Nails Inc. Mini Holiday Collection
Don't want to take lots of full-sized bottles of nail polish on holiday with you? I don't blame you. I'd much rather use that space for multiple mascaras, primers and foundations, obviously, but if you want to make room for something else, Nails Inc. have the solution, in the form of this Mini Holiday Collection. This contains five mini nail polishes, all in shades of red or pink, so you can still change your mind about which colour of polish to use, without weighing your makeup bag down. They'll also have the benefit of allowing you to test out some new colours without paying full price for them, too.
Buy: Nails Inc. Mini Holiday Collection, £15
Matching your nail colour to your ice cream may seem just a little too much for some of you, but 
My nails suck. No, really, they do. I've never been a nail biter, but I can't stand the sensation of long nails on my keyboard, and I rarely have either the time or patience to give myself a proper manicure, so I tend to just file them down as short as possible and leave it at that. The result is a set of nails that are strong and healthy, but which just don't look very good. 
This is possibly not the most accurate way to try and work out which nail polish to buy, but it's a bit of fun for a Wednesday afternoon, anyway! It's O.P.I's virtual nail studio, which allows you to select your skin tone and then try out different O.P.I. shades to see what looks best. "My" hands are shown wearing the classic 'OPI Red'. Let's just say that if I'd stopped at that one, this post would've been written a whole lot quicker..
NARS Orgasm. It's ever-popular as a blusher, and now you can grab it for your lips and nails too, courtesy of Sephora, who are selling this limited edition set for $30.
No, it's not a fan, although I guess you could have a lot of fun fluttering it around and pretending to be Marie Antoinette. If, you know, you were that way inclined...
I am spectacularly bad at fingernail maintenance. So bad, in fact, that while my toes are always painted a deep red, or some other colour, for my fingers I prefer to stick to clear gloss, sometimes with a hint of glitter - anything, in other words, that's easy to apply and doesn't look too noticeable once it (inevitably) starts to chip. French manicures, then, are totally out of the question: they just take too long to apply and are too fiddly for a very impatient Dollface to get to grips with. 
There really is no end to the number of beauty products you can try and sell on the basis that they're "for Valentine's Day", is there? As far as I can tell, the two main principles are that the product in question has to be:
fulfills this criteria on both of these points. The colour is a nice, dusky pink, and the bottle is heart-shaped, which is actually a really nice touch, even for non Valentine-related occasions. It's also only $2.99, which is a pretty nice price, too. 
'Warmer nails' is actually a bit of a misnomer here, because this nail polish from Japan doesn't actually warm your nails, but claims instead to keep your hands and feet warm. This has to be a better idea, because I don't know about you, but I can't even remember the last time my nails felt cold...
I'm not very good at wearing nail polish on my fingernails: I seem to have a talent for chipping it, and there are few things I hate more (beauty-wise) than chipped nail polish, so I tend to stick to clear or sparkly stuff on my fingers. My toes are a different matter, though, and I feel totally undressed without a slick of bright red nail polish on them - which is probably why I now own about five bottles of the stuff. 
...but only if you care about beauty "fashion", obviously. I don't, particularly, and I'm not a huge fan of blue (I wear a lot of black, and I don't think the two colours look good together), so I probably won't be buying this, although some ofthe reviews I've been reading might tempt me to try it out at least.
The nude look is super-hot at the moment - just ask 
Chanel's Le Vernis nail polish requires no introduction, but meet 'Dazzling' and 'Delice' - two new colours launched as part of Chanel's Holiday Collection 2007. I'm particularly keen on 'Dazzling', which is a true red, the kind of colour you see on Hollywood movie stars circa 1947. 
If you're anything like me, you're probably always finding yourself running out of the door with wet nails, promising yourself you absolutely won't touch anything until they're dry - and then ending up at your destination with nails that look like your dog chewed them. 
