Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Deborah Lippmann Get This Party Started Set Fall 2011


This is an interesting new set from Deborah Lippmann. It contains three polishes- one bottle of the incredibly popular and aptly named multicolored glitter, Happy Birthday, plus two new colors which use the Happy Birthday glitter in different jelly bases.

Left to right: Happy Birthday, Candy Shop, Forget You.

Worth noting: The box that this set comes in is really nice. It's no flimsy cardboard throwaway afterthought of a box, it's very sturdy, quite attractive and can be used for storing the set safely.


Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday. The classic. Different shapes, sizes and colors of birthday party glitter in a clear base. This color has become shockingly popular. Almost every nail enthusiast I've talked to either has this, has a dupe of it or has it on their wishlist. It's a really cute polish, very festive looking. It really is evocative of the fun, happy, confetti-filled "birthday party" image. This glitter is dense enough to wear alone (I have two coats on here) or to layer.



Deborah Lippmann Candy Shop. How great is this?! This is the perfect pink frosted cupcake with sprinkles color. Doesn't it look like sprinkles? It also reminds me of confetti cake. Such a happy color. This is the Happy Birthday glitter in a milky bubblegum pink jelly base. The jelly base gives this color more depth than just layering Happy Birthday on top of pink. I have seen people layer a sheer or jelly polish over Happy Birthday to get this look, but I haven't tried that technique for myself yet. Regardless, this is an amazingly cute polish and it makes me smile when I look at it.


Deborah Lippmann Forget You. Forget You has the Happy Birthday glitter, but this time it's in a black jelly base. I love the way the glitter pieces look suspended in the black jelly; if you enlarge the pictures you can get a better look at what I'm talking about. I much prefer the look of the glitter mixed with the black to the look of glitter layered over black. Happy Birthday and Candy Shop make me think of birthday parties, but Forget You makes me think of New Year's Eve... Or possibly even a bachelorette party.


The formula on this is what I expected from such chunky glitter. Happy Birthday is quite thick but the other two are considerably thinner. Still thick, though. All would benefit from a little polish thinner just to make them go on more smooothly. Still, I didn't have any trouble applying apart from getting the glitter evenly distributed. I did two coats of all and I'm happy with the way they look with only two. Drying time is good and they dry oddly (though not completely) smooth for such huge glitter. I'm wearing topcoat in these pictures but they didn't require more than one coat.

Overall, I love this set. I already had Happy Birthday so I sorta wish there was a third new color in the set instead of Happy Birthday, but maybe that's an invitation to franken mine... Hmmm... And speaking of frankenpolish, I'm sure that Candy Shop and Forget You could be frankened pretty easily using Happy Birthday (or one of its clones), clear polish and pink/black polish. But still, the ones in this set are perfect. I think they look amazing on the nails and I've always loved Lippmann's fancy-looking bottles.

These are sold together as a set; $42 on LippmannCollection.com. Happy Birthday by itself is $18.

(This was sent to me for review.)

32 comments:

  1. Love these! Thanks for sharing. Wish I had this set, but I'm sure I'll save the extra cash and instead franken some.

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  2. the pink one is really cute! And easy to franken (Lippmanns polishes aren't the cheapest one's) :)

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  3. I like the pink one. I have the Wet N Wild version of this (party of 5 glitters) - it is pretty fun!

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  4. I love the way Forget You looks with the depth. Candy Shop is making me way too hungry on my no sugar diet, but it is super pretty, and yummy...

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  5. I blogged about this a few weeks ago and am OBSESSED with this set! Forget You is definitely my favorite! It's such an awesome color in the black!

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  6. Dammit, I want these. I didn't want to want them, but I do. I even made a dupe of Candy Shop and I still want them.

    Sigh.

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  7. You're killing me! LOL I'd been wanting HB for a while and broke down to order it a few days ago, but it was sold out at the time. I found this set, and talked myself into it (my birthday was last month - can I justify it that way?). It should be here soon, but you're teasing me. Thanks--I was really curious about CS. I'm not a big pink wearer, but that's the one I'll go for first, thanks to your pics.

