Ooh La La - French Manicure and Shoppers Deal

What do you think, is a french manicure polished and understated or  dated and boring?

On Friday I felt in the mood for a french manicure-so I ventured up the street to a local salon and spent $15, it took less than 10 minutes and turned out pretty nice (in my opinion)! This photo was taken 4 days after and as you can see, the polish is really holding up.

Wanted to let you guys in on the deal! On the weekend I spent $50 at Shoppers Drug Mart and got  $10 gift card and a $10 Tims card. As you can imagine, this made me happy :) I think a new Essie polish will be joining my collection shortly. So go to Shoppers and stock up before the promotion ends.

After RAVING about Essie's A Cut Above I realized you guys deserved to see the aftermath. Removing the polish was a real pain. It hurt my nails-I literally did two rounds of scrubbing to get this stuff off, and haven't applied it since. Is it because my my nail polish remover is weak? I've never had a problem with Quo products. I will be accepting any tips you may have about removing glitter polish. How do you ladies re-apply this devil every week?

As always, thank you for reading. I've had a few new followers this past week so welcome to frowardfashion! I love to hear from you so feel free to tweet me :)

NOTD: Essie A Cut Above and OPI Lunch At the Delhi

I usually don't delve into the world of glitter polishes. I find removing them can be really abrasive and I can't help thinking 'my poor nails!'

But after strolling under the fluorescent lights of Lawtons, Essie's A Cut Above caught my eye. Although the glitter doesn't look as pink on the nails as it does in the bottle I still love it!

What are your thoughts on glitter polishes? 

Haul ft. Essie, Bliss and More!

I haven't posted a haul in a while, I've been well behaved ^.^

But that streak had to come to an end...over the past week I picked up a few new products and one was sent to me from a friend across the pond-exciting!!

• Essie's A Cut Above-Doesn't it photograph well? I debated getting this one but decided it was time to enter the world of glitter polishes. More on that in future posts!
• Pier 1 Imports Vanilla Cream Candle-Love the smell of this, quite sweet but not overwhelmingly so.
• Di Palomo Wild Fig & Grape Bath & Body Treat-We don't get this brand in Canada but I've seen it on some of my UK friends' blogs. Interesting scent combination. I have high hopes for this!
• Bliss Steep Clean 15 Minute Facial-This one really broke the bank. But my skin has felt kind of congested lately and my clarisonic hasn't been very helpful *hmmph* I really like the concept of 2 pumps for 2 different products. Let me know if you are interested in a full review.

Has anyone else splurged recently? Here in Canada we are about to have our labour day weekend-hooray! Looks like I'll be burning a candle, cleaning my skin, moisturizing my hands and painting nails >.< Sounds good to me!

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Feeling Red

I'm about to go away for a week and wanted to do my nails before I left, I gravitated towards this warm, brick red. Out of all my bottles of Essie polish, this one seems to look the best on my nails (the name: Fishnet Stockings). It's shiny, doesn't chip and sooo red!

I thought I'd include a peek of my mini haul today, loving the Pond's facial wipes. 
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The Vacation I Didn't Take

This spring I wanted to get to Florida and take a vacation. Relax, soak up some sun, break out the swimsuit. Unfortunately plans changed and there was no trip to the beach. Had I gone, this would've been the nail polish to wear.

First of all, it's called Miami Nice, almost too perfect. 

Also, this shade has almost a metallic pink/purple sheen. I'm not sure if the camera can appropriately depict just how awesome this colour is. 

Let me know what my next spring nail polish purchase should be :)

Hope you are having a lovely week and thank you so much for reading, commenting etc!

xx Veronica

Happy Friday!

Essie's Aruba Blue, macbook background

Also, that ^ was the best meal I ate all week. mmm, gotta love greek food :)

Cheers to the weekend everyone!