5 on Friday - Beauty Items

My top 5 beauty products at the moment are:

1. Bobbi Brown Blotting Papers - I started carrying these in my purse during the summer. They're fabulous.

2. Clé du Peau Lip Contour Treatment - the grown-up way to keep your lips soft in winter.

3. Conair Curl Secret - just watch this video and you'll see why I love this.

4. Boots No 7 Protect and Perfect Day Cream - No 7 is fantastic if your skin is sensitive like mine

5. Sally Hansen Salon Manicure Cuticle Eraser and Balm - use this every night if you're like me and avoid the nail salon

      

Nail Polish

I like the idea of buying only one brand of polish. It's so much easier to keep clean and organized if they're all the same size. Just pick your favorite brand and then stick with it.

Chanel

Every season I fall in love with the latest Chanel nail polishes. There are just so many gorgeous colors.

This collection is available for a limited time for the holidays.

Wouldn't you be happy if you found it in your stocking?

The set includes ten polish colors : Ballerina, Frenzy, Particulière, Distraction, Holiday, Tentation, Dragon, Provocation, Vamp and Black Satin.

I have built up a collection of Chanel polish over the years and keep them lined up at the back of my dressing table. They make a little pop of color in an otherwise neutral space. 

Some of my favorites are :

Black Satin  *  Vertigo  *  Lotus Rouge  *  Vamp

Provocation  *  Blue Satin  *  Paradoxal

Pearl  *  Frenzy

Rose Caché  *  Frission  *  Ballerina

I usually shop online at Chanel.com. The price is the same as in stores, shipping is free, and they kindly offer you samples. Your order arrives in a small black drawstring Chanel bag to keep everything in. Nail polish in a Chanel bag has been my go to birthday gift whenever one of my children is invited to a girls birthday party.

Burberry

Burberry only recently started carrying nail polish. You may have seen it mentioned in Vogue a couple of months ago but then of course it was totally sold out and you couldn't find it anywhere. Having decided that it would make a perfect stocking stuffer for my daughter I kept on looking and voilà it's back in stock.

Poppy Black  *  Oxblood  *  Stone

Essie

Beautiful colors, beautiful bottles, great price - what more is there to say?

What brand of nail polish do you prefer?

Boots No7

Have you discovered the Boots range at Target yet?

It is an English skin-care and make-up brand, and I love it so much that even though I moved to the US in 1994 I still use it. I used to stock up when I went home, or have friends and family bring me products, but now I can get it at Target - yeah!

Some of my favorites are...

Boots Botanics Conditioning Clay Mask 

Boots No7 Intensive Moisture Face Mask

Boots No7 Glycolic Peel Kit

The prices are very low, and the products are very gentle - I find most skin-care products too harsh for my skin, but I love these.