Girly Bits Give Me One Good Raisin

Girly Bits Cosmetics was good enough to donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of Give Me A Good Raisin for every bottle sold on Friday May 6, 2106 and then through the rest of the weekend to the Canadian Red Cross Alberta Wildfire Appeal.  I bought three bottles to help with the cause; keeping one and giving away one bottle each on FB and IG.  Below are the winners; I'll be posting on the appropriate pages the lucky winners to contact me in 24 hours.  

I thought I'd do a mani with my bottle of Girly Bits Give Me A Good Raisin for the winning posts; here's what I came up with!

Started with two coats of Girly Bits Give Me A Good Raisin, no top coat.  

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC before stamping.

I wasn't really sure which stamping polish colour would look best with this moody beauty; I ended up using MdU 33 Light Gray using images from Emily de Molly EDM 22.

EDM22

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.

Girly Bits donated a total of $449 as a result of the two day sales; thanks to everyone who bought a bottle!! If you missed out, it is available here!



So, without further adieu, the winner of the bottle for the Facebook giveaway is Michelle Glitter!



And the winner of the bottle offered for the Instagram giveaway is vanillavixen907!

Update:  vanillavixen907 responded back in 24 hours!

I've tagged both Michelle and vanillavixen907 and they have 24 hours to respond or another entry will be picked and I will update the post accordingly!

Congrats to Michele and vanillavixen907; thanks to everyone who participated!

Update:  May 24, 2106:  Unfortunately I didn't hear back from two tags to Michelle so another winner has been picked.  Diana has been tagged and has 24 hours to respond back!

Hobby Polish Bloggers Giveaway!!!

I belong to the Hobby Polish Bloggers group on FB who have assembled a fantastic giveaway that opened today!! There are 3 cash prizes; the contest is from September 17, 2014 and ends September 30, 2014. Entrants must be 18+ to join, please see additional terms and conditions on the raffleopter.

These are the blogs that have kindly sponsored the giveaway:

A Little Polish http://alittlepolish.blogspot.com

acidicice http://www.acidicice.co.za
Addicted to Polish http://addictedtopolish.blogspot.com
BeginNails: Every Journey Has A Beginning http://www.beginnails.blogspot.com
B'Nails http://boomernails.blogspot.com/
Canadian Nail Fanatic http://canadiannailfanatic.blogspot.ca/
Carinae L'etoile's polish stash http://www.carinaeletoile.com
Copycat Claws http://www.copycatclaws.blogspot.ca
Doctor Crafty https://doctorcrafty.wordpress.com
Fashion Footing http://fashionfooting.blogspot.com
I Feel Polished http://www.ifeelpolished.com
Imperfectly Painted http://www.imperfectlypainted.com/
LacqueredGeek http://www.facebook.com/lacqueredgeek
Lavish Layerings http://www.lavishlayerings.blogspot.com/
Les essais beauté de Schette http://schette08.free.fr/essaisbeaute/
Lit From Within http://beautylitfromwithin.blogspot.com/
Lustrous Lacquer http://www.lustrouslacquer.blogspot.com
Manic Talons http://www.manictalons.com
Manicure Addict http://www.manicureaddict.com
Pamper with Polish http://www.pamperwithpolish.com
Peer Pressure Polish http://www.peerpressurepolish.com
Plump and Polished http://www.plumpandpolished.com
Polish Galore http://www.polishgalore.com
Polished and Glittered http://www.polishedandglittered.com
ProcrastiNails http://www.ProcrastiNails.com
Sammy Gail's Nails http://sammygailsnails.blogspot.com
Sassy Shelly http://www.sassyshelly.com
Shelby Lou Nails http://shelbylounails.blogspot.com
The Dalai Lama's Nails http://www.thedalailamasnails.com
The Polished Hippy http://thepolishedhippy.blogspot.com/
The Polished Mommy http://www.thepolishedmommy.com/
The Sparkling Hoard http://www.thesparklinghoard.com/
xoxo, Jen http://xoxojen.com

Please see here to enter:

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Good luck!

Digit-al Dozen Mega 2nd Anniversary Giveaway!!!

Tomorrow is the start of Digit-al Dozen challenge week!  But here's some exciting news....the Digit-al Dozen is having a fabulous 2nd Anniversary Giveaway!!!

Welcome to the Digit-al Dozen 2^nd Anniversary Giveaway !!!

