The Great Sephora Giveaway!! ::CLOSED::

Hello my lovely followers both old and new. I am so happy to say I just hit over 100 followers here on the blog and over 200 on my Tumblr. You gals are so amazing, and I am so very thankful to each and every one of you! You keep me posting week after week. I'm hoping this giveaway will show you just how thankful I truly am.

The Great Sephora Giveaway will have two prizes and two winners! The first winner will receive a $50 Sephora gift card. Yes, you read that right! $50 to spend at your local Sephora or on Sephora.com.

The second winner will receive a $10 Sephora gift card. Okay, so it's not $50, but look on the bright side. That's $10 that doesn't come out of your pocket!

I purchased these gift cards through Swagbucks by taking various surveys, completing offers, and other such tasks. If you decide to sign up for Swagbucks for yourself you can use the code SBISONTHEGO during your sign up for an additional 60 swagbucks on top of the normal 30 you get just for signing up. This will give you a great start with 90 swagbucks. This code is only valid until Friday, August 3rd at 11:59 pm P.T. so sign up quick!

::NEED TO KNOW::
This giveaway is open internationally, however Swagbucks says Canadian residents can only use these cards in Sephora stores. I repeat, these gift cards are not valid for purchases on Sephora.com to Canadian residents. I recommend my other international followers to check with your local Sephora if you have any doubts you can use these gift cards. Just because I say it's open internationally doesn't mean your Sephora can't still refuse to take them. Still, did I mention these gift cards don't expire? Free money with no expiration date?? Cool, right?

This giveaway will run from Wednesday, August 1st to Saturday, September 1st. Winners will be announced shortly after, once I have had a chance to go through the entries.

Last but not least, I will send out winning emails to two lucky followers shortly after giveaway ends. Winners have 24 hours to reply before I choose a new winner. These gift cards are e-gift cards so they will be sent to your email after I receive confirmation. However, if the winners prefer I can also print and mail them.

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Pastellista palloilua



Tähän pilkkumaniin sain idean Chalkboard Nails blogin Gradient Dot Manicure -postauksesta, jossa hänellä on neutraalilla pohjalla oransseja ja tummansinisiä pilkkuja. No melkein kopiohan tämä minun on eri väreillä vaan, hehe...

Valitsin lakkauksen pohjaksi söpön pastellinsinisen China Glace Kinetic Candy* lakan, jolla lakkasin pari kerrosta. Pohjan jälkeen tartuin dotting tooliin, siirsin paperille vaaleankeltaisesta Orly Lemonade pullosta vähän lakkaa ja pistelin isoja pilkkuja kynsien kärkiin ja pienempiä keskemmälle kynsiä. Seuraavaksi vaihdoin lakan oransiin China Glace Peachy Keeniin ja toistin samat vaiheet. Nimettömiin ja peukaloihin lisäsin pillkuja vielä kolmannella lakalla: vaaleanpunaisella China Glaze Dance Babyllä. Lopuksi lisäsin kynsiin kerrokset Seche Viteä pilkkujen kuivuttua. Kannattaa oikeasti odottaa, että koristelut on kuivaneet ennen päällyslakan lisäämistä ettei se levitä niitä. Tuo Peachy Keen on muuten ensimmäisiä China Glaze lakkojani. Muistan kuinka innoissani olin silloin siitä ja ihanahan se on edelleen :) 


Taas tälläinen aikas yksinkertaisesti toteutettava lakkaus. Dotting toolin sijasta voi käyttää vaikka nuppineulan päätä ja hammastikkua :) Nämä oli mun mielestä tosi hauskat ja sopi kivasti kesävaatteisiin :p Mitäs mieltä te olette?

Orly Lemonade, China Glaze Peachy Keen, China Glaze Dance Baby ja 
China Glaze Kinetic Candy


* China Glace Kinetic Candy saatu Ihanat kynnet verkkokaupalta

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Day 17: Glitter

Let me get one thing straight before I write this post, I am not a glitter person. I dont like glitter on my clothes etc, and I dont like it on my nails. Unlike with the clothes though it's because I dread taking them off because I use remover pads rather than polish remover and cotton buds so I can't use the foil method. That being said, if I can try forget about removing them I quite like the look of them, even though I dont own very many (aka 5). I wanted to do a gradient (surprise surprise) and also decided to mattify it.. so here you go :)



The nude is Models Own and the glitter is China Glaze - Blonde Bombshell topped off with Rimmel Lycra Matte Top Coat

Alice

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On Safari: Purr-fect Plum

Hello lovelies! I bring good news, great news even! The prizes for my upcoming giveaway have arrived and I will be spending tomorrow setting up the post and Rafflecopter so be on the lookout August 1st.


With that awesome news, I bring you today's post. I know it can't really compare, but I hope you enjoy another On Safari swatch.




