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Let Essie Lend Your Nails Some Vibrancy

Heather — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:14:05 +0000

As with anything else, nail polish tends to follow the current trends in colors and textures. For fall this year, that means some serious vibrancy. We will be battling those dreary grey, late fall days with an absolute vengeance. Nail polish is perfect for this, because if you do not want to try wearing clothes in bright orange and hot pink, and if you do not want your makeup to reflect those shades, you can go bold with your nail polish instead.

Essie’s fall collection is right there with you, with a variety of colors (you can buy all of them in a pack for only forty eight dollars on the site!). There are bright, cheery oranges, luscious hot pinks, and with color names like “Chinchilly” and “Mink Muffs,” you really just cannot go wrong!

Essie Nail Polishes – New Spring Colors

Joleen — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:33:57 +0000

Spring is the perfect time for me to unearth my treasured hoard of Essie nail polishes. I’ve never been the vampy type myself, so my nails tend to stay bare when the trend shifts to dark colors. Enter Spring. My favorite of seasons. The advent of pale pastels and natural nudes.

I’ve always loved Essie; they have the cutest girly-girl color selection with the cheekiest names. Their classic shades like Ballet Slipper, Vanity Fairest, Mademoiselle, & Curtain Call (all in varying degrees of light pink, from milky to opaque to sheer) have been my nailcolor staples for years.

This Spring, Essie introduces six new shades in the same feminine (but flirty and fun!) palette I love. Dubbed In The Mood, each shade in this new collection is sure to be a certfied Essie classic hit.

Left to right, Names/descriptions of each shade below

Hi Maintenance: a sheer, shy, milky pink (similar to Ballet Slipper.)
Great Expectations: a sheer shimmery light grey (like silvery white)
Body Language: a nude creamy pink with a light grey undertone.
Secret Affair: a pearlescent nude with shifting pink and taupe highlights.
Hard to Get: a high-gloss medium pink with a lavender undertone.
Looking for Love: a sheer milky pastel lavender.

Organic Nail Color by Barielle

Joleen — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 06:37:47 +0000

I’ve recently been introduced to Barielle nail color by a friend of mine, and pretty much have been using nothing but Barielle ever since. Why? Because formaldehyde is not something I want on my nails, goddamnit!

A quote from Lori Ann over at Blog-Tique pretty much sums it up for me:

“At first I wondered why nail polish needed to be organic, but when I heard that most nail polish contains formaldehyde, the idea of organic nail color sounded pretty good. I mean I really don’t want to coat my nails with something they preserve dead frogs in, do you? Barielle’s latest color collection is as strong as anything you would get at a salon and comes in over 4o shades.”

More info is on the Barielle website — check it out!