Guest Post on Chit Chat Nails

Good Afternoon Babes! Today I'm over at Marta's for a guest post on her blog Chit Chat Nails. Click the picture below for a link to her post.

Kisses
Marketta

**CLOSED** 200th Follower Giveaway

PLEASE READ DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY! FAILURE TO DO SO IS AUTOMATIC DISQUALIFICATION. THIS GIVEAWAY IS OPEN INTERNATIONALLY EXCLUDING ITALY, SORRY TO MY ITALIAN FOLLOWERS.



Hello Babes! I'm excited to announce this giveaway for all of my lovely followers. I'm sorry that I have to be so strict about the rules but during my last giveaway things were not done correctly which made things much harder on myself, so please read everything carefully before submitting your entries. Bettina was kind enough to sponsor a giveaway for me, so I really wanted to try for the LE Disco Collection from Fall/Winter 2011. This was a true LE and were so few left that I don't even have a whole collection to give away, but what was left the lovely people at Bettina were generous enough to send over to me for this giveaway. There will be 2 Winners for this giveaway, and it is open Internationally (excluding Italy sorry). You MUST be at least 18 Years Old to enter this giveaway or have a legal guardian's consent, and to accept the package on your behalf. You Must Follow Me On GFC (Google Friend Connect) if you are on Blogger and Bloglovin in you aren't in order to enter this giveaway. You can only enter this giveaway once, additional entries will be disqualified. You can gain 1 additional entry each by: following me on Twitter, tweeting about this giveaway, following me on Facebook, posting about this giveaway on Facebook, and posting about this giveaway on your blog. I want to keep this as simple and easy as possible on everyone :o). Now onto the prizes shall we?

Edit: Apparently Rafflecoptor isn't letting anyone leave FB links, if that's the case just leave the link below, along with your GFC or Bloglovin name name you follow me under in 1 comment only. I've made some changes to the form so hopefully you have no problem from now on. Those who have already entered I have saved your entries, so no worries :o)


Prize 1: Disco Hot Pants, Peace, Groovie, Hippie, and Boogie

Prize 2: Disco Groovie, Hot Pants, and Peace

Keep reading after the jump to enter this giveaway.

Fierce Friday: Party On My Yacht

Good Evening Babes! I know its been a while, but I know you all understand that life happens. I have Party On My Yacht by Pretty & Polished to share with you this evening. Chels of Pretty n Polished and the creator of this lovely gem said the name came from the gorgeous champagne colored sparkles and brightly colored "summer shore" colors. Application and formula was amazing and it took 3 thin coats to reach full opacity. There's gold, purple, green, and hot pink glitters, along with blue bar glitter packed in a milky white base. I topped it off with a nice coat of SV and it was perfectly smooth. The first 2 pictures are taken outside in natural sunlight, the last picture is indoors.

What do you think of POMY? I can tell you that I was DROOLING for this baby and it didn't disappoint! If you like what you see in the pictures then you will love it in person because its even better! You can purchase POMY along with a large assortment of Chels other frankens on her Etsy Shop. She has full size and mini bottles available for purchase. Thanks for stopping by and reading what I have to share :o)


Kisses
Marketta

Pink Wednesday

Good Morning Babes! Today for Pink Wednesday I have Models Own Pinky Brown. Pinky Brown is from the Beetlejuice Collection that came out this past fall. PB has the prettiest pink to brown duochrome shift with pink glitter. It looks like it has a very tiny sprinkling of holo glitter which I think is what gives it the glass flecked look. I don't know, I really stared at this polish for a long time and its just so interesting. I'm really bad at explaining this particular lacquer so I will just let the swatches do the talking. I used 2 coats in the swatches below, and SV as my tc.

Please excuse my dry cuticles, I rubbed vitamin e oil on the and they are still bad. This winter has not been kind to my poor hands, thus the nubbins. These swatches aren't my best due to cleanup being a bit hard because by the time I got around to my last swatches for the day my cuticles were extremely irritated (especially my ring and index fingers, ouch :o( ). So what do you think about Pinky Brown? I LOVE IT! Thanks for stopping by and reading :o)


Kisses
Marketta

50th Follower Giveaway Winners!

Hello Babes! I know this is waaaay overdue but when I say that I have had A LOT going on, I mean I have had A LOT going on. I know you understand that life happens, and on top of that I traveled a lot for the holidays. Next time I will make sure that a winner is drawn and announced the very next day. I was very frustrated with how I had to sift through all the entries individually because I had the first Rafflecoptor form and something somehow got messed up and so on. It was just time consuming so as I was going through the entries I would write a name on a piece of paper and put it in a bowl as I went through and verified each entry. For example if you had 3 entries by tweeting, fb, and posting my giveaway, your name was on 3 different little scraps of paper. I put the lid on, shook up the bowl really good, and just picked out 2 pieces of paper. My next giveaway will be done through the simple form and chosen through the Random application to make things easier for myself. Enough blabbering and onto the winners...

Prize #1 Winner: GFC Marta Warmuz of Chit Chat Nails

Prize #2 Winner: GFC KayJay at Refined and Polished

Both winners have been notified by email and have 48 hours to respond. If there is no response new winners will be picked.


Kisses
Marketta

Bettina Grape

Good Afternoon Babes! Today I have Bettina Grape from the Candy Collection (which I still need to share swatches of). Candy is a pretty periwinkle blue creme that took 2 coats to become fully opaque. Dry time was really good and it dried to a nice glossy finish. For the swatches below I used Konad ip m78, special white polish, and SV as my tc.

 

Here's Grape on it's own...

What do you think about Grape? I really love this blue, but I absolutely hate my nubbins! This stamp was actually too small for my nails before, so I'm happy to be able to go stamp crazy. However, I can't do this short of length, so I will grow them out to a nice comfortable short length that I'm happy with and can still enjoy stamping. Thanks for stopping by to let me share with you :o)


Kisses
Marketta

Readers Request: Models Own Emerald Black

Good Morning Babes! Today I'm sharing Emerald Black with you from the Models Own Beetlejuice Collection. Marisa from Polish Obsession asked me if she could see a swatch of this beauty because I raved about it on Twitter, so of course I had to post it because she's the nicest girl ever. I was up late with Rie (Nails and Noms), and Jen (The Polishaholic) waiting for the clock to strike and the sale go live, but after the order was placed it was a little bit of a nightmare for me. I will get into that story at a later date when I swatch the rest of the collection. For the swatches below I used 2 coats and no top coat. Application was very good, and so is the formula. The duochrome effect is very subtle in this baby but its there. I really love this one and its my second favorite from the whole collection, and I wasn't even going to get this one if I had to pay for them individually and not the set. Onto the swatches...

What do you think about Emerald Black? I really love this shade, and I will definitely be getting my moneys worth out of it and not collecting dust. This is my last post with my long nails :o( I have super nubbins right now because this winter is taking a toll something serious on my hands and I have some peeling. So tomorrow will be nubbins! Thanks for reading :o)


Kisses
Marketta