Happy Birthday to ME Giveaway!

Hehe.  My birthday is coming up this month (can you believe that it's September!) Plus, I just wanted to celebrate the growth my wee little blog has experienced over the past couple of months.  Who knew?

I just wasn't sure WHAT to offer for this giveaway that would show my appreciation to you all properly.  It was a hard decision, but I think I have a couple of neat things.  So, what am I giving away?

1) Some Bare Escentuals eye colors in Clarity and Socialite, plus an eye color brush.  Both colors are green, but a VERY neutral green.  I'm able to wear them, and I usually can't do green eye makeup.

2) A bottle of the ever elusive Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure.  For once I was able to find a ltd. edition SH nail polish...NEVER HAPPENS HERE!  hehe.  When I found it I made sure to pick up an extra for just such an occasion.

3) The new China Glaze Awakening Halloween collection.  I wasn't sure I would be able to find this in time to do a giveaway for my birthday...but I did.  Whew!

4) plus whatever else I may find that would be interesting.

To enter:
 - You must comment on this post and leave me a valid email address.  I need to be able to get in touch with you
 -  Extra entries if you follow my blog or follow me on twitter (@polishaddiction).  Even better, do both!  :)
 - Extra entry if you post this RT on twitter: RT @polishaddiction Enter to win my Happy Birthday to Me Giveaway!  http://bit.ly/bVSUEP  #nailpolish #giveaway

International entries are welcome!
Contest will end on Sept 15th at 10pm EST.  Winner will be chosen at random, and I'll notify the winner via email.

ETA:  Contest has ended....thank you to everyone who participated!!!  There are around 150 entries!!!  I'll notify the winner as soon as I can!  THANKS AGAIN!

Good luck!

Introducing the Zoya Color Spoon!

A few weeks ago, I received the following email from Zoya announcing the launch of their new Color Spoons: *click so you can actually read it!*

From Zoya Press Release

 

 

Image from Zoya Press Release

 

So there you have it!  Zoya offers us a no-risk way to try their colors!  I think this is pretty amazing myself because I KNOW that I can't be the only one who buys a color of nail polish and just doesn't like the way it looks on me...Or how many of us have bought something only to realize that we have 2 other bottles that look exactly like it?
So, what do you think?
 

China Glaze It's My Turn

Another oldie, but goodie!  (Not really OLD, but you know what I mean).  It's My Turn is from the Kaleidoscope Collection released back in 2006.  Last month I posted another polish from the same collection.

In another post, I mentioned that I don't like the way gold nail polish looks on me.  This is one of the exceptions.  I think it's because it's more of a brown-based gold.  It doesn't look half bad.

Yummy-holo goodness.  I used 3 coats in these pictures.  I suggest clicking on the picture above to get a better look at the HOLO.

Keep an eye out, I'm posting some news in a minute, plus later on today I'm posting my giveaway!

Thanks for stopping by!

Chi Sultry Nights

First Monday back to work.  K ended up with pink eye over the weekend and I thought for sure that today I would have to try and entertain a 19 month old while getting my room ready for the school year.  Luckily we have probably 18 bottles of drops at home, since the boys get it so much at daycare.  He woke up this morning looking MUCH better.

Another Chi polish!  Sultry Nights is a dark, dark blue with a bit of shimmer.  In certain lights it could even be mistaken for black.  I bought this WAAAAY back in 2007!

I used 3 coats in these pictures.  It's so highly pigmented that I could have gotten away with 2 thicker coats, though.  I didn't do that because I have a problem with this one bubbling.  I have to be careful to use really thin coats and give them a minute to dry before I apply more.

You're able to see a bit of the shimmer in this shot. 

My birthday is coming up next month, and I thought it would be fun to do a little giveaway for it.  It took me some time to come up with something, but I made a surprising find the other day, so hopefully you all will enjoy it when I post it!

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by.  I appreciate all of my readers!

Color Club Worth the Risque

I was back to school yesterday.  The first day back for teachers is a little daunting (at least for me) because I'm trying to figure what I should be doing first.  There's the big teacher breakfast, meetings, etc....and them I'm in my classroom wondering where I put everything in June!  lol

Worth the Risque was released in Spring of '09 with the Femme Fatale collection.  I'm embarrassed to say that this is my first Color Club polish that I've ever worn!

You can't tell in the above picture, but Worth the Risque is a densely packed holo polish.  It's so pretty!!!  The next picture shows the holo a bit more (remember to click for a bigger image), but if I had some sun it would be even better!

I used 4 coats for a nice, even coverage.  There was a big of a drag for me when I applied, so you'll have to be careful there. 

Sorry for the lighting in these pictures...I've had very little sunlight the past few days and had to make do because I was in desperate need of doing some swatching!

Thanks for stopping by!

Orly Shine

Orly Shine was another one of my Ulta purchases last month.  Our local Sally's didn't have it, so I was thrilled to find it.  Shine was released as part of Foil FX collection this past spring. 

Orly marketed this collection to be "minx-like".  I could see them passing for that from a distance.  Up close you would be able to see the metallic particles that make these a foil.  Shine is obviously a silver foil...VERY shiny.  Probably one of the shiniest silver's I own.  Unfortunately it's another polish that my camera doesn't like.  I edited the hell out of these.  My hands were orange and the camera had a hard time focusing, probably because of the shimmer...I don't know.  I could just suck at taking pictures too.

I used 4 coats to get even coverage.  It was a bit patchy before that.  I haven't tried the others from this collection yet, do I don't know it that's a common thing with them.  I also have the other two polishes from this collection, Rage and Luxe.  I'll swatch them soon hopefully so that I can complete it on here.

See you soon!

Ulta Chic Peek

When I was in NY visiting family last month I visited my very first Ulta store!  It was so wonderful...lol  There were about 20 polishes in there that I wanted to buy as well as other cosmetics, but I limited myself because I'm sure the hubby wouldn't have appreciated me spending $100 on cosmetics.  When his cousin found out I was going there, she texted me and said "You + Ulta = lots of nail polish!"  How true...lol

The Ulta polishes were on sale when I was there, so I picked up a few.  I LOVE this one. 

Chic Peek is a brown base with lots of tiny silver shimmer.  It was hard to get a good pic because for some reason my camera would pick up the brown and turn my hands orange.  I've been having that problem a lot lately with the camera...I may have to think about getting a new one.  hmmm...  (or someone needs to tell me what I'm doing wrong...lol)

I used 3 coats.  It had such a great, even coverage that if I used slightly thicker coats I could probably have gotten away with 2 coats.

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