Archives: September 2008

Did anyone catch the new Bravo show The Rachel Zoe Project last night? In case you don’t know, Rachel Zoe is a stylist to Hollywood stars dressing them for all kinds of events such as red carpet awards, movie premieres, TV spots, magazine shoots, etc . She’s also a guest editor on Piperlime.com where she picks her favorite shoes at all price points. Anyhoo, the show was quite fascinating to watch (and like a train wreck at the same time)! You will catch my drift if you see any episodes featuring her very outspoken (and slightly nuts) assistant Taylor and their new assistant Brad. The first thing I noticed though was the nail polish both Rachel and Taylor were wearing. At first, Rachel’s seemed to be a nice deep red with shimmer. Then when she went into a business meeting to discuss “branding” herself it was either no polish or extremely pale. After the meeting, it was back to a nice dark brown-ish color. Very nice! Taylor seemed to be wearing straight up black the whole show. Love!

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For all you British lovin’ nail addicts out there, butter LONDON has a great promo going on the month of September for their new Fall/Winter collection. Now through September 30th you can get 5 of their polishes for $40.00. Yes you heard me right, only $40 for FIVE polishes (they are normally $12 each)! The color descriptions from their website are as follows (L-R):

I am so happy that my new Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes arrived a day earlier than I expected! Here they are in all their glory! FYI – the outdoor pics are with a flash outside, the fog rolled in just in time for me to get home, of course, so there was no sun.

No More War – Indoor

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I am SO excited because my RBL’s are on the way, I should be receiving them Wednesday! The colors I had to get were Teal and No More War (of course, it’s olive green people!). The swatches are coming soon I promise!

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Ok before you start verbally attacking me please understand that I myself was a victim of these seemingly innocent, gleaming, smooth tips for many years. A decade or so ago, in my mid 20′s, I decided (not for the first time) to get acrylic nail tips. My reasoning was because I could NOT get polish to last on my nails for more than 24-48 hours and it drove me bonkers! I knew that with acrylic the polish stuck hard and therefore I wouldn’t have the chipping issues. That turned out to be true, however, I discovered that because my nails grow incredibly fast, I was having to get them filled every week or the cuticle area looked terrible. I was going to the nail salon every Friday evening and spending $20 or so a week. I also discovered that I am incredibly anal retentive when it comes to my nails (among other things) especially when I am spending good money; I expect them to be perfect. It would drive me WILD when one was slightly longer than the other, or slightly crooked or (God forbid) a bubble or hair appeared in the polish and the technician would happily go about her business as though everything was fine. Meanwhile I would have to be “that girl” and point out every flaw and have her fix it or I swear I would not be able to sleep that night.Â