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Sparkle Into The New Year

Happy New Year!  I took a long two week break from blogging to hang out with family, eat and drink WAY too much, and just generally enjoy life, but I'm back now and ready to kick 2013's ass.  (Can you kick a year's ass?  Is that possible?  If it is, I'm ready to do it!)

It may be a new year, but my love for glitter nail polish shows no signs of going away, and I'm pretty okay with it.  So of course, I must have this new Jewelry Top Coat Set from SEPHORA by OPI.  How fun and sparkly is it?  There are four shades of glitter in it - Sugar Plum Fairies Gone Wild (clear medium and chunky purple glitter), Glisten to your Heart (clear with fine and chunky magenta glitter), Are you Glistenin (clear with medium and chunky silver glitter) and I’m So Sari (opaque turquoise with fine and chunky iridescent glitter) - and I love them all.  I like that you can use them alone for a more subtle glitter, or over other shades you already own for even more sparkly fabulousness.  I can in no way justify purchasing this for myself, but my birthday IS this weekend, for all of my friends or family still looking for the perfect gift.  Hint, hint...   

Scentsational Nails

Hhhm, I'm kind of on the fence about this one.  As much as I love nail polish (and believe me, if you could only see the insane amount I've somehow managed to accumulate, you would know that it was a lot) I don't know that I need my nail polish to be scented.  Twelve year-old me would've been all over it, but I'm not so sure adult me finds it all that necessary. That being said, I do like a few of these shades from SEPHORA by OPI's new Scentsational Six collection for summer.  I'm really into bright yellow polish on my toes at the moment (weird, I know) and I love the blue shade for toes too.  (Lime green, not so much).  The shades are named after their fragrances - you'll find Mango, Tutti Fruitti, Cherry, Citrus, Blueberry and Watermelon in the set - and costs $24.50 for all six.  I'm kind of curious to sniff them in the store and see what they reall smell like, but I'm not sure this one's coming home with me.  We'll see...  

Glitter The Night Away

Okay, I admit it.  I love glitter nail polish.  I love it so much more than I even did when I was a thirteen year-old kid just starting to wear nail polish.  I don't know why, but it just makes me happy.  I mainly wear it on my toes (because who doesn't like to see some glittery feet in sandals) but every once in awhile I wear it on my fingers too, especially around the holidays.  Which is why I'm totally using my Sephora Friends & Family discount to buy this Four Piece Full Size Nail Colour Set.  The four shades - Only Gold for Me, Be-Clause I Said So, Are You Glistenin'? and Sparktacular - are SO pretty, but sadly, only available online which is kind of annoying because I'd rather just pick them up at my Sephora this weekend.  But still - for only $28 for all four, it's a great deal and totally worth it.  I'll be glittering straight through New Years Eve!

A Mini Manhattan

I'm so nail polished obsessed lately and I'm totally coveting this new Manhattan Minis Collection from SEPHORA by OPI.  It's not in stores yet (or at least, it's not in any of the stores I've been to) and usually I like to see polish shades in person before I buy them, but I'm considering just using my Friends & Family code to order this set without laying eyes on it first because I love the colors and the shade names so much.  Here are the six shades in the collection:

• The Sparkle That Never Sleeps
• Never Know 'Til You Tri-beca
• What's Brooklyn Good Lookin'?
• I'm on the List
• Say It Ain't So-ho
• Stand By Your Man-hattan

So fun, right?  And I love mini bottles because they're so much easier to travel with or take to the salon.  At $22 (or even less with the coupon) this will so be mine as soon as possible.  My New York City loving self demands it!  

Rocker Chic

I'm a huge fan of the Sephora by OPI polishes and an even bigger fan of their mini collections.  Because, really, unless you use a polish many, many times, you're almost never going to go through an entire full-sized bottle.  Plus, for the price of two shades, you get to test out four.  And you can easily pack them in your bag for touch-ups or when you travel.  I'm especially loving this Rocker Chic Mini Collection of the new fall shades because there's not a dud in the bunch.  (You know how usually there's one shade that makes you go, "Who would ever wear this?"  Not here).  Here is what you'll get in the set:

• Just a Little Dangerous - opaque metallic amethyst
• Fiercely Fabulous - opaque poppy red
• Already Famous - sheer pewter with medium champagne and silver glitter
• Go My Own Way - sheer muted teal blue with fine blue glitter

I think my favorites are Already Famous and Just a Little Dangerous, but I love the other two almost as much.  (I'm a sucker for a good bright red, and how pretty would the teal shade be on toes?) 

The Rocker Chic Mini Collection costs $18 and is at Sephora stores now.

Glitter Bomb

I really have no idea why, but for the past few months, I've been totally obsessed with using glittery nail polishes for my pedicure.  I just really like the way they look, especially since I tend to go pretty basic for my manicure, so it's a way to be funky without looking like I belong on an episode of "Jersey Shore" (my new favorite reality show).  Sephora by OPI has a bunch of glittery shades and I love them all.  Here are the ones I recommend checking out:

• Too Good For Him - A clear shade with purple, red and blue glitter, it tends to look purplish after a few coats.  Super pretty.
• Absinthe Makes The Heart - Described as a "smoky dark gray with green and iridescent glitter," this one is probably the most dramatic.  I wore it for seriously about three straight weeks before it started to wear off, so that made me love it even more.
• Worth My Weight - I love the sparkles in this shade, which Sephora calls a "gold with iridescent and silver glitter."  It's super shiny and looks great with sandals.  (This is the part where everyone on the east coast hates me because it's January and here in L.A., we're all still wearing open-toe shoes).

Keep in mind that taking off polishes with glitter in them is always a little more difficult than removing regular polishes, but I think the extra effort is totally worth it.

You can find all the Sephora by OPI polishes at Sephora stores and on Sephora.com.