Fall 2012: Estée Lauder Pure Color Beyond Black & Metal Mania Nail Lacquer Collections.

This fall, nails are either dark and vampy or full on metallic. Estée Lauder launched the new Pure Color Nail Lacquer Beyond Black and Metal Mania Collections just in time. The two collections bring on all the seduction, beauty and fantasy of the City of Lights at night, which encompasses the new nail trend.

Estée Lauder Pure Color Beyond Black & Metal Mania Nail Lacquer

Beyond Black is made up of five deep shades that saturate nails in rich and dramatic color, capturing the allure of the Parisian Femme Fatale.

  • Caviar
  • Bête Noire
  • Blue Blood 
  • Black Plum 
  • Viper

Estée Lauder Pure Color Beyond Black & Metal Mania Nail LacquerEstée Lauder Pure Color Beyond Black

Metal Mania is made up of another five shades that dresses nails in glam glitters for a modern metallic finish.

  • Nouveau Riche
  • Explosif 
  • Chaos 
  • Smashed 
  • Fiery Hot

Estée Lauder Pure Color Beyond Black & Metal Mania Nail Lacquer
Estée Lauder Pure Color Metal Mania

Don't be shy when you are doing your nails for fall. I love the darker shades and I do like metallics, but prefer a twist on both. Accenting a dark manicure with a metallic french tip or one metallic accent nail is a gorgeous way to go and fully embrace both trends.

Each Pure Color Nail Lacquer sells for $20.00 and is available right now at Estée Lauder and esteelauder.com.

Fall 2012: L’Oréal Paris New York Nudes Collection.

The flesh-tone shade trend has hit the beauty world big time. Brands are coming up with new "nudes" all the time. The easiest way to embrace and wear the trend is on your lips or nails.  L’Oréal Paris just debuted the New York Nudes Collection, that goes right along with this fashion forward nude trend.

The limited edition collection includes six expertly developed Colour Riche Nail and coordinating Colour Riche Le Gloss shades. They are all breathtaking. What is really great is that all of these nude shades can be worn by any woman, as a nude flatters every skin tone.

L’Oréal Paris New York Nudes Colour Riche Nail

New York Nudes Colour Riche Nail - $5.99

  • Park Ave Function
  • Broadway Boogie
  • Till The Sun Comes Up
  • Hudson Sunset
  • Downtown Chic
  • Brownie Points

L’Oréal Paris New York Nudes Colour Riche Le Gloss

New York Nudes Colour Riche Le Gloss - $7.95

  • Chic-ly Pale
  • Midtown Hustle
  • Girl's Night Out
  • Skyline Glow
  • Cinnamon Spiced
  • Spiked Coffee

Look for the New York Nudes collection in your favorite drugstore or mass retailer now. 

Beauty and Fashion Tech

Makeup Wars: Favorite Nail Polish for Fall.

The Makeup Wars gals are at again this week with more faves. This time we are talking about our favorite nail polish to wear for fall. We are not necessarily talking about a new fall polish, we are talking about our favorite fall polish, or polishes as in my case.

Being indecisive as I am, I have a number of polishes that I like to wear in the fall and cannot claim one a favorite, though I can claim a favorite color. I love warming up my fall nails with a brown shade, and of course I have a number of them that I like, proving the decision too difficult. I'll surely be wearing all of these this fall, so I am claiming these shades my favorite nail polishes for fall.

You will quickly notice that they are all very similar. Take a look at the polishes that make up my favorites.

China Glaze Nail Lacquer Foie Gras - $7.00
This is a creamy brown with a slight purple tint to it. It was part of the limited Hunger Games collection, so I am not sure if it is still readily available. Quickly looking online, it shows that is for sale at Sally's Beauty Supply for just $1.50. I'm guessing that is a small bottle.

MAC Nail Lacquer Coffee Break - $16.00
This is described as a mid-tone taupe. I find it to be more brown than taupe, and very creamy. It is part of the new permanent line of nail lacquers, so this one will be around for a long time.

CHANEL Nail Colour Khaki Rose - $26.00
This a rose warmed darker shade of brown. It was a limited edition release for Fashion's Night Out in fall of 2010, so you will not find it readily available, unless you can maybe snag one at auction. I had received one as a press sample and knew I was in love. I bought two more bottles and hope to use them for a very long time.  I think this shade was on my toes all fall and winter of 2010 and 2011. I guess I probably could have claimed this one my very favorite.

Laura Mercier Nail Lacquer Cocoa Suede - $18.00
This creamy chocolate brown is part of the Laura Mercier fall Cinema Noir collection. It is the darkest out of all the shades here. If you ever dreamed of a "Hershey bar" Brown, this is it.

Julep Nail Color Heather - $14.00
Described as a platinum greige with a metallic glow, this is the frosted brown shade that I really am fond of. Much lighter and obviously more frosted than the others, it is still somewhat in the same color family. Even though I most often wear creamy or lightly shimmered shades, out of all brown shades I tried, this is my favorite more frosted version.

Now, I am really bad at painting my own nails, and trying to photograph them is not easy either.  I guess that's why I bring my favorite polish to the salon to have my nails painted. So, please forgive the messiness in the photo below. I felt it important to show you how they looked on nails, even as messy as it is.

 

Need more fall nail inspiration? Check out the other fall favorites among the group.