Deborah Lippmann - Raise Your Glass

Howdy folks! I wanted to show off a recently acquired polish love of mine, Deborah Lippmann Raise Your Glass. This was created for Holt Renfrew celebrating their 175th anniversary back in 2012. I didn't know who/what that was at first, but I found out it's a Canadian department store. So this was a Canada exclusive polish, making it double hard to find as it was also very limited edition. I finally was able to get a hold of it by purchasing it on a blog sale a while ago, after trying to get it for almost two years, score!

Raise Your Glass is a deep magenta creme that has glorious small fuchsia hex glitters running through it. Since it's a creme rather than a jelly, I find using a ridge-filling base coat helps make it more even, so the glitter doesn't sink into the color as much. I also find it to be a "thirsty" glitter and dry a little flat so I used two coats of top coat to give it a more glass-like surface. This color is darker indoors, almost murky looking, but with the bright sun shining on it you see through the depths and the suspended glitter just radiates. This is two coats.

This was one of my major lemmings and I am so glad I finally own it. I really love how it looks with my skin tone. It's also an interesting color, leaning cool and warm at the same time and the base & glitter color combo is unique to my collection. Lippmann polish usually retails for $18-20 but like I said, this particular one is a little hard to find haha. Have a great weekend!

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China Glaze Out on Safari

Ok lacquerheads, the beeyotch is back!! *le sigh* That was the biggest un-scheduled un-Kellie-planned pause of my blogging life and me-no-likey. In case you missed the drams, up until about four hours ago, all my photos hosted on Photobucket were missing in action :( They had a server malfunction that lasted almost 48 hours (forEVER in internet time) and it was driving me nutso. But now all my images are back woohoo! And I'll be checking back into hosting on Picasa (Blogger's main host) like I used to. In case you're wondering, I was not savvy on how to host high resolution photos on Blogger's system until today, and I want only the best for my precious readers of course!

Anyhooo.....

I figured I'd come back in style with a doozy of a polish, and so I shall. This is the one, the only, Out on Safari by China Glaze. Oh yes, you read that correctly. This baby is one hard to find vintage lacquer that any collector would break a nail to get her hands on. I was lucky enough to score this in a swap with my lovely friend Faerieberry (thank you my love) after lusting after it for many moons.

Out on Safari is a khaki green mossy shimmer polish that is so super unique I doubt it will ever be duplicated. Very shiny and very flattering, surprisingly almost haha. This is three coats. Oh my gosh, dare I say, could it be? I think this may be my new favorite polish. of. all. time. O_O

Aaaaww :) It's good to be back. I should have the new Zoya and Color Club collections posted sooner rather than later. Thanks for sticking around luvas!