Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear Red Carpet and some gabbling!

Hello!

This may be quite a long post as I feel I have a lot to talk about :)

I will start by showing you what I'm wearing on my nails at the moment -

This is one of the nail polishes that I got in a package from MagicXMaid (more about that later!) and people who have been reading my blog for a while now will know that's it's very unusual for me to wear red on my nails but I absolutely love this red! I usually put reds on and take them straight off again as I don't think they suit me but I think this one looks good. Of course it helps that it's chock full of glitter!

I put it on last night in a rush before going out for dinner and I figured this one would dry quite fast and it did! I probably would have put another coat on if I'd had time but I think this looks fine as it is!

Maz loves this as well. It's one of the few he noticed without me having to give him a prod and shove my nails in his face ;)

So what do you guys think? Does red suit me?! I actually wear a lot of red clothes wise so I don't know why I don't wear it on my nails more... perhaps I've been choosing the wrong shades!

Don't forget to click on the pictures for a clearer view!

So as I mentioned earlier I received a package from MagicXMaid that she sent me for my birthday (I know, it's not my birthday until next week but there was no way on earth I was waiting to open it!). I can honestly say that I think it's the BEST package I've ever received in the post! I was so excited I could barely wait to get home to open it and then when I did I was jumping round like an idiot!! Lets just say that I'm not going to run out of new polishes to swatch for a while!!

Here's an overview of what was in the package but I will be doing a proper post on it later :)

Plus a picture of Barnaby having a look to check that he approves of the colour choices -

Thank you SO much Niki, I absolutely loved the parcel and can't believe you got me so much :)

Speaking of my birthday, it's only a week away now! Still can't believe I'm going to be 30. I am going back to my hometown for the weekend but I don't have much idea what I'll be doing as Maz has organised it all and is keeping it a secret... The one thing I do know is that I will be going out in town with a few friends on the night of my actual birthday (12th). You guys are all invited of course ;) How cool would that be!! The only thing that could make my birthday better is if one of best of mates could be there but she lives in Australia now so no chance!

In other news Maz and I are moving! We finally found a house we like in an area that we like! It's taken a long time. We found out yesterday that we'd got it thus the impromptu going out for dinner and having to put np on in a rush! We had to celebrate :) Fingers crossed we will be moving beginning of October. I don't have many pictures of the place and they're all teeny tiny but here's a picture of the garden -

Exciting!

Seeing as I'm already picture heavy in this post, here's a picture of 5 of my nephews, just because I think they're cute :)

I think that's it... I feel like I've forgotten something but I can always do another post!

Don't forget to enter my giveaway if you haven't already and also don't forget to sign up to MagicXMaid's Christmas Exchange if you haven't done that either!

Thanks to everyone whose already entered my giveaway! Really happy with the response I've had.

Oh and one last picture - some Barnaby love :)

Another Giveaway!

I missed a fantastic giveaway off of my last post!

Tuli from Tuli's Nails Polish & Stuff is giving away some great nail polishes, nail art hearts and other things. All you need to do to enter is be a follower and send her an email. So go visit her blog and enter before Sept 14th! It's a great opportunity to try some things from Israel!

Some More Giveaways!

Hello!


This is just a quick post to let everyone know about a few other giveaways going on on other people's blogs at the moment!


MagicXmaid is having a fantastic giveaway to celebrate 100 followers. You just need to be a follower of her blog to be in with the chance of winning the entire collection of Wet N Wild Craze lacquers!! Get over there by 18th Sept to enter!

Beauty Judy is also having a fantastic giveaway. Again you just need to be a subscriber to enter and send her an email. Enter by 6th Sept to be in with a chance of winning the Nubar Modern Matte Collection!

Finally, painted Lady fingers is having a giveaway to celebrate 50 followers and is giving away the Coraline konad set. Again you just have to be a follower to enter and it ends on 4th Sept!

So that's 3 more chances of winning some great prizes!

Good luck everyone!

Swatches - Collection 2000 Hot Looks

Hey!

