Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Nov 16, 2009, 11:26 pm
Singer Ciara, rocks black nails with a nail design on the pinky. I can’t tell if the black is matte or glossy. What do you think? A beaming Janet Jackson, watches street performers dancing to &...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Nov 16, 2009, 2:28 pm
Varnished Links 11.16.09 Nail Polish art by Kylie Minogue BS Shameless Self Plug- Read my review of Ginger + Liz Nail Colour on HOT 97.com ATH Another Shameless Plug, Alissa from AyeGirl blogs abou...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Nov 10, 2009, 12:23 pm
Lady Gaga- Bad Romance Anyone who knows me, knows that I love uv uh uh uv (watch the video, you’ll get it), LADY GAGA! I think that the woman is off her rocker, and if she’s not, she sure...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Nov 6, 2009, 9:48 am
Essie has released three colors, Lollipop, Rock Candy and Mint Candy Apple as part of their Holiday 2009 Collection. The red and pink shades are nothing new, but Mint Candy Apple may be an interesting...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Nov 6, 2009, 9:36 am
Fashion and beauty translates to all aspect of life, including your digital one! Now you can pair your favorite OPI classic shades with your glossy Dell laptop! Brilliant! I’m loving You Don...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Nov 1, 2009, 5:42 pm
Hey guys, I hope you all enjoyed your Halloween, I know I did. As promised I, below are pictures of me and my friends and their wacky costume and nail choices! Enjoy and don’t forget to submit s...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 31, 2009, 11:53 am
Happy Halloween! Halloween is more than the costume, I believe its the actual styling that completes the look- like the hair, makeup and of course nails! The pic above is a sneak peak of the my classi...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 29, 2009, 2:50 pm
A while back I posted on the revival of 90’s cult classic beauty line Hard Candy, made famous by the likes of Drew Barrymore and Alicia Silverstone. HC is exclusively available at Walmart now. S...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 22, 2009, 5:12 pm
Varnished Links Here are links to my favorite web articles this week Necole Bitchie interviews Athena Elliot of MinxHouston.com- NB Beauty Snob reports on the new Rock and Republic x Essie Clearly...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 15, 2009, 10:02 am
It’s that time of year again. MAC has debuted their Holiday collection, along with two new nail lacquers in all their sparkly and frosty splendor. The silver frost is called $$$$$Yes, and the pu...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 15, 2009, 9:53 am
Last week I posted about Chanel’s Spring 2010 runway show in Paris. Last winter, Chanel’s Jade Le Vernis made quite a splash and most definitely set off the green nail polish trend this se...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 11, 2009, 5:24 am
Free shipping alert! Offer is from now to October 24, so get on it. No promo code necessary! If you buy a nail color, share it with us! Email varnished@bksince87.com or twitpic us @VarnishedNails!
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 11, 2009, 5:19 am
In celebration of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, OPI has released a perfectly pink shade- Pink of Hearts. The bottle sports the pink ribbon. So support the cause by purchasing Pink of Hearts and of co...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 9, 2009, 10:40 am
Bring on the Columbus day sales. Enjoy this 20% off coupon from Barielle. Plus if you buy two nail colors, you get the third free.  What could be better than that?
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 9, 2009, 10:20 am
Here comes another dark and vampy inspired collection- this time from salon favorite essie. The collection boasts of an additional color Marshmallow- which essie describes as a “bouncy sheer whi...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 7, 2009, 10:31 am
I guess it’s all about Chanel this week! Collection Noirs Obscurs by Chanel is availble now. As the name alludes, the collection is all about dark, deep and broading colors- which is all the rag...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Oct 7, 2009, 10:18 am
How could you not love Chanel? Classic modern elegance with a funky edge- lovin it! The Spring 2010 collection is bright, cute and youthful.  The French runway was transformed into the Chanel farm, c...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 28, 2009, 10:21 am
So October is just around the corner and so is every kid’s favorite holiday- Halloween. However, beauty and fashion trends seem to be leaning toward the gothic and vamp look all season long. Var...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 23, 2009, 2:50 pm
The much coveted Chanel Jade collection is now available on the Chanel website! $25 is a little out of my budget (especially since I don’t really like green), but I may have to to test this out!...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 23, 2009, 2:21 pm
So I was doing some daily web browsing, when I stumbled across Revlon’s new (well not so new, it’s been out since April- but this blog didn’t exist then!) Fruitful Temptations collec...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 16, 2009, 6:35 pm
So I finally tried to Matte look. I’m loving it so far. To achieve this look I used OPI’s Here today…Aragon Tomorrow with Essie’s Matte About You and OPI topcoats. First I appl...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 14, 2009, 12:14 am