It’s been 2 years since the Digit-al Dozen first got together and although we’ve had a few different line-ups in that time, one thing has remained constant  - our love of nail polish and nail art!!

To celebrate, we are holding a legendary Giveaway featuring 51 prizes.!! To all our brilliant sponsors,we can’t thank you enough for helping us set this up for you, our amazing readers.

Because we have a large amount of sponsors, they all have different shipping policies.   When you start the Rafflecopter, you will be asked which country you live in, because some prizes are only available in certain places.

Ready?  Here’s the list** –

INTERNATIONAL PRIZES

·        Above The Curve - Summer Destinations 2014 – 4 polishes

·        ALiquidLacquer - 5 polishes

·        Alter Ego Nail Enamel - 4 bottles

·        Black Dahlia Lacquer – 4 bottles

·        Celestial Lacquers - 6 bottles

·        Cupcake Polish - $25 gift card

·        Delush - 3 bottles

·        EllaGee - 4 bottles

·        Lacquistry - 4 bottles

·        Literary Lacquers - 6 bottles

·        Indigo Bananas – 6 bottles

·        Serum No 5 - 4 bottles

·        Vivid Lacquer - 4 stamping plates

·        Girly Bits - 2 bottles

·        Jindie Nails - 6 bottles

·        Superficially Colorful - $25  GC

·        Darling Diva Polish - 4 bottles

·        Llarowe - $50 GC -

·        Amazing Chic Nails - 2 bottles

·        Mrs. P's Nail Potions - $15 gift

·        Black Sheep Lacquer - 2 polishes

·        Renaissance Cosmetics - 3 full size bottles (in stock items only) and mini cuticle oil

·        Laquerlicious Nail Polish-3 neon toppers. Beat The Heat, At The Lake and Lemon Limeade.

·        Nayll – 4 bottles of custom made polishes – you get to make your own!

·        JORD Watch; $129 voucher

·        $85 GC from The Digit-al Dozen, to a nail e-tailer of your choice

·        tube of Liquid Palisade from Kiesque

·        Nailed Kit decals set

US ONLY

·        Daphine Polish - 5 bottle Summer holo collex

·        GlitterDaze - 4 bottles

·        Gothic Gala Lacquers - 5 bottles

·        Karma's Kiss Lacquer - 4 bottles

·        LoveAngeline – 2 Gemstone polishes

·        LynnBDesigns- 5 bottles

·        Majestic Lacquer - 3 bottles

·        Philly Loves Lacquer - 4 bottles

·        Savoie - 4 bottles

·        KBShimmer - $35 electronic CG

·        6 Harts Polish - 2 polishes

·        Overall Beauty - nail art tape sets (with different colors nail tape) with nail wheels and nail art  decals plus a bottle nail polish (mystery color ), and a set of Overall Beauty Minerals ( 6 colors)

·        BKD - Space Sauce Teardrop Shaped Nail Polish Pendant Necklace - Nail Polish Jewelry

·        Shimmer – 5 bottles

US & Canada Only

·        Smokey Mountain Lacquers - 4 bottles

·        The Polish Bar - 4 bottles

·        Canadian Nail Fanatic – mystery package of 6 bottles

UK ONLY 

·        Quirk Polish - 3 bottles one of kind unreleased polishes 

·        All one prize – 1 x Freckles polish, and Freckles Polish Necklace, and 1 x bottle from Laquerdaisical

·        All one prize - Stellar Polish -  1x polish and ring, 1 x bottle from Little Lost Ones

·        Pretty Quirky 2 x full size bottles 'Stole the Bouquet" and "Deva' , PLUS 1 x bottle from R+ R Lacquers

·        a voucher for a personalised planner from Personal Planner UK

·        a zip up pouch with set of brushes and dotters plus a selection of nail art: nail stickers, flat gems   and rhinestones from Nailtopia

That’s an enormous list, isn’t it!!  How exciting – ok, so you know what you need to do, enter the rafflecopter and we’ll let you know on September 25^th(or thereabouts) if you’re a winner.

The Giveaway will close at 11.59pm GMT on Tuesday September 24^th.  If you are a winner, we will let you know which prize you have won, and then we will then put you in touch with your sponsor to claim / choose your prize (some sponsors have provided specific prizes; some will let you choose your own polishes).

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Good Luck!!!

**subject to change; there have been some additions and removals

The Great Nail Polish Canada Giveaway of 2014!!

