The other day I read an article about scented nail polish and it got me thinking. What if instead of the nail polish coming in ridiculous scents like grape and cotton candy (um, hello! we're adults) it could smell like your favorite designer fragrance? I let my creative (and photoshop) juices flow and came up with a few examples of what I would like.

Dior J'adore Nail Lacquer would be my beauty dream come true. They'd be super multi-dimensional with crystallized pigments that look like crushed jewels. When they dried they would have the scent of my signature fragrance, Dior J'adore. They'd probably retail for $30 and I would buy every single one of them! Of course they'd be shaped like the fragrance bottle because they're super limited edition and highly coveted.

"Tricolore"
Named after the French flag. A royal blue jelly base with flecks of red and white glitter.

"Roquefort" 
Named after one of France's most notoriously stinky cheeses. A champagne colored sheer base with 3 sizes of hex glitter in antique gold, champagne and light gold.

"Ciel Nocturne"
Named after the night sky as seen from the French countryside. A Black base with hyper-reflective multi-chrome glass-fleck finish.

"Rosas Salvajes"
Named after wild roses. A deep red-pink jelly base with glass-fleck shimmers of gold and baby pink.

If you could create your own dream product what would it be?

I know NYE is a little ways away still but don't tell me you haven't considered a few nail options yet? Right? Yeah, that's what I thought. For this glittering glory I started with 3 coats of Maybelline Express Finish, 650 Sunlight. You can get away with 2 but I like 3 since this polish is on the sheer side. I then topped it with a couple of coats of Sally Girl, Chunky Gold Glitter. This glitter is a little tricky to apply because instead of swiping like a normal polish you have to dab it to place the glitter where you want. I love the 2 different sizes of glitter so I don't mind applying it this way at all.

What do you think? Is this nail look perfect for NYE or what? 
PS. Click through to see what it looks like with a coat of Essie, Matte About You on top. Spoiler alert... it's really awesome.

For the matte look...

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Well I missed mani monday but I am making up for it with this awesome combo for you all! I have been sitting on these Forever21 Love & Beauty glitter polishes for a couple of months now. I finally pulled them out monday night and I am so happy I did!

I started with 2 coats of Zoya, Verushka which is one of Zoya's matte velvet colors. Its a rich warm forest green and when topped with clear it comes alive with beautiful shimmer. I then added 1 coat of Forever21 Love & Beauty, Turquoise. It has tiny holographic circle glitter and large hex glitter. With an almost tone-on-tone color combo it adds a richness and depth to make this combo look awesome! I was so pleased with the results. I think it's perfect for the holiday season. I hope you all enjoy.

Have any of you out there tried the Forever21 Love & Beauty polishes? thoughts?

This weeks's manicure is a snow globe inspired look. I used 2 coats of Color Club, Sheer Disguise as my base color. It closely resembles the grey-blue color that the sky becomes when it's snowy. I then used LASplash, Great White and a dotting tool to carefully  place my snow flakes, which are more like snow balls, but whatever. I made them more dense at the bottom to resemble accumulation. I then topped it all off with Sally Girl, So Disco to give it a bit of winter magic.

Now if only that snow would just get here already! Enjoy kittens.

There's a new flakey in town! Esse just released a collection that includes Luxeffects top coats. For this week's mani monday I used 2 coats of Illamasqua, Rampage; a rich, deep, dark semi-jelly cream emerald green. What's great about this particular green is it doesn't live in the forest! It's a dark warm-toned green which is kind of hard to find. It looks great with my neutral-warm-toned skin. I then topped the edges with Esse, Shine of the Times Luxeffects top coat; a multi-dimentional flakey glitter.

The shape of this flake is much smaller than the INGLOT flakies or Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure. It's also a bit more condensed. You really don't need more than 1 coat. I used a tiny bit a the tips of my nails and then spread it down with a cleaned off brush. The effect is gorgeous! I completely obsessed with the Esse Luxeffects!

Top picture taken in indirect sunlight, bottom in direct sunlight. You can see the different colors at the different angles.

Bonus shots of Esse Luxeffects, Shine of the Times:

(direct sunlight)

(indirect sunlight)

This weekend I was busy painting and working so I didn't really have much time to do any super exciting nail art. I did however pickup a few Illamasqua nal varnishes over the last couple of months. This week's color is Illamasqua, Bacterium. It was originally released this past April as part of the Toxic Nature Collection. Its a medium, cool-toned taupe color with a flash of muted-purple-green silver. Its a pretty unique color but application is a little big of a challance. There's some definete streakiness so you have to even them out with the brush. Maybe I should top it with a glitter. Enjoy!

The other day on pinterest I came across a really cute nail design of a glitter ombre. I obviously had to borrow the idea. My base color is 2 coats of The Face Shop, GR501. I then carefully applied a couple of thin layers of Illamasqua, Spartan. I could have gone a little more intense with the glitter concentration at the tips. Next time, I suppose. Enjoy!

Would you rock a glitter ombre look?

This week's manicure is military inspired. It seemed a little obvious if I was to create this with an olive green so I subbed in a neutral grey.

When I visited the new OCC boutique a couple of weeks ago I got a free polish when I checked in on Yelp. I chose the very first nail color they created Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics, Dangerous. Two coats will do. I then used Color Club, What a Drag and a dotting tool to create the buttons. Dotting tools make it easy to create cool nail art designs quickly.

I feel bad for the trees in NYC. They've barely started turning and they already got thier little leave butts kicked by a rediculous, unseasonable snow this past weekend. In their honor I painted my nails the colors the leaves SHOULD be.

I started with 2 coats of The Face Shop, YL 201 (a golden yellow) then I used a small makeup sponge to add on 2 layers of Barry M, 301 Block Orange then a layer CND, Poppyfield. Then at the very tips I sponged on a sheer layer of OPI, You Don't Know Jacques. After that I used a striping brush to add leaf veins with more OPI, You Don't Know Jacques.

Enjoy!

There is a new man in my drawers. HEY, get your minds out of the gutter! His name is Barry M and he's in my nail polish drawers. In London I went a little crazy times at Superdrug and bought all sorts of Barry M goodies. I got a handful of polishes and a bunch of other stuff. What was strange is that Top Shop also carried Barry M products but a different selection than Superdrug. Weird.

This week's manicure is Barry M, 312 Indigo as the base and then topped it with a multi-colored glitter party top coat of Barry M, 210 Once Upon A Time.

I can't WAIT to see how long it going to take this glitter party off. HA!