Showing posts with label Lynnderella. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynnderella. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2012

The Best POSSIBLE Distraction From Studying

So I have a midterm coming up on Monday. I am slightly freaking about this one. I took this course as an elective (unrelated to this degree but in the department my previous degree was from) for ONLY one reason. I had never had the experience of taking a class with this very well known and LOVED professor. I was really loving the course though mainly because she was just so funny and geeky and I truly believe she could have probably made paint drying seem like an exciting subject. FAST FORWARD - she went into pre-mature labour and ended up taking leave early and we now have a different professor. BAH!!!!! So now the course is no where NEAR as fun, we have a completely different focus in the class, a professor who focuses on completely different things and YOU guys have a completely stressed out blogger!

So my goal for tonight (and I REFUSE to go to bed before I do so) is to finish going through the entire 5 chapters of the textbook that are covered on Mondays midterm and cross reference every point with the textbook as I have already found MULTIPLE instances where they give contradictory explanations or values. If I don't get it done tonight, I wont be able to discuss them with the professor tomorrow and that is my last chance before my 1030 am midterm on Monday. So I should be studying. So why am I posting here you may I ask? Because I just received the MOST amazing RAOK that I have to share with SOMEONE who will understand and appreciate my excitement!!!

So I had a missed package when I got home from school and work yesterday at 11pm and had to go get it today. And here is what was inside it:






Something new on the new Lynnderella Collection. If you look at the tape that holds the named sticker on one side of the bottle is now an ingredients list and on the other side of the bottle is her Lynnderella logo. Its not on the older collection, but it is on the newer collection. Just thought I would point that out.












Now because that is not enough, Hong Kong Girl Top Coat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have heard sooooooo much about this and honestly love my Dior (and Cult Nails Wicked Fast) so much I had no reason to look elsewhere but I will be honest. I was sooooo curious about this! And now I get to try it!!


Something I noticed on the bottle is it says "this polish is resold not made by G&G". Which makes me wonder who DOES make it? Hopefully one of my wonderful readers can answer that for me! Is Hong Kong Girl the actual brand that makes it, or is the name Glisten And Glow has Given to the top coat and unrelated to the makers?


And then I find THIS: Glitter Food (Fix A Flat) Hand Made Top Coat!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another product I have heard and heard and heard about and never tried!


For those of you who have never heard of fix a flat or what it is I figured I should just copy and paste from Nail Pattern Boldness's Etsy store EXACTLY what it is and what it does!

"I am SO excited to offer this dual purpose product! I formulate and mix the base for all of my polishes, which gives me lots of control over the final product. While I was developing the formulation for the glitter base (actually I was sitting in a river washing wild onions when the idea came to me, but that's another story for another time) I realized I might be able to solve two "polish problems" with one product! 
If you wear glitter polish you've probably noticed that the finish can be gritty or rough, especially with denser glitters. This works great as a topcoat to smooth things out and give you a nice glassy look. It does dry to a satin finish, so I recommend a glossy topcoat over it (I have fallen out of love with Seche Vite lately, but NYC Grand Central Station works great and is cheap). 
Recently I've been testing it for use as a basecoat - particularly for polishes that require a super smooth base to start with - and have been liking the results. More on this as I gather data!
Yet another use for this product is to "fix" polishes that have "gone flat." By this I mean polishes where the original base used wasn't strong enough to hold up the glitter, and it's not possible to just shake it back up to reincorporate the glitter. I've included a few before and after photos on polishes I've fixed this way so you can see what I mean. The way I've used it is to remove the top 1/4 or 1/5 of the sinky glitter bottle using an eyedropper and replace it with Fix A Flat. Shake it up (really really hard the first time) or you might need to get in there with an orange stick to really pick up the glitter off the bottom of the bottle. If there's enough interest in using it this way I may offer a kit in the future that includes a dropper (though if you have a Sally's near you they sell disposable plastic ones that are great for this purpose).
With time and use you may find that you get start to get some shrinkage, if this happens some thinner should get you back to normal."
I have not tried it yet but it looks just like a normal base or top coat but is just very milky looking. Here it is next to Hong Kong Girl Top Coat so you can see the colour difference! I can not WAIT to try this out!