This is Purr-fect Plum. I thought it really was going to be the most perfect of plums but it went on so much darker than I was expecting. The color was much lighter in the bottle but went on the deep, dark color of an actual plum fruit.




On Safari is a China Glaze fall collection however, so this color will be perfect for Autumn. I actually have the perfect matching outfit already and can think of another handful of ways to use this color.




Here is a look at Purr-fect Plum in direct sunset lighting. Is this not a really gorgeous color? I can just imagine how wonderful this will look surrounded by brightly colored leaves or even against the brightness of snow.




The only thing besides Fall that could make it better is nail art! As I said in my previous post, I'm hoping to continue with a tribal theme. This isn't the design I had sketched out, but I think it works somehow.




It's a bit of an odd design, isn't it? Maybe not fully tribal ... it actually kind of reminds me of a door. A heavy wooden door? A castle door? I don't know but whatever it is, I like it.

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Shaka Hologram Silver n°06



Smalto Shaka hologram silver n°06
Meraviglioso smalto olografico bianco/argento, (in assoluto il mio preferito!)  l'effetto al sole è spettacolare formando un arcobaleno abbagliante!
Consistenza molto liquida e per ottenere la massima coprenza si consigliano 3 passate...
Prezzo: 1.99 €

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Shaka Hologram Violet n°03



Smalto Shaka hologram violet n°03
Stupendo smalto olografico (uno dei miei preferiti!) color viola molto chiaro e delicato ma al sole diventa uno spettacolo!
Consistenza molto liquida, per ottenere la massima coprenza si consigliano 3 passate!
Prezzo: 1.99 €

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Shaka Hologram Sky n°04



Smalto Shaka hologram sky n°04
Bellissimo smalto olografico celeste chiaro, il colore è simile all'Holographic 033 di Pupa ma al sole è molto più brillante!
Consistenza abbastanza liquida e per ottenere la massima coprenza si consigliano 3 passate...
Prezzo: 1.99 €

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Shaka Hologram Nude n°01



Smalto Shaka hologram nude n°01
Color marroncino molto molto chiaro con uno stupendo effetto olografico.
Consistenza molto liquida e per ottenere la massima coprenza si consigliano 3 passate!
Prezzo: 1,99 €

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Day 16: Tribal Nails (Part 2)

I really didn't want to take these nails off, so I did what I originally intended to do with them (but forgot to do like a doofus) and mattified them! I love mattified nails as I've said before, not only do they make taking pictures a billion times easier but they also look so cool! I hope you like them as much as I do :) (Part 1 here)






I used Rimmel's Matte Top Coat in addition to yesterday's colours

Alice

P.S. Do I get some kind of woman/blogger points for actually managing to post this before midnight (shock horror)?

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Day 16: Tribal Print

I love doing tribal print. Somebody asked me to do a tribal nail set for them a while ago which forced me out of the 'I won't be able to do tribal print and I'll feel like a failure so I'm not going to try' mindset and made me do them, and they're great because my OCD can fade away and I dont have to be precise, I can just splodge whatever the hell I want on there and hope for the best. However, I did get a bit carried away on the detail today, I can never be simple can I? I hope you like them :)








I used toooooo many colours to list but the black and white is acrylic paint :)

Alice

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Day 15: Delicate Print

This one had me stumped for ideas until I changed 'delicate print' into just delicate, and then I instantly thought of fairies. My fairy is not very delicate and neither are the stars from her wand but she's still cute right?





I used China Glaze - 'Something sweet' with Essie 'Shine of the Times' and acrylic paint, topped off with seche vite

Alice

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Go For The Gold



I am so excited about the Olympics this year. It's never been a big deal before but something about this year just seems different to me. I was actually so excited that I did these nails weeks ago! However, I wanted to save them for today. The qualifying rounds are over and the Opening Ceremony is tonight!


I'm from the United States, born and raised, so I felt obligated to do Go For The Gold: USA nails. However, if you support another country simply swap the red, white and blue used for my nails for your chosen countries colors. It's a very simple gradient. I used my trusty eyeshadow applicator to dab on two coats of red and blue, top and bottom, before dabbing on some white between them. I went back with red or blue where the white covered too much.


Who else is excited about the Olympics? Have you watched the qualifying rounds? Will you be scheduling your lives in an attempt to catch as much of the Olympics as you can? Will you be on the lookout for only certain events? How many of you are going to try avoiding the Olympics all together? I know I will attempt to watch a little bit of everything, but my mom will be avoiding everything to do with the Olympics.

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Day 14: Flowers

Sorry again for the lack of posting, I've been so busy!  So I present to you lovely readers... abstract flowers! Hope you like them, I wanted to try something a little different to my usual floral designs and I based it around a scarf I saw a few weeks ago. Hope you like them!








Alice

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On Safari: Desert Sun

Hello again lovelies! Another day, another On Safari polish swatch.




