW, more colorful, smaller and more holo in FD)).
  So onto the pictures!

L to R: flakies, flakies, Pure ICE glitter, flakies.

There's my flakies!

Flash

Blurred

Flash

Flash, not NEARLY color accurate

To show the differene

Probably the most color accurate one but not quite right...

Too dark

  It is a solid mani.  I did this on Saturday and as of today, Wednesday, I still have it almost perfect.  Just a few chips on the edges of nails and my left pointer finger's one completely popped off.  But it LASTS!!!!

  Again, sorry to photobomb you.  Just had to do it.

  Oh, and while I was at that mall, I also picked up Icing Pre Game (this is Icing After Party but in my eyes it looks like the same thing, my bottle must have been mislabled cuz I have never seen Icing Pre Game), Icing Rockstar From Mars (to complete my Charlie Sheen collection), and Icing Birthday Beyotch (another DL similar thingy).

Happy flakie-ing,

Em

Happy Birthday!!!!! (literally)

  Hello people of the interwebs!!  I have an actual current post for you guys today instead of my regularly scheduled things.
  So today I have Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday.  I have layered it many times over other things but this time, I needed to wear it solo.  I needed something... proper for my sixteenth birthday :D.
  Yes, today I turn sixteen and I am soo excited.  It's been crazy stressful in my life these past few weeks and today is no exception to that rule.  So after this post its back to our semi-usual programming :-/.

AGH! AGH! AGH!!!!

This is with one coat.

Now THIS is a proper birthday manicure.

Ooh.  Aah.

  I used two thick coats to make this basically opaque.  If you look really closely, you can see some bald spots here and there but only if you are looking for it.  It isn't really visible in person.

  So glitter is kind of my thing so this really works.

Happy Birthday,

Em

GOSH HOLOGRAPHIC

  Okay, pictures first, then I talk.  And in advance, I apologize for the holographic picture overload that you may or may not endure. ;)  (The better pictures are towards the bottom, with the better camera)

Bottle shot, full sunlight (in summer).

Again.

Three coats of holographic, no top coat.

:O

Win.  Nothing but win.

  Specifics of what I used: 1 coat of base coat (regular, not aqua), 3 coats of color.  No top coat, no special base coats.  It didn't last for long, like 4 days tops.  But OMG to have such a coveted color of such an epic win.  GOSH! (lol)

  Not much to say about this that you can't already see.  If you got it, yay you!  If you haven't, the only places to get it are through ebay ($39 minimum) or a giveaway (how I got mine).

:D

We need more polishes like this.

Double rainbow all the way... Jk

The green shift

Full holo rainbow power!

Last one I promise!

  Again, after wearing it for a second time (and in the middle of winter I dare say), I still love it.  I didn't want to take it off, but after it became the manicure during my breakup, I kinda wanted to.  But you know what sadness means?  More polishes! (4 more to be exact :P)

  So drool all over your keyboard (as long as you clean it up) and try to find a silver holo, depending on where you live it can be easy to find one or pretty damn hard.  Especially for a discontinued European one.  TO SEE A COMPARISON OF SOME SILVER HOLO POLISHES GO HERE!!!

Happy holo-ing,

Em

Deborah Lippmann Forget You

  Waaaaaaaayyyy back in August, during Nordstrom's anniversary sale, I picked up the Get This Party Started Set.  Awesome!  You can see the set here and you can see Happy Birthday here and here.
  I put it on and really didn't like it.  After almost a full day of wear, I love it.  I feel like I have chocolate cupcakes on my fingers (glitter reminds me of sprinkles).  It is oh-so gorgeous.  Glitter, check.  Black base, check.  Expensive, check.  Awesome, check!

*drool*

Black jelly-ish base with Happy Birthday glitter

The bottle

Oh god...

OMG = oh my glitter

Yeaaaaah I screwed up application on that finger, just ignore it :)

Ta-da!

  One coat of top coat basically smoothes it out.  I used two for double-shine.  It was kinda dull with only one.

  I needed something motivational.  Something... inspiring.  My solution, glitter.  And lots of it.  I needed something kick-ass to start of midterms with.  As of right this second, I finished my first two.  6 more to go.

  Possibly expect something this weekend or early next week!

Happy forgetting,

Em