I’ve not done a reverse glitter gradient before – I’ve only ever done a gradient at the tips end. To my Chanel Malice manicure, I firstly added some red glitter: Ciaté Enchanted Rose. It was one of the special edition polishes that came in last year’s advent calendar. It was gloopy as anything and I […] Read more
Chanel Malice was launched last year, for Christmas. I didn’t manage to get hold of a bottle and it became a long term lemming of mine. I had already bought two fairly close dupes: OPI Every Month Is Oktoberfest and Sally Hansen Wined Up – but they didn’t stop me wanting the Chanel. In about […] Read more
Inspired by the name of the summer 2013 collection – L’Été Papillon, meaning summer butterfly (or is it butterfly summer?) – I decided to try out some butterfly nails for the first time. After applying two coats of Azuré, I sponged on Bel-Argus towards the tips of my nails. I had thought that this lovely […] Read more
This is another of the Limited Edition polishes from the Chanel L’Été Papillon summer 2013 collection: Azuré. It’s a metallic duochrome that shifts from green to blue. Most of the time, it’s at the more teal / turquoise green end of the spectrum – for me anyway – but I can see the darker blue […] Read more
I wanted to do a cling film manicure (aka Saran wrap manicure if you’re from the US). I was already wearing a base of Chanel Lilis, so I thought it would be nice to use a complementary colour with it. I checked online, and it seems turquoise and coral are complementary colours. So I added […] Read more
It was our wedding anniversary (16 years) last Friday,and my husband bought me the three new L’Été Papillon polishes as an early present. From the three polishes in the collection, I really thought Bel-Argus – the metallic, cobalt blue polish – would be the first of the three to make it onto my nails, but […] Read more
My husband and son bought me Frenzy for Christmas, but this is its first time seeing the light of day. As with all Chanel polishes I have tried, the formula is lovely and easy to use. It’s sheer but still just glides on the nail, without any pooling at the cuticles. I had to use […] Read more
The new Summer 2013 collection from Chanel, L’Été Papillon, launches next Friday 31st May in the UK. It launched at the Covent Garden pop up store a week early, and my lovely husband, who collected Malice for me from there last week, had pre-ordered these three for me as an early anniversary present. True love, […] Read more
I have been desperate to get hold of Chanel Taboo ever since I first saw it. It launched about a month ago in the US, but Chanel polishes tend to come out a little later over here. The lady at one Chanel counter I visited said it sometimes takes more than a year for products […] Read more
Every fortnight, members of the British Nail Bloggers Facebook group all post about the same subject, and this week we’re discussing our most wanted nail polishes. I’ve pretty much spent the past seven months buying all the polish I want. My obsession began back in August 2012, and since then I have amassed 258 bottles […] Read more