Guest Post on Also Known As - Chanel Peridot

Hey everyone! Something a little different for today! Last week the lovely Kellie from Also Known As asked me to do a guest post for her and it is now live on her blog! I absolutely love Kellie and her gorgeous nails so I was super honoured to be able to do a guest post! 

Check out my review of Chanel Peridot by clicking on the photo below!

Chanel Mimosa Comparison

Hey everyone! Today I have a comparison post for you featuring Chanel Mimosa vs. Rescue Beauty Lounge Yellow Fever and Revlon Top Speed Electric.

For someone who doesn't like yellow nail polish, I really have quite a few of them! You will see from the photos, the reason I don't like them is because they just don't suit my wintery white skin tone. However, I'm holding out for summer when I have a tan, in the hope that they will look better on me then! 

I probably have about 10 yellow nail polishes in my collection but I have chosen to show you the two that I thought were closest to Mimosa. The others, like Barielle's Soul-er Powered, aren't even close, so there was no point in doing a comparison.

First up is Rescue Beauty Lounge Yellow Fever and Chanel Mimosa.

As you can see from the photo, Yellow Fever is a lot brighter than Mimosa and has silvery white microshimmer where as Mimosa has gold microshimmer. The other major difference is the application. While I have never found a yellow polish that applies well, Yellow Fever definitely applies easier than Mimosa. I used two coats of Yellow Fever and three coats of Mimosa for the photo. Mimosa was a streaky hot mess! 

The final point of difference is the price. Chanel polishes retail for $25USD ($39AUD), while Rescue Beauty Lounge polishes can be picked up for $18USD (approx $17AUD) on their website. If I had to chose between the two, I would take Yellow Fever without a doubt!

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The second comparison is between Revlon Top Speed Electric (#305) and Chanel Mimosa. 

Electric and Mimosa are a lot closer in terms of colour, with Electric being just a little lighter. The shimmer in Electric is also the same colour as the shimmer in Mimosa. Application wise, unfortunately both were streaky and required three coats for even coverage. However, I can forgive Electric for being a little streaky when it only costs $5.99USD ($15.95AUD) compared to the $25USD ($39AUD) for the Chanel.

If I had to pick between the two, I would definitely reach for Electric, not Mimosa!

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As far as I am concerned, if I am going to pay $39AUD for a polish, I want it to glide on my nails and look perfect after two thin coats. Unfortunately, Mimosa just doesn't live up to those expectations, so my recommendation would be to grab Yellow Fever or Electric over the Chanel. Your wallet will thank you and you can still get your fix of yellow nail polish! For those of you that missed out on Mimosa, don't be sad! You are much better off grabbing one of these other polishes!

Chanel Summer 2011 – Les Fleurs d’Ete de Chanel - Mimosa & Morning Rose

Hey everyone! Today I have swatches of Mimosa and Morning Rose, which are two polishes from the new Chanel Summer 2011 Collection, Les Fleurs d’Ete de Chanel.

There is also a third lacquer in this collection, Beige Petale, but I didn't buy it because in all honesty, regardless of how bad my Chanel addiction is, $39AUD is a lot of money for a sheer beige polish!

Mimosa - Bright yellow cream with golden shimmer. I could stare at this colour in the bottle for hours on end and never get tired of it's beauty, but on my nails, it's just meh! I think my skin tone ruins it - I need to have a stronger tan for this to work. Sadly, the formula was also a little disappointing for a Chanel polish - a little on the thick side (which is the reason for the shonky application on my middle finger!) and it was still streaky after three coats.

Morning Rose - Warm pink cream with fine gold glitter. Now this is more like it! The warmth in this polish makes it really flattering for my skin tone, and for this reason alone, I love it wayyyy more than Mimosa! Add to this the fact that application and formula was a lot better than Mimosa (only required two coats) and we have ourselves a winner! 

So, did you splurge on one of these polishes? What are your thoughts on the yellow polish trend??? 

Barielle Karma Collection - Soul-er Powered and Do Unto Others

Hey everyone! Today I have swatches of two of the colours from the upcoming Barielle Karma collection.

Soul-er Powered - Warm toned yellow cream with gold micro shimmer. This needed three coats because it was still patchy after the second coat. Yellow polish seems to be quite popular at the moment (Chanel Mimosa, Lippmann Yellow Brick Road, RBL Yellow Fever) however, I'm not sure how I feel about this trend. I'm not convinced this colour really suits me, but I can see myself loving yellow polishes when summer comes back and I have a tan! I have Mimosa and Yellow Fever, so I will try and do a comparison between the three if that is something you would all be interested in? P.s - I have no idea why my hands look so wrinkly in these photos!!! 

Do Unto Others - Turquoise cream. For some reason my photos make this look like a neon, which it isn't. The colour is a little more muted and darker than it looks in the photos, but it is still a vibrant shade of turquoise. I only used two coats here. Not the most original shade, but applied like a dream, so no complaints here! 

This crappy photo probably shows the polish a little more true to colour....

This was the first time I have ever tried Barielle and I was quite impressed with these two colours. As I said, I'm not convinced yellow is my thing, but I definitely love the turquoise shade and the formula of the polishes. I was also sent Blossom to review which I will do separately - Blossom has been a long time lemming of mine so I'm really excited to try it out! I have also been lemming Elle's Spell, but I can't find it anywhere :( If anyone knows where I could get one, please, please drop me a line! 

