eyeshadows and nails

I recently purchased a 15 shade colour palette from BH cosmetics. (I had never tried anything from them before, but I knew the were popular for their eyeshadow palettes, with like 100 colours on them).

What I LOVED about this 15 colour palette is that you can pick your own shades and textures. I took my time trying to find the perfect combo for me. (Looking back, I did pick too many browns though).

When I received the palette however, I felt that I a few shades weren't true to the colour online. (I know that this may be hard to do, but I did feel a little let down). I really like the consistency of their matte shadows. I found the shimmery ones a little too flaky.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the palette for BH cosmetics. The palette itself is pretty sturdy, and I think that it will take me a while before I finish each shade.  Again, I really liked the concept of choosing your own colours. I would love to hear peoples feedback on BH cosmetics, because I've never had any of their products until now.


I also wanted to show you another look that I did with my nails. I wanted something understated, with a little "rock'n'roll".

What do you think? It's a little "Gwen Stefani", non?
I keep my nails pretty short for work, so this would look better on slightly longer nails....but you get the idea.

nails: Essie "Smoking Hot" (one of my all-time fav)
tips:  Essie "Stealing the scene"

xo,
S.

Multiple Nail Colours....Love it or hate it??

I tried something new the other day, went a little wild with the nail colours. My friend who's an esthetician told me that more and more of her clients are asking for something new and "fun" and love the idea of multiple polish colours on their nails.
Here's what she did on me.
Two of the colours are from Essie's latest collection:
-the blue is "coat azure"
-lavender is "nice is nice"
-green (not from the new collection) is "mint candy apple"

Personally, I thought that this look was really fun for the weekend....but by the end of it I felt like my nails looked like Easter eggs. Would like to try this look with different colours.

What do you think? Love it or hate it? Let me know...

xo,

S.

Essie Winter Collection.

I have to say that I just LOVE Essie's new Winter nail polish collection.

The colours are bang on for what's hot this season. I don't usually go "ga-ga" over nail polishes, but  I think that I will be purchasing almost all of this collection! The swatch of "smokin hot", does not do it justice. Very nice grey....which is hot for fall. Luxedo is beautiful too!
Essie, (in my opinion) used to be really boring..... but they seem to have come a long way. Especially with their last couple of collections. The product is of  high quality too! What do you think? Do you like Essie or OPI better?

photos courtesy of: http://www.beautyaddict.net/ 

YSL inspired nails....

Inspired by the YSL nail images above (LOVE them) , I decided to re-create the look on myself. The colour combinations for this look are endless.... however, I decided to use two of my favourite nail polishes from this season.

The first colour is "turquoise and caicos", by Essie. I used this for the tips. The second colour is "gunmetal" by Joe Fresh. 

 

I love the way these two colours look together!

Would look even better if my nails were a bit longer, but I like to keep them fairly short for work.

Even so, my nails were a big hit at the "resort chic" work party that I attended yesterday.

What do you think?

xo,

S.