My 182 Giveaway

Well...no more hints...it's finally here!!

My 182 Giveaway!!!

Here are the awesome goodies you could win...

Beauty Factories leopard print false nails (they're a bit of fun really)
NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in French Kiss and Vanilla
NYX Caribbean Palette in St Marteen
NYX Glitter Mania in Gold
NYX Round Lipstick in Tea Rose and Pumpkin Pie
NYX Jumbo Pencils in Cottage Cheese and Yogurt
NYX Round Lip Gloss in Soap Opera Queen, Sparkle and Chocolate Moose
6 Bundle Monster Plates in BM13, BM12, BM10, BM21, BM17 and BM

I love NYX make up products, and these are some of my favourite products. I just bought the Caribbean Palette and it's an amazing neutral palette. I am in love with it.

I'm a little worried about sending polish internationally at the moment, so thought it was best to stick to make up and nail related goodies, rather than polish.

Thank you to everyone who reads and follows my blog. I hope you like this prize!

Giveaway Hint...#2

Ok probably not hinting at it anymore...

But we hit the magic number. Yes the magic number was 182.
So look out for my giveaway in the next few days (I'm just waiting on a parcel to arrive)
It shall include some of my favourite make up, lipstick, lipgloss, eyeshadow etc....and of course some nail related goodies.

In the mean time here's some Blink 182.

And well I'm not sure what to call this...enjoy!

Back to School Giveaway!

Well tomorrow is back to school for me...and I'm actually dreading it slightly. I love the kids I teach, but I can't stand politics. Unfortunately there's politics at the moment. So I've been feeling rather crappy. Which to be honest isn't very cool.

So to make going back to school just that bit more awesome I'm doing a giveaway! It's not much, but hopefully everyone will like it :)

Here's what you could win!

Australis Limited Edition 1, Nubar 2010 and Australis Limited Edition 2.

The giveaway bottles are of course wonderfully brand new bottles of aesome polish, purchased by me. Here are swatches of my bottles of the Australis polishes...just so you can see what you can win!

Limited Edition 1

Limited Edition 2

Open to everyone, international and national.
Giveaway is open from now until the 21st of May 11:59pm.
There is a chance for you to get 5 entries!
(other rules are on the form)

Winner!

So I spent all morning...from 7am till now sorting out the entries to my giveaway and making sure everyone had the right amount of entries. I have been up since 4am...so I had time! (yeah...I wasn't feeling too good, but it seems to have passed now the suns out)


Then Nick got up and helped me with the whole random number generator thing. He put 1 to 280 into a sequence generator so that the top number would be the winner? Boys...but it worked. It found a winner.

Number 88...Annelise!

So congratulations Annelise. I have emailed you, and you now have 3 days to reply.

Thank you so much to everyone for entering and making my first giveaway a success!

Closed!

Well it's a very exciting day. My giveaway is now closed, and I'm going to spend some time double checking everything and finding a winner. I'm debating...get Bradley to draw the winner out of a hat...or use a random number generator...

Thank you to everyone that entered! I was expecting 10 or so entries, since I only had 27 followers.
But there were 88 people that entered and I now have 110 followers...craziness!

Thank you to everyone who answered my nosey questions! Some of you made me feel much better about my collection of nail polishes, a lot of people have around the same number as me! As for polishes that you wish they'd bring back... The holo's were very popular OMGs, Kaleidoscopes and My Private Jet especially, Liquid Euphoria's (which sound awesome), Clairins 230, Rainforest, Mad as a Hatter, Nail Prisms, Merry Midnight, Some OPI DSs, Streetwears and so many more. Yup we want a lot!

Talking about Streetwears...I used to have the most awesome bar glitter Streetwear. I was given it for my 13th birthday...but it got gloopy and I...*gasp*...threw it out. I'm still kicking myself for that move.

Anyway, to answer my questions myself...

According to my spreadsheet I have 395 polishes. Not including double ups or treatments.
According to my count I had just over 400 not including double ups or treatments...hmm...I think I should sort out my spreadsheet.

