The remaining swatches of the new Chanel Allure Velvet collection: Rose Exubérant 519

Hasta la vista, Laqueristas!

The one remaining new Chanel polish from the Allure Velvet Collection: Rose Exubérant 519. Here are some swatches and a comparison

Chanel Rose Exubérant 519

Bottle comparison to Splendeur

Chanel Rose Exubérant vs. Splendeur

Splendeur is a cooler toned pink, whereas Rose Exubérant is a tad warmer. A muggle won't see the difference. Both colors applied like a dream, one coat could do (if you weren't to take macro pics. I applied 2 coats)

Amazing formula and I love the suturated-ness of these shades. Love love.

Swatches new Chanel polish: Rouge Allure Velvet collection

Dear Lacqueristas,

You may have already seen the brand new Chanel matte lipstick collection. Awesome colors in a creamy matte texture. Together with these Allure Velvet lipsticks, a small matching nail polish collection was released. I already fell in love with two of them. Today I show you Pirate and Rose Caché:

Chanel Pirate

Pirate is a stunning deep raspberry, blue toned red jelly. This polish is so incredibly shiny that I wasn't able to make any pics without crazy glare.

Chanel Rose Chaché, in daylight but colors seem to be a tad washed out

Chanel Rose Caché in artificial light, colors sem more accurate

Rose Caché is a nude beige/pink. I fell head over heels with this shade, it is so pretty and feminine and I have recieved many compliments. I also enjoyed the matte version a lot, it kinda looks as if my nails were made of skin. (eewww? No, in a good way)
Rose Caché reminds me of OPI Dulce de Leche exept for the secret shimmer that Rose Chaché is full of (in the bottle). I do not own OPI DdL but here's a comparison with Barefoot in Barcelona

Left to right: RC, BiB, RC, BiB

Secret Shimmer... Metallic fuchsia shimmer

 Here are some bonus pics:

Chanel Rose Cache

Mattified: pinky=OPI BiB, ring=RC, Middle=BiB, index=RC

Chanel Pirate mattified

A note on th eChanel velvet topcoat: the quality is extraordinary. It seems to be velvetty and smoother whereas traditional matte topcoats can be chalky or streaky. Will do a full review soon.

Have you seen these new Chanel polishes yet? How do you like them? And what is your favorite polish ever to mattify?

Hasta la vista, Laqueristas!

Chanel stash and swatches

Dear Lacqueristas,

It has been 3 months since I last posted, I hope you guys will enjoy this post. I have been working on swatching all of my polish on pop-up sticks. That was a fun project but it took forever!
Today I present you my Chanel stash, both bottle pics and swatches.

Click the pic to enlarge, like this you should be able to read the names on the bottles

White Satin, Intermezzo, Pearl Drop, Allegoria, Django

Inattendu, Jade Rose, Peche Nacree, Magnolia Rose, Mica Rose

Ming, Orange Fizz, Miami Peach, Tango

Marilyn, Splendeur, Rivera, Rose Insolent

Fantastic, Gondola, Vendetta, Paradoxal, Lilac Sky

Madness, Gold Shimmer, Samba, Salsa, Trapeze

Rouge Noir, Imperial, Forbidden, Diabolic, Noir Ceramic

Coromandel, Barcelona Red, Orient, Red Dream, Tulipe Noir

There are some true stunners in this collection. My personal favorites are Marilyn, Intermezzo and Django. Salsa, Samba, Tango and Orient are probably the oldest and most HTF. Somebody gave them to me so I have no clue how old they actually are, or what collection they where in.
Rouge Noir is the Mother of  all Vampies.

Do you know how old Salsa, Samba, Tango and Orient are? And what is your favorite Chanel? If you have comparison or swatch requests, feel free to email me or place a comment, and I will see what I can do.

Hope you enjoyed these pictures! I just might get the hang of it again ;-)

Hasta la vista, Lacqueristas!

New Chanels! (swatches and comparison)

Dear Lacqueristas,

Some better swatches of the latest Chanel polishes:

Pearl Drop

Pearl Drop is a gorgeous opaque white polish with a satin pearl like finish. There's a lot of golden shimmer going on. When the light hit's it, the gold is pretty strong. The heavy shimmer makes this a pearly finish, there are some brush strokes but not in an annoying way.




Peche Nacreé - with a shell I found in the carabbean see





Peche Nacreé





Peche Nacreé is a super cute but not unique polish. Soft, pinky peach with again, a satin like pearly finish. This one is more pearlized then Pearl Drop. But there is no complex shimmer or a flash of another color.

The color reminds me of the inside of a shell I found.

Black Pearl in overcast. The finish is extremely glossy.



Black Pearl -direct sun. Complex shimmer!

Black Pearl is a blackened forest green pearl. Or is it a greened black? Or just oil slick.... It's all in the eye of the beholder because this polish is a chameleon. Ofcourse as the theme of this collection is pearls, this polish  has a pearl finish. But when the light hits it, the most complex shimmer surfaces.

In overcast or indoors the shimmer and pearl hide and the glass like surface shows. This is definitely one of the glossiest polishes I've ever seen. I could almost use my nails as a mirror :-D I think I remember OPI's It's All Greece To Me to have a similar glossy finish.




Chanel Pearl Drop Vs. Intermezzo

 



Bottles compared





I'm in love with Intermezzo. It might even be my favorite Chanel polish. A tie with Marilyn. And Rose Confidentiel.

What is your favorite Chanel?

