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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!

winter nail trends

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.

essie winter nail polish collection

Monique Lhuillier spring 2017 New York Fashion Week runway nails

 in Beauty / General Fashion / Nail Polish  tagged essie / monique lhuillier / new york fashion week / nyfw ss17 / runways / spring 2017 / summer 2017 by

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Monique Lhuillier sent her spring/summer 2017 collection down the New York Fashion Week on September 12, 2016. The collection was ethereal, dreamy, and romantic. Ah! Monique Lhuillier is always perfection!

As one of my favorite shows to attend every season, I eagerly await Monique Lhuillier’s runway show. Her designs are unique, beautiful, flattering, and make dreams come true. The details on her clothing, combined with the extremely high quality materials, and construction, creates a collection like no other. No-one compares to Monique Lhuillier.

To make Monique Lhuillier’s show even more magical, Essie shared with me the secrets to achieving her runway nails right at home! Love that! The nail polish colors on Monique Lhuillier’s spring 2017 New York Fashion Week runway were romantic, dark, mysterious, and vampy. This has been a nail polish trend throughout the spring 2017 runways in New York. I love the unexpected, dark colors for a traditionally pastel season!

Without further adieu, here are the tips for recreating Monique Lhuillier’s spring 2017 runway nails at home:

Finger Nails:

Base Coat: first base base coat

Two coats of color: Wicked

Top coat: good to go top coat

Toe Nails:

Base coat: ridge filling base coat

Two coats of color: adore-a-ball

Top coat: good to go top coat

Voila! How simple is that? Easiest runway nails ever! I’m so excited to try these nail combos myself in order to achieve a spring 2017 look on my nails; even it is too cold outside to wear all the new spring trends!

Essie nail products used on the Monique Lhuillier spring 2017 runway at New York Fashion Week:

Pre-order your favorite looks from the Monique Lhuillier spring 2017 runway. My favorite looks are in the shopping widget below. Be sure to scroll through to see them all and click on what you would to shop!

Photos courtesy of Essie