I always love supporting my fellow Canadians, so when Nail Polish Canada, a Canadian online mecca for anything nail related, offered me a chance to check out the new Deborah Lippmann holiday collection, I jumped at it.... and then rested on my ass for a month. Yeah, well it was the holidays. So eventually January came and I finally remembered that hey, I should probably write this review! Luckily, it's going to be amazing.
The Product
Deborah Lippmann polishes were developed by its namesake, who is a celebrity manicurist whose resume includes the likes of Beyonce, SJP, and even Lady Gaga, and her polishes are known for their remarkable color and quality.
Price & Packaging
You can purchase this shade for $22 for a standard 15mL size. Now if you ask me, the prize is the biggest con against this otherwise fab product. $22 for anything makeup-related is a pretty big price if you ask me, so it had better be worth it.
Effectiveness
For this review, I received one of the newer shades to the line, Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? which is a rich, festive red sparkle.
Since I was past Christmas, I didn't want to do anything that was very festive looking, so I looked instead towards the next holiday fast approaching: Valentines Day. Whether you're happily hooked up, or happily swinging, a fun nail polish in Valentines color will give you a little perk come February 14.
I opted to pair the red sparkles with a deep red-purple polish, namely OPI's I'm with Brad, which although it looks quite red in my photos is actually more this color. I didn't want to overdo it with an all over sparkle, so I opted just to do the tips.
The sparkles are nice and big, which gives a really chunky, almost digitized effect that's quite pleasing and much better than the finer glitter polishes of my pre-teen years. The wand did pick up a lot of sparkles per brush, but it was really difficult to get a good coating of sparkles without also getting a huge drop of clear polish. That's not the fault of this brand though; I would guess that most sparkle polishes are the same? Why can't they create a sparkle polish with a really high ratio of sparkles to polish?
Of course, 2 minutes after this photo, I happened to scratch my leg through my jeans without thinking and thus smeared half of it on my leg. FML.
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That Deborah Lippman nail varnish looks amazing!! I've used other versions in silver and gold but that colour is gorgeous. If only $22 was in my price range!
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The combination of the two is gorgeous! I'm reminded of Dorothy's ruby slippers for some reason :) I've never tried any Deborah Lippman polishes cause they're too pricey for me as well.
ReplyDeleteI recently did red and sparkle too with Chanel dragon red and a bottle of CVS bought sparkle. as much as I adore the look, removing sparkles can be quite an effort. do you have a trick?
ReplyDeleteThe layered sparkles make it look deeper than it is. Nice effect.
ReplyDeleteThe layering of those two colours is fantastic! I love the depth it gives when layered.
ReplyDeleteToo bad about your pants, I've done that so many times, except with my hair, yikes!!
I would love to own Deborah Lippmann polishes some day but right now, forking more than US$ 10 for a bottle of nail polish is just ridiculous. I don't mind spending US$ 70 on an eyeshadow palette (LOL at my priorities) but I think twice about spending US$ 7 on a nail polish haha >.<
ReplyDelete@SG Angela: Another great feature of this polish is that it was fairly easy to remove!
ReplyDeleteConfession: I'm too cheap to buy expensive nail polish. Can we just have a nail party!? Haha!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous nails. Love that red color.
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sooo pretty...i will probably buy the cheap essie luxe effects version
ReplyDeletei want all the Deborah Lippman glitter nail polishes SO bad! but yeah it's crazy expensive I stil can't bring myself to buy one. sad:(
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