Last weekend my friend Julia came to visit from Washington, D.C.

We had a fun, girls-only weekend of shopping, nail painting, baking and wine drinking. Julia even brought her Anthropologie holiday ring along so we could stage a little photo shoot with matching rings!

This week I have my nails painted Zoya Ciara while Julia opted for CHANEL Rouge Noir, one of the many polish changes she made throughout the weekend (she wasn’t going to let the Valente girls show her up!)

I have an adorable video of Janey and Julia baking brownies that I’ll be uploading later today.

What’s on YOUR nails this week?

Joining our long list of holiday collections debuting this season is the exquisite CHANEL Holiday 2009 Collection Cage Dorée de Chanel.

Inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s fascination with the brilliant plumage of exotic birds this enchanting holiday collection encompasses shades of flamingo pink and peacock blue – accented with shimmering tones of green-gold, copper and teal.

The star of this collection is the Les Tissages Lamés de Chanel Shimmering Tweed Highlighter. This limited edition powder highlighter has delicately ‘woven’ shades of gold, bronze and copper to bring a luminous, party-perfect glow to cheeks and décolleté.

And, of course, it wouldn’t be a proper CHANEL collection without a new nail lacquer. Trapeze, shown on the model above, is a radiant silver-beige.

CHANEL Holiday 2009 Collection Cage Dorée de Chanel is currently available online at Chanel.com.

Janey attends a private school where she needs to wear a uniform every day and is not allowed to have polish on her nails.

For a girl surrounded by fingernail polish, this has proven a very difficult task. (Especially because she has two older sisters that paint their nails several times a week!)

One of the highlights of Janey’s weekend is rushing home on Fridays after school to paint her nails.

Today she selected Taboo! by Color Club Lacquer, a deep purple full of pink and gold shimmer.

This also happens to be the shade I’m wearing this week as well. (Although, I must say, my painting skills are much more refined than Janey’s.) (Not to brag or anything. I mean, I do have 31 years of experience over her.)

I also just realized I forgot to show you the color I was wearing last week. If you follow me on Twitter you might have seen this Twitpic showing that I, once again, rocked Chanel Diabolic:

I can’t get enough of it!

What are your favorite nail shades this season?

CHANEL has announced that Vanessa Paradis is the new face of Rouge COCO de CHANEL, an international campaign that will launch in 2010.

Paradis was featured in this Coco CHANEL advertisement in 1992:

She also served as Karl Lagerfeld’s muse in 2003 for the CHANEL Cambon Handbags:

The new range of CHANEL lipsticks featuring Paradis in the campaign will launch internationally in 2010.