Morgan Taylor BCA Polish Trio: Polish With A Purpose!

Morgan Taylor is a new professional brand that launched this summer with over 100 shades and they have continued to launch new collections all fall including this Breast Cancer Awareness trio. I do have all three so I can swatch them and I was impressed with the variety. 5% of the proceeds from this collection sale are being donated to the Susan G. Komen foundation.

Image Courtesy of Morgan Taylor

If you're still able to find them (Armstrong McCall, CosmoProf), my recommendation is Who's That Girl.

butter LONDON Colour Clash

butter LONDON has been really upping their US presence, as I have mentioned before, and while I get back into the swing of swatching and painting my nails after my illness, I wanted to catch you up on some recent collections that have been out.  The first is the Colour Clash Collection, a new collection of brights and whites that are perfect going from summer to fall. Even though it may be October, it's still hot and sunny here in South Texas.

The collection includes 5 pops of color and one rock star in white - Cotton Buds which can be used alone or as a base for nail art. (Images provided by butter LONDON)

Cake-Hole

Cotton Buds

Giddy Kipper

Pimms

Silly Billy

Wellies

butter LONDON Nail Lacquer retails for $15 and is available now butterlondon.com and in Ulta.

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NYFW Spring Summer 2014 Round Up

I was actually very interested in New York Fashion Week this year. I even considered hopping a plane and going to watch! Instead, I ended up watching from my computer screen and even though it's come and gone (and London had theirs too), I thought you might be interested in some of the show highlights that I enjoyed.  (All images courtesy of the companies that they represent unless otherwise noted.)

CND

When I think of Fashion Week, I think of CND and how hard they work to create amazing designs. This year, they unveiled 36 unique designs at The Blonds Spring/Summer 2014 Fashion Show at MILK Studios in NYC. 

butter LONDON

I didn't realize butter LONDON was hitting the US soil so hard but now I see it EVERYWHERE. This year, they launched their own exclusive Fashion Week shade The 444, a champagne glitter.

However, I felt like butter LONDON played it safe with fashion week - lots of nudes & matte top coats. One show that did get wild was the LIBERTINE show where lead manicurist Katie Jane Hughes, butter LONDON Global Colour Ambassador started with Union Jack Black and then added holographic foil & applied several colours to the nails includes crystals and studs and finally a small red pom-pom on the accent nails.

Morgan Taylor

I still need to share my brand overview on Morgan Taylor - both lovely fashion forward young women who are really digging in their heels with their brand. I was happy to see them at fashion week, such a young brand to have such a powerful position.

BUT THEN they also went the nude, light, and matte way. Rawr.

The stand out was the Betsy Johnson show (duh). Lead artist Danielle Candido created an "Aurora Borealis Mani" using a silver base of Could Have Foiled Me, layered with Adorned in Diamonds and finished at the tips with Sweetest Thing.

Zoya

Can't forget them! Zoya has been providing custom nail colors for their designers in recent fashion shows. Each designer nail palette was created in direct collaboration with Zoya Color Developer Rebecca Isa (who officially has my dream job). Once again, the designers tended to go with soft colors but the Peter Som set spoke to me most. 

Zoya Edie (blue cream), Zoya Alexa (green cream), and Zoya Stella (peach cream). “The inspiration for the Peter Som custom trio was - Where land meets sea… - the serene marine blue represents the water, the vibrant green represents the lush plant life surrounding the water and the soft peach is the delicate first bloom of spring flowers. Eddie and Alexa are full coverage and very pigmented so that a shaded half-moon mani can be achieved; which is exactly how the shades were worn coming down the runway”.

There you have it! Hope you enjoyed my picks from Fashion Week!

The beginning

I found this today and just had to share - I "got obsessed" with nail polish in the summer of 2009, and I found my first "stash" photo. All China Glaze, my first love.

I was so proud of myself.