My Nail Polish Collection

The purpose of this post will be to keep track of my current nail polish collection. I will update it as my stash grows and shrinks.

Current bottle count: 148

Chanel: 18

• Orange Fizz
• April
• Rose Confidentiel
• Jade Rose
• Gold Lame
• Mimosa
• Dragon
• Intermezzo
• Rouge Fatal
• Pirate
• Blue Boy
• Blue Satin
• Graphite
• Steel
• Peridot
• Black Pearl
• Particuliere
• Lotus Rouge

China Glaze: 23

• Hybrid
• For Audrey
• Wagon Trail
• Pelican Grey
• Liquid Leather
• Peachy Keen
• Broken Hearted
• Hey Doll
• Ghoulish Glow
• Sun Worshipper
• Golden Spurs
• Draped in Velvet
• Red Stallion
• Secret peri-wink-le
• Magical
• White Out
• Awaken
• Sugar High
• Gussied up Green
• Wireless Holographic top coat
• Cracked concrete
• Calypso blue
• Ruby pumps

Deborah Lippmann: 6

• Daytripper
• Constant craving
• Wicked game
• Glitter in the air
• Today was a fairytale
• Happy birthday

Dior: 4

• Safari beige
• Pink kimono
• Graphic berry
• Psychadelic orange

Dolce & Gabbana: 4

• Rose
• Cosmopolitan
• Fuchsia
• Drama

Essie: 27

• Matte about you
• Meet balls
• Hot coco
• Neo whimsical
• Pepperoni
• Pink diamond
• Nice is nice
• Bachelorette bash
• Mink muffs
• Perky purple
• Tart deco
• Van d'go
• Tri-beca
• Vermillionaire
• Knockout pout
• French affair
• Can't filmfest
• Fair game
• Fifth avenue
• Haute as hello
• Lilacism
• Bright tights
• Chubby cheeks
• Jewel
• Chinchilly
• Pouf daddy
• Red nouveau

Illamasqua: 13

• Raindrops
• Bacterium
• Lament
• Velocity
• Hectic
• Jan
• Milf
• Rare
• Baptiste
• Alarm
• Ruthless
• Grab
• Top coat

Le Metier de Beaute: 4

• True romance
• Heat of the night
• Chrome passion
• Midnight rendevous

Nars: 2

• Bad Influence
• Pokerface

OPI: 6

• Grand Central Carnation
• Vodka & Caviar
• 18k Ginza Gold
• Black Shatter
• Java Mauve-a
• Live from NY…it's OPI

Rescue Beauty Lounge: 8

• Bangin
• Bruised
• Chinoise
• Decorous
• Pizzicato
• Poco a Poco
• Purple Haze
• Smitten

Rimmel: 3

• Mouthy
• Climax
• Night before

Sally Hansen: 8

• Lavender Marquis
• Antique bronze
• Fuchsia bling bling
• Pink promise
• Cyber
• Mille fleurs
• Base coat
• Top coat

Sephora by OPI: 10

• Queen of everything
• Meet for drinks
• Dear diary
• Shopping frenzy
• I'm with brad
• Domestic goddess
• Sample sale
• Metro chic
• Too good for him
• Rumba romance

Zoya: 12

• Sweet
• Pasha
• Brizia
• Jinx
• America
• Addison
• Dove
• Jennifer
• Flowie
• Gretchen
• Pippa
• Caprice

Le Metier de Beaute–Rock ‘n’ Romance Set

I’ve been eyeing this set since the summer.

I decided since I was already doing a bit of frivolous holiday shopping, I’d just add it to my shopping cart, and I’m so annoyed that I didn’t purchase this sooner.

I have to admit, the size of the polish was a major turn off.

At 0.14 ounces, they’re absolutely diminutive. Even next to a Dior polish, which as far as polishes go is a little one, it looks tiny.

The itsy-bitsy applicator brush is a pain to use.

It took 3 coats for me to get the color opaque, but once they were, they were absolutely gorgeous.

(Messily painted with tiny brushes) Thumb: Chrome Passion; Index: Heat of the Night; Middle:Midnight Rendezvous; Ring: True Romance

I initially wanted the set for Chrome Passion, but True Romance actually turned out to be my favorite. I like them more than I thought I would, and I think by the end of the week, I’ll have a backup or 2 in my stash. Yup.

So pretty…

Talk to you in the next one!

Chanel Spring 2012–First Impressions

It isn’t even winter yet, and the spring beauty collections are already popping up on my radar. I decided to pick up a few things from the Chanel collection since I was already doing a bit of Christmas shopping, and I thought the blush might sell out.

I only picked up the blush, a nail polish, and an eyeshadow but I think I want to get a few more bits. I’ll probably go back and pick up May nail polish at some point, but for now, I am content.

My UPS guy has been delivering my packages later in the evening, so there was no daylight left by the time these arrived, but I couldn’t wait to play in it all, so please excuse the yellow cast of my bedroom lights.

I thougt all of the nail colors were pretty, but I thought I had something similar to June, and May...I was on the fence about, but April stood out to me...so as of today, that is the only one that I decided to add to my collection.

I got one of the eyeshadows. I passed on the pink and just went with Tigerlily.

It’s a sparkly orange.

I also got the blush. I usually pass on Chanel face products because they aren’t always brown girl friendly, but I thought I’d be able to pull this one off…we shall see.

I finally picked up Jade Rose. I’ve wanted it since it came out, I just never checked out with it in my cart. Whenever I shop online, I remove a few things that aren’t at the top of my wishlist, and this one always got cut.

Anyway, when I looked at it, I thought it was similar to my Safari Beige by Dior, but it is more pink with bright pink shimmer.

Gris Equis is another product that I’ve wanted for a while, that always gets cut when I check out, but I’m glad I got it. It’s a gorgeous matte grey.

And last but not least, I bought the little kabuki brush. I needed a kabuki. I only have the NARS Botan brush, and it’s just too big sometimes.

This one is indeed smaller.

I will do more comparison shots, swatches and reviews later…during the day when it’s bright outside.

That’s all for now. Talk to you in the next one!

Oh, did you get anything from the collection?