33 Day Challenge day 7 - feature your oldest untried - Deborah Lippmann Razzle Dazzle

Morning!

Today's challenge called for some artwork featuring your oldest untried. I dug through the untried drawer and came up with Deborah Lippmann Razzle Dazzle, which I got in a subscription box back in December 2011! It's sat unloved all this time, which is such a shame because it's so so pretty. It's a lovely blackened magenta jelly with small red glitter and it just glows. Hard to capture in pictures, though. It's taken me so long to get on my nails and in the end I didn't want to take it off, and didn't want to adulterate it with nail art. Adulterate I did though, but just with a zig zag funky French in black, which I freehanded with a striper pen (Models Own Wah Nail Art Pen).

Pretty polish, perfect for this season and the upcoming c-word...(I daren't say it yet). It's gone from untried to loved! Only teeny gripe is that it stained a little which was unexpected, but hey, at least it wasn't blue!

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Frankenduping...sorta

When I first saw Deborah Lipmann Glitter in the Air I wasn't that impressed. The glitter was sparse, it was sheer and I just wasn't all that keen. But then Revlon starts duping them like a Chinese sweat shop and my interest is perked... I still don't rate the DL but Revlon's version, Whimsical, I want. Have Revlon released it here in the UK? Have you ever seen me in a bikini? The answer to both of these is no. And apparently Whimsical is getting hard to find in the US too. So I thought I'd cut out the middle man and have a go at making Whimsical myself! I wasn't entirely successful, but what I managed is still pretty... I used around a third of a bottle of a pretty glitter I got in Claires - round/hex pink, blue and red glitter and smaller silver glitter in a clear base. I poured about a third of the bottle into an old topcoat bottle and added a glug of a cheap clear polish, then a few drops of Barry M Blueberry Ice Cream and some white. Here's 3 coats of the result:

I also made a pink version, kind of a cross between Revlon Starry Pink (another one they didn't bring to the UK...grrr) and Lipmann's Candy Shop:

Now while I LOVE my Whimsical franken (which I have named Capricious) I still want a real Whimsical. Time to replace Facets of Fuchsia on your concessions PLEASE Revlon!

Have you ever tried to dupe a polish?

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