Polished Polyglot

Happy Halloween my dears!! I really hope you have fun! I'm sure I will.

Today mani is special, not only because It's halloween, also because I've decided this will be my last entry for the Tri-polish challenge. I had much fun doing it, I had

Hello my lovelies! It's me again...

I couldn't wait to share with you the my picks on the newest Essence  Superheroes LE collection dedicated to NAIL ART!! Wooohooo! How that's not to love?

This collection features 6 LE nail polishes with different special effects. There is also a gel nail polish remover and several different nail art supplies including striping tape, nail stickers, loose glitter, nail art brush and a bling-bling pouch. You can see all the items here. See my swatches after the jump.

Hi my dears! It's me again, this time with day 17 of the 33 Days Challenge (we've done more than the half already, yay!), dedicated to the favourite brand. I've chosen Chanel. Oh, yes, I'm being a little beauty-snob with this one, but it is really my favourite brand! The polishes I own are all

Hello Lovelies!

How are you doing? What I have for you today is the 3rd manicure for the Tri-polish Challenge of October. If you want to know more about the rules for this challenge click here, and if you want to see the mandatory colours for October click here.

As I've told you last week, I decided to do all Halloween related manis for this month. So today I'm sharing with you my Evil Jelly pumpkins! LOL

Hi my lovelies! I hope you had a fantastic weekend and your batteries are fully charged for the new week!
Today my nails are dressed with the colours of the Argentinian National Flag, because day 16 of the 33 days challenge is dedicated to South America and I was owing my beloved flag this tribute.
Argentina's flag is a very poetic flag, because it emulates the bright blue sky, with the clouds and the sun shining in the middle.

Happy Friday my lovelies!! how are you? Planning your weekend? I'm so excited I'll be preparing  Halloween costume for my baby :) And I've been preparing an EOTD and some and more nail looks also Halloween themed! so stay tuned ...
Today I'm showing you my tiger print nails for day 15 of the Crumpet's 33Days Challenge. This was relatively easy, and I'm very happy I didn't ruin it! wiiii!

Hello Lovelies!

How are you? This is my second mani for the Tri-polish Challenge of October. If you are wondering about the rules for this challenge click here, and if you want to see the colours I chose for October click here.

Today I bring you some cute shimmery glam green monsters!! LOL I had a lot of fun panting these! I've got some inspiration here and there but honestly I could not give credit to anyone for this mani, I'd say it's mostly your typical green monster reloaded :P

Day 14 of the 33 days Challenge is dedicated to Abstract nail art. I chose to go with some stamping and dots using of my favourite shades: purple, turquoise and green!

Hi my dears! How are you doing? As it is the 3rd Tuesday of October, It's time for a new  Tri-Polish Challenge!! As you already know this Challenge consists in doing 4 manicures with at least two out of three mandatory colours and optional addition of black, white, silver, gold and glitter toppers, for the rules and if you'd like to join us, click here. This month the mandatory colours are Green, Yellow and Orange. For representing this colours I have chosen the following: Mavala Electric green, OPI Fiercely Fiona and OPI Y'all come back ya hear? (what is it with these names?)

Hi my lovelies! How was your weekend?
Today is day 13 of the 33 Days Challenge and the theme is "Chinese". I tell you, I had a very hard time coming up with anything, and I really hoped one of my stamping plates had some chinese symbols, but I was not lucky! After much thinking I finally decided to go for a Dragon manicure!

Happy Friday my dears! Any nice plans for the weekend? We are FINALLY going out to diner with hubby tomorrow! Rejoice!Rejoice! Can you hear the bells? I can barely believe it, ha ha ha. It has been soooooo long since we went out for dinner, I think it was on Valentine's day? we've been to the theatre a couple of times, but I'm so in the mood for some gourmet specialties, miam.
Today is day 12 in the 33 Days Challenge and it is dedicated to a pattern in your home, and that was difficult! haha Well, in fact, I don't have patterns, well not many. We do not have carpets or curtains of any sort, because I'm seriously allergic to dust, and our bed sheets are mostly in plain colours. So I went with the only thing that resembles a pattern at home and it is my baby's IKEA plaid.

Hello my lovelies! How are you today? I'm very excited because I've been waiting impatiently for this new Catrice Limited edition to be available since I first saw the promo pictures. Catrice The Arts collection is inspired by three different artistic movements: Art Nouveau, Baroque and Art deco, all very rich in colour and details. The Collection consists on three eyes and face palettes and three coordinated nail polishes. You can see all the items of the collection collection here. 
Unlike last year, when I picked the 3 palettes of Big city life collection, this year I couldn't justify owning more bronze and gunmetal eyeshades, or yet another gold nail polish. So the Art Déco palette and polish were out of the question. I'm still hhesitant whether I should pick the Art Nouveau set, or maybe just the polish. Finally, I only bought one the Baroque palette and nail polish which I'll be showing you today.

Hello my dears, how are you today?
For day 11 of the 33 days Challenge the theme was 3D, obviously referring to 3D nail decorations. And as I've started the countdown to halloween I decided to do a Halloween related mani.
I've been wanting to try spider net manicure for a long time, but other than Halloween season I don't really see how I could sport these, lol!