How do you feel about these polishes? Do you like pearly finishes?

Hasta la vista, Lacqueristas!

Chanel vintage trio

Dear Lacqueristas,

Today I'll show you a vintage Chanel trio. I had never heard of these before, my friend gave them to me.. for free!

Tango, Samba and Salsa

Salsa. A Pink/copper duo chrome. The pink is most evident but when your nails are quite rounded, you will see the copper peek through at the edges of the nail. This color is just fine, not too spectecular.

Salsa, akward finger positions to show the duo chrome

Tango. A peachy pink, just right up my alley. I love colors like this since one of my favorite make up artists educated me about just how flattering peachy/pinkish colors are for skins like mine (light, cool skin)
Tango has a fair amount of golden shimmer in it's formula, but that's not visible on the nail once applied.

Samba. This polish is just plain ugly on me. A gold/copper/yellow/mustard duo chrome. Extemely unflattering. In fact, this must be the single most unflattering shade I own. Probably better suiting a warm/deep colored person.

I had trouble capturing the yellow-ness of this polish. Believe me when I tell you it is... yellow and bling in a baaaad way. Like Paul Wall's grill after eating a hotdog with too much mustard.

In real life, I love salsa (the music)  uueeeeppaaaa  Hector Lavoe, Tito Nieves, Celia Cruz, ... My MP3 is full of it, I don't think I have one english song on it. The only music I listen to more, is bachata (El Mayimbe, Joe Veras, Zacarias Ferreira, Luis Miguel del Amargue) 

Back in the days I used to dance a lot as well. So I was pretty exited about the Chanel latin dance trio.

Conclusion: I'm very thankfull to receive such vintage polishes. I love Tango, I like Salsa, but Samba isn't for me. Up for swap? Feel free to contact me if interested!

Question for you: Do have any info when this trio came out,what collection etc?

Hasta la vista, Laqueristas!

Dupe alert for Chanel 491 Rose Confidentiel!

Dear Lacqueristas,

On the next pic I painted all but one nail with Rose Confidentiel. Guess which nail is different?

The next pic is of my other hand, and here I painted 2 nails with another polish. Guess which nails?

Now, I bet yall wanna see the answers, right? Here we go:

Index was painted with Kreme de la Kremlin, the rest with Rose Confidentiel

My other hand

Bottle pics. In the bottle they have a slight difference in hue but once dried on the nail this dissapears

Kreme de la Kremlin is a dupe for Chanel Rose Confidentiel. I do not see adifference when applied to the nails and after if has fully dried. I just want to add that imho OPI applied better and I love this color!

Did you guess the right nail?

Hasta la vista, Laqueristas!

Chanel swatchaton goes on... 209 Marilyn, 453 Magnolia Rose, 471 Ming, 210 Lilac Sky

Dear Lacqueristas,

As you might have noticed with my last 2 posts, I had a Chanel swatchaton going on. Reason was that I have so many untried Chanels that I never even swatched before. So here we go:

209 Marilyn

209 Marilyn. So pretty it deserved another picture :-)

Close up

Chanel 209 Marilyn has been discontinued for some time now and that's an absolute shame since this is one of my favorite Chanels. I love wearing this polish,  looks good on both tips and toes and applies like a dream. Potential one coater but not when you photograph in macro settings :-)

The weird thing about Marilyn is that it is a raspberry shade with some orange or coral that makes it a bit warm. In this base color you will find lots of silver shimmer. Once applied on the nail, it balances perfectly to a neutral tone. Very flattering and flirty! In my personal Chanel top 3.

453 Magnolia Rose in the sun (escuse the frazzle)

Chanel 543 Magnolia Rose is a soft, tender pink with silvery shimmer. It is pretty sheer, I applied 4 coats to reach bottle color. It is a fresh looking color, not stark but healthy and well groomed looking. In the bottle the shimmer looks almost like micro-glitter but once applied on the nail, this doesn't really show.

453 Magnolia Rose in the shade. See the glittah in the bottle?

Bottle pic!

Chanel 471Ming is a soft pink with peachy undertones that make it way too warm for me. Look:

(had to censor the frazzle)

Not flattering. It looks...meaty to me, if that makes sense. Fleshy. Like I have been digging paté sausage with my fingers. Not my kinda color. Application didn't please me, hence the frazzle. I bet this polish would look awesome on warmer, tan or asian skin.

Chanel 210 Lilac Sky

Lilac Sky

210 Lilac sky is a shade that balances cool pink and lilac. Lavendery. With shimmer. Pretty and summery. Application was surprisingly good. Just two coats for these swatches! I think it would look better on a tanned person but I would wear it nontheless.

See the shimmer? Yummy!

Well, you see, I haven't forgot about blogging. Thanks for the emails though, that motivates me to keep posting even when it's busy in my personal and professional life ;-)

Thanks for reading, dear Lacqueristas, and if you want me to do comparisions for any of the reviewed polishes, let me know!

Hasta la vista, Laqueristas!

Chanel Intermezzo Revisited

Dear Lacqueristas,

I already posted a review of  Chanel Intermezzo, but I felt the pics I took back then with my camera phone were just too crappy. And the polish is so pretty, it deserved better pics. So here goes old vs new:

New pic (see the pink flash?)

New pic (taken in artificial light, way too warm but the pink shimmer is very visible here. In real life it is even more visible!

One of my old pics (hihihi)

If you're interested in reading the entire review of this polish, click here

Hasta la vista, Laqueristas!