Chanel May Le Vernis & Paradis Rouge Coco

I wanted a LOT of things from the Chanel Spring collection this year. I really wanted the eyeshadow quad, the two single shadows, the liner, the blusher, all of the polishes and several of the lip products but I managed to talk myself out of everything in the end. The eye shadows, well the European baked formula often leads to disappointment and I have similar shades already to the single shadows, I don't need more lipsticks, I never wear gloss and although I really liked all the nail polish colours I couldn't justify the best part of £60 on three polishes... and I couldn't decide between them so I thought I'd skip them all. I found a similar blusher I liked just as much so didn't need that stunning blush, which left the liner. Grenat. I still really fancy that if I'm honest. I tweeted loudly and clearly, left, right and centre that I'd be skipping this collection. Yes I did. In hindsight though it seems that was more an effort to convince myself and apparently I fooled no one. Especially since whilst I was busy in my bubble of denial I was lusting after everything from this collection on blog posts all over the net. And leaving comments saying how much I wanted things. Sigh.

So, it'll come as no surprise to most that I ended up caving in and buying a couple of bits. Actually I was extremely conservative for me! Two things! If I hadn't gone in to Debenhams and physically looked at the display then this would never have happened!

So, waffling over, I'll show you what I picked up. Somehow I ended up without the liner I really wanted, so I may go back for that at some point.

I did picked up the Le Vernis in May and the Rouge Coco in Paradis which I totally fell for when I swatched in store.

I'll show you the polish first, Le Vernis Nail Colour in May. I liked all three, I couldn't have all three. I dabbed them all on my nails in store and still couldn't choose. So in the end I went for the highly scientific method of picking the one named after my birth month, May (£17.50).

Yeah, it's pink. Its a lovely shade of pink though. I must say this was a dream to apply, two coats (as shown) is good enough, three would have been perfection but not entirely necessary. I wore this chip free for four days before removing to swatch another polish. The wear was excellent, however, I'm trialling a new base and top coat and am sure that has had a lot to do with the longevity of this. I'm sure it could have gone another couple of days without needing to be removed. I was so pleasantly surprised by this polish. I really enjoyed looking down at my nails. It's pink, really pink, but it's not barbie pink if you know what I mean! Very happy with that purchase.

Then there's Paradis Rouge Coco (£23). I don't know why I fell so hard for this, I just really did. I swatched all the new shades in store and this one called my name. Bright and spring like but not too pink and not too full on.

Obviously I have to include the usual weird wide angled big nosed unflattering shot. A Lady of the Lane post wouldn't be complete without one these days!

It's not my first Rouge Coco but these are a lovely formula promising to deliver 8-hour hydration with a single application. Actually I didn't get 8 hours from one application, more like 5, but I'm not complaining, that's not too shabby at all really!

So that was it. As I say, I'm still being taunted by the Grenat liner which is a deep dark berry shade... we'll see if I can resist it's siren call!

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