Nailette you've got to go!!

Nailette It's Time to Break Up

It's not me it's you!

    Hello ladies,

 I've got two manis for you today both are from Essie and also from my Nailette subscription box.  As you read from the tittle I'm canceling my subscription to this box.  Nailette has mainly sent me Essie polishes and I have grown to dispise them.  The polishes are very streaky as you can tell from the pics which are two coats.      When you first subscribe to Nailette you fill out a profile ie answer questions.  One of those questions ask about your skin tone and  of course I selected dark. So why do you think they sent me barbie pastel nail colors? (second pic)  Twice?

I'm moving on to Julep witch is also a nail polish  box however they are original full size polishes and they also have beauty products.  More on Juelp once I get my first box.

Until next time ladies.

Essie: Resort Fling- coral and Hide and Go Chic-blue
I do like this color combo of the coral and blue just not the polish formulation.

Essie: Find Me An Oasis-pale blue and Romper Room-barbie pink
These colors on my skin tone are just wrong. It doesn't look to bad here but in natual light oh my!

Nail Inspirations: Disney's Maleficent

Trailer and Nail design

This nail look is inspired by the Disney movie Maleficent starring Angelina Jolie in theaters today.  I’m going to see it on Saturday with my Mom, I can’t wait.  Until then I’m posting a preview followed by the nail design.  Enjoy!

Nail Design

OPI: Love Music Angel Baby and 4 In The Morning with custom glitter on top.
Ring finger are her horns and the thumb is M for Maleficent of course.

Found this at Toys R Us and was inspired.

Beauty by Mail

Subscription Boxes

Hello ladies,

I wanted to talk about subscription boxes. Mainly Birchbox, Ipsy, Beauty box 5, Nailette and Curlkit since those are the ones I'm subscribed to.  The cost of these boxes range between $10 and $20 per month.  The beauty boxes consist of samples, the nail box is 2 mini polishes, and Curlkit gives you 2 full size as well as deluxe samples of mainly hair products.

If you spend any time on youtube then you know all about subscription boxes since there are a ton of reviews and unboxing videos out there. What I wanted to know is if some of these mainstream boxes that claim to tailor your box to you really apply to us chocolate sistas.  I'm going to call this series Beauty by Mail, so when you see it as a blog title you know exactly what it's going to be about.  Are any of you ladies subscribed to box of the month clubs?  What do you think of them?  Have a suggestion that falls within my price points?  Leave a comment below and I'll check it out.

Todays Nail look:

China Glaze Gelaze in turned up turquios and Gelish Trends in Are you feeling it?

About This Blog

Hello and welcome to my blog Chocolate Nails and Beauty Tales.  

I was surfing the web the other day from Pinterest to Youtube and blogs for chocolate ladies who love polish like me. Surprisingly I  found very few, so I decided to start my own blog and that is how Chocolate Nails and Beauty Tales came to be.  I thought it would be nice to see swatches and color combos for women of a darker skin tone.  So If you think so as well then please re-post, tweet, pin, leave comments and join me on this journey of all things Polish, Beautiful and of course Chocolate!

China Glaze Gelaze in For Audrey in natural light.