SoFlaJo Pink If You Love Me Swatch/Review

Good morning everyone! Today I have a beautiful new polish from SoFlaJo to share with you called Pink If You Love Me. This light pink holographic would make the perfect manicure for Valentine's Day! ;)

Pink If You Love Me is a lovely rose pink with a holographic finish. It has a great formula and was opaque with no visible nail line in three coats.

You can purchase Pink If You Love Me on SoFlaJo's website. What will you be wearing on your nails for Valentine's Day?

The product in this post was provided for my honest review.

Zoya Naturel Collection Swatches/Review

Good morning! Today I have swatches from Zoya's latest collection, Naturel. Naturel is a collection of six neutral shades. I love neutrals so much and I was so excited to see that these were coming! Let's get to the photos, shall we? And so I don't sound like a broken record, these were all perfect in two coats and the formula was fabulous on all of them! :)

Taylor is a warm light toffee shade. Not sure this looks great against my skin but I love the color!

Chantal is a creamy french vanilla shade. I feel the same about this one as I do about Taylor; not sure it does my skin tone any favors but I like it anyway.

Rue seems to be a sister shade to my favorite neutral ever, Zoya Kennedy. Therefore, I love it! (Avoids making a Hunger Games reference).

Brigitte is a faded mauve shade with a bit of a crelly (creme/jelly) finish.

Odette is a deep orchid shade. I love purple and this one is so unique for my collection!

Normani is probably tied with Rue for my favorite in this collection. This warm gray/mauve is just soooo perfect.

The Zoya Naturel collection is available now on Zoya's website and retails for $9 a bottle. Are any of these calling out to you? Are you a big fan of neutrals or not so much?

Products in this post were provided for my honest review.

Stamped Jewel-Toned Snowflake Nail Art

Good morning everyone! Sorry for the little hiatus! Things have been busy around here and I haven't had much time to swatch or anything lately, but I wore this nail art for a while after Christmas and thought I would share. I used OPI Anti-Bleak and China Glaze Queen B for the base colors and applied a coat of Zoya Sparkle Gloss over it. I gathered up all my stamping plates with snowflakes on them and stamped snowflakes on each nail with the white Konad stamping polish. I love this combo, but my next snowflake mani will be over a neutral color!

TDOCNAS: Day 12: Festive Stamped Scroll Design - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Merry Christmas to everyone who will be celebrating today! And to everyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a great day! The last design for my Twelve Days of Christmas series began with a sponged gradient of red, green, and gold. Specifically, I used China Glaze Cranberry Splash, Jolly Holly, and Zoya Ziv. I went over it once or twice to make sure it was saturated and vibrant and then I stamped the scroll design from Gals plate GA33 (I think!) in white over top.

I want to end this post with two separate inquiries. First, tell me what you thought about this series! Did it inspire you to do some nail art of your own? What would you like to see for next year's Twelve Days of Christmas series?

Secondly, I want to know what your favorite Christmas tradition is! Where do you spend the holidays? Do you rush around to a bunch of different family member's houses or do you get to relax a little at one place? What do you eat? Do you do a secret santa or do you buy gifts for everyone?

I'll be visiting my parents and my fiancé's parents this morning and then heading to my grandparent's for the rest of the day (and for an awesome ravioli dinner!). Joe and I opened our presents last year on Christmas Eve after he proposed to me, so we did that again last night! Anyway, have a fantastic day everyone!! :-*

TDOCNAS: Day 11: Minimalist Christmas Tree Nail Art

Ah, Monday again! I won't be too miserable today though because there's only two days left until Christmas! This month really flew by. Today I have some super simple minimalist Christmas tree nail art to share with you. :)

I started out with two coats of Essie Sand Tropez for my base color and allowed it to dry completely so I could form the tree shapes using tape on top of it. I painted China Glaze Glittering Garland inside of the taped area and carefully peeled the tape away right after. I finished the nails with a golden yellow rhinestone at the top of each tree and a coat of top coat to seal everything in. I'm always so intrigued by minimalism and I love how these turned out!

TDOCNAS: Day 10: Textured Ornament Nail Art

Happy Friday!! I'm so excited for this weekend so I can finish up some wrapping and just relax. The past few weeks have been so crazy and as much as I love the holidays, I can't wait for things to calm down a bit. I wanted to do ornament nails since last year and my initial inspiration was to do them as half moons, but I like how they turned out at the tips!

I started out with a base of China Glaze Cranberry Splash and used a matte top coat over it. I painted the ornaments using OPI Honey Ryder, Zoya Chita, Zoya Sunshine, and OPI Baby Please Come Home. To finish the design, I used a nail art brush to create the ornament tops and string with Zoya Trixie.

What do you think? Did you put up a tree this year? Real or fake? We went to a tree farm and picked out our tree this year and it's so full and wild, I love it!!

TDOCNAS: Day 9: A Very Mickey Christmas!

I've been having a terrible desire to go to Walt Disney World the past few days so I thought a Mickey mani was in order for the Twelve Days of Christmas series! I started out with OPI My Vampire's Buff on all my nails except the ring nail. I created dots using black, Zoya Ziv, China Glaze Cranberry Splash, and Zoya Tracie.

On my ring nail, I painted two coats of Zoya Tracie and then used a black liquid eyeliner to draw a Mickey Mouse head. I used a small nail art brush to create a santa hat shape with ChG Cranberry Splash and then used white polish and a dotting tool to create the furry lining and the puff at the tip.

I decided that a trip to WDW in the wintertime is on my bucket list. I want to see the castle all lit up with icicle lights so bad! Has anyone ever been? Tell me about it!