Polished Polyglot

Hello my lovelies!! How are you doing today?

I URGE to share with you my latest makeup purchase for three reasons: it's my first 5-colours palette from DIOR, it's the most gorgeous combo of green-teal-turquoise for summer AND it was really a total bargain! This baby retails in Switzerland for CHF 86.90, which is nearly USD 90. So I was only dreaming to buy it. I went to Mariaunnaud's with my member card, and my coupons. I had -10CHF voucher for any purchase over 80CHF (is on their magazine), plus I had a voucher for loyal customer of 10CHF, plus I still had CHF 54 credit on a a gift card I received for my birthday (oh, yes, so I consider this palette partially a birthday present) in the end I only paid 12.90CHF of my own wallet! so I consider that quite a deal ;)

Hello my dears! How are you doing? How have you enjoyed your weekend?

We've been busy thinking, planning, searching for improvements for our home, specially our balcony where we could spend really nice evenings this summer. If we ever come up to an agreement with my hubby and our balcony gets re-looked I might post one or two pics, would you like to see it?

As I've promised you (after having worn the shade Dior 794 for 9 days! you hear 9 DAYS is a record!!) I'm showing you today the other nail polish of the Dior Samba duo, #402. This is a gorgeous shade of green, which is quite similar to Essie Turquoise & caicos, but not a dupe. 

This was easy to apply and almost one coater. I prefer to do two thin coats, but if you're running late one regular coat has enough coverage. The brush is very nice, the regular new Dior brush, and the consistency is very good, not thick nor runny, just perfect. It's very glossy on its own, but I'm using one coat of seche vite because I needed to run  to pick up my baby and had no time to wait for the polish to dry.

I absolutely love this shade as I love Turquoise & caicos, but I'm afraid it doesn't look as good on me as it does in the bottle. Somehow this shade brings out my green veins, making them more evident, and that's not flattering! Anyway, that does not stop me from wearing it!

Do you like this kind of green-turquoise shades Which one of the two Dior polishes is your fave?

Let it all out!
Love,

Hello my lovelies! Happy Saturday!
Continuing with my Spring favourites I want to share with you a recently released (this was LE) Chanel Stylo yeux waterproof. Well, recently means it's part of the Spring collection 2013. This is a very controversial product (if I can say so like that) because many bloggers have given bad reviews about it. I, for once have not read any review before buying it. In fact, I tried it on the back of my hand in the store, and it survived every hand washing through the day, until I rubbed it off with makeup remove, which blew my brain, so I came back to the store and bought it. This is my new perfect liner for the water line, to give the impression of wider eyes, I really like that it's not white or cream shade but levander, because that makes the trick less obvious! I also like to apply it to the inner corner to illuminate the eyes.

Hello everyone! How are you doing today? I'm bringing to you the 8th entry for this challenge and the last for April. That means the last using this three colours! I must admit I'm starting to get a little sick of them! I don't think I will use again these colours in a very, very long time, lol!

Hello darlings! Yet another week for this Wonderful challenge! I tell you, I'm having so much fun with it. In fact is very stimulating to have to use the same polishes for four different looks, because you don't want your mani's to look all so similar.

Image source: http://www.dior.com/magazine/en_gb/News/Exotic-Beauty#

Hello my lovelies! How are you doing? I'm very excited today because I want to show you one of my recent purchases, it's the latest Dior Summer nail lacquer duo for tips and toes. This is part of the new Summer 2013 makeup collection Birds of Paradise,

Hello my dears, happy Saturday! Where did this week go? It's the weekend again!! Well, not that I'm complaining but just have the impression the time passes too quickly.

 

For today I have another of my favourite products this Spring, I totally fell in love with this Purifying mask from Shiseido, because

Hello my dear readers! How are you today?
It's time for another round of the TRi-Polish Challenge!! We're in April's round, which means Three new colours. The mandatory colours for this month are: Pink, Turquoise and Orange. What a tricky combo... Let's see my picks:

Happy Friday to you all!!  Any nice plans for the weekend? I don't have any yet, but it'll be mainly about relaxing and having good time.
What I have for you today is an oldie (I think this is discontinued in fact) but gorgeous shade of pink, which is very similar to Chanel Fracas. Remember how during Lent I imposed to myself a No buy ban, well, that was the period around which Chanel made their spring collections available (at least where I live). Well of course I went to the Chanel counter and tried this new colour not on the nail, because I had a cool manicure, but on a piece of tape. Then came back home and went through my stash to be sure I didn't own a dupe or anything close to it. I admit I do this often and I do it to "allow" myself to buy because I absolutely *need* the shade in question. Well, this time I failed. In fact there was something very similar in my stash. Too similar. Well, except the lack of "secret" shimmer of course.

Hi my lovelies! I hope you all spent a wonderful weekend and have your batteries charged up for starting this week. In case anyone is lacking a little sweetness I'm bringing you some I found on my drafts. I've done this mani long time ago and forgot I had pictures of it. It was so long ago I don't even remember which polishes I used! (seriously, why don't I write that down somewhere?). Well, I hope you don't mind, because this is a simple stamping mani, so any nice stamping colour would do.

Hello my dears! How are you doing today? 

I have to share with you this deep purple called "Vant to bite my neck?" came out with OPI Euro Centrale Collection and was given to me by my hubby as a present along with a bunch of other fantastic stuff (you can get e peek here).

This was sooooo smooth to apply, and it was decently opaque in one coat, but

Hello my dears! You probably already know by now that April is the month dedicated to raise awareness about Autism. Many lovely nail bloggers have dedicated gorgeous blue manicures to this cause, and that's such a great gesture. 

I don't have anyone in my family or close friends with Autism. So I can only speak for what I read and what I want to say is: the life quality of most autistic individuals could be so much higher with a little UNDERSTANDING and ACCEPTANCE!!!!!!

I'm not talking about pity, not about compassion, just UNDERSTANDING. For me is very important to say this. May be your own child  is bullying on an autistic person right now and you don't even know about it. You may read some info on wikipedia here, or get some extra info on the Autism speaks site over here. But you'll never get the whole picture. I invite you to skip a mani, and save those 20 minutes for reading Kimber's daughter story here, and to be AWARE of what WE are doing to these kids and families.
So, this takes time. The time you take to read and UNDERSTAND a little what Autism is about is the best donation you can do to this cause. Take the time to talk to your children about it. Take the time to be a little HUMAN about it. That's all it takes to raise awareness.
Thanks for your precious time!!!!!!!
Love,
Nati

Hello my dears! I hope you've all spent a great long weekend for Easter and that you're having a fantastic week so far. I'm really exhausted because with my hubby we spent the Easter Monday assembling Ikea furniture. We got a huuuuge wardrobe for the entrance, where to put all our (my) coats, jackets, shoes, bags, etc. I tell you is huge. It's so tall it only leaves 3cm (like 1 inch) to the ceiling. We also got a two door wardrobe for the guests room and another "Alex" (I already have one for office stuff, but this one is for my nail polish!).

Hello my dears! How are you doing?

So, Easter is already behind us, and so is my No-buy break. I surely did very well during these 40 days! I haven't bought anything. Not one little hair pin, anything! (Though I had actually received some cosmetic related gifts I'm not counting) But I'm still not proud of myself, because