Yeah. I couldn't.
By the way, I'm giving away two bottles of Revlon Whimsical here :)
The bottles:
Close up:
They look pretty damned identical to me. The Lippmann looks a touch milkier, but not much.
Side note: this is the first time I've ever gotten a Lippmann bottle with a flawed brush - one of the strands was super long! You can see it poking through the polish here. I took a pair of scissors and cut it off.
The brushes:
The Lippmann brush is a bit shorter and wider than the Revlon brush.
This is four coats of each polish with no base coat.
Two coats over OPI Alpine Snow. The Lippmann had a bit more glitter, but that may have been a coincidence.
Two coats over Deborah Lippmann Shape of my Heart. Again the Lippmann appears to have a touch more glitter. Incidentally, this is my favourite way to wear this polish!
Two coats over Revlon Dreamer - another beautiful way to wear these lovely polishes. In this case, the Revlon had slightly more glitter than the Lippmann, confirming that it's more a random luck thing than a glitter concentration thing.
Unlike Candy Shop, in my mind Whimsical is a true dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Glitter in the Air. If you have one, you don't need both! The only difference I saw was that GITA has more tiny pink glitter - the Revlon doesn't appear to have any, but it's so subtle it's barely noticeable. The application for both is similar - fairly easy, though you'll want to wait a minute between coats to prevent the glitter from moving around.
My bottle of Whimsical is already looking a bit low from the number of coats it takes to get a decent application, but I'm not too worried - I have a bottle of Glitter in the Air as a backup!
Beautiful!!! :D
ReplyDeleteIt's such a beautiful polish :) I hope you found a bottle!
DeleteI've had my eye on the Deborah Lippmann one for a while now, definitely going to give it a try I think having seen your swatches! Thanks for posting about the two! :)
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Glad I could help :) It's definitely a great polish!
DeleteYou might also like my candy shop dupe post if you liked this one :)
i don't know if you did it already (i was searching and didn't find).. but you should do a comparison with DL's bad romance & the revlon dupe faucets of fushia.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the swatches!! Revlon's polishes are so much easier to find (not to mention cheaper) so I think I might just go for theirs, I've been lemming the DL for a while.
ReplyDeleteSoooo pretty! I can't find the revlon one anywhere so think I'll have to get the deborah lipman one!!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I don't love a lot of glitter but rather prefer scattered like this. I've go e through a bottle of Whimsical and have a couple of backups but always wanted to try the original Glitter in the Air. Eventually I found it on sale or as a GWP and I adore it. However, I think my bottle of Whimsical has a bit more glitter than GitA. Go figure. My favourite way to wear it is over a light to medium blue leaning grey like RGB Steel. Thanks for the comparison and not putting down one of my favorite brands because its kind-of pricey and almost always duped as soon as something new is released. And, Deborah Lippmann has the prettiest bottles in the business, IMO.
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