You may have seen out in the blogesphere that Nail Polish Canada is doing this absolutely phenomenal giveaway with up to 200 (!!!) bottles of polish being offered in a giveaway!  Here's the polish I nominated to include in the giveaway; Cirque Kaleidoscope.

For a base, I wanted a colour that wasn't in the glitter colours so that the glitters would pop; started with a base of two coats of Butter London Bramble, no topcoat.  While there is purple glitter, it' not this dark.

(The shine on this is incredible; that's my arm mirrored in the thumb!)  Topcoat would have made my application look a little better but I knew I was topping this with Cirque Kaleidoscope so no topcoat.

Added a coat of Cirque Kaleidoscope.  (Again, no topcoat.)

While pretty with one coat, wasn't the glitter impact I was going for; so added a second.  This is more of the look I was going for!  I had no issues at all with the glitters laying flat even though I did top with topcoat, although I did have to do the dab application method to fill in a few areas that didn't have as much glitter as I would have liked.  It is not that there is a shortage of glitter in this bottle or that it wasn't on the brush, but moreso to get it in the place I wanted! I found that I would apply it, and then when I wiped over it a second time to add more glitter, the first glitter swipe of glitter would move.....just easier in the end to dab!

Stamped using white Konad special polish using Sugar Bubbles SB022.

Sugar Bubbles SB022

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

While I chose a darker base to highlight Cirque Kaleidoscope, I really don't think there is a colour that this wouldn't go well with!  It is such a fun, bright polish with so many different colours and shapes of glitter.....I loved how this turned out!  

Here's the raffleopter to enter the Nail Polish Canada giveaway!  According to the rules, you can enter on this raffleopter as well as on the raffleopter of any other blogger who has nominated a polish! Go! Go! Go!

Good Luck!  

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If you have a blog and would like to nominate a polish (the more bloggers who nominate polishes, the bigger the giveaway), please go here!

Thanks for looking!

Sally Hansen Prize Pack Giveaway!

Just before Christmas, I received a surprise package of Sally Hansen 2014 Spring products.  I was so thrilled to receive sneak peeks of the lines including two Sugar Shimmers, one being this one, Sally Hansen Sugar Plum**.

Sugar Plum is fairly sheer and two coats gave good coverage, but I did three as I'm not a fan of VNL on me and it was quite obvious in the pix. But if I was wearing this as a base for regular use, two coats had sufficient coverage.  I did find that the third coat minimized the texture in the polish.  

I did a Valentine's mani using this polish too!  I know it's late but am going to share anyway as love is timeless, right?

Started with a base of three coats of Sally Hansen Sugar Shimmer Sugar Plum.  Love the golden shimmer in this one!  Since these have been released, I quickly picked up the rest of the Sugar Shimmers; I love texture polishes!

Stamped using white Konad special polish and Mundo de Unas stamping polish in 20 using Pueen 41 on all fingers except accent; ring finger was stamped using BM-412.

Pueen41


BM-412


Topped with SV to finish.  The Sally Hansen products have now been released; I've seen them in several stores including Shoppers Drug Mart, Walmart, Rexall PharmaPlus and Target. While I was sent two of these Sugar Shimmers for review, I did pick up the rest recently as I love texture polishes!  I do hope that Sally Hansen continues to release more Sugar Shimmers...and makes them available for sale in Canada as I know past releases never made it here!



Sally Hansen Canada and Veritas Communications have also generously offered to host a giveaway of Sally Hansen products!  The winner of the giveaway will receive10 Salon Effects Nail Polishes and 2 Salon Effects Nails Stripes, with a value of $90!!!  Please note that the products will be mailed by the sponsor, who has asked that shipping be within Canada so please ensure that you have a Canadian mailing address to enter.

 

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Thanks so much again to Sally Hansen Canada and Veritas Communications for sponsoring this giveaway!  Good luck and thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does Monochrome; Day 1..plus DD Giveaway!

It's the first Digit-al Dozen Challenge for 2014 but before I get onto the nails, please make sure you go way down to the bottom of this post for the raffleopter for the new Digit-al Dozen Giveaway!  There are lots and lots of awesome prizes; the contest is open internationally; however, for some of the prizes, shipping is US only so please be sure to read the rules and regs for more information!  Good luck to everyone!

