When I applied Gold Nugget, I was muttering to myself that there was absolutely no occasion nor any outfit that would warrant wearing this color. Yes, it sparkles like crazy, but seriously, would I want to advertise this shade? I think not. Then I swatched Fiery Orange, and although it was better than Gold Nugget, [...]
I really go back and forth with CND’s new line of Colors and Effects. I was pleasantly shocked with their one coat colors. I adored their initial Effects. Hated the Red Hot Effects addition. Absolutely loved the Night Factory duo. I liked their Gold and Silver Effects. And now the Jason Wu set which, despite [...]
The base color of Legende is one that I usually avoid like the plague. Band-Aid But Better (BABB) colors, sometimes referred to as “mannequin hands”, look horrendous on me. But in typical Chanel fashion, add a little glitter and “voila”, glamour is created. I’ll have to admit, that if I didn’t collect Chanel polishes, I [...]
Chanel has come out with some really spectacular colors this fall. Peridot, is the obvious MVP of this trio, but Graphite surprised the hell out of me and Quartz had a little something special, also. To the right are close up color swatches. Graphite looked like a glitter but went on like a foil and [...]
These four Nars colors are definitely on the subdued side. While Versailles was a recent edition to the Nars line, I’m not quite sure when the other 3 came out. As of now, they are not available on the Nars site but you can pick them up fairly easily on eBay. Versailles is a pale [...]
I’m always a little sad when Polish companies don’t actually name their colors. I rather like seeing what their interpretation of their color is. Simply numbering shades seems almost too… efficient. Although OPI comes out with some odd ones and Misa lately seems to be giving them chapters instead of titles, it’s still fun to [...]
The Golden Rose Paris Holographic Collection (I’ll be showing these at a later date) tend to be alot of color with a little holographic. This particular Holographic collection tends to be alot of holographic with a little bit of color. This means that the polish will be thin, pigmentation wise. However, at three coats (which [...]
The Bad: These bottles are a mere 6ml The Good: The price is a mere $2.15 The Bad: Indoors, they’re a tad flat The Good: Outside, they sparkle like fireworks on the 4th The Bad: The collection isn’t extremely pigmented The Good: The collection contains 4 greens The Bad: Extremely short brush handle The Good: [...]
Chanel Summer 2011 Collection: Barely There to Blinding Color Chanel’s Summer 2011 Collection has been much anticipated, predominantly because of the bright-as-the-sun Mimosa color. But let’s talk about these in order, shall we? I was hoping Beige Petale would be a slightly beiged version of Coconut and to my delight, it was. This color is [...]
The season Chanel Golden Sand was released, Chanel had distributed different colors to different stores as exclusives. I remember that because I had to trot around to the different stores to get the different colors and navigating the stores that were out of stock. I hope Chanel never does that again. Golden Sand is pretty [...]
