1000+ followers thank you giveaway:)

 Hello, dear readers and followers, hope you're having a great day!

It's been a while since I reached 1000 followers, and I would like to thank all of you, the ones who stick with me from the beginning and the ones who came afterwards! This blog would not be the same without you, you keep me going on, reading all your nice comments really makes my day! THANK YOU!

As a token of my appreciation I have decided to organise this giveaway, all the products were bought with my own money, so this is not a sponsored giveaway! Hope you like the products, some cannot be bought anymore, because they are no longer available and were part of the limited editions. The prize consists of nail care and beauty care products so each one will find something for his/her taste. During the giveaway I will add some more products (nail polishes, nail art stuff, etc.)

On to the rules:

Mandatory:

1) Be or become a follower or e-mail subscriber of KONADomania! Please let me know in the comments which option you are taking.  For example: Google Friend Connect or subscription via e-mail. But be specific, I will check all your entries:)

If you follow via Google Friend Connect, log into the proper account when you leave your comment. If you follow via Google Friend Connect, your account has to have some public aspect. If you subscribe via e-mail, your e-mail address must be confirmed through feedburner. If you have never received an e-mail related to KONADomania's blog posts, you do not have a confirmed account.


2) Include your e-mail with your entry to qualify. If you forgot to write your e-mail in with your contest entry, leave me another comment with your e-mail address.


Both 1 & 2 together = 1 entry.

Optional extra entries. Not obligatory though!

3) Let me know what you like on KONADomania and which is your favourite nail design/manicure. 1 entry.

4 ) Blog about the contest in a post or add contest info to your sidebar. Please provide a link. 3 entries. If you use one of my contest photos, please mention that you used a photo, this will give you 2 more entries.

5) If you tweet about the contest, post a link to the tweet. 1 entry

6) You can also post the information on any other sites, facebook, nail care or beauty forums. Please provide a link too. 1 entry

7) Have KONADomania on your blogroll or add it. 2 more entries

The giveaway ends on 30th April 2011 at midnight (as long there is somewhere 30th April your entry counts), the winner will be drawn by random.org.

Good luck to you all!:)



S-he glitter nail polishes

A bunch of S-he nail polishes including the holographic pinky (far left), and some other great shades

Essence Trend edition: from Return to paradise 03 Back to paradise (similar to NARS Zulu), and 2 polishes from Fairytale TE: 01 Fairy berry (purple foil finish) and 03 Once upon a time  (shimmering glittery red)

Essence Colour&Go in Lime up, Choose me (dupe for OPI Catch me in your net), Glisten up (gorgeous flaky polish for layering, not available anymore)

3D nail stickers

a bunch of nail care and body care products:)

Essence black and white stampy polished together with Essence image plate (cherries, etc) with Matte top coat

All images are clickable:)

All the products were bought personally by me:)

Red and black=great! First attempt at half moon manicure

 Hello, dear readers and followers:)

As promised, I bring you the first up-grade of the TBN Raspberries&cream (fully swatched HERE). I have never tried the half moon manicure though I had been tempted before:)

I used the paper stickers and China glaze Liquid leather, as well as Seche Vite Fast drying top coat.

What do you think of the result? Would you wear it?

Have you ever tried this type of manicure? What is your opinion on it? Yay or nay?

Thank you, dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished day:*

a very simple technique for making half moon manicure:)

All images are clickable:)





Look what I got:) huge amount of nail art supplies

Hello, dear readers and followers,

long time no hear or see from me:( I'm sorry, I really am, but my first year as a teacher really requires a lot of work and effort to be put into, to prepare all the needed material, powerpoints, etc. But enough about the work, let's get to the fun part, right;)

I while ago I was contacted by super friendly Jessica from the Born pretty store. A web site which carries various beauty and nail art products. I was given the option to choose among their products, and I chose the package of 100 fimo canes (which also included  2 spare rhinestone cases, a glue, as well as a great cutter for fimo canes (they're 10 in the package, so I suppose it really last long), love how you thin you can cut the canes!) and 3 x Nail Art Rhinestone Nail Art Lot Dotting pen W Glue (it comprises a set of dotting tools with 3 wheels of rhinestones in the shape of hearts, stars and the regular -circle ones, as well as 4 nail glues. I also got a bunch of orangewood sticks,  And also a piece of paper with transparent foil over it, there're some white spots on it, I don't know what it's for, but I suppose they're water decals, hmmm, have to figure it out:) The service is great, the package is delivered from Hong Kong, and it took it about 14 days to get to Slovenia.

This package is the biggest nail art supply I've ever got, can't wait to try everything out!

How about you? Which ones do you fancy the most? What do you think of the paper covered with foil? Could it be water decals? What are you personal experiences with nail art products? Which ones are a must have?

Thank you,dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished day:*

Let's look at the photos, right;)

*the products in this post were supplied by a nail art company in exchange for my honest opinion, for further information please read my disclosure policy

Water marbling with Zoya Lana

Hi, dear readers and followers:)

Today's post is going to be short and picture heavy, hope you don't mind;)

I did a water marbling over Zoya Lana (fully swatched HERE) with Jade 315 and China glaze Passion, and I did it only over 2 nails on each hand, just to add something extra to my manicure.