I have been quiet for a few days and that's because I'm giving my nails a break from the constant applying and removing of nail polish! They need to recuperate for a while :)

I didn't want to not post anything for a few days though so I thought I'd show you the swatches of all the new Collection 2000 Hot Looks I own. I've shown you a couple of the colours before but here they all are together -

(L-R) Vixen, Hoola Hoop, Dynasty, BMX Bandit, Button Moon, Show Off, Ninja and Hip Hop.

With flash -

Some close ups-

My personal favourites are Show Off and Vixen but I love all of them really! The only one that I doubt I'd wear out is Hip Hop and that's because I don't think it really suit's my skin tone.

They all apply well in 2 coats apart from Button Moon for some reason! Button Moon needs 3 coats.

I think I'm going to swatch all my Barry M nail paints next to show you all! Maybe whoever win's my giveaway may see a colour or 2 that they particularly like ;)

Speaking of my giveaway, I'm amazed at how many entries I've had so far! There was a part of me that was worried that no-one would enter! I'm so happy that so many have and I hope whovever wins loves the prize!

Doing the giveaway has gained me lots more followers so hi to you guys and I hope you continue to read and enjoy my blog once the giveaway is over.

I am loving the giveaway so far so I will definitely be doing more in the future!

That's all from me today! Hope everyone is having a good weekend. I'm off to cook roast chicken for dinner! YUM! :)

50+ Followers Giveaway! CLOSED

Hey!

Finally here is the giveaway post :)

There is only one rule - you must be a follower of this blog and leave a comment below.

I've thought a lot about the prizes and as I've said previously, I can't get too many things but I hope some of you will want what I've come up with :)

Originally I was going to buy the items to giveaway first but then I thought it might be nicer to give people more of a choice so the prize is as follows -

5 x Barry M Nail Paints plus a few extra bits and bobs

OR

1 x Illamasqua Nail Polish plus a few extra bits and bobs

The reason I've given 2 options is that I wanted to give an option that might appeal to my fellow UK bloggers more than the Barry M as obviously it's easy to get here! Of course if you're an international follower and would prefer the Illamasqua then that's fine too!

If you win then I will contact you asking what your favourite colours are and I will choose your prize based on that. I'd like to say that you can choose specific things but I can't guarantee that they'd be available in the shops when I go.

I hope I haven't made this too complicated....

To enter please leave a comment below telling me which option you would choose for a prize.

To get an extra entry follow me on twitter and tweet about this giveaway.

To get 3 extra entries mention this giveaway in your blog.

I will do a random draw on 9th September to pick the winner.

Good Luck and I hope you like this giveaway!

Franken, Konad and Contest Update.

Hi!

I am back from my pet sitting duties. The animals were all so cute! I will show you some pictures at some point :)

I didn't get anytime whilst I was there to do my nails as the puppies in particular were very demanding of attention!

So the following is a np I wore a couple of weeks ago.

This is Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Platinum Frost mixed with Benefit's Curtain Call. Curtain Call is one of my favourite pigments to use as an eyeliner so I thought I'd see what it looked like as a nail polish.

It's actually a lot more purple in real life but I just couldn't capture it!

Then I thought I'd konad it using image plate m56 and China Glaze 2Nite.

Again this was really difficult to photograph as the effect is really subtle!

I must have had to take a million pictures just to get these ones :)

I hope you can see the effect ok. In real life I absolutely loved the result. I kept looking at it all the time!

I'm thinking of making a konad order this week... I really want some more image plates and different colour special polishes... I'm meant to be saving though..... ;)

I mentioned a contest a while ago to celebrate me hitting 50 followers. Well I will finally be putting it up in the next couple of days! I hope you guys like it and all enter :)

I am taking Barnaby for his jabs tonight. Poor little guy doesn't know what's coming!

It's only 18 days until my birthday!! Yayayayayayayaya! I don't know if I've mentioned that it's coming up.... if I haven't then it's a miracle.. I tend to get rather excited..to put it mildly. I think I've been counting down for about 2 months now... I must drive Maz mad!

Anyway enough from me!

Hope you all had a great weekend.