Even though these pink nails were shown for a Fall collection, I think Akiko Ogawa's runway manicures would be a great way to welcome springtime. French manicures normally aren't my favorites, but Alisha Rimando created a fresh version by using four colors (Dashing Diva polish in Headliner, Dashing Diva, Cosmopolitan, and Debutante).
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Fashion Week is one of those times, like someone else's wedding, where you feel pressured to look amazing even though no one is paying attention to you. So when I realized my nails were a cracked, bitten mess, I decided to go for a complete overhaul. Enter Dashing Diva. DD is a nail salon that offers a service called Virtual Nails (click through for a list of locations all over the world), during which your nubs are lightly filed and falsies are glued on.
Diva differs from a typical nail salon because of its superior hygiene and sanitation regulations. My favorite being that they give you a set of tools to bring back on your next visit. That and they don't use acrylics that smell like chemicals, you know the ones which often require technicians to wear surgical masks.
At the NY salon, the service costs $35 but that's a small price to pay for nails that are neither toxic nor cause the same kind of damage I'm trying to hide. To find out more about my visit, read more
A fab line of nail lacquers called Dashing Diva has hit the marketplace. They are a chic (and pink!) worldwide salon that specializes in manicures, pedicures and waxing. Although they've been around for a while, somehow they've stayed under the mainstream radar. However, with the launch of their Extra Virgin Collection, they've just entered the big time. Celebs, fashionistas and divas extraordinaire are crediting their fresh and fierce nail polish shades to Dashing Diva!
The collection consists of eight of their best selling colors that range from delicate to dark. All together they now have 150 colors that retail for $7.99 each. From what I understand, they are chip resistant and the color stays true. Also, they are DBP, toluene and formaldehyde free. This means they are better for the environment and are less smelly. Yay!