Hello my darlings, how are you doing?
I thought to rest for one day of the nail art avalanche in my blog with all these challenges and reviews going on, I would love to share with you an Eye look I've done recently using one really pretty cream eyeshadow I bought from Marionnaud, which is in #03 Mysterious taupe. (Wonder why everything is so mysterious this Fall, lol!). I was very pleased to see they have a new makeup up range under their own brand and while the choice is not huge, they do have some nice stuff. Which is also nice is the price tag! lol. They're very affordable (for Swiss standard) I paid 14.90 CHF for this cream eyeshadow (about 15 USD). Let's take a closer look:

Hello my lovelies! How is your Sunday going?

I found a draft about a Versatile blogger award I received back in May (!)  and I never finished to write, and of course I never published. Shame on me! I totally forgot about it, and I want to make it up to the amazing Hetal from My life in turquoise (go check her blog, she has the greatest swatches!) who nominated me for this cool award, even if it is 5 months later. Thank you Hetal, and sorry fur the huge delay.

Hello my lovelies! How is you weekend so far? While you read this we are out to a birthday party with my hubby, it seems we had entered the "birthday season"!

What I really want to share with you today is another of my Fall favourites this year, Chanel crème blush in Présage. I love it!

Happy Friday my lovelies! how are you? Planning sth for your weekend, maybe?

There's so many things I'd like to do this weekend, we'll see what I manage to really do.

Hello my lovelies! Today my blog turns one year old! I'm so happy I've once decided to start this blog, it really has brought a lot to my life.

It's been a wonderful year! I got the chance to learn a lot, but above all I got to meet some amazing people. Above all the benefits blogging has brought to my life there's the invaluable support, consideration, caring and friendship I was not prepared for. I'm still so surprised everyday by readers and blogger's comments.

Going through my blog, and looking at the differences between my first posts and how I do now, I'd say it seems much longer than a year! I found very amusing to go check the stats of the blog and find which were the top 10 most popular posts for the past year. It was fun to see 5 out of 10 were makeup related, and kind of :( that not even one was about nail art, haha, well, I guess I'll just have to improve my techniques, lol. Would you like to take a look? Here are the shots of the top 10 most popular posts for the pas 12 months:

Hello dears! Ready for Day 8 of the 33 Day Challenge?
Today theme is Chevrons, and I've never ever done that before, so it was pretty challenging. Well, honestly, first thing I thought was Missoni chevrons fabrics because I really like to complicate things :P

Hello my lovelies, how are you today? I'm sooooooo excited because I'm preparing a surprise for you all!! But enough about it, I don't want you to guess. Let's talk make up.
Last week I have spotted a new Essence collection at Manor that was really appealing to me! It is Metal Glam collection. I do not know what you think, but in my opinions Essence limited editions have been less than interesting since the past winter. But Fall always brings great collections in highend and also drugstore brands! as it seems. Or is it that I just love Fall? Well, anyway, I contained myself a little, because my instinct would have made me pick one of each. I end up buying "only" two polishes, two eyeshadows and a lipgloss.

Hello my dears! How has your week started?
For day 7 of the 33 Days Challenge I wore my oldest untried, that according to my records is Butter London Victoriana. I keep track of my used and untrieds, and I was sure I had already worn this once, but I search and searched and had no picture of it as a mani, I only used it once as a nail accent here. But then that does not count for me as "tried". I got this polish in December 2010, so if it's not my oldest it's pretty old I'd say!

Hi my lovelies! How is your weekend so far? Mine is not bad, though my plans for going out for dinner with my hubby will be postponed, because we have so many birthday partys to attend, this Saturday, the next and the following! Then there is my godson's at the end of October... pff. It's nice, but there's no time for romance :/
Well, let's get into some delicious news. I've recently fell in love with a product and I needed to share it with you, this is Honeymania from The body shop.

Woooohooo! Happy Friday! guess who's happy it's Friday?!
I'm loving my Fridays more and more lately. I'm so tired! Any nice plans for the weekend? I'm sooo willing to go out for dinner with my hubby. I hope we can organize the whole thing this time.

Hello lovlies! Today I have one nail polish to share with you from the latest  Catrice Limited edition "Thrilling me softly". The whole collection includes different makeup items and five nail polish shades, of which the only one that seem interesting to me was a shimmery deep red call C04 Allure.
Allure looks lovely in the bottle, with such a satiny quality, but this is not totally translated on the nail. It looks very glossy even without topcoat and the subtle shimmer is visible.

Hello my dears! How are you today?

For the 5th day of this 33 Days Challenge the theme is "Mexican", which for me was undoubtedly meaning: Mariachi! I like Mariachi music, the costumes, everything is so fun. Ages ago, let me think, it was 2001... or so, I was still living in Argentina and I organised a birthday surprise to my hubby (back then we weren't married yet) with a Mariachi band, and it is one of the most wonderful memories we have of our time together in Argentina. I guess never a surprised was so "surprising" unexpected and fun! We started the evening very quietly, in a small family reunion, and chatting normally, and ended it dancing, singing like crazy and drinking tequila!

Well, all this was to show you my Mariachi nails :)