The Red Dress Fashion Show - NYFW f/w 2011

It's that time of the year again. FASHION WEEK.

& me, of course I am going to be at New York Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2011. #fact

The Red Dress Fashion Show at the theater at Lincoln Center on Wednesday February 9th kicked off Fall/Winter 2011 New York Fashion Week! The Red Dress fashion show is also known as the Heart Truth fashion show. This glamorous show brought a parade of celebrities, all in gorgeous red designer dresses, to the ruby-red runway in order to raise awareness for heart disease. Since red is one of my favorite colors, seeing all the lovely red dresses (all supporting a wonderful cause) was exactly where I wanted to be!

And, of course, I believe your nails are one of your most important accessories, so its obvious that I believe that the nails complete the outfit! This vital rule is also followed at New York Fashion Week! Backstage with Pattie Yankee for Dashing Diva nails I saw all the gorgeous polishes that the celebrities were sporting on the runway that evening.

Audrina Patridge

 

Katrina Bowden & Gayle King

Gayle King

Giuliana Rancic

Camila Alves

Want to know exactly which gorgeous Dashing Diva polish each celeb rocked on the runway?

you can thank me later ;)

The Big Apple worn by Audrina Patridge & Taraji P. Henson

Debutante worn by Ann Curry & Laila Ali

57th & 5th worn by Archie Penjabi & Giuliana Rancic

Park Avenue Mistress worn by Camila Alves

Celebrity Circuit worn by Dania Ramierez

In a New York Minute worn by Eva Amurri & Suzanne Sommers

Red Carpet worn by Gayle King

Remember My Name worn by Garvielle Beauvis

New York Slice worn by Katrina Bowden & Natasha Bedingfield

The Heart Truth fashion show was an amazing success and all of the celebrities looked absolutely beautiful! All the celebrities donned red designer dresses and Dashing Diva nails to benefit the fight against heart disease - so cheers to starting off New York fashion week with supporting a good cause! :)

XOXO Chloé

Dress up your nails with Broadway Nails!

So, you all know that I love to do my nails. Thats a FACT.
Nail polish, artificial nails, acrylic nails - everything, I've done it/tried it all. But, one thing that I have never heard of or tried was stick-on nail wraps. Now, one of my absolute favorite nail brands, Broadway Nails, has created a new product called the Nail Dress!

This fabulous new product is a stick-on nail wrap called the Nail Dress! The Nail Dress is a sticker printed manicure that is easy to apply, lasts long and looks AMAZING! Its a revolutionary instant nail makeover!

 These nail dresses are SO EASY to put on. All you have to do is follow these simple steps:

The whole application process took me about 10 minutes & I was left with a perfect manicure that lasted me about a week without fading or peeling/chipping. (I also put a top coat of Sally Hansen Mega Shine on top.) See for yourself how GREAT they look -

Broadway Nails Nail Dress w/ Flash

Broadway Nails Nail Dress without Flash

Also, they are very easy to take off & they do not damage your nails at all. They just peel right off -

Broadway Nails Nail Dress = AMAZING.
Lets be HONEST here, I'm in love/addicted.

Urban Decay Book of Shadows III Event!

THIS IS SOOOO OVERDUE!! 

I have been incredibly busy lately (full time college student with a full time job!!) & I remembered that I had this entry as a draft & never published it, so I finished it and here it is!! Better late then never! ENJOY :)

As you all know, I have recently fallen deeply in love with Urban Decay...

On Saturday, August 28th 2010, I attended the Urban Decay Book Of Shadows III launch party & exclusive pre-sale at Sephora in Times Square. The perfect location to debut the UD♥NYC palette!

At my Sephora (haha - yes, I call it "my" Sephora, because that's the one that I go to the most.) they were having a very special one day only sale of the Urban Decay Book Of Shadows III palette - Urban Decay Loves New York!!

When I got there, the line was huge & went all the way to the end of the block!!

Thankfully, I was able to waltz right in & I didnt have to wait on the line, being that I had a very special  interview set up. I had an interview with one of my idols, Urban Decay's head international makeup artist, Eric Jimenez. I was so happy to be meeting Eric and I was absolutely honored to be able to interview him & speak to him one on one about Urban Decay and their fabulous products. (click here to read the interview!)

Urban Decay's head makeup artist, Eric Jimenez, greeting some of the patient Urban Decay fans that stood in line waiting to get their hands on the Book of Shadows III.

After my interview with Eric (click HERE to read it!!) I bought myself a beautiful Book of Shadows III - UD♥NYC - I was thrilled! I got my first Urban Decay palette and I was so happy that it was celebrating my amazing city - NYC - how perfect?!! (I use this palette almost everyday now - it is incredible!!!)

Then, to make a long story (very) short - before I knew it, I was in the UD♥NYC tee shirt doing makeup in Sephora alongside the fabulous Urban Decay National Artistry Team!! IT WAS AMAZING!! I was absolutely honored & I had such a blast!

I did makeup on a bunch of Sephora shoppers who were there for the Urban Decay event. I gave them each a special look using the new Book of Shadows III, and I must say, they all left the chair looking fabulous!! I am in loveeeee with the new UD♥NYC palette and using it made me fall in love with the brand and develop a hardcore Urban Decay addiction ;)

This is me & a very special woman that I met at the event! This wonderful doll's name is Cadie & she was one of the makeup artists in Urban Decays National Artistry Team. She was so kind & welcoming to me and we had so much fun doing makeup together!
As we would do makeup we would always start dancing and we loved the music that the DJ was playing! "oh my God! I love this song!" was said about a million times lol Anyway - Cadie was a real sweetheart, as were all the other fabulous Urban Decay makeup artists!! I wish I had a picture with each & every one of them!!

