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Ahhh Chanel, you’ve done it again. You’ve made me a believer.

It’s not that often that I feel the *need* to purchase a Chanel nail polish. I skipped Jade. I passed over Nouvelle Vague. Too much hype, not enough payoff in my eyes. But this, THIS is worth it to me.

Paradoxal is one of the new colors for fall 2010. It’s such a “me” color, and though I hate coughing up $23.00 for a single polish, I will if the color is special enough.

The formula on this baby is what you would hope and expect from Chanel. It’s smooth and opaque in just two coats.

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Good morning!

Many of you have probably seen this a bazillion times already, but I sill wanted to show it. It’s Chanel’s new nail color called Illusion D’or, which just came out for summer. A lot of swatches I have seen were done over black so I decided to show it over something a little more interesting…greens!

Peep it.

Illusion D’or

Illusion D’or is a gold glittery color with iridescent gold and purple flake glitter. This is a color I kind of went back and forth on purchasing because I knew I would never wear it on it’s own. Kinda boring I think. BUT over other colors it looks spectacular! This was three coats.

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TGIF!

Chanel has three new colors out for spring 2010 and I have the only one that looked decent (lol) to show you today. The other two are called Inattendu, which is a peach/beige creme, and Tenderesse, a sheer nude/pink.

The thing about Chanel nail polish for me is this. I don’t get all gaga over every single color just because it’s “Chanel”. It still has to draw me in. Actually it has to work *extra* hard to draw me in because of it’s price tag! So when I heard about this one and was hearing words being tossed about like “mushroom” and “taupe” I knew I was going to want to own it. I’m not disappointed!

Particuliere

Particuliere is a dark taupe creme that definitely does have that mushroom effect I love. It also looks to be a little greyed out. The formula on this was really nice, no complaints. I used three coats simply because I like to ensure I have maximum coverage, but really two slightly thicker coats works just as well. This picture was taken under slightly cloudy skies so you might not be able to see that it does have some grey in it, but it really does. I cannot think of any dupes for it, despite all the taupe cremes I already own.

Overall I was happy (ok not happy) to slap down $23.00 for this one, but am glad I saved my money on the other two from this collection that just do not appeal to me at all.

What do you think about this one and Chanel polish in general? Overrated?

-VV

Gondola is one of two new polishes in Chanel’s collection called Venice for Fall 2009. I didn’t order the other one called Intermezzo because I knew it was going to be way too light and a huge waste of moolah for me and judging from the pics I have seen online, I was correct!

Having said that though, I was a wee bit disappointed with this one also. The promo pics made it look like a much darker wine colored polish, but really, it’s a medium red. Peep it peeps!

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