Emerald Nails: Sally Hansen Mint Sprint and Piggy Polish Embrace Adventure

I'm really feeling this emerald trend—the jewel tone is especially beautiful for winter. Here are two nice options. I love the Piggy Polish shade—it has a little more shimmer to it. The price is a bit higher ($7.50 at Ulta.)

Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Mint Sprint is a great value (just $3.59 at Target). Of the two it has a more glossy, satin finish. I love this product because it applies evenly and the opaque shades require only one coat.  

  

The Well-Dressed Nail: Sally Hansen Pink Satin

Here's a simple black French manicure. This metallic rose shade from SH is beautiful and unique with many possibilities. Try layering gold glitter on it—gorgeous, I'm sure! 

Sephora by OPI And a Cherry on Top

Nothing like a gorgeous, sexy red mani for Valentine's Day. This shade has a sheer jelly-like finish. To add some depth I layered it with coats of a glossy topcoat. In the middle of the layers I added one coat of the sheer glittery shade Luxe and Lush from China Glaze.

A Butterfly Moment and Pink Yet Lavender from OPI Mariah Carey Collection

I bought these two shades because they look good together but I think I'll get a lot more wear out of the golden nude-pink shade (A Butterfly Moment). I found Pink Yet Lavender to be a very standard chunky, multi-color glitter shade and I'm sure I could find a close match for much less. But I wanted to try them together in a glitter gradient and I like the way it came out—this will definitely be my New Year's Eve mani!

Sephora by OPI What Film Noir You In?

If you're in the mood for vibrant gemtones here's a shimmery fuschia that will make your nails glow for the holidays. While I was looking at the Sephora by OPI display in the store I saw a picture of this shade layered over another shade I recently posted about here, Here's Lilac In' At You, Kid. I would never have thought of doing this but I gave it a try at home and I'm very happy with the results! Thanks Sephora!

Sephora by OPI It's All About Me

My favorite nail model Aryana is back and here she is wearing the smoking hot pink shade It's All About Me. Sephora describes it as muted hot pink—I would describe it as a classic Barbie pink.  Loving this for Valentine's Day or just for any day!

Emerald Green Accessories

Sigh of relief...tangerine is over. Pantone has chosen the shade Pantone 17-5641 Emerald as its color of the year for 2013. I would describe the shade as somewhere between kelly green, teal and gorgeous. Expect the color to be ubiquitous in spring collections everywhere. Meanwhile you can start the trend early with these emerald accessories.

Pictured on right:

Polished Plane Earrings

$32 at anthropologie.com

Below, from top:

Lodis Swivel iPad Case

$98 at nordstrom.com

elago iPhone case

$9.99 at amazon.com

Cole Haan Jitney Electronic Wristlet

$78 at zappos.com