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

Recipe: Elle’s Banana Nut Bread

I love bread. And despite the mass number of carbs, biscuits are my favorite. During the winter time though, I love to make fruit breads. One of my favorites is banana nut bread. It isn’t a particularly difficult thing to make, but this is the way that I make it.

Ingredients:

• 4 bananas
• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• A pinch of salt
• 1 1/2 cups of whole wheat pastry flour or regular all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup of chopped walnuts
• Baking spray or butter to keep bread from sticking to the pan

Preheat your oven to 350°F and butter or spray your loaf pan with Pam.

In a small mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, and set aside.

In a medium to large size bowl, mash your bananas and mix in softened butter. I like to use over ripe bananas, you know, once they’ve turned brown.

Add the egg, vanilla and the sugar and mix well so that the egg is well mixed with everything else.

Pour in the flour, baking soda and salt mix and stir.

Add the walnuts to the batter,  then pour it all into a loaf pan.

Lick your spoon.

Bake the loaf for about 60 minutes. Let it cool for about 20 minutes.

Once the bread has cooled to room temperature, you can share and enjoy!

I especially like mine for breakfast with a cup of tea.

This particular morning, I mixed one of my favorite combinations. The Lipton Vanilla Caramel Truffle black tea is so yummy, but I pair it with the Traditional Medicinals Echinacea Plus because I like to think I’m giving myself an immunity boost.

That is all for now. Anyway, give the recipe a try, and let me know what you think!

Talk to you in the next one.

How to Ruin your skin in under 5 minutes!

Step 1: Take one of these:

Step 2: Run it over your face like it’s a Clarisonic. It should look like this when you’re finished:

And you’re done!

Now in defense of the PMD, I was careless with the tool. I watched the how to DVD twice, and initially planned on testing it out on my hands before I let loose on my face…but I was over eager, and figured since I don’t have sensitive skin, I could handle it. Big mistake…to say the least.

I’m going to let my face heal, then try it again with a lighter touch before I return it.

In the meantime, I’ll be sticking to my tried and true products to protect and conceal the damage.

Now I’m just concerned about potential scarring…but hopefully I can keep that under control.

Enjoy the rest of your day!