What do you think of the combination? Would you wear it yourself?

Thank you, dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished Friday and of course the weekend:*

Ruffian manicure with Sonia Kashuk Smoke and Mirrors - pics overload

Dear readers and followers,

how are you today? Are you also having such a lousy weather as we do here in Slovenia? It's supposed to be summer, but hey this looks like autumn or spring. Want some sunshine back!

On to the manicure:) What to do with a silver foil polish (fully swatched HERE) if not use it as a base for ruffian manicure. So I took China glaze Liquid leather and applied 1 coat over yesterday's NOTD. As you can see in the pics, Liquid leather is super glossy on itself, there isn't any top coat over it. Though the coverage isn't that good, you get full opacity with 2 coats, although there's only 1 in the pictures.

How do you like this manicure? Are you a fan of Ruffian? Have you got any favourite colour combinations? I would love to hear/ read them!

Thank you, dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished Thursday:*

indoors, flash

indoors, flash

lightbox, artif. light, flash

lightbox, artif. light, flash

lightbox, artif. light, flash

indoors, flash

lightbox, artif. light, flash

All images are clickable:)

Glitter red french tips

Hello, dear readers and followers:)

A quick post today - I did not want to change my manicure with Color club Special effects but I wanted to spice it up a bit. So I took my favourite red glitter polish, China glaze Ruby pumps, and made a french manicure out of it. The pics don't do it justice as it looked much better IRL, the effect could be seen much clearly.

Would you wear this combination? What do you think of it?

Thank you, dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished day:*

All images are clickable:)

Nail art and stamping haul (Essence and Konad)

 Hey,

I just have to share with you what I got in my last haul. Essence released their LE Be a nail artist not so long ago, and how I longed for those stamping plates that were included in the edition, but I could not get my hands on them, untill a very nice lady from Ars cosmetica forum bought some extra and offered them to the forum members. Thanks a lot timnala! I would not get them if it wasn't for you!

The other stuff I got from this trend edition are these 2 glitter mixes which include flowers, hearts, petals, drops, hearts, starts, etc. I also bought Essence nail art sealing top coat which I forgot to photograph:)

Then I also got 3 new Konad image plates. m51 is the old one, but m80 and m78 are the brand new plates.

Here's my haul, what have you bought recently??:)

Thank you, dear readers and followers, have a nice and polished day:*

All images are clickable:)

300+ GIVEAWAY

There are no words to describe how happy I am to finally introduce you, my dear readers and followers, the promised  300+ giveaway, to show you my love and thanks for staying with me and giving all your wonderful comments to my posts.

Again, I have partnered with amazing Kathleen from OC NAIL ART store who kindly agreed to award the winner with a 25 dollar gift coupon code which you can use in her online store. I think you all agree there simply has to be a konad related prize in a konad related blog;)

On to the second part of the giveaway which includes nail polishes. The winner gets to choose 3 S-he and 3 Essence nail polishes, according to her/his colour choice:)

Then the winner will get 3 sets of nail art decals.

 A bunch of my personal favourite nail care products which will include:

Ebelin nail polish remover without acetone

Essence nail polish corrector pen

Alverde Calendula hand cream

Oriflame Beauty nail tip guides (classic french and V tip)

A set of nail art polishes with fine tip brush from Visions (a brand of Oriflame). They're great, I own the same 3 ones myself. The colours are black, white and silver. This nail art part will also include a package of clear nail art rhinestones in various shapes (circle, star, heart) from the same brand.

Two lipglosses, one from Oriflame Beauty gloss Berries (this one smells really yummy, I have one myself) and the other one is from E.L.F.

The package will also include other yummy goods;)

The winner gets:

25 dollar gift coupon code from OC NAIL ART

3 S-he nail polishes of her colour choice

3 Essence nail polishes of her colour choice

Ebelin nail polish remover without acetone

Essence nail polish remover correction pen

Alverde Calendula hand cream

Oriflame French tip guides

Visions nail art tip polish in silver

Visions nail art tip polish in black

Visions nail art tip polish in white

Package of clear rhinestones in various shapes

Oriflame Beauty Berries gloss

E.L.F. gloss with spf15

+ sweets;)

All the prizes are new and untested! Enlarge the pictures to see them better.

The rules for entering this giveaway:

1. be a follower (I'll have to be able to see that you're following me)

2. For 1 entry write down your name and your email so I'll be able to contact you if you win

3. You get extra entries for each one of the things you do:

     - post about the giveaway include the link to it,  feel free to use the pictures (2 entries)

     - have konadomania on your blogroll (1 entry) (if I'm already there, please remind me:)

     - tell me which of my konadicures you liked the most (1 entry)

    

    In your comment post a link to your post on the giveaway.

4. Include in the comment with how many entries you participate and provide the link:)

5. The giveaway ends 21st of March at 24.00 Slovenia time.

6. The winner will be chosen with the help of random.org number generator.

All my followers are  invited to participate in the giveaway, home and international:)



Good luck to all of you! Hope you like the prizes I got for you:)


That's all for today, have a nice and polished day:*