The polish I wish they'd bring back is...Nail Prisms! Then I could collect them all. In saying that there are so many polishes I want that will never come back. And not all of them are holo or duo-chromes! I had a long list of wishes...but my computer restarted (aka Nick wasted the battery, and I hadn't saved my spreadsheet. That probably explains the discrepancy between my count and spreadsheet)

Since the number of polishes I own has ris3en, I've been finding it harder to store all my polishes. This is my current solution...

Unfortunately all but one of those crates is full... The white material draw is where I hide all my nail wheels...there's a lot of them! The shelf holds my BB Couture, Lippmanns, some nail prisms, OPI mini's and Zoya samplers. The clear shoe boxes were how I stored my stash for awhile...but it didn't work as the boxes weren't strong enough. Now I'm storing random brands in one (LA Splash, Milani, Kleancolor, No.7 etc.) and Wedding appropriate polishes in the other.

If that's not bad enough...

This is my 'Christmas Tree' coffee table. The purple box is my 'to swatch' box and the white box holds more of my nail prism collection, top and base coats and 'to swatch' that don't fit into my purple box. Yup that's Lemony Flutter hanging out on the table and in the glass is my giveaway polishes...just hanging out next to the remover and chocolates.

It gets worse...I didn't take a picture but I also have a large amount of polish in our kitchen to. Just chilling on our cabinet. That's the stuff to swap or the ones I'm selling. I had the philosophy 'buy one for me and one to sell' for while...then I got lazy. So I haven't actually been selling them!

Giveaway Reminder

I'm not so good with the time zone thing. I mean it's Sunday morning, 7:01am here...

According to Google there's still time to enter my giveaway.
My giveaway closes at 11:59pm April 16th...which ever time zone google docs is using!
You have just under 12 hours left to enter.

Please don't forget to make sure you're a public follower. Otherwise I can't see you!

Enter here!

Nail Prisms: Golden Tourmaline 29

So...in my giveaway I may have described Golden Tourmaline as an orangey red holo...
I hadn't actually swatched my bottle yet. Now that I have...It's an orangey redy pinky holo!

Golden Tourmaline had awesome coverage compared to any of the other nail prisms I've tried.
This is only 2 coats. It's a very pretty colour and the holo is more holo than it appears in my pictures, but if you want to see the real holo...click the pic, make it big!

Golden Tourmaline 29

Don't forget if you'd like it win your very own bottle of Golden Tourmaline...I'm giving one away!

Just enter my giveaway here

25 Follower Giveaway! CLOSED

Well the poll has finished so...

Giveaway time!

Thanks to everyone who voted, it made deciding what to giveaway so much easier!
This giveaway is for followers of my blog, please make sure you are a public follower (new followers more than welcome!)
There will be one winner of my giveaway and they will win seven polishes. All polishes are brand new and contain much awesomeness.

Nail Prisms!

 Golden Tourmaline: holo orangey red!
White Diamond: Awesome for layering, duo-chrome.
Amber Ruby: Look at the duo-chrome on that...I mean multi!
Blush Diamond: Pink holo! (this is the darker version of Blush Diamond)

Color Club and BYS

 Starry Temptation: my favourite glitter polish at the moment. Absolutely stunning.
BYS Ocean Breeze: Blue shimmer, glitter and holo strings!
BYS Down the Rabbit Hole: Black jelly and holo glitter...need I say more?

That's 7 awesome polishes!

Open to everyone, international and national.
Giveaway is open from now until the 16th of April 11:59pm.
There is a chance for you to get 5 entries!
(other rules are on the form)

Good luck everyone :)

Congrats to Annelise!

Almost 25...

25 is a good number for me...It's my raffle number, my age and almost how many followers I have!
Unfortunately our address is 24b...almost 25?

Because I love 25 so much, I'd like to do a small giveaway....if I ever hit the magical number! (only one more to go...)

But I don't know what to give away! So click on the poll and tell me what you'd love to win.

(Yes I know I've been posting a lot this morning...but I woke up at 4am, what else was I supposed to do)