And then last, but certainly NOT least a polish I had given up hope of ever owning! NARS Space Odyssey! I have wanted this for so long but it sold out the minute it came to the NARS counter and was never seen again!





And everything together! How freaking amazing is this? And if I am going to procrastinate from studying, is there a better way than that?


Friday, September 21, 2012

Lynnderella Picture Spam!

Lynnderella. Love her or hate her, she does make some gorgeous looking polishes. Are they worth all the hype they get and the prices they bring in? I really think at this point that is an irrelevant issue. So before I get all the comments about the value of them, I will just say this post serves one purpose. Its eye candy. I just love the look of these polishes, and FelicityPorter@tPF did such a good job photographing them all I just had to show them off. This is what I refer to as polish porn.

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Picture taken by FelicityPorter@tPF

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Lynnderella Lovey Dovey



So I am really trying hard to get through swatching as much of my stash as possible. And this happens to be one of my favourite Lynnderella polishes I own. It is here with one coat over white, one coat over Julep Taylor and three coats on its own! The base has a slight tinge to it which I really happen to like and I think that my favourite way to wear this might just be with one or two coats over white!



Saturday, September 1, 2012

Lynnderella Love Lace & Lilacs


So I have posted my last big Lynnderella haul a few times already but I realized I had never finished off posting the pictures. So here is Love Lace & Lilacs. This one is shown with two coats on its own and one coat over a bright white cream.





Sunday, July 15, 2012

Lynnder-YOU HAVE TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME -rella Nail Polish

So there has been a TON of Lynnderella drama recently. Like a good little girl I sat quiet and did not discuss it. Really, it is irrelevant to me. And yes, I understand that some jerk off was upbidding a ton of Lynns for the sole purpose of screwing up the auctions and never having any intention of paying. So the fact that the few 800.00 bottles that were sold to a legitimate person were apparently given to her for much less than the auction price she agreed on does not bother me. Its scamming ebay, its scamming those that might have been wiling to pay 499.00 and not 799.00 (yes, it boggles my mind too, but there are people willing to pay that much) but thats for Lynn to deal with when she eventually gets caught. None of that is my issue.


Yes. This is a screen shot of a REAL auction. Someone payed over a grand for ONE bottle. AND HERE LIES MY ISSUE:


The concept that Lynnderella has a goal of making the lacquers available to as many people as possible is laughable. I have no issue that it has become all about the money for her. It obviously has. Quotes from her own blog include "It has crossed my mind that if I wanted to take the ebay route, I could vastly decrease workload and probably increase my income." and "I have often wondered about selling on eBay and thought I was probably foolish to not be the person making huge profits on things I created.". I have no issue with any of that. But it is very clearly about the money now. NOT about getting it out there to as many people as possible. So why not just own that???

It blows my mind that someone would blow more than a grand on a polish. I have no issue with that. It is not something I can afford to do, nor do I think I would if I could, but since I cant, I guess I wont know. I really don't care. I think spending 30.00 on a bottle of Chanel polish makes me crazy (and I think this everytime I hand over the plastic and buy a bottle!!) But why cant Lynn just be honest about this? Its about the money! If it were about getting it out to everyone as fast as possible then she would have listed all her polishes that were destined for the first round of Llarowe's wishlists and she wouldnt be doing all these auctions.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Lynnderella's New Collection! SPOILER!!!

So on a forum I am on someone posted bottle shots of Lynnderella's new collection. I have no idea how accurate these are or who posted them, but I thought I would show them to you here. What do you guys think of them?


Pentimento


Golden Rules


A Neutral Party


Inner Space


When The Moon Was A Star


Kabbalah Bracelet

Glass Houses


So I have just received a few emails stating that Lynn will be selling her polishes now through an online ebay store and that they will be 20-24 dollars US each. I have no clue if this info is correct or not but I was sent this link http://myworld.ebay.com/lynnderella-lynnderella/?_trksid=p4340.l2559 to her supposedly new store.

And the same poster that posted the above bottle shots posted a live action shot of When The Moon Was A Star




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