Winner of my birthday giveaway

Hi girls,

I've just found a winner of my birthday giveaway!

I've emailed Zebra Nails, and now await her getting back to me. She has the usual 48 hours, or another winner will be picked. 

Congratulations!! ♥

I won Essence polishes!

I was so incredible lucky to win Maria's giveaway recently! I won Essence's "Ready for Boarding" collection: Five different polishes. Amazing, huh? 

Look how pretty they are:

Exits on your right, Destination Sunshine, Beauty on Tour, Sending you Kisses, Via Airmail

I don't think I would have bought this collection myself, but I was really happy to win it. Sometimes it's nice when other people "force" you out of your comfort zone, and Maria sure did that with these. 

I decided to try two of them right away. I went for the yellow, which I would definitely not have picked myself, since it's both yellow and pastel, and the orange, which is actually a pretty cool orange! 

I know I wouldn't be able to rock the yellow by itself, so I made a gradient:

Do you wonder where the label of the bottle went? Well, the yellow polish was suddenly all over the place,so I had to wipe the bottle with acetone - and whoops - the label was gone too! :|

I like this! Those two colours just look fantastic together! 

But! Something's missing - let's add some glittah! 

I applied a coat of Alix Avien number 164. I love that glitter, I'm going to use it on as many manis as I can, LOL!!

Now we're getting there. It's like a shiny sunrise! And here comes the sun!!

This stamp comes from Bundlemonster's plate BM01 and the polish is Sally Hansen Insta-Dri "Wined Up".  And it is on purpose that the suns are stamped on randomly :) 

So hurray for my new polishes, and a million thanks to sweet Maria! ♥

February Nail Mail

Here are the polishes that I enrolled in my stash during February.

First some Barry M polishes, that I just couldn't live without: 

Lilac foil, Lavender and Hologram

Lilac foil should be just as perfect for stamping as their silver and gold foil polishes. We'll see about that. 

Vivid Purple, Bright Purple, Shocking Pink and Racing Green

I bought the following in a blog sale: 

China Glaze: Techno Teal and Blue Hawaiian. Orly: Royal Velvet

Dare to Wear: Love Potion and Dancing Shoes.
Cácee BFF: Lucy. Finger Paints: Vintage Violet

Sally Hansen: Insta-Dri: Blazing Blue and Rapid Red.
Teflon Tuff: Wink, and X-treme Wear: Disco Ball

I was also so very lucky to win the first prize in Caitt's Giveaway. Here's what I won: 

OPI: Pearl of Wisdom, I'm not really a waitress and The Color to Watch

And she even threw an extra prize in, which wasn't mentioned at all: 

BYS: Voodoo Violet

Thanks, Caitt, I can't tell how excited I was to find this extra gem in the box!!

I bought these myself:

Sinful Colors: Sugar sugar, Pearl Harbor and L.A.Colors: Voodoo

L.A.Girls Rock Star: Punk, Overdose and Groupie

Jordana: Purple Glam and Cosmic

That's it for February. I have said to myself that I won't be buying polishes in March, but I have ordered some polishes in February that hasn't arrived yet, so there will be a March Nail Mail post whether I keep that promise to myself or not. :D 

We'll see how it goes. Perhaps I stumble over a polish that is too hard to live without! ;) 

I won a prize...!

...in Kay's from "Nuts about nails" giveaway! 

And seriously - I won the best prize of them all. 

I won Two China Glazes and a little teddy bear, called "Holly Bear-y". 

Take a look:

She's holding two China Glaze nail polishes: 

It's the green creme Holly Day and the red creme Winter Berry.

It's the perfect prize, because I didn't buy these two particular polishes, and I kind of regretted that. But now I have them anyway! Yay!

And it gets even better, because Kay had included something extra in my well padded package. A package of nail protein treatment and a red polish called Moscow, both from Nailtiques.

It's awesome. I am so grateful!! Thanks Kay. ♥