Liquid Lacquer Dancing Days

     

     Today brings something of a somber post. Not too long ago, a minor tragedy happened. I'd just done my nails with Dancing Days and put the bottle on the kitchen table. This is a cautionary tale about leaving a parrot unattended for even .2342523 of a second. Lestat made a beeline for the shiny, got it in his beak, and dropped it smash on the floor in less time than it takes to whip your head around, apparently. Kind of made me go like this:

Is that the way it should start?

     Needless to say I was not dancing. This also means, sadly, that there are no bottle shots this time around because I hadn't gotten the chance to photograph it yet. But for the few days I had it on the color was still positively dance-worthy. Dancing Days was--sniff--is a pinkish lavender jelly holo. Shown is three coats and maybe a few tears of devastation.

Direct lighting:

     Even more sadly, this one is currently sold out, and I have no idea if it's coming back. Supposed to have been LE. But check out all the other awesome colors on the Liquid Lacquer site and updates with new colors on Facebook, and maybe dancing days will be here again.

This polish was purchased by me (and broken by a very naughty parrot).

Lynnderella Two-Tone Trifle

Twenty-eight years ago today, a seething undead entity burst forth from the grave and went on a rampage fueled by the unquenchable desire for brains and more brains. So the zombocalypse began.    

It lives!

In other words, it's my birthday. 

Take it in, because this is the first and last time I'm going to tell you my age.

To celebrate I decided to paint my claws in my favorite color (besides black): purple.  And what a purplegasm it is. Two-Tone Trifle is  Lynnderella limited edition and one of my birthday presents to myself (one of them…). Every single glitter is some shade of purple, from lavender to lilac to heliotripe and everything in between. Every. Single. Glitter. 

Party like it's 1985.

And as if that wasn't enough THIS POLISH CONTAINS CIRCLE GLITTERS. AND HOLO GLITTERS. The only other proof I need that I've died and gone to zom-heaven is a massive tentacled cake. 

Wait. I'm already dead.

I must scandalize you with some graphic bottle porn first.

About 1.5 dabbed coats over Lime Crime Lavendairy.

I had to do two shots with the Lime Crime bottle too, just because it's so cool *cough*andithasaunicornomg*cough

I tried to capture the tiny holo glitters. I really did. But my camera had other ideas.

Like most Lynnderellas and all chunky glitters, this one is best applied with the dabbing method. I prefer to put the first coat in the middle of the nail and spread it around, then fill in with dabs accordingly the second time around. Some patience necessary, but trust me, the payoff is almost as good as an erotic massage with Norman Reedus. Almost.

You can dig up Lynnderella polishes at lynnderella.com, and stalk the blog for updates on new collections before everyone else gets their talons on them!

This polish was purchased by me.

Elevation Polish Lys Glacier

Who loves summer? Skeeters! Humidity! Sleepless nights lacking in air conditioning!

                   Unearthed from this crypt.

That would be me at the moment. In case it isn't glaringly obvious by now I am not a fan of summer. I'd rather live in the freezer section of ShopRite for those three months than deal with the heat, and humidity makes me more restless than the Real Housewives of New Jersey (yay for my home state). It doesn't take an astrophysicist to figure out my undead complexion burns in the sun. Not to mention the local mosquitoes give me a high Zagat rating. Fate must have a real sense of humor because I was born smack in the middle of July. 

Speaking of freezers and things that are frozen, I have a glacier for you today. Elevation Polish Lys Glacier. I'd take a real iceberg with that, but technology hasn't come to the point where you can fit one of those into a 15ml bottle. The actual Lys Glacier is (where) Plus with an average heat index of 95 around here it looks really appetizing right about now.
I borrowed a whole iceberg.

Lys Glacier is a dusky lavender creme with purple microflakies that are just slightly darker. In certain lights you can see sparks of a shimmer that flashes somwhere between purple and magenta, which sets it apart from others in this color family that I already have in my hoard. 

                                 

 

Tried another angle to capture the shimmer. My camera just wouldn't cooperate with this. It got a little on the bottle, but hardly any on my nails. In real life it's much more visible, especially in sunlight!

        Brace yourself for an onslaught of spam. I got just a little obsessed with this color.

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There's the shimmer!

This was a prototype that can't be recreated as is, but it very well could reappear as a final version (several of them have), so keep an eyeball out. In the meantime, find plenty of other pretties at the Elevation shop and don't forget to stalk Lulu's blog!