and last one for today, oh my polish is also doing a give away

oh my polish is another beautiful blog who's owner does a wonderful give away, check out the photo and go to her site to see for yourself. Aren't those wonderful polishes? I especially like the Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, but they others are beautiful, too.
Her blog is here: http://ohmypolish.blogspot.com/2010/08/first-ever-giveaway.html
And here is a photo of the giveaway:

Ooohh shinies! is also doing a give away

Oooh, Shinies! is also doing a give away, you can find it here:
http://ooohshinies.blogspot.com/2010/08/giveaway.html
Very nice, I especially like the rainbowy gosh nail polish.
And here is a photo from Oooh Shinies!:

Give away from Magic Maid

Hey folks,
today I found quite a few give aways, woohoo! One day I will do my own give away :)
Umm, okay, this one is by Magic Maid, you can read about it heeeere.
And here is one of her photos:

Give-away from Body and Soul

There is a number of blogs I follow and one of my favorites is Body and Soul. I like the design, I like the articles, the photos and I like the way Mary writes.
She is doing a wonderful fall give away, last entry is 31st of August.
"One lucky follower will win a complete set of Orly Cosmic FX, Essie's Fall Collection, and Color Club's Untamed Luxury.", writes Mary. Those nail polishes look gorgeous and I envy the girl who will win them ;) Those collections are really pretty.
Here is a pic from Body and Soul:

And here is a link to her blog.

Crackle nail polishes by IsaDora and P2

Crackle nail polishes have come and gone over the years. The last ones were by wet'n wild, I think. Two weeks ago, IsaDora released 6 crackle polishes under the name of "Grafitti". They are available in black, white, yellow, green, blue and pink. One bottle is 9 Euros, which is around 13 US Dollars, I think. These are available in the German "Douglas" stores.

Another German and Austrian brand called "P2" is also going to release crackle polishes this fall, a black one and a silver one. Normally the P2 polishes are under 2 Euros, so I don't expect the crackle polishes to be much more expensive.

I haven't bought one of the IsaDoras yet, because 9 Euros is a little steep and I am still undecided if I like the look on my own nails (like with red or brown or yellow polish. There are some girls out there who really rock this colors, but I don't. You won't catch me wearing one of those colors ;) though I made an exception last year, when I wore China Glaze's Ruby Pumps for Christmas. But even then it felt weird. Red is just not my color), but I will definitely try out the p2 ones as soon as they are available.

I'm still new to the blogging world, so I'm not sure about picture copyrights, so I'll just paste some links to photos of those crackle polishes as can be found by anyone googling them.
Isadora Grafitti Nails 1
Isadora Grafitti Nails 2
Isadora Grafitti Nails 3
Isadora Grafitti Nails 4
P2 crackle nailpolish coming fall 2010

The Hungry Asian does a give-away, check it out:
http://thehungryasian.blogspot.com/2010/07/giveaway-nail-polish-and-frankens.html
She has the Color Club poptastic collection, six eyeko polishes, 2 frankenpolishes, one hello kitty polish, fake fingernails, a china glaze black magic and best of all, the give-away ends on July 14, so there is plenty of time for you to join!
here is a teaser photo of the Color Club collection (taken from the hungry asians website):

Simply Stacie give-away

And heeeere's another one, ladies :)
http://simplystacie.net/spring-bling-last-day-of-forever-designs-review-giveaway/
simply stacie is giving away a lovely set of earrings, visit her blog to find out more!
Here is a link to the beautiful earrings: http://simplystacie.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/isle-esme.jpg
I really love blues and greens for summer, I've never been the red/orange/pink/coral type. I love the colors of the sea and the sky and meadows :)

becsbeautybuzz give-away!

Hello you girls out there,
I just found a few give aways and wanted to share them with you!
First one is on Bec's Beauty Buzz and Rebecca is giving away a white konad polish, stamp and scraper and a pretty konad plate with zebra- and leopard patterns!
You can read everything about it here:
http://becsbeautybuzz.blogspot.com/2010/06/konad-giveaway.html
And here are 2 pix of hers to get you into the mood. The plate-pic ist taken from her blog and she got it from wowsocool.

