Michelle in a Nutshell

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE!

I just had a wonderful day and evening spent with loved ones, lots of laughs and delicious food. Oh, and some awesome gift-giving went down as well...score!

Seeing as I'm headed out of the country tomorrow for 10 days and won't be able to post on here since I won't even have an internet connection most of the time, I thought I'd make one last mini post about today's nails and makeup :)

(photos taken with my iPhone)

I know, I know, this post (as well as the gift ideas) is pretty last minute, but I still wanted to share a few of my gift ideas which are mostly DIY (do it yourself). 

I think DIY gifts are always thoughtful and interesting - and I love gifting them as well as receiving them. So here's what I chose to gift a few of my best girlfriends.

Today I finished decorating our apartment for Christmas and thought I'd snap some photos. 

I really love decorating for the holidays and I sometimes peruse the pages of blogs and Pinterest looking for decorating inspiration.

So I thought I'd share my decorations if any of you are looking for some last minute ideas :)

Get ready for photo overload...

I'm back with another holiday nail tutorial! Woo woo!

Alright, I'll stop tooting my own horn. But hey, don't we all love nail polish and nail art?

Ya...I thought so :)

So, here's something I came up with last Sunday whilst hanging out at home on a cold wintery day. I was of course inspired by Christmas but I didn't want to use the traditional red and green colors. So I went for a simple "wintery" shade with this light blue.

Hope you like it!

I've noticed lately that I've been wearing a few lipstick and lipgloss combo's lately and thought I'd share them for anyone looking for some lip inspiration. 

I love reading blog posts about lip products because personally, I find the lip products area at any makeup counter to be quite daunting. I like to know what I'm looking for in advance, swatch it at the store to make sure it's right, and then buy it. Quick process. Since there are so many shades available, I quickly feel overwhelmed and don't know which shade is right for me.

On December 5th, 2013 the first Inglot store in Switzerland opened in the Löwencenter in Lucerne!

A little while ago, my friend Hollee sent me a link to a blog post featuring "candy cane nails". I've seen this idea on a few blogs and YouTube channels but I wanted to tone down the candy cane pattern to one nail instead of having it on all 10. Hollee also asked me how one should go about making this design, since the aforementioned blog post didn't include any instructions.

I've been loving quite a few MAC Cosmetics eyeshadows lately so I thought I'd share them for anyone interested! I really like reading blog posts about random eyeshadows because I find it's much easier to decide on which ones you might like rather than going to the MAC counter and being overwhelmed with the choices. 

So here are my picks at the moment!

Anyone else out there having as much fun with their Ciaté Mini Mani Month advent calendar as I am?!

I discovered this Christmas tag on Fee's blog Makeup Savvy and thought I'd join in on the fun since I also love the Christmas season! Georgina from Makeup Pixi3 came up with this tag so click on both these links to check out Fee's and Georgina's answers :)

Photo credit: Pinterest

Happy December!

Yay, December is finally here. Now the joy of the holidays and Christmas can finally set in and no one has to feel guilty that they're excited for Christmas at the beginning of November (me!).

And since it's December 1st, today is the day to....