Tagged: Nail Polish

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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The MAC Alice + Olivia collection has been released and with it are three new nail lacquers, yay!

I had high hopes for these from the promo pics and for me, I wasn’t let down. I was really pleased with all three of these colors and the formula was pretty spot on as well.

I know a lot of people don’t like MAC nail lacquers because in the past the formula has been sketchy and they seem to chip quickly. However the past few collections I have reviewed have really been much better. I can’t comment on wear yet because I have only just swatched these (not worn them), but I normally change my polish every 2 days or so anyway so wear usually isn’t too much of an issue for me!

So Rich So Pretty

So Rich So Pretty is a fuchsia/purple color with tons of purple and blue shimmer. I think this one is really stunning, and has a great “glow” about it. I might have a few other colors similar in my collection, but colors like this always make me happy! This was opaque in two coats.

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Um yeah, I am way late to the party on this collection, but am showing it anyway.

Essie’s new summer collection is made up of 6 new colors, and something you don’t really ever see from them…a GREEN polish! Now I know this is kind of mind blowing because we are so used to the fairly tame pinks, red and oranges with an occasional blue or dark vampy color tossed in. But I can’t remember a green from them ever, at least not in my nail polish collecting lifetime.

The formula on these was really quite good. Most were just two coats and I had no issues to speak of.

Miss Matched

Miss Matched is a very pale ballerina pink. This is on the sheer side, but did even out pretty decently after three coats. It’s super shiny! I went into applying this thinking “boring”, but I totally changed my mind after the three coats. I really like it on me! I mean I don’t know when I would ever wear it, but if ever I am in a very conservative mood or want something nude & shiny I would totally wear this.

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Happy Tuesday all!

Well I hope you are coming off a nice long holiday weekend, if you live in the US that is. I wish every weekend was like this one was.

I have a very fun post today featuring the soon-to-be-released limited-edition Gossip Girl collection by Nicole by OPI. I was looking forward to this collection even though I had to stop watching the show this past season. It was getting to be a bit much, plus I watch SO many other things I liked more. Still lovin’ ya though Chuck Bass!

This collection features 4 new colors and all remind me of the ocean rather than bratty, rich, New York teens, but whatever, I still like ‘em.

The formula on these was really quite nice, as most Nicole by OPI’s I own have been. The polish flowed nicely, I got great coverage and had no streaking with the metallic one.

Spot them below!

Party In The Penthouse

Party In The Penthouse is a metallic medium blue with light blue shimmer. For a metallic, this went on very nicely and evenly. I like the color, but I’m not totally head over heels for it. I don’t think it’s all that unique of a blue, but still pretty and worth getting if you don’t have anything like this. This was two coats.

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Hello again!

I know many of you have been excited and anxious to see the new Zoya collections for fall 2010! Well I just posted Wicked and now have Wonderful, which consists of 6 new creme colors. Oh and did I mention one of them was named Kelly? YES, finally we have a Zoya Kelly, and I might add it’s totally unique and amazing

The formula on most of these was superb. Most only needed two coats for complete opacity.

Check out the swatches & review below!

Kelly

Kelly is a dark grey with purple/blue undertones. I am actually very happy that they didn’t go with a typical “Kelly Green” color for this one. They even told me they thought that would be too obvious. This color is SO TOTALLY up my alley! Not only is it a grey creme, which I love, but it has thins amazing smokey blue/purple to it which makes it very unique compared to other grey cremes I have. I heart it and am really happy this is my namesake This was two coats.

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