Application was a little tedious. The tinted suspension base is thick and the glitters feel like they're tumbling onto the nail. On a good note, the mix of medium and small glitters is nicely suspended in the base so you get the same proportion of the two on your brush with every dip. Shake Your Money Maker is a good candidate for my patented (NOT!) "plosh and spread" method of application. The only problem with that is that you won't get crisp even edges without a base color underneath it. For me, layering it over a base polish worked well. I used my a england Dragon manicure from yesterday (I know, BLASPHEMY! but it worked). I did have some glitter stacking as well as glitters protruding from the free edge as you'll see but I kind of expected this considering the almost overwhelming amount of glitter that you're working with. A la Scrangie, I recommend waiting for each coat to form a touchable film and gently pressing the glitters onto the nail before applying the next coat.
Shake Your Money Maker dries naturally very quickly to a smooth but textured finish.
Opacity with this polish is an issue for consideration. The base tint is rather homely, in my opinion. I'd not want to see it over a bare nail. So one coat is out unless you're layering over another color, which does work but in my opinion it's not Shake Your Money Maker's best look. Two coats is close enough to opacity for Shake Your Money Maker to work on it's own and definitely enough over another color for sufficient sparkly coverage. Three coats reaches complete opacity in all cases, and that's the road I chose for my application of this polish.
Photos show three coats of Shake Your Money Maker over a complete manicure with a england's Dragon (ie treatment, basecoat, two coats Dragon, topcoat) followed by a topcoat sandwich of Seche Vite, Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and a second layer of Seche Vite. This produced a finish that was glossy and mostly smooth with a negligible amount of "glitter grit" texture working its way to the top.
Puffier than usual right hand in photos is due to a prodigious ANT BITE (don't ask) I got yesterday while playing naturalist when I should have been doing other things.
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker, macro shot in the bottle |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker, extreme close up whoaaaa! |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker |
Given the name of this polish, it may well have been Ms. Lippmann's intention to create a lacquer that when applied to opacity turns every one of your nails into Las Vegas show girls. Photos do no justice to the experience of Shake Your Money Maker in person. I showed it to John who said, "It grabs me." Pretty sure he's not just quoting from All That Jazz there because he later elaborated that he could definitely see wearing it down to the St. Patty's Day parade. That's a plan, no? *lol*
To give you a better idea of what this polish is like, I did some palette swatching. The photo below shows one, two and three coats of Shake Your Money Maker alone.
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker alone, left to right: one coat, two coats, three coats |
And so you can see how it looks over base colors, I've done swatches with one coat of Shake Your Money Maker over American Apparel polishes Peacock, Mount Royal, Passport Blue and Hassid. I used two coats of each except for Hassid, which needed only one.
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| American Apparel base colors used for Shake Your Money Maker swatches, left to right: Peacock, Mount Royal, Passport Blue, Hassid |
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| Deborah Lippmann Shake Your Money Maker, one coat swatched over American Apparel polishes, l to r: Peacock, Mount Royal, Passport Blue, Hassid |
You can see it doesn't make a whole lot of difference what shade you use 'cause Shake Your Money Maker defers to no base color. Personally, I would chose Peacock for a base because I think it's a good match for Shake Your Money Maker's spot on the saturation spectrum.
Party on!
love,
Aunt Liz
This is awesome!
ReplyDeleteIt's a lot of fun, isn't it?
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