L'oreal Paris: Royalty Reinvented.

Good morning!

Hope you all are having a fantastic start to the weekend!

Today I have to show you a new L'Oreal Nail Polish! L'Oreal recently launched a line called " Le Nouveau  Riche   TRENDsetter collection. It consist of six to eight new shades of nail polishes. The display at my local CVS only had the six. That kind of disappointed me because I really wanted to see the three metallic shades included in the set. Guess I'll be hopping over to Walgreens soon to see if they have it. Usually I go to Rite Aid for the newest collections but my local one is slacking lately. :(

So this collection like I said above has three metallic shades and six pastel crème shades. If you want to read more on the collection you can head on over to Nouveau Cheap's blog for all the deets.

Out of the six crème shades available to me I picked out the purple crème called Royalty Reinvented. I wanted to grab more but at $6.49 a pop I had to say no, I did however have $1.50 in extra bucks so it knocked it down to $5.51(including tax) in the end.

The reason I bought yet another purple nail polish is because I don't have many pastel purples, the only one this is even remotely close to was my very first pastel purple from OPI when they released their Shrek Collection. Funky Dunky is the name and its actually darker than RR and matches my winter jacket perfectly.

I'm always cautious when wearing a crème polish due to brush drag, spottiness, the usual. This polish is most certainly among the average crème colors, the first coat was sheer but by the next coat the opacity quota was met making Nicole a very happy girl.

Immediately wanted to layer something over this and with it being the start of the new year I grabbed for my Tasmanian Devil Confetti Polish and added one layer over top. Who doesn't like colorful sparkly nails?

*All photos taken in indoor lighting. No flash. Two coats with top coat and glitter. The last photo is the more IRL color.

 

This combination reminded me of a robins egg. Now I know usually robin's eggs are blue with black splotches, but we can say this is its oddball cousin who is the wild child of the family.

The one thing that I did notice today while I was out killing time in Wal-Mart while my mom was doing laundry was that the pastel purple from the NOPI Selena Gomez collection look awfully similar to Royalty Reinvented, and one of the glitter polish which is multi-colored is an exact dupe of the Confetti Polish in these photos! And to mention price point, usually at Wal-Mart L'Oreal polishes are $4.97 versus the $7 dollar price for NOPI.  I was kind of excited to buy some of the Selena polishes and did buy one of them today and I'll feature here soon.  Is it weird that I'm glad there were dupes in that collection from what I have so I didn't have to buy? ( As I type this I hear my wallet's cries of joy).

Do you own any of the new L'Oreal Nail Polishes
Nicole.

New Years Eve Mani!

Happy New Years Eve everyone!!

Unless you are in a completely different time zone and its already New Years there, then HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Today I have for you what I am currently wearing for the end of 2012!

2012 has been such an amazing year! I have had some awesome moments and some not so awesome moments but I do think the good out weighs the bad for sure! I have reached so many milestones between life and here on the blog. I never thought my tiny little corner of the internet would get to where it has. As of this post I have hit 8100 views on here and surpassed 200 followers on twitter and I can't tell you all how grateful I am for that! If it wasn't for YOU the readers and followers and the amazing friends I have made, I would not be here!

In life I have had some beautiful things happen. For the first time I feel somewhat financially secure, I paid off all my credit card debt this year and some school debt. All I have left is my student loans from college which we all know takes forever to pay off! I got to welcome my beautiful niece Gianna Nicole in to the world, watching her grow everyday is such a blessing, I can't wait until she utters the words "Aunt Pumpernickel" ( yes that's my nickname :) )

I hope that 2013 will be more amazing than 2012 and I know it will be since there are some amazing things on the horizon. But I would rather talk about them when they happen, right now they are growing and just not ready to bloom. All in all I can't complain about the last year its been just awesome!

So For NYE I originally planned to wear something completely different then what I am going to show you, but I thought there wasn't enough pizzazz for New Years.  So I chose this; I started off with a normal black polish. I used a  Maybelline one that I have had forever, they don't make it anymore I think, I applied two coats for opacity and waited patiently for it to dry. Once dry I took a polish that the lovely Adri from Morie's Nail Art ( go and check her out! ) sent me in our Holiday Swap. Its one of my first Klean Color Polishes. It is appropriately named "Midnight Seduction" and I also used Confetti's Tasmanian Devil. I added Tasmanian Devil to my ring finger and thumb and Midnight Seduction to the rest of the nails. TD is a standard multi-colored glitter and Midnight Seduction is fine glitter polish that flashes blue and magenta.

It may be a simple manicure but sometimes that is the best route. I don't usually wear black nail polish but it is the best two show off these two beautiful glitters.

I hope that for you my dear readers and followers that of 2012 was a good year for you or not and  that 2013 will be oh so much better! If you do go out and party it up tonight please DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE! If your out on the town take a cab home or if at a friends place please crash there or have a designated driver. I don't drink myself but I have seen people who have and what it can do so also PLEASE DRINK RESPONSABLEY!!

Take Care all and see you next year!!
<3 Nicole

Glitter Jelly Sandwich time! Glitter Jelly Sandwich time..

Like the title? Yeah me trying to be clever....Anywho, Hello!!!

Hope you all are having a good Saturday, its still raining here in good ole New York. Lucky me had to walk through a tremendous downpour just to get from my car to my front door... which has no awning or gutters so its like walking through a waterfall. Needless to say I got an unneeded second shower today!

Today I bring you another bright happy manicure. A jelly sandwich! Jelly sandwiches are so easy to do! You take a jelly polish, put on one to two layers of it, let it dry, add one coat of your favorite multi colored glitter polish or just some sort of glitter polish in general and then add one more thin coat of your jelly polish and TA DA you have a jelly sandwich.

Now you could save your self some time and buy the polishes that already have all the ingredients together and all you have to do is apply two to three coats of it. I personally wish I had more of those types. I don't own many jelly polishes myself in fact I think I only own one or two. Oh and if your curious as to what a jelly polish is, it is a polish that you can still see through/ or  see your visible nail line even after three coats.

Today's jelly sandwich consist of two coats of Sinful Colors Scandal. Now I bought Scandal way before all the Sinful Colors Hullabaloo. Now while I don't support what they did in any sense, it was just down right wrong, I'm still going to use the polishes I have... Since I'm on that no buy....

After I applied Scandal's first two coats and let dry, I then applied one coat of Confetti Polish in Tasmanian Devil. This polish is a good dupe for all those other rainbow glitter polishes out there and its fairly cheap too. I got mine from CVS but I don't remember how much it was, check with your local retailer to get the exact price for your area.

Once Tasmanian Devil was dry I applied one more thin coat over top to give the 'suspended' look. If I may say that it came out nicely.

 This first picture was taken with the flash on my camera, it only happened because the sun that peeked out right when I was ready to take pictures dashed away behind the clouds. :(

This is by far my favorite picture of the three in this post. It's in the natural cloudy light and it definitely shows the glitter suspended in the polish well. Plus the glitter is nicely defined in this picture too, you can see some of the individual colors.

Lastly this picture was taken under artificial light, a huge thanks to the overhead light of the stove for participating!

Okay so I hope you enjoyed this post and I believe by Monday this mani will be history, I'm assuming its going to peel off just like my last two did... grr.. don't even get me started on it. But by Monday I think the next sprinkles polish is in line to be posted!

Talk to you all then!
Nicole