Yves Saint Laurent Beige Chiffon New Spring Color

I am completely biased, because it is Yves Saint Laurent, but for me this is the perfect nude. My skin is fair with a neutral tone, neither pink nor yellow. I always buy skin foundations with the names beige, neutral or sand in them. The tone of this nude is definitely pink, or in foundation term what you would call a pink based beige. It does not match my skin tone at all, but it looks good and I like it. The formula is great, again just like Mauve silk the other color of Yves Saint Laurent Spring 2010, it is 80% opaque with the first coat and pretty perfect with the second coat.

Yves Saint Laurent Mauve Silk New Spring color

As the name suggests, this is not a real pink but has a slight grey or mauve tinge to it. In the sea of pinks, I do not have another shade that matches, many are close, but not the same. Now on to the rave part, I think YSL is the best nail polish there is. The formula is a cream, which literally self spreads itself on the nail, being right handed my right hand application is never without mistakes, always spread some color on the skin or not close enough to the cuticles. So if I can paint my right hand without getting too much color where it shouldn't be, then I consider that a very good nail polish. And this is it! My right hand looks just like the "model hand" Hallelujah! Coverage is amazing, they got the opaque part right, it is 80% opaque with the first coat and beautiful with the second coat, without being to thick as is the case with Chanel sometimes. Comparing it with Chanel Lilac Sky, my money is firmly on this one, the color is more unusual and the application is a dream! Take a look!

Yves Saint Laurent Mauve Silk 2 coats, Seche Vite Top Coat



Chanel Lilac Sky 2 coats

Essence & Custom Pastels Giveaway

I am giving away all of these, the first photo is the Essence colors and the second photo is the custom colors I made using all the darker shades. The pastels shades were all made with just adding a few drops of the dark colors to a sheer white nail polish also from Essence. The pastels are very easy to make all you need to do is choose a darker shade and drop by drop add them to a white nail polish. The more pigmented the darker color the less you need to color the white base. The essence white nail polish I used here is very sheer and almost all the shades required about 8 drops of the darker color. The contest is open to all, please leave a comment below with your e-mail address. The contest will be open until next Saturday!

Custom Colors - In the Blues

Here is the rest of the pale pastel shades, the cool colors. Some of these got re-mixed over the weekend and got new names as well. Again the colors were created with the essence white sheer nail polish, therefore all of these colors are sheer, 3 coats to get them semi-opaque.

Oh Baby I'm Blue 3 coats



Summer Skies 3 coats




Turkish Delight 3 coats




Cool Lagoon 3 coats



Don't Forget Me! 3 coats

Custom Ice Cream Colors

Made a bit of a mess last week with the essence pastel colors post, the colors below are made by me using essence white nail polish as a base. All of these colors are quite sheer, they need three coats to be opaque(ish). I will be giving away these and more (coming tomorrow) customs colors, plus the Essence nail polishes I featured in the last few days on Saturday!

Tutti Frutti 3 coats



Strawberry 3 Coats



Grapefruit 3 coats



Peach 3 coats

Givenchy Summer Collection, Vernis Please! Vert, Vernis Please! Bleu

Givency 2010 Summer Collection Vernis Please! Vert



Givenchy 2010 Summer Collection Vernis Please! Bleu



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Essence Divalicious Red and Deep Blue Sea

Two colors from the show your feet range, two different finishes. Divalicious red is a cream, slightly runny or my curse with red nail polish. Every time I apply red nail polish, I make a mess out of it, the color goes all over my cuticles which is painful to clean up with such a strong color. Let's not blame the polish, the color must distract my brain somehow, but not the same way as a male brain, haha. Why do nail polish and other color cosmetics manufacturers provide red in such abundance? I found this answer the other day, the color red has a special effect on the male brain, it increases sexual desire, the color by itself, the same woman appears more attractive with red than without red. See Dita von Tease, her lips and nails are always red, she has to be sexually desirable, that is her bread and butter so to speak. The formula is a cream, there is no shimmer, the coverage is very good, although not as good as with the blue color. Used two coats in the photo below. The color is a blue based red, there is no trace of any yellow/orange undertones in this color at all.

Essence Divalicious Red 2 coats



Deep Blue Sea is an amazing dark blue with shimmer, by amazing I mean that only one coat in the photo below. The same range, Show your Feet, the difference between the formula seems to be the shimmer, there is shimmer in this very dark almost ink blue color and there is no shimmer at all in the red above.

Essence Deep Blue Sea 1 coat

Essence Groovy and Juicy Orange

Dark turquoise from essence, I did not like this at all in the bottle, but absolutely love it on my nails. The formula is a jelly. Coverage is very good, 2 coats in the photo below, did not use a top coat at all and see how glossy it is. I wish it was spring already, because this is a fantastic color, I love anything that is blue really, but turquoise is the color of the year and this one just happens to fit the bill for me, there are, of course, lots of different shades of turquoise, lighter more green, this is just one of them. I also love the lighter, icier shades, which I will show you later this week.





Orange on the other hand is not a color I like, it does not suit my skin tone and coloring at all. I do not have a single item in my home that is orange colored, except nail polish (haha). I decided to put this color up, partly because I used it to mix two new pastel shades (which I really like, funnily enough) and this color will also be included in my giveaway soon. This is a true jelly and a very good one.

Essence juicy Orange 2 coats