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Valentine’s day is right around the corner, so it’s time to decide what color and mood you’ll be sporting for your own V-day manicure. I tweeted yesterday that I decided to go with Essie’s Red Nouveau:For your manicure, there are several attitudes that you can decide to go with:SweetZoya Nail Polish; ErikaOPI; Pink Fridayfrom the Nicki Minaj CollectionEssie; FijiEssie’s Fiji is one of my all-time favorite shades because it is a pale, almost white-pink, but it is opaque, so it isn’t one of those pale sheer shades that takes 3 coats to get opaque and then takes forever to dry and ends up being a thick, gunky mess.ClassicZoya Nail Polish; CarmenEssie; PansySexyEssie; Scarlett O’haraZoya Nail Polish; NorraOPI; Wocka Wocka from the Muppets Collection

I wasn’t familiar with Shielo Hair Technology & Care until they reached out to me, and after doing some more research, I learned that they were created in 2001, to fulfill the need of voluminous, fortifying, and color protecting products that salons were lacking. They debuted their Volume Collection online in 2007, so that consumers could achieve this same voluminous performance in their own homes. They continued from there, and now have five separate lines sold through their website: Volume, Color Protect, Hydrate, Antioxidant, and Anti-Aging.When asked which line would best suit my needs, I chose Hydrate, as my hair could always use some extra moisturizing attention. I received Shielo’s HYDRATE Moisturizing Shampoo and HYDRATE Vibrancy Conditioner.I absolutely LOVE the smell of these products – they contain organic extracts of white tea, shea butter, as well as some other fruit and flower extracts including hibiscus and vanilla cactus. It almost smells like a combination of sweet…

Recyclebank always has amazing initatives and exciting news and giveaways for you! I’m helping to spread the word about the Pantene Nature Fusion plant-based bottle (so incredible!), and not only do they want to educate you, but Recyclebank wants to send you and a friend on an all-expense paid Day of Beauty! Just take the interactive quiz below, and you will earn 20 Recyclebank Points, and be entered to win the Day of Beauty! So…what are you waiting for?

I LOVE scented things – candles, lotion, soap, body wash, room sprays – anything where a fabulous or comforting scent can be incorporated into the product. Whether it’s a warm vanilla sugar, a sweet almond and fig, a pumpkin spice, or a simple shea butter, I’m on board.That’s why I was thrilled to received Caress’ brand new Fine Fragrance Elixir Body Wash. I received the Scarlet Blossom fragrance and I am so in love. The scent is a blend of red lychee and patchouli oil along with their trademarked “Silky Fragrance Infusion”, which uses a combination of multilayered fragrances and luxurious moisturizers to give that amazing aroma and smooth, silky finish on the skin. I use a shower “pouf” to apply body wash, and wow, did this body wash lather! Some don’t really create too much of a sudsy lather, but just a little of this created a mountain of suds!…

If you follow me on Twitter, you probably saw me tweeting pretty often in November and the first couple of weeks in December about the blogger event I was planning. I reached out to Anna (she’s amazing!), the front desk manager or Soleil Spa Palm Aire, a local spa in Pompano Beach, to see if she would be interested in partnering to plan a South Florida beauty/fashion blogger event. She was completely on board, so I got to planning! I reached out to a handful of companies to try and find sponsors and vendors for food, goodie bags product, and giveaways. I was able to secure some amazing sponsors including:Sweet Tomatoes for all of the event food, Zoya Nail Polish donated bottles of their holiday-esque polish Sarah for every goodie bag, as well as some of their amazing new Collection Samplers to raffle off, NYS Collections Sunglasses donated some super cute sunglasses to raffle…

I just scored two Zoya Nail Polishes in gorgeous colors for FREE and only had to pay shipping ($6.95), which is less than the cost of one bottle (bottles retail for $8). You can get this same deal by heading over to Zoya’s website, picking out two colors of your choice (this promotion excludes the “true” and “fleck” polishes), and just enter ZOYA2012 at checkout. My grand total was $6.95 and I chose these two beauties:KotoriZoya describes Kotori as : A dense bright blue shimmer superimposed over a sheer black base. I’m head over heels in love with this shade and I haven’t even tried it yet. Before buying nail polish online, I always search online for swatches by fellow beauty/nail polish bloggers. Looking at the swatch on a website doesn’t always show the polish and payoff in it’s truest form, and I love being able to see how the polish…