And here is a design she did with this plate:
Nice :)
To enter this give-away, please visit her blog http://becsbeautybuzz.blogspot.com/2010/06/konad-giveaway.html

Für Leonora ;)

Hallo liebe Leonora :)
ich bin deine Wichtelmami und ich hoffe wirklich, dass dir das gefällt, was ich dir ausgesucht habe. Ich hab echt lange überlegt, deine Postings gelesen, deine Seski-Angebote, dein Beautyprofil und deinen Steckbrief ... und auch mit der Deko hab ich mir viele Gedanken gemacht.
Da ich nicht weiss, wie es bei dir angekommen ist, hab ich vorher ein paar Fotos gemacht, damit du sehen kannst, wie es eigentlich so geplant war ;))
Päckchen von aussen:

Dann ausgeklappt mit bunter Innenklappe und den ersten drei Kleinigkeiten:

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Nun erstmal die Aloha-Blumenkette, zum Einstimmen :)

Nun hebt sich der Schleier, sozusagen der hawaiianische Abendnebel in der Dämmerung, oder der städtische Smog, je nachdem :-D

Jetzt erhältst du einen Blick auf ein Ausschnitt eines Strandabschnitts oder Beachvolleyballseitenrands ... jedenfalls soll es jetz bereits strandig und beachig aussehen ;)
Am Horizont links und rechts das Meer, noch mehr Strand, ein weissblauer Liegestuhl, Palmen, was will man mehr :)














soo und das letzte:


wie man sieht, praktisch rückwärts fotografiert. Bei mir vom Zusammenbauen her, bei dir vom Auspacken ;)

Jetzt denken die meisten natürlich - huch, wo sind denn die Geschenke eigentlich?
Die befinden sich in der von mir handgenähten und deswegen entsprechend unförmigen *g* rosa Voodoopuppe :-D, und zwar so kleine Mineral Pigment Eyeshadows von The She Space in Farben, die zum einen Leonoras Lieblingsfarben entsprechen, zum andern den Bobbi Brown Forest imitieren sollen.
In den Palmen sind zwei NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils versteckt.
In den kleinen Umschlägen sind 3 Kärtchen mit Nailstickern, ausserdem gabs Miniperlchen dazu für Nailart und so Fimo-Schmetterlinge. Dazu noch ein kleines bissl Süsskram, aber nix schweres, weil ich befürchtete, die schweren Sachen würden mir sonst den kleinen Liegestuhl zerdeppern.
Mein Bruder liebt diese Mach5-Kaugummis und isst die praktisch als Hauptmahlzeit *g*

So .... naja und Briefchen lag noch dabei ... und nen gestreifter Sommerschal ... und so Duftkissen ... und ich weiss nicht mehr, ob ich die Duftkerzen jetzt noch reinhab oder nicht *g*

Leonora, ich hoffe, ich hab wenigstens ansatzweise deinen Geschmack getroffen! :)

Beauuutiful Nubar polishes, have a look!

When browsing thru the net, I found this fun blog:
http://paintedladyfingers.blogspot.com/2010/06/nubar-california-dreamin-giveaway.html
And they are having a give-away right now! Anyone can enter until July 1st, which is great!
It is called "California Giveaway" and includes 8 beautiful Nubar polishes plus beach accessoires!
I just love the summer colors ... they are so bright and bold and in your face :)
Especially the Mali-Blue is something for me, I just dig blues and turquoises, I can't help it.
For a photo, see above.

Very nice, very nice ...

As for the polishes - I own quite a few Nubars myself. 12 I've counted so far, 2 duochromes, 2 lovely greyed out purples, one matte and a few pinks, one blue and 2 of the Greener collection. I like Nubars very much, they have the prettiest bottle of all brands, imho. It looks graceful, slim, doesn't easily tip over (like LAsplash ... or some of the Essence bottles from Limited Editions. Those high narrow bottles look elegant, but they are so easily knocked over ...) and I just really like the shape of them.
They look like little sisters of Nfu.oh, apart from the victorian design, but the shape is similar.

