Lime Crime - Les Desserts d'Antoinette

When I first saw The Manicure Addict's amazing swatches of the Lime Crime Les Desserts d'Antoinette collection, I knew they would have to be mine... and when I saw this wickedly brilliant pinwheel manicure she put together using all of the colours, I was even more convinced of the fact that I needed them.  One problem- at that time, Lime Crime did not ship to Canada. Since then, Harlow and Co has begun carrying the Les Desserts collection, but at the time I was rather sad about not being able to get my nails on these. Thankfully, Katherine (the owner of those fabulous nails over at The Manicure Addict) is just plain awesome and offered to be my US mailing address. A couple weeks later, these arrived in my mail box: Lavendairy, Peaches and Cream, Pastelchio, and Milky Ways.

Being awesome, Katherine also included some extra goodies- what an awesome surprise! It seems that the best kind of nail mail comes with tasty suckers.

First up is Lavendairy; I absolutely can't say no to a pretty pastel purple, and this one is very pretty indeed. While all the shades in this collection are pastel-ish cremes, they're not your typical pastel cremes. They're much punchier and more saturated than your standard pastel. This lavender pastel leans very pink, which makes it fairly unique in my collection. Gorgeous. This is two coats. 

Next up is Pastelchio; the first picture of this is a bit washed out, the second is truer to colour. It's an amped up pastel pistachio creme that is totally unique in my collection. While extremely thick, and a little tricky to work with, what you see below is one coat. Pretty amazing! There are a few thin spots, so if I was wearing this as a mani, I'd likely do two, but I'm still impressed. 

Peaches and Cream: a vivid creamsicle orange. This was another amazing one-coater- no streaky areas, although it was a very thick formula to work with.

My favourite of the collection is Milky Ways; what a fantastic and unique white creme! Quite unusual. It has a soft peachy undertone that keeps it from looking too stark. Beautiful.

Milky Ways photographed in natural light:

I was so taken with this collection that I decided to order one more from Harlow and Co; this is Once In A Blue Mousse, a pretty pastel blue creme. 

What do you think my picks from the Lime Crime Les Desserts d'Antoinette collection? I'm pretty thrilled with them! I decided to pass on the other two shades in the collection, a pastel yellow and a pastel pink, but if they're anything like these, you probably can't go wrong. The bottles are slightly smaller than a full size (I think they're around 10ml instead of 15ml), but they're really cute. I love the shape and the frosted glass. Adorable! Will these be finding a place in your collection?

Essie Mink Muffs

I just wanted to quickly show you some pictures I took of Essie Mink Muffs, which I wore on the weekend. Mink Muffs is from the Fall 2009 Essie collection (but is now available in drugstores carrying the normal Essie colour range). It's a milk chocolate brown creme, which pulls slightly purple in some lights. It has an acceptable formula; what you see below is two coats. 

Muff Minks is actually from my mother's small collection of polishes (growing exponentially thanks to my influence, haha). And here is a picture of the lacquer my mother chose; since we visited over the weekend, I was able to conscript her into the blog photo business. This is a Peacekeeper polish that, as far as I could tell, had no name. It's a kind of pinky-nude sheer polish with  silver shimmer running through it. 

And before I leave you today, I wanted to share a teaser picture of what will come next on my blog! 

I got nail mail! So exciting. Yes, I'll have some Dollish Polish polishes to show you soon. It will be my first foray into the "indie polish" phenomenon, and I can't wait to show you what I got!