Just Like Candy

Yes the song by Cameo is playing it my head right now. (By the way, you might wanna watch that video if you're in need of a good laugh!) This pink polish reminds me of candy and was the perfect pick me up while rehabilitating my nails after taking off those fake nails. Lately, I've been feeling uninspired about my nail designs and last night I attempted to do cheetah print nails. Well, I failed at those and I'll spare you the pictures! It was getting late, so I did a simple stripe design on my nails.

♥ Lachelle

OPI Lucerne-tainly Look Marvelous

 Let me just say I've had this color for about a month now without ever breaking it out to do a full manicure. Sure, I've swatched it on a couple nails, but I always ended up taking it off for another color. It should be called Lucerne-tainly Look Deceiving. In the bottle, its a gorgeous shimmery steel/charcoal type of color but on the nail it kind of falls flat. That disappointing to me because I saw tons of gorgeous swatches of it everywhere and it was one of the few colors I truly wanted from OPI's Swiss collection. I also honestly don't think it looks all that great on my skin tone either.

No complaints about the formula or the brush. However, this is coming off today, even though I just applied it this morning. And I wanted it so badly. *shrugs*

♥ Lachelle

Zoya Flame Collection

Announcing the perfect color collection for the Holidays - Zoya Flame.

Powerful and beautiful, Zoya nail color brings you six stunning, foil-glitter metallics just in time for the holidays.

Ultra long-wearing, glossy nail polish by Zoya is free of toluene, camphor, formaldehyde, and dibutyl phthalate (DBP) - chemicals that are known to cause cancer and birth defects. Zoya Nail Polish is vegan friendly.

Heat up your winter with...
Tiffany - Pink, peach and light copper toned foil particles accented by flecks of gold foil.
Gloria - Rose, mauve-pink and magenta foil particles with gold and subtle red metallic accents.
Crystal - Light, silvered shiny blue metallic foil with sparks of brilliant yellow gold.
Lisa - iridescent combination of deep raspberry pink, bright candy apple red and subtle gold tones in a dazzling sparkle finish.
Sarah - Pearls of dark fuchsia, red-violet and ruby tones in a bright sparkle finish.
Valerie - Royal purple, dark violet, red, deep pink and gold iridescence amplified by a glittering sparkle finish.

See the complete Zoya Flame Collection here.

Zoya is the new color of fashion!

Text and Images from Zoya 

I like this collection but the color that jumps out at me is this beauty:

Zoya Crystal definitely looks like a hit in the Zoya Flame collection! I cant wait to get my hands on it...

♥ Lachelle

Sally Hansen Gray by Gray

 This color was super hard to photograph because I didn't get a chance to photograph it outside. Its a grayish blue creme, but these pictures make it look way more blue than I than I think it is in real life.

I thought this color was so so, but what I loved was this polish! Opaque in one coat and the brush in this SH Complete manicure is just like the ones in the Insta-Dri polishes, which I loved. If you have that brush, then you wont like this one but I find that flat wide brush perfect for my nails. It also gets the job done in a little less time than a regular skinny brush. Bottom line? I want more SH Complete Manicure polishes!

♥ Lachelle

OPI Funky Dunkey

Funky Dunkey is a medium tone purple cream that I really wanted from OPI's Shrek Forever After collection. Besides OPI's awesome Pro Wide brush and butter formula, I wanted a purple that was not deep, dark, vampy, jewel toned, shimmery or sparkly. I am immediately drawn to purples like that and I realized that I was seriously lacking in purple cremes. So here we have it! 

This is one coat, but on the ring finger you can see an area of my nail that I must have not covered with well. It wasn't all that visible in normal lighting you know, so it looks way worse than it actually is. At least to me...

♥ Lachelle

OPI Strawberry Margarita + OPI Princesses Rule!

I picked up 3 OPI's this Friday at Ulta because they are having a buy two get one free sale. Oh you didn't know? Well know you do! This is a great way to stock up on OPI polishes because with those 3.50 off a 10 dollar purchase coupons, you can really save! I happened to have a rare $5 off 10 coupon they sent in the monthly mailer to my house and got 3 polishes for $12.99! Awesome.

Here's the first of my picks, OPI Princesses Rule! over the classic OPI Strawberry Margarita. I had to have this polish after seeing it across the blogosphere. I like that I can put on more coats for buildable coverage or use it as a shimmery topcoat, like here:

 Loving this combo!

PS- Notice anything different about my nails?! I'm rocking fake ones for now. I've been debating getting them for a while and decided to take the plunge. It may not be a regular thing because I hate removal and I will have to seriously baby my nails afterwards.

PPS-Notice that serial number on the brush handle? Am I late or has OPI been doing this?

♥ Lachelle

Color Club Chelsea Girl

 Um, no. Color Club's Chelsea Girl gets a big NO, nuh, uh, not ever going there again. This is actually last weekend's manicure. I put this on last Saturday when it was dark and raining, hoping this electric blue would cheer me up. It did anything but. The application was a nightmare because of a thin, almost watery formula and awful smell. Its a gorgeous blue in the bottle, but I have on 3 coats and still VNL! From this polish, that's highly annoying to me. Plus, it chipped the same day. I dont want to give up on Color Clubs yet, so maybe it could be either the my chemistry or the Seche topcoat I use thats causing the super fast chipping. We will see, trying out more Color Clubs in the meanwhile...

 

♥ Lachelle

More Gradient Nails...

 Remember when I finally got the hang of doing gradient nails and I was so excited? Well I decided to try them again...with Zoya Charla and China Glaze's Medallion. My index finger chipped so fast! I think its because when I was sponging, I piled so much polish onto the tip to make it darker. As it turns out, I didnt wear this for long...

For some reason, I'm not loving this as much as the first time around. Hmmm, I dont know whats with that. *shrugs*

♥ Lachelle