Quick Christmas Manicure

 Today, I have a quickly done Christmas skittles mani to share:

For this manicure, I used two polishes from the L'Oréal Paris 'Vernis a l'Huile' line of polishes. The polishes were colour B34 'Déjà Blue', and colour B22 'Moulin Nights'. I did a simple 2 alternating colour skittle manicure.  I thought briefly about covering everything with gold glitter, but decided against the idea solely because I want to do another manicure for Christmas Day, and want this mani to be easy to remove!

I actually did a full manicure with Déjà Blue for my previous manicure (I didn't get a picture of it, so there's no corresponding post  😞). When I noticed that the 'blue' is actually more of a turquoise that leans toward evergreen, I thought it would look really good with red as part of a Christmas mani.

L'Oréal Paris 'Spot Me'

Today I have a swatch of a L'Oréal Paris nail polish to share. This is 'Spot Me', colour number 151, from their Spring 2014 'Les Blancs' collection. The collection was a 6 piece offering themed around the colour white. There were four creme polishes (a white and 3 pale pastels), and 2 white based crelly glitter polishes. I picked up both of the crellies, one of which is today's swatch, 'Spot Me':

'Spot Me' is a pale blue-tinted white crelly polish loaded with matte black hexagonal glitters in a multitude of sizes. The finished look on the nails is very reminiscent of a quail or robin's egg, or perhaps even 'cookies and cream' ice cream! I absolutely adore this polish - it's such an elegant and sophisticated way of wearing glitter.

Below, I have both of the crellies from the 'Les Blancs' collection, side by side for comparison. When placed beside eachother, you can really see the differences.'Spot Me' on the left is cool-toned, with an ever-so-slight blue tint, while 'Le Pastille' on the right is a warm-toned, pale peach shade. I actually did a post featuring 'Le Pastille' five years ago. You can see that post here.

Overall, both of these polishes are absolutely amazing. They apply well, dry quickly, and look stunningly chic. What's not to love!

L'Oréal Paris - Le Vernis à l'huile, 663 Sable Tuileries

Today I have a quick swatch to share of a gorgeous neutral polish by L'Oréal Paris, from their line of polishes entitled 'Le Vernis à l'huile'. The swatch is of colour number 663, 'Sable Tuileries'. After doing a bunch of skittles manicures, and a multi-coloured crelly glitter polish in my last few posts, my eyes were drawn to this toned-down neutral shade when I was looking through my collection. 

I actually had a few other fun mani ideas lined up to do, but I guess I needed a bit of a palate cleanser of some elegant, understated nails... This classic creamy taupe shade really hit the spot!

L'Oreal Paris Vernis a L'Huile 'Coral Trianon'

Today I have a quick post featuring a swatch of a L'Oreal Paris polish from their Vernis a L'Huile line. The colour is called 'Coral Trianon'.  The colour is really nice, and I love the smooth, shiny finish of the formula.

This colour is very on trend right now, as it is a very close match for the 2019 Pantone colour of the year, 'Living Coral'.

L'Oreal Paris Vernis a L'huile - Orange Triomphe

Today, I have a quick post about another polish that I've tried from the L'Oreal Paris Vernis a L'Huile, line of polishes. This one is called 'Orange Triomphe'.  This is a very dark orange which is right on the border between an intense orange with lots of red, and an orangey red with a touch of yellow! Either way, I really like the colour. I tended to favour cooler reds in the past, but now that I've started exploring some of the warmer red shades, I've found myself really appreciating the different energy the shades convey, visually. In general, I feel that the cooler toned reds seem to range between classic, and sultry, while the warmer reds seem to range between sassy and flirty. For me, 'Orange Triomphe' fits right in with that observation: As a brighter, warmer red, I think it appears very youthful, and sassy on my nails.

Pink Nails!

Today's post is another where I forgot to keep track of exactly which polish I've used!  It's from the L'Oréal Paris Vernis a l'Huile line of polishes, and I think that it is most likely the shade called 'Rose Bouquet', but again, I'm not completely sure.

Whatever the shade name is, it's really pretty! If I'm able to confirm the name at a later time, I'll come back and edit this post.

One day I would like to do a detailed post reviewing and swatching the polishes that I have from this line.  I tried this line of polishes for the first time last year, and I quite like them. I did a post on another shade, 'Rubis Folies' earlier. 

Red and Gold Mani using L'Oréal Paris Vernis à l'Huile - Rubis Folies

Today I have a quick manicure that I did to try out a new polish I purchased recently. This was my first time trying the L'Oréal Paris Colour Riche Vernis à l'Huile nail polish line.  I hope to do a  more in depth review later after trying some of the other colours that I purchased from the line.  For now, here's the manicure I created using colour 552 - Rubis Folies.

Polishes Used	Stamping Plate Used
L'Oréal Paris Vernis à l'Huile -	ÜberChic Beauty Love and Marriage -
552 – Rubis Folies	Plate 01
Sally Hansen Color Foil – 'Liquid Gold'

Polishes Used

Overall, I like the colour and the way the manicure turned out.  I was never really big on red polishes, but lately I've found myself more drawn to them.  I really enjoyed wearing this darker, blue based red on my nails.

Muted Rose and Black Glitter Mani

 Today I have a quick and easy 'impromptu mani' to share with you:

Muted Rose and Black Glitter Mani

Polishes Used:

OPI ‘Steady as she Rose’

L’Oréal Paris ‘Le Pastille’

This manicure took about 10-15 minutes to throw together. I wanted a quick polish update before meeting up with some friends for dinner, so I grabbed a couple nearby polishes, which both happened to be new un-trieds, and started polishing!

The base colour for the manicure is OPI's 'Steady as she Rose' from the Spring 2011 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Collection. This was one of the ones that I didn't pick up at the time the collection first came out. Instead, I bought it on-line a few weeks ago. I'm so glad I finally got it! It is such an elegant, sophisticated, gorgeous colour! Unfortunately, the true awesomeness of the colour doesn't show in the finished manicure, because the other polish on top also has a crème base, which changes the hue. However, the bottle picture below does show a pretty accurate representation.

The topper polish I used was L'Oréal Paris' 'Le Pastille', a beautiful crème-based glitter polish from their Spring 2014 'Les Blancs' collection. I really love this polish as well! When I first put the base layer of 'Steady...' on, I almost stopped right there, because I was so taken with how great the colour looked. However, I decided to go through with the topper after all, because I was eager to see what that polish looked like as well. I'm so glad I did! The polish adds a bit of an artistic edge to the manicure. The finished look reminds me of a speckled bird's egg!

Polishes Used

All in all, I feel that this is a very pretty spring-time manicure, and I loved the way it turned out. I'm also really happy with both of the polishes!