The MTV VMA awards was absolutely insane. Everyone is still reeling from Kanye West’s totally disrespectful and disgusting behavior toward country singer Taylor Swift. However, this blog is abou...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 12, 2009, 9:53 pm
Fashion week is officially on! The weather’s been quite sucky the past couple of days here in NYC , but that hasn’t halted fashion lovers from seeking out their favorite clothing collectio...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 10, 2009, 1:36 pm
Tonight is Fashion’s Night Out: a global initiative to promote retail, restore consumer confidence, and celebrate fashion, U.S. and international editions of Vogue are coordinating evening extra...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 10, 2009, 11:46 am
So I was reading my daily RSS feeds, when I stumbled across Bella Sugar’s report on the growing Nail Polish for Men trend. I think there is nothing wrong with a man getting a manicure or pedicur...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 9, 2009, 2:10 pm
So I recently purchased Grape Escape by Barielle Shades and took it with me to the nail salon. The color is not “crayola purple”, but has a slightly toned down appeal. With that said the p...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 9, 2009, 1:24 pm
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 6, 2009, 10:24 am
Yesterday, I finally decided to quit being a recessionista and I got a long overdue Mani-Pedi at my favorite nail salon, Polish Nail Spa. To my surprise, right on the front counter was the brand new E...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 4, 2009, 12:04 pm
I just spotted this freebie on Twitter courtesy of KitchenBitch (which is a fan-run twitter account for Lafayette Reynolds of HBO’s True Blood- lol). Nylon magazine is giving away the new Sparkl...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 3, 2009, 9:27 am
Are you a nail fanatic? Are you currently rockin’ some crazy nail designs? If so, you can be featured in the new Varnished Fanatics Photo Gallery! And if they’re really cool, you might eve...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 1, 2009, 11:42 am
Rihanna at Six Flags Great Adventure I know everyone is sick and tired of a new Rihanna photo hitting the net every single day. However I can’t help it if her nails are fierce, don’t shoo...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Sep 1, 2009, 11:27 am
Whitney Houston- Million Dollar Bill Even though Whitney Houston has yet to release a video for her latest single, Million Dollar Bill (produced by Swizz Beats and written by Alicia Keys), I had to g...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 31, 2009, 3:49 pm
MTV Super Sweet 16 star and Star Trak artist, Teyana Taylor gets Minx’d at Honey Mag’s GlamRoc Atlanta event. (You like how I made Minx’d a verb? LOL)
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 31, 2009, 3:30 pm
BTW sorry for the picture quality, I’m still getting use to this! I received my order of Here Today…Aragon Tomorrow from OPI’s Espana collection a couple of days ago, but was too bu...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 31, 2009, 8:30 am
Just thought I share a pic of the new Mac x Jin Soon nail collection that I took in Bloomingdale’s SoHo NYC. Enjoy!
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 28, 2009, 11:46 am
“…If you’re not seen green, you better be wearing jade” Green is all the rage this season. I’ll be honest, green is not one my favorite colors, but I have been wearing ...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 26, 2009, 4:05 pm
Pics from Cassie and her photo shoot with Dimepiece has been circulating the net for a couple of days now. Cassie and Diddy have been twitpic’ing the images from the woman’s streetwear lin...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 26, 2009, 1:31 pm
Depicted: Cool Reserve, Dry Martini, For Fun I woke up this morning and was greeted with the lovely image above in  my mailbox! The long awaited Jin Soon x MAC Nail Lacquer collection is finally ava...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 25, 2009, 9:00 am
Jamie Foxx- Digital Girl featuring Drake, The Dream, Kanye West What’s the correlation between music and nail polish? Well plenty! Artists and musicians are styled by fashion & beauty professio...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 24, 2009, 12:17 pm
With the popularity of the teenage girl meets vampire twisted  love story Twilight and countless other vampy tails (my fave happens to be True Blood on HBO), it’s no wonder that the Vamp/Dark ...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 22, 2009, 10:22 am
Hard Candy cult classic Sky Do you remember Hard Candy? Memories of my middle school days and making trips to Sephora to check out all the new colors,  all came flooding back when I heard the news...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 22, 2009, 9:16 am
I scoured pictures from the Fall 2009 runways to see if I could come up with any nail trends. I noticed a lot of bare nails and black nails (this year seems to be the year of the vamp- but I’ll ...
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Anita N. posted an article on Varnished - Aug 21, 2009, 11:28 pm
Kim combines a matte and glossy top coat to achieve this look In an earlier post I discussed the new matte nail polish craze which gives nails a flat and almost rubbery look. I mentioned that I want...
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