YSL La Laque 34 Black Tulip

I got back from London a few days ago. I enjoyed being away, but it's good to be home :) I loved how warm it was there, a real spring weather, while back home it snowed! I loved walking everywhere, the beautiful architecture etc.
I met up with a university friend and we went to the park to feed nuts to the squirrels. Two highlight of my trip was going to see Wicked one evening and going to Halcyon Gallery to see the Dale Chihuly exhibition. His glass sculptures are incredible!

Of course I went nail polish shopping. I got a few American Apparel ones and a few Barry M's, but the best bit was going to Illamasqua flagship store. It was amazing!!! Unfortunately Nomad was sold out, but I still enjoyed myself. I was particularly impressed that the girls there wear the full on crazy Illamasqua make up with a dozen colours AND manage to look really cool.

Today I would like to show you this pretty polish. I like the formula a lot, I used two coats, but it is almost a one coat polish. It dries really quickly. It is probably one of the nicest purple polishes I have.

YSL La Laque 19 Fuchsia Pink

This is yet another nail polish that I don't wear as often as I would like, and it is all probably because it is stashed away in its box. This was two coats, and the polish dries fairly quickly. I particularly like for the light blue shimmer flashes when I move my hands. Also, kudos to my dad who chose it, it is one of those rare cases when both me and my mum love the colour.


This polish has the most awesome pale blue shimmer in the bottle,it is visible on the nails, it is just not that visible.

YSL La Laque 128 Black Indigo

I am proven time and time again that men are very good at picking nail polishes that have something special about them. The same case happened with this beauty. YSL 128 Noir Indigo is an almost black polish that has some pink and purple shimmer. The shimmer is much more visible in the bottle, but less so on the nails, think along the lines of Chanel Vendetta.
Here I am wearing two coats. I like this polish a lot, it's a bit of a pity that when there is no direct sunlight it looks just black. The fact that the shimmer occasionally disappears makes this polish extremely difficult to photograph. Also I wish there was more of this polish than just 6ml, it's too pretty to be this small :)

YSL La Laque 40 Extreme Purple

Hey everyone! Happy autumn! I'm stuck at university all day today. Who would have thought that the most interesting lectures this semester would be philosophy!
I realized that I never posted the swatches of YSL polishes that my dad brought for me from London months ago. I did swatch them right away, but my hard disk drive died during the summer taking all my photos with it.
So I've finally redone the swatches. Here is YSL #40 called Extreme Purple. Hmm... I don't see it. It's neither extreme, nor purple, not one bit. It is kind of reddish brown creme polish. I applied 2 coats indoors and it looked perfectly fine and even, but when I went in the sun to photograph it uneven patches became visible. I added one more coat and here we are! It's a nice polish, I think I like it. It lasts about 3 days on me. I especially like the packaging on this one. I'm a sucker for nail polish bottles with a square footprint. The polish is a bit on the pricy side. I think it was 13 GBP for 10 ml duty free.

Hauls

The last couple of weeks have been really great in terms of acquiring new polishes. First of all my dad went on business to London and came back with lots of polishes for me and my mum. That was something I did not expect, plus I was really pleasantly surprised by his color choice, mostly because they were not neutral pale pinks (for the most part).

First of all,there are the Revlon polishes. Sadly, we don't have Revlon here so this is great. There's a base and top coat, which I really like so far, plus three scented polishes and one light pink one.

L-R: top coat, Pink Nude, Ocean Breeze, Passion Fruit, Beach, base coat.

Next are the polishes that are meant for my mum, the three Givenchy Vernis Please! polishes. They are only 5.5ml, but cost an arm and a leg.

L-R: Candide Peach, Acid Orange, and Vintage Garnet.

I also got three YSL La Laque polishes. I'm just drooling over them! The one on the right is called extreme purple, but I somehow just don't see it.

L-R: Tulipe Noire, Fuchsia, and Pourpre Extreme

Apart from that I also got some polishes on my own. How could I not - the local shop was having 20% off OPI. I'm hoping it means that they will have the new stock in the for of the Texas collection or even the Pirate one.

L-R: Strawberry Margarita, Brand New Skates, Baguette Me Not, Louvre Me Louvre Me Not, Bastille My Heart, China Glaze Ruby Pumps, Orly Here Comes Trouble

I got the small Orly polish to see if I liked how it looked, and by trying it on just a few nails I love it! I'll have to get the full bottle and the purple one as well. It looks so gorgeous!

YSL La Laque 39 Gris Orage

Ok, I have to admit that I've never really associated YSL with polish. I've had other upscale polish brands like Estee Lauder, Dior and Givenchy, but for some reason never YSL. What a mistake!!! I can tell you that I like every single thing about their polishes that I had a chance to try. Oh, and I am a total sucker for the square bottles, they look so great and neat stacked next to each other.
YSL market La Laque as a long lasting nail lacquer, and I suppose it's true, I've worn every one of them for 3 days at least. Gris Orage, or Stormy Grey, is a rather light grey polish. It has a very dense consistency, so it is almost a one coat polish (but here I'm wearing two thin coats). The polish also has some silvery white shimmer that is apparent in the bottle, but not so much when it comes to the nails. In general I think that this is one gorgeous polish and it would suit many different skin tones.

Thank you!!!

I am blown away by the kindness and generosity of people around! A friend of a friend has given me an opportunity to try some amazing polishes that I would have never dreamed of trying. But now I can, and I'm so excited!!! Not only are the colors amazing (I'm looking at you, Paradoxals and Nouvelle Vagues of this world), but even the bottles are gorgeous and are lovely to hold.
I'm really excited to try them all as soon as possible.