A Little Bit of Taboo

In times of financial restraint women are often found to splurge less on designer clothing and accessories and more on luxury makeup or skincare. My splurge is on nail polishes. I find it relaxing to paint my nails once a week (when possible) and buying a Chanel colour like Taboo is about the cost of a manicure and I get quite a few more applications. As I'm trying to save for a holiday it's going to be a lot less shoes and probably some more small luxuries like polishes.

I feel in love with the colour while passing the Chanel counter before the holidays. But my rule around Christmas is do not buy anything for yourself. So I waited and got it last week. It reminds me of some dark crushed stardust and the moments before dusk becomes night. Deep and lovely.

A Nail Story

 Christmas is upon us! and my nails have been lacking attention but will all the dinners, parties and New Years celebrations, oh and add 2 birthdays being celebrated it's time to get lacquered up.  Above are 2 new polishes from Coco + Lulu were purchased from Chapters (on sale for $5!) and they are part of the Cake Beauty company.. if you know the brand you will know that they have lovely lotions and bath stuff.

To mix it up a bit my fave Moroccan blue polish which looks amazing on and is great paired with an all black or burgundy outfits. Lastly, is the super cool velvet manicure kit from Ciate. This was purchased last year and only used once because its a bit time consuming but it really works and I spent most of last time after applying it just petting my nails.