Lacquer Slacker Liz: FingerPaints Be My Baby

Be My Baby was recently released by FingerPaints as part of the Poolside Paradise collection, an awesome summery collection of six colors loaded with metallic shimmer. I stopped by Sally's recently and picked up two from this collection, Be My Baby being one. This polish is a medium-dark intense hot pink with strong red undertones and beaucoup silver shimmers that appear as pink through the base. It's got aspirations to neon and the shimmers are quite visible, giving it a flashy semi-metallic look. The bright reddish pink color keeps it feeling summery, although the look reminds me of Christmas candy.

Application was great in spite of the fact that my brush had a wonky bristle that poked out from the side of the brush, drawing tiny lines and dots polish on my skin as I did the corresponding edge of each nail because I didn't bother to trim it off. Aside from that bristle, the consistency of Be My Baby is fluid and smooth with a nicely balanced viscosity that makes it easy to control. FingerPaints brush is flat and sizable and holds quite a lot of polish so I had to take care to wipe it down at the neck of the bottle. But even when I forgot to do that and ended up with too much polish on my nail, Be My Baby never ran or pooled, and I was able to pick up the extra polish with my brush as I was painting. Just a really well-behaved formula! Pigmentation was also really great -- Be My Baby is practically a one coater if you have an even hand and use a medium to medium-thick coat. I don't have an even hand so I used two medium coats. Cleanup, thankfully, was easy and non-staining. Be My Baby dries naturally in good time to a smooth shiny finish.

Photos show two coats of Be My Baby over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

FingerPaints Be My Baby

Isn't this an awesome deep reddish pink for summer? It has an almost frenetic energy to it and has a very girly feel on the nail. For some reason it reminds me of that scene in Gone with the Wind where Scarlett pinches her cheeks in the mirror to bring some color to them.

Out of curiosity, I decided to try it with a matte topcoat. I don't matte many polishes that I wear. I love seeing swatches of polishes matted, but I guess I'm just not brave enough to do it myself. Plus I am in love with the clarity that a glossy topcoat brings to a polish. Anyway, when I applied a layer of OPI's Matte Top Coat over the above manicure it really brought out the red in the polish and gave it that soft, frosted glass Christmas tree ornament glow, with the shimmers adding a gleaming pink highlight to each nail.

FingerPaints Be My Baby with matte topcoat

Unfortunately, as you can see, I got some dried bits of the matte topcoat on my brush when I did the thumb nail of my left hand. I need to clean the neck of that bottle. When those bits fall down into the polish, that's when you get those white chunky bits. Anyone who's had a bottle of matte topcoat start turning out white bits will tell you it's worth the time and effort to keep the neck of the bottle free of dried polish. I've had several bottle of matte topcoat ruined this way before I learned what caused it.

Anyway, I really enjoyed wearing this puppy, it made me feel high maintenance -- in a good way. Glossy, it's got an excited, volatile air to it. The soft glow of the matte look is so pretty and very flattering on the nail. Be My Baby makes me want to go back and get the four polishes from this collection that I passed on. What do you think?

love,
Liz

Lacquer Slacker Liz

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

FingerPaints Be My Baby

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