Have you ever thought about your bottle shapes? Which brand's shapes do you like most, which are the ugliest?
In my opinion, Nicole by Opi has by far the ugliest bottles. Urgh. Sephora's are not that pretty, either. OPI and China Glaze have an almost triangle shape, Color Club and Misa go for a rectangular shape with long caps ... Essie and Zoya are not that high and therefore fit better into my storage rack. Sally Hansen has many different shapes for their different editions. Nyx looks like CC, only different cap ... Rescue Beauty Lounge and p2 go for a square shape ... and the others I have are all pretty standard. MAC stands out a little bit with their cylindric shape.

But all in all I like Nubars shape best.

And though my favorite colors are definitely all blues and purples, I also wear other colors, especially in Summer.
Teehee ... I just noticed a spelling error on one of my pink Nubars, it's actually called "Orchid", a really nice, little muted, littly dusty mid-tone pink with a slight pearl shimmer to it, but on the sticker it says "Ochrid" ;) Does that mean it's a fake? *ponders*

Hey you girls out there,
yesterday late at night I found a new give-away!
You can read it here for yourselves: http://www.lipglossladys.com/2010/06/p2-architect-your-beauty-gewinnspiel.html

You can win the whole p2 Architect Your Beauty Limited Edition, which is shown on individual phots.
Here is a photo with all items. Nice, huh? :)

I'm especially interested in the eyeshadows, the lipcreams and the nailpolish. I would also try out the powder, but I'm not sure about the french design stickers. I've tried a few from other brands and they didn't work, I never got a clean french line.
The eyebrowpowder looks nice, p2 is the first company with 3 eyebrow colors in one set. At least, the first one I saw on the market.

I wonder if the blush is too warm-toned ...

If you want to take part in this, please visit their blog, you have time until tomorrow :)

at the dentist's

today I was at the dentist's :(
I bit on a fork some weeks ago and though it hurt for a short time, I didn't think about it ... some while ago I had a tiny piece of cereal stuck in my gum and it always hurt afterwards. So I went to see the dentist's if there is something wrong with my gum. He said "no, your gum is fine, but your right bottom tooth is broken".
I was like whaaatt?!!! you gotta be kidding?!
And he explained I had a crack through my tooth! A part even chipped and was only held together by the neighbouring tooth ... long story short, he removed the chipped part of the tooth and re-build that part with synthetic material and right now I'm feeling fine, but I'm still a little shocked about that crack. I never even noticed, it didn't even hurt ....


So ... nailpolish of the day was claires mood changing polish "happy/earthy". in the bottle a nice grassy medium green, which turns to almost neon yellow when it gets warm and almost dark moss green when cold. It's fascinating how often my hands get warm and cold without me even noticing - I just noticed when I watched my nail polish color change ;))
It's fun.

It chipped pretty easily though, I will remove it tonight and try on another one, just not sure, which ;)

RBL giveaway on R3daily

ok, I really have to learn a lot about this blogging thing, especially to blog daily ^^
so, let's start this.
I just read in a blog (http://r3daily.blogspot.com/2010/04/rescue-beauty-lounge-nail-polish-week.html) that Ji from Rescue Beauty Lounge has sponsored 2 give-aways - and those are the new surf collection! Anyone who blogs about this or follows r3daily or twitters about it (I've never twittered before, one thing at a time *g*) can win this collection, so I give it a try!
I really like the 3 new colors, especially the bluegreen one, "360". It looks so cool!

I own 10 rescue beauty lounge polishes and am very happy with them, except 2 of the pink ones, since they are so sheer.

Mismas on the other hand is so pigmented, it's a one-coater! And a frigging lovely purple, too!
Orbis non sufficit is also one of my favorite polishes, not only are there not many greens on the market, but a greyed out army-green is just so cool :)
I just wish konad would design a plate with 4 different army patterns to stamp on this color.

woohoo I did it

yeay, finally I did it - this is my own blog :)
now what to write .... umm ... ^^
I'll get to that later.
Cookie break :)