On a side note, for some reason, Barielle didn't send me an info sheet about the Karma collection, so I don't have a great deal of info about the other colours in the collection or the collection's exact release date. There doesn't seem to be a lot of press about it on the net either. However, Barielle did contact me on Twitter the other day to say that this collection would be available on their website shortly, so hopefully we will all know more soon! I could be wrong, but I heard rumours that one of the other colours was a flakie... 

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Chanel Paradoxal vs Ulta3 Twilight Fever

Hey everyone! Hope you are having a great week! I have been ridiculously busy at work the past three days trying to tie up lose ends before I start my new job and before I go to Hong Kong on the weekend. Only two more days and I'm out of here!!

The other day after work I quickly popped into the chemist near my office to rummage through the Ulta3 bin to see if I could find any cheap gems. I instantly spotted a dark taupe colour with purple shimmer and thought it looked really familiar! Had I just found an almost exact dupe of Chanel's Paradoxal!?! To me, the base colour of Twilight Fever looked more brown/less purple than Paradoxal's base colour, so I wasn't convinced it was an actual dupe....

But here are the pics of the two together on my nails and if you can see the difference, you have better eyes than me! I honestly could not tell the difference and in fact, I got confused after a while about which brand was on each nail! I have taken photos in multiple lighting conditions to show that it isn't just the lighting that makes them seem identical!

Left to Right: Twilight Fever, Paradoxal, Twilight Fever, Paradoxal

So what do you guys think? Even if there is a slight difference, for $2.25AUD (compared to $39AUD!) it's a bargain dupe! I would suggest all my Aussie readers get their butts down to their local chemist and grab three or four bottles!

Milani - Dress Maker

So my Models Own order didn't show up.... *stomps around like a 5 year old*  Hopefully it shows up soon! I'm starting to get worried it will never arrive :( Its ok though, because I have been meaning to try Milani Dress Maker which I got over a month ago now. 

Check out the swatches after the jump!

Chanel - Orange Fizz

I knew it was wishful thinking that I would actually wear a polish for a whole weekend! :P I am home sick with the flu today so of course, I took Rouge Fatal off and re-painted my nails. 

I decided to go with a bright happy colour to counteract the way I am feeling. I already had my Chanel's out so I went with Orange Fizz.

Orange Fizz is a creamy coral with a touch of pink. In other pictures I have seen of it, the colour looks really soft and kind of muted, but on my nails it came out almost neon! I'm not sure if it is the Poshe topcoat I used that changed it, but to be honest, I love how bright and fun it is.

Sadly, application wasn't fantastic. I found it a little thick and it definitely had streaking issues. Due to the thickness of the polish I only used 2 coats, but 3 probably would have been better to even it out and get rid of the VNL.

Overall, I really like this colour and can see it being a fantastic pedicure colour for Summer.

Chanel - Rouge Fatal

Quick entry today as I have to pack my bag for my mini vacation that I'm going on over the weekend.

Today I'm wearing Chanel's Rouge Fatal from their recent Rouge Allure Extrait de Gloss Collection. 

Rouge Fatal is a deep scarlet, almost sanguine red. Application was flawless! Two coats went on smoothly and dried super quick. I decided to skip top coat because I'm in a hurry, but it didn't really matter because the polish dries really glossy.

Another winner from Chanel in my opinion! I will probably wear this classic red all weekend :D

I had to include the promo image for this collection because I think it is simply gorgeous! 

Chanel Les Khakis de Chanel Nail Collection

I finally got around to doing some swatches today. Sadly yesterday I was told by my vet that my dog is not going to get better so we have to put him to sleep on Monday morning. I am devastated to say the least. Anyway enough of my sadsack stories...!

The much anticipated Les Khakis de Chanel collection was released on the 10th September for Fashion's Night Out and I went and snapped up one of each of the colours straight away! I couldn't believe it, but Khaki Vert sold out while I was at the counter! A woman came in and bought 5 of each colour! I'm glad I didn't wait to buy these babies.

With that said, as I anticipated, I'm not sure these colours actually suit my skin tone. However, they are some of the best quality Chanel polishes I have ever used. The colour is extremely opaque for all three and they could all easily be 1 coaters, but I did 2 just in case. I will advise as to dry time and wear once I've had them on for a few days...

Chanel Sneak Peek

Here's a little preview of the colours I will be swatching tomorrow!

Les Khakis de Chanel Preview

In celebration of Fashion's Night Out, Chanel will be releasing Les Khakis de Chanel collection which features three shades of "khaki" - Khaki Vert, Khaki Brun and Khaki Rose.

I'm going to go completely against the grain here and say that I'm not sure about these colours. I feel like Khaki Brun is just Particuliere repackaged and Khaki Rose is just bleh! Other nail bloggers seem to be dropping their bundles over Khaki Vert which is a slimey green looking colour - one of those "ugly/pretty" shades...

I'm going to have to see swatches of all these colours before I shell out $39AUD each for them!

I don't see these shades being as big a hit as Jade from last year's show, but knowing my luck I'll be completely wrong about that and regret not buying them! 

If you do see a colour you like I suggest you go out and buy it straight away! I searched for Chanel Jade on eBay last night and found a listing for over $800AUD! The cheapest I could find was $250AUD! So, as I said, if you like one of the colours snap it up because if it sells out, you could find yourself forking out a crapload of money for the polish on evilbay!

China Glaze - Ingrid (with Chanel Illusion D'or)

Today I am wearing China Glaze Ingrid from the new Vintage Vixen collection for fall. I then layered Chanel's Illusion D'or over the top.

Ingrid is a new variation on the taupe/mushroom trends we have seen this year. However to me, Ingrid is far more of a chocolate brown than a taupe. It also has a very fine gold shimmer in it which you can see in the bottle pic above.