This is the last of my “ready-to-go-but-never-published” posts that was languising during my sabbatical. Between sales and a few eye-catching colors, I’ve recently ended up purchasing alot more Revlons than I have in quite a while. I think a good number of these are older colors, despite the “New Shade” skickers on the bottle caps. [...]
Yves Saint Laurant (which will be referred to as YSL from this point on because I’m a lazy typist) has recently come out with a plethora of colors for thier La Laque Couture Line. I was pretty excited about this because their last few offerings (here and here) were a departure from the mainstream colors [...]
The next four Estee Lauder swatches are a mix from both the Metal Mania and Beyond Black collections. I’m a bit confused about Tempestuous. On the Nordstrom site, it belongs to the Metal Mania collection and on the Estee Lauder site, it doesn’t exist. It’s also very peculiar that Estee Lauder still doesn’t have their [...]
Chanel Fantastic is one of those “secret shimmer’ colors. As in, the shimmer is almost non-existant unless the light is hitting it the right way or if you’re taking a photo of it with the macro lens. I’m usually not a huge fan of the secret shimmer. Either give it to me or not, but [...]
With so many holiday polishes coming out at one time, it’s hard to concentrate on larger, more permanent collections. But I haven’t forgotten the NYX Advanced Salon Formula line. Today we have pinks and reds. And no, your eyes do not deceive you, there is a creme in the bunch. This was purely accidental. I’m [...]
Barcelona Red is a Chanel color that I’ve never really seen get any significant press. Sad as it’s a beautiful color. Even sadder as I don’t see it available all that often. It’s a tomato red that maintains its redness even with the scattered gold shimmer (gold shimmer can have a tendency to give red [...]
Dior’s Holiday 2011 line is laden with gold shimmer. So appropriate for the holidays! And I have to say, I like every one of these, despite the misgivings I had about the gold shimmer possibly turning the reds into oranges. Mervielle, the polish that I had the most misgivings about, ended up being my favorite. [...]
Juicy Vernis sounds like the name of a fruit smoothie bar. “I’ll take a Berry Banana Blast, no whip, please.” These Lancome polishes are old but you might be able to snag a few like I did when they occasionally pop up on ebay. Like any line that I have totally missed and hasn’t been [...]
As you can tell by the number, Rouge Enigme is one of the earlier Chanel colors. In hunting down Chanels, I really enjoy acquiring Chanel polishes that are number below 100. Rouge Enigme is a warm brick red that leans to brown and sports a modest gold shimmer. Shown is two coats.
This group of Diors contains one older bottle and three newer bottles with the wider brushes. Now normally, I am less than thrilled with wider brushes. And when I realized Dior had moved to this wider style, my heart kind of fell. When I went to apply the first one of the newer colors, I [...]
