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.

Smitten Polish Pink Goes Good With Green

Well, Glinda. Pink goes well with green. See,  your grammatical fallacies are exactly why we wouldn't get along.

 Let the green girl go

Alright, alright, I'm over it.

Elphie!

Bad grammar aside, Wicked really is made of awesome and flying monkeys. I saw it in 06 with the original cast; Ana Gasteyer and Kristin Chenoweth were nothing short of amazing. I know most everyone's favorite song from the show is Defying Gravity, but I shamelessly admit it's only second on my list to No Good Deed, because that's basically the story of my life. And on that note (pun strongly intended) I have a gravity-defying polish to show you.

Smitten Polish Pink Goes Good With Green is a mint green crelly with green, purple and pink glitters. Made me want to bite my nails not because I have that habit, but because it looks delicious. See for yourself:

Doesn't it remind you of allsorts or after-dinner mints or something else sugary and cavity-inducing?

Application was easy as waving Glinda's glittery wand. As for most all creamy glitters, I recommend using a thin first coat to really anchor it before adding additional coats, and waiting between coats so you don't get glitter drag.  Or you could try reciting Eleka nahmen nahmen at tum mat tum eleka nahmen ten times fast.

Smitten Polish is available at the Etsy shop and fully stalkable on Facebook!

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!