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Holidays nails with Kendra Scott and giveaway

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The holiday season is fast approaching. With the jolly season around the corner, we need to get our holiday nail game in order! This winter season, we are fortunate in that sparkling, metallic nail polish is a hot trend. Sparkling nails are already du riguer, so this season it is all about picking the color, or color combination, that fits our own personal style. Love that!

Kendra Scott has nailed the holiday nail game this year. For the winter season, she has introduced two drusy nail colors; black and rose gold, as well as three transformative coats including silver leaf, gold leaf, and iridescent leaf. These are the perfect colors, and top coats to wear right now; and throughout the holiday season. Love!

Kendra Scott holiday nail lacquer collection:

Perfect colors to use in conjunction with the transformative coats for a holiday mani:

Well we are lucky bunch! To help make the holiday season sparkle, the Kendra Scott store at Santana Row has sponsored a giveaway to help celebrate you, the readers of Bay Area Fashionista, this holiday season! The giveaway includes everything you will need for the perfect holiday manicure. A classic red nail polish aptly named “True Red,” which will become a staple, go-to red in your nail polish wardrobe, and her hot new “Gold Leaf Transformative” coat from the winter collection. Together, these nail polishes make the ideal holiday manicure!

For a sneak peek of what the holiday manicure looks like, check out my review of Kendra Scott’s Gold Leaf Transformative coat online here.

To enter the giveaway, please leave a comment letting us know your favorite nail polish colors for the holiday season, and use the Rafflecopter below to enter! Giveaway starts November 3, 2016 at 12am PDT and ends November 10, 2016 12am PST. Thank you for your support and good luck!
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*Brought to you by Kendra Scott Santana Row. All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

Kendra Scott Gold Leaf Transformative Coat nail polish review

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Top coat: c/o Kendra Scott Gold Leaf Transformative Coat nail polish for the winter and holiday seasons.

Kendra Scott’s winter collection is here, and as a part of her sparkling line, there are a few, fabulous transformative coats to make our nails sparkle this winter and holiday seasons. Love!

Everyone loves sparkling nails for the holiday season! So, I was thrilled to be able to test out Kendra Scott’s new Gold Leaf Transformative Coat nail polish from her winter collection. I love the gold color, which looks amazing over holiday nail polish colors such as red, green, and black.

The line of transformative coats are offered in gold leaf, silver leaf, and iridescent leaf. In addition to the transformative coats, Kendra Scott has also introduced Black Drusy nail lacquer, and Rose Gold Drusy nail lacquer. The top coats, and nail polishes, are all perfectly on trend, and festive, for the winter and holiday seasons. Love that!

 I love the festive look of the Kendra Scott Gold Leaf Transformative Coat nail polish. It adds instant holiday sparkle to any color of nail polish. For the mani featured above, I used two coats of the Gold Leaf transformative coat in order to add more gold to the polish. If you do one coat, the gold leaf is more of an accent. Another idea is to only add the gold leaf to the top portion of the nail, say the top one-third, for a more understated look.

This Gold Leaf Transformative Coat by Kendra Scott is so much fun! I can’t wait to wear it over other colors during the holiday season such as black, green, blue, white, and silver. It will be so festive and fun for all of the upcoming holiday parties this month, and next! The transformative coat is also perfect for New Years Eve nails too! Love!

You can find Kendra Scott’s winter nail polish collection online here. The Gold Transformative Coat can be found online here.

Kendra Scott winter nail polish collection:

Perfect colors for the holidays to layer with a transformative coat:

*Stay tuned! I have an exciting giveaway for the holidays coming up soon-and it has something to do with Kendra Scott, and nail polish 😉

Essie Satin Sister nail polish review for winter

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Pictured: nail polish c/o Essie Satin Sister nail polish for winter

Essie Satin Sister nail polish is a fabulous dark teal nail color which is perfect for transitioning from fall into winter. This is the color to wear now!

Nail polish trends from the fall season included metallics, reds, pinks, and black. As we move towards winter, and the holiday season, the color palette is not changing too much. We are still seeing metallics, black, and shades of red for the holidays, with the addition of pink hues for the winter season. This makes Essie’s winter collection perfect to wear now, and throughout the winter and/or holiday season. Love!

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The Essie winter collection includes “Satin Sister” which is a green/blue, or dark teal hue that offers a classic fall/winter look. This is the perfect color from the collection to wear as we transition from the fall season, into the winter and holiday seasons. In addition to “Satin Sister,” the Essie winter nail polish collection includes a beautiful classic red hue named “Party on a Platform.”

This classic red is right on trend with the winter season, and it is a perfect color to wear during the holidays too. “Party on a Platform” is ideal to wear alone during the winter season, or topped with a sparkling topcoat such as “Set in Stones” from Essie’s Luxeffects collection for holiday parties.

Essie’s winter collection also includes a beautiful and sparkling gold hue named “Getting Groovy,” which is on trend, and festive for the season. “Oh Behave” is a fabulous pink color which is on trend and perfect to wear towards the end of winter when you want to start thinking about spring. Pink, incidentally, was all over the spring runways, this is a great nail polish color to invest in now, and to wear throughout the cold weather season.

“Ready to Boa” is a fabulous, sparkling burgundy which is also on trend for winter and festive for the holidays. Last, but not least, “Go with the Flowy” is a sparkling white nail polish hue perfect for snow days, New Years, and as a way to lighten up dark winter days. Love these colors!

So far, I have tested one color from the collection, Satin Sister. Essie Satin Sister is such a cool color. During the day, in natural light, it looks like a blueish-teal. At night, under artificial light, Satin Sister appears to be more on the green side. It’s so much fun!

I am looking forward to wearing Satin Sister by Essie often during the winter season, as well as the other hues from the winter collection! Which color from Essie’s winter collection is your favorite?

Stay tuned! I will be reviewing each and every color from Essie’s winter collection this season!

You can find the Essie winter collection online here and here.

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