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New Years Nails and New Years Eve Makeup: Glittery and Metallic!

Time to celebrate the coming of the new year with renewed hope for peace, love and prosperity. If you ask me, that requires glitter! Glittery, metallic nails and makeup. Glitter Nail Polish and Metallic Makeup Your Nails Get some bling on your New Years nails with Zoya's Winter Holos! Zoya has put together a glitzy Holographic Trio to make your nails sparkle and shine! The holos have a fine glitter in them which gives the polish a gorgeous glow with a rich depth that I just love. All three holos apply smooth and easy with no streaking. Brighton Brighton is a beautiful nude with silver and gold diamond holographic glitter.  Everly Everly is warm toned red pink with multi colored diamond holographic glitter. Cadence Cadence is a medium pink with multi colored diamond holographic glitter. Get the trio at zoya.com for just $15! Shop on Amazon for lots more holo colors from Zoya! Shop for Zoya Holos See my Zoya polish colors and c

Christmas Flamingo Nail Designs: Fa la la la Mingos

It's holiday nail design time and I was invited to participate in the Holiday Nail Art Challenge at Nail Polish Canada! I always create new fun and festive nail art at Christmas time. I decided to paint some fun, whimsical designs for my holiday nail designs this year. Christmas flamingos.  Fa La La La Mingos They are fun, they are happy, they are pink, and they are a bit quirky for Christmas time in the Philadelphia area which suits me just fine! I had plenty of inspiration.  My neighbor's Christmas flamingo decoration, which I just love to see each year, This super fun Christmas plate of mine, and the flamingo decoration that lives in my  bedroom! It all starts with a sketch to plan the designs and colors. After the planning I started my little works of art by polishing the nails with Zoya Leigh topped with Zoya Bela to create the perfect nude pink background for my flamingos.   Zoya Sandy was the perfect flamingo pink for my flami

Pantone Color of the Year 2019: Living Coral, Coral Youngblood Makeup and Coral Nail Polish Colors

I'm excited about Pantone's color choice for 2019! It's one of those colors that looks great on just about everyone. I took this pic a few years ago at an amazing beach house I stayed at in Sea Isle City, NJ. It's almost the perfect representation of the Pantone Color of the year for 2019. I say almost because, this Coral isn't living. Pantone 16-1546 Living Coral  Click here to visit the Pantone site Coral is a optimistic, bright and happy color. It represents a positive attitude that we desperately need in the USA right now! Coral has always been a favorite nail polish and makeup color at the salon. My clients will be thrilled to know it's the color of the year! I think it's the perfect color trend for clothing, makeup and home decorating for the new year.  Coral Decorating Ideas Last year's Pantone Color of the Year, Ultra Violet , had a strong influence on the nail polish industry. There were many beautiful shades of purple nail col