Happy Holidays Giveaway: Prize Four

Ok, guys!  Only one more day left before I announce the winners for the Happy Holiday Giveaway!!!!!!  Get your entries in stat, and spread the word!  I'm so excited for you guys to get your hands on these polishes because I have fallen in love with each and every one of them.  Let's take a look at prize number four!  As always, click on the pictures to enlarge them.

Let's start with Girly Bits Eight Crazy Nights.  Eight Crazy Nights is a clear based glitter topper with blue and silver holo hexes and squares, and silver holo diamonds.  This polish is absolutely gorgeous in person.  My photos just can't do this polish any justice.  Here, I have it pictured with one coat over Color Club Gift of Sparkle with an accent of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On.  I've also mattified my middle finger so you can see what that looks like as well.

I ended up wearing this polish for three days on my right hand with some snow flake nail art, which I'll show you next week, and I couldn't stop staring at my fingers.  It's seriously one of those polishes that distracts you when you look down.

Here it is a little blurry so you can see the holo effect.

Next up is Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Skating in the Snow.  Skating in the snow is a white based polish packed with iridescent glitters in three sizes, lavender hexes, baby blue squares, sky blue holo squares, fine aqua hexes, and holo fuchsia and teal circle glitters.  My bottle had way too much glitter, so it required thinning and dried a little lumpy.  The winner's bottle has a much better consistency.  This is three coats.

Here's a closer shot so you can see the iridescent glitters.

Here's a macro so you can see all of the colors and shapes.

I'm so excited about this next polish, you guys just don't understand.  Or maybe you do.  I don't know.  Either way, I'm so stoked that I am able to giveaway a brand spankin new bottle of OPI's Paris Couture for Sure.  Paris Couture for Sure is from OPI's 2005 Shopping Around the World collection and has long been discontinued.  This polish is a super rare find, but I managed to find a salon with several new bottles and snatched them all up.  PCFS is a silver scattered holo that says it is a top coat, but it's way too opaque to be a true top coat.  I tried to layer it over a bright color, and it looked really bad.  I'm sure you could layer it over white or silver and it would look fine, though.  Here, I've given it three coats for full coverage.

The rainbow effect is just gorgeous.  I'm so exceedingly happy I found this bottle for you guys!  It's such a hard to find polish that you rarely see it anywhere even online!

Lastly, I have Color Club Gift of Sparkle for your drooling, ahem, I mean, viewing pleasure.  This blue is so highly pigmented that I only needed one coat for full coverage.  I used two coats here for the photos, though.  It is a blue foil with a silver undertone that gives it an almost bright denim look.  I will warn you, this polish stains like a mother.  It's gorgeous and wears for a long time, so I think I can forgive the staining.  Just be prepared with a little extra time when you're ready to remove it.  I tried to stamp with it, but it didn't transfer as darkly as I thought it would.  It did pick up the image, but it didn't go well over another bright polish.  Although, I'm sure it would work fine over white.

There you have it - the final prize of the giveaway!!  You can purchase the Color Club Winter Affair collection and the snowman at Sally's Beauty Supply.  You can purchase Girl Bits here, here, here, here, and here.  Lastly, you can purchase OPI's where OPI's are sold (i.e. salons and Ulta), but Paris Couture for Sure will most likely have to come from a salon.

What polish are you most hoping you get as a gift this holiday season?

Happy Holidays Giveaway: Prize Two

Hello hello!  It's time to take a look at prize number two from my Happy Holidays Giveaway!  If you haven't entered yet, head on over here and fill out the rafflecopter form.  I have swatched all of the polishes from prize two except the snowman.  Here they are!

Let's start from right to left, shall we?  First up we have Color Club Berry & Bright, which is a beautiful red foil that applies amazingly.  Like I said yesterday, these Color Club polishes could all probably be one coaters.  I did two coats here for the photos.  

You can't really tell, but there is a super-micro-fine-crazysmall blue holographic shimmer sparsely dotted throughout this polish.  It's so complex!  It is scented as some sort of berry, but it isn't too strong.

Next up is Dollish Polish Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine.  BStDYO (mouthful much?!) is a green shimmer with fine green glitters.  This polish is very sheer, so you'll need at least three coats for full coverage.  It's a really pretty color, but nothing too unique.

Then, we have Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Santa Baby.  This polish is a white based polish with green shimmer, red, green, and iridescent hexes in various sizes, and white hearts.  The winner's bottle will be much nicer than the bottle I made for myself, which is pictured below.  It will still have the same glitter, just in a ratio that isn't quite so glitter bomb.  As it stands now, this polish is a hungry one that required a thick top coat.

Green shimmer - click on this one to enlarge it.

Here's a closeup so you can see the glitter mix and the iridescent hexes a little better.

Lastly, we have Dollish Polish You'll Shoot Yer Eye Out, Kid!, which is a clear based polish with white and iridescent hexes and huge white snowflake glitters.  The consistency on this guy is a little on the goopy side.  I haven't thinned it yet, but I'm sure it would be much easier to work with once thinned a little.  The snowflakes are a pain to get out of the bottle.  I stored mine upside down while I was working on the rest of my mani, and that didn't really help very much.  I resorted to fishing them out with my brush.  They're a bit heavy, so you need patience for this polish.

Here's a closeup of the iridescent glitters.  It really does look frosty and snowy.  Despite the application issues, I really like this polish! 

Oh, and a note on the snowmen prizes.  The white is a pearly iridescent white with purple and pink flashes.  The red is a red glitter a la China Glaze Ruby Pumps.  I only bought just enough for the giveaway since I had other comparable polishes, so I don't have any for myself to swatch.  Sorry!!

You can purchase Dollish Polish here, here, and here.  You can purchase this particular Color Club and the snowman at Sally's Beauty Supply.

