Yves Saint Laurent Premier Neige

So this is a very long overdue post. And it comes with a picture of the bag - I love that Holt Renfrew is constantly changing the bags to make them cute and a slight bit different!

And in the bag? Yves Saint Laurent Premier Neige Top Coat!

This is just a big bottle of amazing! This is an ultra-fine multi-chromatic and prismatic glitter that flashes primarily blue and purple. And be warned. The glitter falls right to the bottom of the bottle. It needs a really good shaking to incorporate all the glitter into the base. And the base is the thinnest base I have ever experienced in a polish.

Now when I say the base is thin, I mean REALLY REALLY REALLY thin. It moves around the bottle as water. So much so that I actually had to reach out to some friends who had it to make sure it wasn't a bad bottle I got. That being said, it applies FLAWLESSLY! It gives such a gorgeous thin coat of glitter to the nail that is sparkly and glittery without being over the top or a PITA to take off.

I figured the best way to show off the polish was to put it on the 8 colors I just swatched the day before. That way you get to see it on a number of different colours and finishes! I think it shows off best over dark colours like black or navy (shown here over navy) but I do really like it on the beige as well.

This is a limited edition colour. If you are really wanting it, I recommend calling Melanie at 1-204-926-8105 or email her at Melanie.Drain@holtrenfrew.com! She might still be able to track down a bottle or two!

The New Black Runway - Color Baromoter 8-Piece Nail Polish Set

So I looked, and looked and looked, and there just don't seem to be many reviews of this brand online. The New Black is a line of nail polish sold at Sephora, Nordstroms and other beauty etailers.

These polishes come in sets of two, three, five, and eight as well as other effect sets such as a kit to make newsprint nails.  The sets are quite reasonably priced (this set retails for $35 CAN). But the polishes are TINY. They are the size of a small 4ml Le Metier De Beaute polish.

This set contains 8 polishes ranging from creams, shimmers and frosts.

These tiny 4ml polishes have no names on them, no numbers, and no way to distinguish them other than saying "the red one" or "the orange one" which would be fine if you had one set, but if you got multiple sets, or bought one of the five piece ombre sets, it could be an issue. I HATE when polishes have numbers instead of names, but I hate it even more when they have nothing.

And sorry that I started this review with that complaint, but its not going to get much better right now. The red with orange shimmer is gorgeous. The yellow and beige ones are actually nice. They are on the thin side, but opaque in three coats. The others needed four coats, the green, the light blue and the orange are kind of streaky, the navy was kind of patchy in application, and ALL the polishes were on the thin side. Overall, you are getting TINY bottles (4mls) of not so hot polish. They are not horrible, but they are not great, or even very good.