Here's the mani I came up with for Day 1 of the DD monochrome challenge. (Please excuse these pix if the cleanup isn't the best or my pix are fuzzy; I have eye infection in both eyes and everything is fuzzy all the time so I can't tell even while I'm posting these pictures if the image is clear or fuzzy!)



Started with a base of two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, and top coated (no pix as have shown many times).  Sponged using Barry M Grey.



Added lighter gray sponging using Sinful Colors Cool Gray.



Added stamped image from FUN 6 using FUN black stamping polish.



Topped with SV to finish.



Here's the other ladies Day 1 challenge mani's!

Thanks for looking!



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Christmas Overload and Giveway is Up!

How about a little Christmas overload!  This mani is a smattering of a few things associated with Christmas!  

Started with a base of one coat of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, topped with two coats of Contrary Polish Hallelujah, topped with SV.

Bottle pix of Contrary Polish.  This picture, you can see both the very fine glitter as well as the golden shimmer.  While I did a coat of white as a base, I *think* that full coverage could be achieved using this in three coats. It is simply beautiful!

Added assortment of images; MoYou Festive Collection-03 (thumb and pinky), HD-E (index), HD-F (middle) and Chez Xmas-001 (ring).  Polishes used for stamping are Sally Hansen Jumpin' Jade (green), Kiko 323 (brown) and Konad special polish (red).  I did some minor filling in on a few areas that didn't stamp as well as I wanted (but see now I still missed a few areas lol!)

Added random dots and glitter to accent.  The added glitter is from KBShimmer Kringle All The Way; the polish dots are from the same stamping polishes.  I wanted to add a star to the top of the trees but when I picked one from a bottle of polish, it was too large to fit on top of the trees. Then I remembered that I had received a Sally Hansen Nail art pen as part of a promotional package** so decided to use it for some hand drawn stars. My freehand skills are still to be desired but I still like how the stars turned out!  The pen was easy to use; I'll be doing a review of it and others in future posts!

Added a few more random dots to accent.

Topped with SV to finish.

I loved how this turned out (well, minus the ouchies I'm sporting again!)

I also have some exciting giveaway news!  I mentioned a couple posts ago about a giveaway and here's the details!  There is one prize only....one lucky person takes all!   The prize consists of the following:

Seven MJ plates have been supplied by My Online Shop (MJ XI, MJ XVII, MK XV and MJ Special Edition plates as well as XXV, XXIII and XXIV test plates which are slightly different that the ones that the shop sells even if you have these already!!).  Also, three MoYou plates; Festive Collection - 04 (the elusive sweater mani plate that keeps going out of stock!), Pro Collection-06 and Time Traveller Back to the 70'x 01.  The three polishes shown are also included; KBShimmer Snow Flaking Way, KBShimmer Urban Camo and I Love Nail Polish Babes in Toyland.  

In addition to the above, there's still more more!  There's a brand new Canadian indie polish maker, Candy Nail Polish, who has also offered your choice of three full size polishes from the the Candy Nail Polish Holiday Collection.  Please make sure to check out the Candy Nail Polish link for a better look at the polishes as you'll need to list your three choices from the Holiday Collection only to answer one of the raffleopter options.  

Please feel free to click on the pix to look at better or visit the websites to view!

 

Please go here for better look at My Online Shop plates (except test plates).

Please go here for better look at MoYou plates.

Please go here for better look at CandyNailPolish.

I'm going to do things a little different this time and attempt a raffleopter (if anyone notices as error, please comment below as me and raffleopter don't seem to get along too well...but I do think I figured it out!!).  The contest will run from today's post until the time runs out on the raffleopter on or about Monday, January 6, 2014. Once a winner has been chosen and verified, they will have 48 hours from the time of the email notice to contact me; if no response is received, another winner will be chosen.  Open internationally; please refer to giveaway policy for further details!


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Thanks so much to My Online Shop, Candy Nail Polish and MoYou UK*** for their generous sponsorship in the giveaway!  It is gratefully appreciated (and will certainly be appreciated by the one lucky winner!) Other items have been provided by moi!

Good Luck!!!

**item received for review; please refer to disclosure policy for information.

***The MoYou plates are plates that either I bought or had been sent a second plate in error. In the instance that I did receive the second plate by error, I had contacted MoYou to let them know that I had received an extra plate and had asked if they wanted to have it returned or if it was OK to use for a giveaway; they had indicated it was OK to include for a giveaway!