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  8. I'm probably in the minority here, but I'm not a fan of the two new glitters! I'd rather just have Happy Birthday and layer it over whatever I wanted, haha. Thanks for the swatches though - they are nice!

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  9. Didn't the smaller glitter used to be square shaped in Happy Birthday, not hex?

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  10. Forget You is nice but I'm planing to do a Franken. I have one of the various dupes of Happy Birthday with Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow. I love the combination.

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  11. These glitter polishes look really fun. Can you believe that I don't even own a single Deborah Lippmann polish yet? After "Across the Universe", I'll probably pick up a glitter polish...

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  12. I picked up this set just last week. Thus far, I've only tried Forget You-- but I LOVE it. It is a happy polish. And you are right-- surprisingly smooth!

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  13. WOW!The last one is gorgeous!

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  14. I love them all on you! Very pretty!

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  15. I love Candy Shop and Forget You but I'm not sure I'll get them since I have Happy Birthday. Oh, and is the small square glitter in Happy Birthday missing from the one in this set?

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  16. Wheeee I just bought these. Cannot wait to get them and totally butcher taking photographs of them ;D

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  17. There are all really pretty! I'm surprised how well they cover while not being so opaque that the glitter gets covered up.

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  18. I have Happy Birthday. I'll have to wait till the other two are available singly. Love them all!

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  19. Beautiful swatches! I love them! Happy Birthday is so fun and Candy Shop is one that I feel like I really want! From the looks of it, the new Muppets collection from OPI has a new color coming out that resembles Happy Birthday, so I may need to wait for that. At least I hope that it's similar because I can't afford $18 for one polish, especially when I can get OPI at 40% off wholesale prices. :) So, I might just try to franken Candy Shop. :) Have a wonderful day and thanks for all you do!

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  20. I just received my order of a few Deborah Lippmann polishes but I did not order Happy Birthday. Looking at your pics now make me wish I had included this set!

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  21. peacelovepolish and Katie, oh man... You're right! I didn't even notice that!! I have to double check my bottles in daylight, but I think you're right- no square glitter :(

    Thanks everyone :D I want to try frankening my own jelly-birthday combos now!

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  22. Oh, and what exactly does "franken" mean?

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  23. Oh man....I already bought Happy Birthday--I am a SUCKER for glitter...especially after several "fail glitters" years ago that were a pain to apply, the glitter stuck out everywhere...etc. Oh yeah, kinda like Nicole by OPI heart glitters :X

    Anyway...maybe I'll pick up the set anyway--that black had me convinced and then swap the HP bottle or franken it (I can't wait to try doing that LOL). The pink IS freakin adorable!

    Maybe I'm spoiled (yes) but I guess if a polish is GOOD I'll justify the $19 tag. I have bottles of polish that are older than my 9yo that still paint beautifully.

    Thanks for the awesome swatches--you're usually the first place I check to see if I really want a certain color of polish!!
    xo

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  24. I wonder if DL fixed Happy Birdthday so that it doesn't lose its color. My bottle is gross now. :(

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  25. Hi Scrangie,
    Any idea how I can get this pack in Australia? I am desperate for it, but neither the Deborah Lippmann website nor the Nordstrom one will ship it to Australia! And sadly there's none on Ebay or Amazon.. I'm heartbroken! :(

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  26. Candy Shop reminds of the pink frosted sprinkle donuts that Homer Simpson buys from the Kwik-E-Mart. It would look even more like that if it had multicolor bar glitter instead of hex glitter.

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  27. Oh man, my previous comment just gave me an idea. Someone should franken a pink polish with multicolor bar glitter and call it MMMM...Donuts!

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  28. wow, i was convinced CAndy Shop was the runt of the litter, but now i'm not so sure! Amazing photos, as always xx

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  29. OMG I need them all !!! Seriously !!!

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  30. @ Michelle: to 'franken' (as in 'Frankenstein') is to mix polishes or ingredients to make your own. It's addictive fun.

    @ Teresa: Ugh. I hope so. I hadn't heard anything about HB's glitter having a short life like that.

    @ Deb: I know exactly what you're talking about. That's a great idea!

    My set arrived last night and FY had leaked all over the inside of the box. I'm waiting to hear back from customer care....

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