This one is Desert Sun. I am amazed at the pictures I managed to get with my new camera. I'm sure my old camera would have turned this lovely shade some vastly different color, but I am beyond happy to say that my new camera managed to capture the shade nearly perfectly.




The color of Desert Sun is hard to categorize. It's a very muddy orange color, not unlike sun-baked clay. I think the closest shade I've found through Wikipedia is one of the many tawny shades. 




I decided to keep with the tribal theme. I'm thinking of carrying this theme through almost the entire collection seeing as these colors are just so perfect for tribal art. The exceptions would of course be those colors I don't have (yet) and the glitters.




Desert Sun was so much better than I expected and it looked wonderful with this tribal design; I didn't want to take it off! When I first showed interest in this color it was simply as a base for the glitters of this collection, but I see now that it can be so much more!

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Nail Art "HoloGreen"



Prodotti utilizzati:


base trasparente
smalto shaka hologram green n°05
smalto verde kiko n°338
striping tape blu
top coat

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Shaka Hologram Green n°05



Smalto Shaka hologram green n°05
bellissimo smalto con effetto olografico che al sole diventa proprio abbagliante formando un vero arcobaleno!
Color verde molto chiaro, ha una consistenza abbastanza liquida e per ottenere il massimo del colore si consigliano 3 passate, asciuga in tempi rapidissimi e applicando il top coat si ottiene una maggiore lucentezza e durata.
Prezzo: 1,99 €

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Day 13: Animal Print

Hello! So today was animal print in the challenge and (again) I wanted to be as original as possible, so I googled around a bit (trusty google, eh?) and saw lots of pictures of pretty frogs (okay, not that pretty because they're frogs but interesting) and decided upon a simple design because I knew I didn't have much time. Hope you like it!








I used:

  • China Glaze - Refresh Mint
  • A mix of Barry M Black and Barry M Mushroom 
  • Topped off with Seche Vite


Alice

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Värikäs puolikuumani Bollywood vivahteella


Tähän puolikuumaniin halusin yhdistää pinkkiä ja oranssia yhden MeNaiset -lehdessä olleen artikkelin innoittamana :p Siinä tietenkin hehkutettiin, että pinkin ja oranssin yhdistelmä on se "ultimate" kesäyhdistelmä tai jotain sen suuntaista ja paljon kuvia kivoista vaatteista ja asusteissa kyseisissä väreissä :) Tämä repäisevämpi väriyhdistelmä jäi mieleeni ja päätin, että jossain vaiheessa teen lakkauksen näillä väreillä. Käytettäviksi lakoiksi valikoitui kirkas marjaisan pinkki essie watermelon* ja ihana kultaisen kimaltava oranssi Color Club Sparkle and Soar*. Koristeiksi näiden kanssa sopivatkin kivasti uudet metalliset koristeet ("nastat"), jotka tulivat Bornpretty tilauksessani. Kertoilen tuosta tilauksesta myöhemmin tarkemmin, mutta sen voin sanoa että tuolta tilattuja tuotteiden toimitusta saa kyllä odotella pidempään kuin yleensä!


Lakkasin ensin paksuhkon kerroksen pinkkiä watermelonia kiinnittäen huomiota erityisesti kynsien tyviin, koska muut osat jäisivät kuitenkin peittoon. Sitten muotoilin Sparkle and Soarilla puolikuun kynsien tyviin ja lakkasin sillä kärkiin jääneen osan kynsistä. Sparkle and Soaria tarvitsee yksistään 3-4 kerrosta peittävän tuloksen aikaansaamiseksi, mutta pohjalla olevan watermelonin kanssa tarvitsi vain kaksi. Tosin tästä syntyi vähän duochromea muistuttava efecti (aika huomaamaton sellainen), niin että katselukulmasta riippuen pinkkipohjalakka kuulsi oranssin läpi saaden sen näyttämään punaisemmalta ja mielestäni tämä antoi kivaa syvyyttä lakkaukselle :) Huomaatte varmaan kuinka kynsienreunat näyttävät kuvissa punaisemman oranssimmilta kuin keskellä? Lopuksi kiinnitin kultaiset "nastat" (Bornprettyn sivuilla stud rhinestone nimellä) päällyslakalla ja kaiken päälle paksut kerrokset Seche Viteä ja valmista tuli :)


Mitäs pidätte? Aika kirkkaat ja näyttäväthän näistä tuli :p Kynnet huomattiin ja sain kommentiksi mm. "Oho, ihan Bollywood kynnet!". Itse en ollut tajunnutkaan asiaa, mutta kai tuo kimaltava väriyhdistelmä kultaisen kanssa antaakin vähän intialaista tunnelmaa näihin? :D

Essie watermelon, Color Club Sparkle and Soar, kultaisia pyöreän- ja neliönmuotoisia nastoja

*Essie watermelon saatu L'oréalilta
 Color Club Sparkle and Soar Cesars Shopilta

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