What I'm Wearing, Vol. I- butter LONDON Wallis

I thought it would be fun to start a new series of posts called "What I'm Wearing". These posts will show you what nail polishes I'm actually wearing as full manis. Nail bloggers review collections so early and I sometimes wonder if the other nail bloggers of the world are really wearing holiday colors in September. Personally, I like to stick to the current season a bit more. I refuse to wear "holiday" colors until at least December 1. Which brings me to my fall-appropriate mani, butter LONDON Wallis!

butter LONDON Wallis is an antique golden olive polish that has an old feel to it. This color reminds me of something you'd find when diving for treasure in an underwater sea cave off the coast of Greece. Not that I've ever done that, but my dad has!

I did this mani at night, in a darkened room, so I thought two coats was enough. I guess I could have used a third coat!!! You can only see that in bright light though, so that's fine. Inside, Wallis looks more antique golden brass color, but outdoors it looks very olive green. Either way, I love the color, and this metallic shimmer/sparkle finish is excellent.

butter LONDON is having their Friends and Family sale right now, and with 30% off all orders, Wallis is looking like a good deal! Just enter celebrate11 at checkout. I'm contemplating ordering The Black Knight from the holiday collection.

butter LONDON Wallis is available now at butterlondon.com

NARS Desperado=LOVE

NARS Desperado, three coats, no flash

I'm currently obsessing over the entire NARS spring make-up collection, the nail polish, Desperado, possibly most of all. I only own one other NARS polish, Purple Rain (by the way, I REALLY need to take better pics of that one), but as soon as I saw the promo pictures for Desperado, I knew it would be mine. Desperado is a brass metallic finish polish with a little yellow-gold and green mixed in for good measure. NARS describes it as "Antique Brass", and really, brass is the best description I can come up with for this polish.

NARS Desperado, three coats, no flash

This is such a seriously beautiful color, especially in a spring collection. I feel like most people would put this kind of color in a fall collection, but not Francois <3. I love this color for spring though! It will be the perfect contrast to floral/pastel spring clothes. I also do not own anything like this color, although I do have an extensive collection of metallic golds and bronze colors. This is neither bronze, nor gold, so I doubt you will find a dupe for Desperado.

NARS Desperado, three coats, no flash

Desperado definitely requires three to four coats to hide the dreaded VNL, so I do wish it was a tad more pigmented. However, I got great wear out of this- four days with very little tip wear and only one small chip on my thumb. The one chip was actually my fault too, I was using my thumb to open something (bad, bad, bad!!). I still have this on right now as I write this post and honestly, I don't really want to take it off. I would also really like an eyeshadow in this color. That would be sweeeeettttt!

NARS Desperado, three coats, no flash

I give this polish a 9/10. I only took the point off because it could be a tad more pigmented for $17. Love love love this color!

NARS Desperado is available online at NARS Cosmetics and at a Sephora near you.