Hearts a-glitter

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This is another really simple manicure for Love and Heartbreak week with the Digital Dozen.  Lately I've been really getting into the nude with a flash of color look.  One thing that's really cool about them is that whatever you pair them with really pops and yet it's still soft enough that you can wear it to work or professional events.  Last month I reviewed the butter LONDON GOOP collection and I know I said that the only must have is Hampstead  Heath but I retract that statement! The one I've used the most is this one, Bread and Butter Pudding.  I'm dying over how shiny and healthy it makes my nails look.  It reminds me of a subtle gel mani I had ages ago.  Anyway for this one I went simple and just added a burst of color at the base with some glitter and two little hearts on the accent nail. :) Simple and sweet. Just like me. :P


Colors Used:
butter LONDON Bread and Butter Pudding
Deborah Lippmann Flash Dance
Essence Gabriella
Prolana Quick & Slick Top Coat

butter LONDON and GOOP

abso-bloody-lutely


Today I have some swatches for you of the GOOP/butterLONDON trio which was released around Thanksgiving last year.  I hesitated to swatch these for awhile because I wanted to work out the issues I was having with GOOP first. I'm not going to go back into all that mess but I did want to update you on some recent occurrences with it. First, someone had suggested that I contact butter LONDON to let them know about the issues I had with GOOP.  I did end up doing that, mostly because I found it rather appalling the way GOOP was telling me every email that it was all butter LONDON's fault.  Even though I stressed to them that I knew they had no hand in the mess and just wanted to alert them to the bad customer service people were receiving with regard to the lacquers, they ended up apologizing and sending me a $15 off coupon.  At that point I had given up on GOOP and since it had been over a week since I last spoke with GOOP and had not received any kind of response from them (not even an automated, we got your email response) I accepted the coupon and moved on.  Then, two days later I received an overnighted package from butter LONDON.  Inside was a handwritten apology from butter LONDON and GOOP and a free box of lacquers. I strongly suspect that this is the doing of butter LONDON and not of GOOP at all, given how closely the two occurred.  BUT  I digress. They did make good on their promise to send me free lacquer for my trouble and they did apologize. I did find out also that there were numerous complaints regarding GOOP and the butter LONDON lacquer set. But that's how my experience went so there you go.  Now lets get on with the swatching!

First up we have Abso-bloody-lutely...

Abso-bloody-lutely is described as a cherry red gloss.  To me it leans darker than cherry red but it certainly is glossy! It reminds me A LOT of La Moss, another bL color I love. It IS brighter than La Moss and it's a bit more jelly like, although it is fully opaque in two coats.  This has no topcoat so you can see that it has a gorgeous finish. Even though La Moss is darker and bit more vampy, I don't think I needed both. This is a great fall color though.  


Moving on to Bread and Butter Pudding.  This one is sort of boring but honestly, I love it.  I really dig neutrals that give nails a glossy, healthy look and this fits the bill perfectly. This is three coats and it builds up nicely but it's definitely not meant to be a full coverage polish. This is perfect for the office or anywhere you want gorgeous nails but can't have a lot of color. I used it for New Years with some Orly Halo sponged from the base up and it was just fabulous.  It reminds me of the OPI Ballet jellies.


Bonus picture of the New Years nails! :) Last up we have Hampstead Heath...


This one is the real stunner in the group.  It's sort of a flakie/shimmer/glitter/glass fleck....I don't even know. It has large flecks of gold and green and a deep green base. It's just flawless and unlike any other polishes I have.  I had to take a macro of this one so you can see what I mean...


Look at all those colors!  This is also two coats and no top coat and you can see that it dries smooth and shiny just like the others.  They don't sell these separate but if they did this would be the one to pick up!  

Did you snag this collection? Which is your favorite?

101 Reasons Why I hate GOOP...

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OK, maybe not that many.  However, enough that you should be wary of them too.  In my pursuit of new and hopefully, cheaper, routes of getting nail polish I've tried a number of companies.  Some of them have been amazing (like Lime Crime) and some of them have been not so amazing (Duri, anyone?) but none has been so awful as GOOP.  Let me preface...

This past December, GOOP and my favorite polish brand, butter LONDON, paired up to release an exclusive GOOP three pack of polish. It consisted of Hampstead Heath, Bread & Butter Pudding and Abso-bloody-lutely.  Naturally, being the fan of butter LONDON that I am, I jumped at the chance to grab this limited edition three pack.  That, ladies and gentlemen...was a mistake.  Never mind the fact that the polishes are sort of bleh (more about that below) the real issue was getting them in the first place.  I placed my order with GOOP on the 16th of November. This was a Friday and being it was after 5PM I assumed that  nothing would probably happen with the order until Monday.  As I suspected, on Monday the 20th I received a notification that my order had shipped and would arrive within 3-5 days.  Hurrah! So far so good.  With it being a holiday week (Thanksgiving was the 22nd) I thought it might be a bit delayed, but I expected to have these in time to wear for the holiday season.  Imagine my surprise when on the 30th of November, a FULL ten days later I still hadn't received my package. So I contacted the company.  They sent me an email saying I had placed it on a holiday week (not true but I'll go with it) it would be delayed and would be there no later than Tuesday the 4th. OK, fine.  A little delayed but it was sort of near the holiday so I was frustrated but still in good spirits.  Tuesday went. Wednesday went. On the 7th I contacted them again. Sometime later that day I got another email, this time from a butter LONDON representative who said GOOP had contacted them to send me a tracking number for my order. The tracking showed that my package shipped...SHIPPED the 3rd of December. Curious. Now, don't get me wrong here, I understand that perhaps my items may have been lost or mis-shipped or mishandled. Fine. So you need to ship again. I can understand that. What I can't understand is why you would tell me my order will arrive the day AFTER you know it's just re-shipped (or possibly shipped for the first time).  Why not just say what happened? GOOP finally did get back to me.  They passed almost all the blame off to butter LONDON saying that they don't actually ship these items they only rely on the word of the companies they work with to ship them. Say what? You mean to tell me that your company sends shipping notifications based on the possibility that an item may have shipped within a specified time frame? Logical? No. True? Doubtful.  I've actually placed numerous orders with butter LONDON in the past and always gotten my orders without issue.  That was all bad enough to send me into a tizzy and then when I finally did receive my order almost a full month after I placed it I was pretty disappointed in the colors. Bread & Butter Pudding is lovely but just a sheer, neutral and Abso-bloody-lutely is an exact dupe for their lacquer La Moss. Hampstead Heath is the only must have in the set. That aside the email I received from GOOP also mentioned that because of the problems I'd experienced with their company, I'd be receiving a complimentary polish pack. I'm sure you'll all share my shock that it's now been over a month and no such polish pack has arrived. At this point I don't even want it. What I DO want is to warn you to please not use the GOOP site.  It's more hassle than it's worth!

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