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Showing posts with label white. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Lynnderella Sweets to the Sweet

Indoors in artificial lighting:


Outdoors in full sun:

Today's manicure is Lynnderella Sweets to the Sweet over NARS Rouge Andalou. Sweets to the Sweet is a sheer white base with white square glitter, sheer white square and hex glitter, red, purple, blue, and iridescent green glitters of various shapes and sizes. The glitter in this one is a bit sparse. The candy vibe I got from the bottle led me to pair it with a shiny candy apple red base (Rouge Andalou aka Red Dog).
This manicure is one coat of SpaRitual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat of CND Stickey bc, two coats of Rouge Andalou, three coats of Sweets to the Sweet, and one coat of Seche Vite.


Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Lynnderella Love, Lace, and Lilacs



You should be able to purchase Lynnderella's new collection, Lovely Is As Lovely Does, here in the near future:
llarowe.com
Today's manicure is Lynnderella Love, Lace, and Lilacs over Essie A Crewed Interest from the new spring collection.
LLL is a clear base with small and large white hex, glitters, bar glitter with a little bit of shimmer. It's one of Lynn's ethereal shades and basically the child of Snow Angel and Connect the Dots.
These pictures were taken outdoors in full sun:

Since white is a neutral, rather than a color, it has no complement. As far as I'm concerned, the two choices are a soft shade that blends with the polish or a high-contrast base like black or a bright. I decided to embrace the lace and do a soft peach.
This manicure is one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of Essie A Crewed Interest, two coats of Love, Lace, and Lacquer, and one coat of Seche Vite.



Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Lynnderella Connect the Dots



Outdoors in full sun:

Today's manicure is Lynnderella Connect the Dots over China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise.
ChG TuT is a watery turquoise neon shimmer polish. Connect the Dots is a clear base with green and peach microshimmer loaded with a bunch of sizes of white and black square and hex, as well as bar glitter.
Connect the Dots was originally released in Lynnderella's First Edition, but I bought it (in the new fatter bottle) during one of the halloween sales.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of Turned Up Turquoise, two coats of Connect the Dots, one coat of Revlon Quick Dry tc, and one coat of Seche Vite.

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Lynnderella Snow Angel



Today's manicure is Manglaze Mayo topped with Lynnderella's First Edition Snow Angel. If you haven't heard of lynnderella, you're probably not on makeupalley. She is a frankening genius, who up until recently only made her creations for pleasure. She has some truly unique and amazing creations that you can find photographic examples of around the web. She recently sold a limited edition set of creations here: Lynnderella's blog site.
They sold out uber fast and I only managed to get on the backorder list because she is a doll. Hopefully her first sale didn't burn her out to the point that she never does one again, but honestly I would be happy to know she's out there still creating with her joy of the process intact. Snow Angel is a really cool white hex glitter in a sheer base that I layered over matte white.
This mani is one coat Spa Ritual Lacquer Lock bc, one coat CND Stickey bc, two coats of Mayo polish, one coat of Snow Angel and one coat of Seche Vite tc.
All these photos were taken indoors with artificial light except where indicated.

Low natural light without flash:

Low natural light without flash:

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Hard Candy Walmart Sugar Daddy



Today's manicure is Hard Candy Walmart Sugar Daddy.
Sugar Daddy is an ultra sheer white that flashes gold shimmer. This polish is crazy sheer - my nails are completely visible under three coats. I think it is best suited to layering. I show it over black in the bottom two pictures.
This mani is one coat SpaRitual resurface base coat, three coats of polish, and one coat of SpaRitual tout de suite top coat.



The pictures below show comparisons between Sugar Daddy over black (two coats of Barielle Monique Jet) and three of the new Creative Nail Design Effects: Jade Sparkle, Gold Sparkle, and Gold Shimmer. This polish is closest in color to one coat of Gold Shimmer, but I don't think they are exact dupes.