This event was incredible and I had such an amazing time talking & getting to know Eric (read the interview HERE!) as well as hanging out and doing makeup with the marvelous & extremely talented Urban Decay National Artistry Team!!

I LOVE URBAN DECAY!
♥ XOXO Chloé ♥

The Urban Decay Book of Shadows III will be available in Sephora in early October.
Click HERE to read my review of Urban Decays De-Slick powder, HERE to read my review of their Lip Junkie lip gloss, and click HERE to read the interview with Eric Jimenez ♥

Spooky Spiderweb Nails!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!! =)

Since today is Halloween I knew I needed to wear a pair of my limited edition Halloween nails by Kiss Nails!! I already wore "Hayride" this past week, so today I put on "Pumpkin" to celebrate Halloween in style! These nails are PERFECT for Halloween :)

These artificial nails have a spooky twist on a "French manicure". It's a spiderweb pattern with a black tip with a line of silver glitter separating the web from the black tip. There is also a silver glittery spider as a finishing touch, so cute & perfect for Halloween!

I absolutely loveeee the style/pattern of these nails and I am so excited to be wearing them, but I just couldn't deal with the extra-long length! (texting was near impossible!!) So, I grabbed my nail clipper & nail file and cut them down to a much more practical, shorter length!

Still as spooky & festive, just more manageable!! =)
I really love these nails & I hope that Kiss Nails comes out with some limited edition nails for the holiday season!! how cute would little Hanukkah & Christmas nails be?!! hahaha :)

I hope that you all had a very happy Halloween & that you enjoyed seeing my spooky spiderweb nails! I am going to go watch a scary movie and eat some candy! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
♥ XOXO, Chloé ♥

Vamp Up Your Halloween with Kiss Nails!!

As you all know, Kiss Nails are my favorite brand of artificial nails and I wear them very often! So, being that it is Halloween time, they have created four styles of limited edition Halloween nails that are sure to add the perfect finishing touch to your Halloween look!

The four styles of the nails are (from left to right) - Witch, Ghost, Pumpkin, and Hayride.

In addition to the four styles of the artificial nails, Kiss also created four styles of limited edition Halloween nail art, body art and eye & face art!! Below are the photos of the two different styles of nail art, one of more "sweet" with cute skulls, black cats and colorful bats & stars, while the second one has a more of a "spooky" feel to it! Spiderwebs, bats, black skulls, and spiders! 

Then there is the body art and the eye & face art!! I loveee these two sets! 

(as you can tell, I've already used one of the body art stickers, it was a really pretty red rose!)

The eye & face art is SO pretty! I am planning to use it to add some bling to my eye makeup :)

On Wednesday I started to get into the Halloween spirit and I put on the artificial nails in "Hayride" - They looked awesome! I LOVE the black-red fade look that the nails have and the black design on it is subtle but still so pretty! I would wear this nail style all throughout the year - not just Halloween!! It looked so pretty!

I love them & I got so many compliments on them! They really look like they were airbrushed at the nail salon :) I'm kind of upset that they are only Halloween limited edition & that they wont be around long, I need to stock up on this style!!

I hope you all enjoying seeing these fabulous limited edition Halloween products from Kiss Nails!!

HAVE A HAPPY HALLOWEEN WEEKEND!!

♥ XOXO, Chloé ♥

New York Fashion Week 2010 - Nicholas K.

Hi everyone :) As you all know, I was at New York Fashion Week! It was amazing! I wanted to make sure that I share with you all of the fabulous nail polish looks & trends that were on the runway! Here are the lovely polishes from the Nicholas K. show! Enjoy :)

On Septemeber 9th, Celebrity nail technician Pattie Yankee and the Dashing Diva nail team worked backstage on models for the Nicholas K. show at Lincoln Center.

Polishes: special mix, special mix, Concrete Playground, Astor Place, Tibi Couture

 Nicholas K. had an army inspired collection and Dashing Diva specially mixed two custom color polishes for the show. The mixing resulted in a khaki brown color and mint green color.
Along with the special mixes Nicholas went three other Dashing Diva polishes.

Concrete Playground, a heather gray polish.

 
Astor Place, a grey/brown mix. 

Tibi Couture, a light creamy beige. 

With Nicholas’ army inspired collection, the polishes looked absolutely amazing!

♥ XOXO, Chloé ♥

New York Fashion Week Nail Trends with Dashing Diva!

This Tuesday, September 7th kicked off New York Fashion Week!
I was there in Lincoln Center to enjoy this great evening that brought together designers, models and fashionistias from all around the world.

As we all know, Fashion Week not only focuses on just fashion, but on beauty as well! (I always say you cannot have fashion without beauty & you cannot have beauty without fashion!) So, naturally, I was excited to see all the beauty trends that NYFW kicked off with!

Dashing Diva Nails lead the way that night and its fabulous nail polishes took the runway by storm!

At the shows, 'pure at heart' and 'fifties flair' inspired models wore the popular "Fashion Week" polish, a sheer pink Dashing Diva runway favorite!

photo credit to Eric Yu of Dashing Diva

The 'rocker chic' inspired models wore a gun metal "Penthouse Views" metallic silver polish. 

photo credit to Eric Yu of Dashing Diva

The 'jazz aged' inspired models wore "Dark PR", a beautiful dark burgundy polish.

photo credit to Eric Yu of Dashing Diva

Also, Dashing Diva Nails also worked on top models, one of them being Giselle!

photo credit to Eric Yu of Dashing Diva

These three Dashing Diva polish shades were all over the runway!

Fashion Week, Penthouse Views & Dark PR

Have a happy Fashion Week!

I know I am!

♥ XOXO Chloé ♥