Oh, and I was able to do my snowflake nails last night!  I'll probably have them on the blog closer to Christmas.  One hand looks Christmas and the other could pass for Hanukkah (I may add something to make it more Hanukkah like tonight).  They turned out pretty cute, even though my drawing skills leave a lot to be desired.  As a teaser, I used 13 polishes, including three that are in the giveaway!  Yes, you read that right.  13...  Hah!

What's your favorite polish with massive glitter shapes that are a pain in the butt to get out of the bottle?

Happy Holidays Giveaway: Prize One

Welcome, new readers!  Just so you know, you can Follow my blog with Bloglovin now as well as with GFC! Glad to have you aboard!  Tonight, I'm going to show you swatches of the polishes from the first prize of the Happy Holidays giveaway (click the linky link to get to the Rafflecopter for entry).  I only had 1 snowman, so I didn't get to swatch it, but I was able to swatch the rest, though.  Here is prize pack one.

First up is Girly Bits Eggnogaholic.  Pam from Girly Bits was so super sweet because she gave me full sizes to give away to you guys when I only ordered minis!  Isn't that awesome!?!  Eggnogaholic is from Pam's winter/holiday line.  It is a cream based polish with two different sizes of gold hexes.  I wasn't sure how I'd feel about this polish because I'm not usually into golds or creams, but this may be my favorite holiday polish in the giveaway.  It's a jelly, so you'll need to really build it up for full coverage.  This is four coats by itself.

The glitters spread evenly and came out of the bottle with ease.  The first two coats were a bit streaky, but that could be easily remedied by adding more coats or wearing it over some undies.

Next, let's take a look at a polish I made called All I Want for Christmas...  AIWfC is a clear based polish with micro iridescent and red matte glitters and fine green and white matte glitters.  This builds up well in two coats, but would work well over undies.

You can see the iridescent shimmers much better in person, but this macro shot shows them a little.  Click on the pic to make it larger.

The next polish we'll take a look at is Lynnderella Happy Holodaze!  Happy Holodaze is a clear based polish with hexes, squares, and bars in green, red, silver, and gold.  This is one coat over Ozotic 517, which is a pale green linear holo, and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On on the accent nail.  I applied it using the dab method.

Happy Holodaze does have some squares with reflective curling.  I promise you, though, that all of the polishes laid flat on my nails.  If that's something you don't like, then you'd probably want to pass on this prize pack.

Last, but certainly not least, is Color Club Ho Ho Holly, which is a green foil with a bold gold shimmer.  This is the scented version from Sally's, so it smells a little like a Christmas tree.  The application on all of the Winter Affair Color Club polishes was fantastic.  Most only really need one coat, but I used two for the photos.  Be careful, though, of getting any on your cuticles as it will stain a little.  However, this polish is easy to apply and doesn't flood your cuticles unless you're going fast or not paying attention.

What do you think of prize one?  You can purchase Girly Bits here, here, here, here, and here.  You can purchase Lynnderella here.  I purchased the snowman and Color Club at Sally's Beauty Supply.  My polishes are made with 3 free materials, and I don't test on animals.  All polishes made by me are limited in nature, may have batch variations, and are not for sale.  

I'm off to do some snowflake nails, per popular request!  Wish me luck at free-handing...  It's definitely not my forte.

Happy Holidays Giveaway!!!!

Well, I've been teasing it all week, and it's finally here!!!  Happy Hanukkah, merry Christmas, happy Kwanzaa, happy Festivus for the Restofus, merry End of the World (??eeep!!), and just generally happy holidays, everyone!!!!  Without further ado, here are your prizes!!

Each prize has five polishes plus a few other awesome things that I love that will be a surprise for you guys.  I will say that one item in each prize pack will be something from Sunny at 365 Days of Color.  If you've been reading my Facebook posts, you'll probably figure it out, so don't spoil it for the rest, please!  Each prize will have two full sized polishes, two minis, and 1 mini polish made by yours truly.  Let's break it down.

Prize One

Sally Girl Red Snowman, Girly Bits Eggnogaholic, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer All I Want for Christmas..., Lynnderella Happy Holodaze!, and Color Club Ho-Ho-Holly

Prize Two

Sally Girl White Snowman, Dollish Polish You'll Shoot Yer Eye Out, Kid!, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Santa Baby, Dollish Polish Be Sure to Drink Your Ovaltine, and Color Club Berry & Bright

Prize Three

SoFlaJo Yule Tidings, Girly Bits Long Winter's Nap, Color Club Snow Flakes, Orly Miss Conduct, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer the Man Who Makes the Toys

Prize Four

Sally Girl White Snowman, Girly Bits Eight Crazy Nights, Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer Skating in the Snow, OPI Paris Couture for Sure, and Color Club Gift of Sparkle

This week, I will show you swatches of each of the polishes in this giveaway minus the snowmen, as I ran out of time. This giveaway will run from tonight until next Sunday to leave time for shipping in time for arrival by Christmas/Kwanzaa/Festivus (sorry I'm missing Hanukkah...  I took too long to place my orders.)  Due to shipping delays at the USPS, this contest is open to US residents only.  If you live abroad and have someone you trust who lives in the US that will ship to you, that's fine with me!  Just make sure you let me know where to send it if you win.

Make sure you fill out the entire form so I can check your entries more easily!  I will verify every entry, so please make it a little easier on me by filling out the entire form.  Anything I can't verify will be booted.  If posting to Facebook, make sure your post is public!  Click on the time stamp under your post, and copy / paste the link into the box where prompted.  Comments on this blog post will not be counted toward the Reader of the Month giveaway.

Thanks for your cooperation, everyone!  Good luck and happy holidays!!!


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