1 Year Blog-Versary Giveaway!

Hello Everyone! Happy Thursday or Happy Valentines Day! :) 

So the time has come! If you saw my blog post back on January 16th then you would know that it was my ONE YEAR blog anniversary! I am so grateful and happy that I at least made it one year!  I know switching blogging platforms really screwed up my readers and I am deeply sorry for that. I'm sorry that this has taken me so long to put up! I've been waiting for some prizes to come in the mail.

Anyways! Onto the giveaway!

I really do want to thank everyone for reading my blog and sticking with me through all of the down times, non blogging, off times, etc! I really do appreciate it! <3 <3 xx
All of the prizes except for the shoelaces were purchased by me with my own money. 

The Shoe laces were provided via MaxLaces. The three laces are a few of their best selling ones and I can see why!! These come all of the way from Australia!  Please shoot them a tweet and tell them thank you!  I'm kind of jealous! 

I'm very excited for this giveaway and I've been hording some of this stuff for a while, just for this. I also plan on adding a secret prize that I've not shown or listed as part of the giveaway because it's definitely going to be a secret! I wanted to do this big giveaway to show my appreciation to all of you! :) <3 =^_^=

Onto the rules (yes unfortunately)

1. You MUST be 18 years old to enter or at least have your parents permission since I will be needing to ask for your address.
2. You MUST be a GFC follower. 
3. Leave a comment telling me which product you are the MOST excited for.
4. I almost forgot! This giveaway is open internationally. 

Everything else is in the Rafflecopter widget

This giveaway opens February 14, 2013 12am EST and will close March 14, 2013 12am EST. Yes, this will be open for a month. 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Good luck everyone!

May the odds be ever in your favor... (yes I read the Hunger Games finally.. I couldn't help myself! :P )

Disclaimer: The Shoe laces were provided for free from MaxLaces, everything else was purchased by me with my own money.

First Ever Cult Nails Haul!

Hello Loves! (Just as a warning this is going to be picture heavy!)

Today I am going to show you what I purchased from Cult Nails!

As most of you know, or at least anyone who is in the Nail Polish world knows that it is Cult Nails Second Anniversary. A 2nd Anniversary trio was put out for sale so I decided what the heck I'm going to purchase it! Before I get into the haul though, let me just give you some background info..

Cult Nails is a 4-free as well as Cruelty Free nail polish brand. Maria (owner/founder) is located in Florida. I LOVE supporting Florida brands.. since I live in Flo-rida as well. Funny enough where the brand is located is DIRECTLY on the other side of the state, you could draw a straight line and connect the two. (the little things in life) Enough about that.

I purchased a total of 5 polishes and Nail are Rhinestones. 

I went back and forth for probably 4 hours before I finally settled on purchasing anything. What the hell right? Mine as well, I just dwindled my nail polishes to less than half of what they used to be and I've wanted to try a couple of her polishes anyways.

I decided to go ahead and purchase the 2nd Anniversary Trio which retails for $36 but it currently on sale for $30. I'm not sure when the price goes up to $36, but I think it is within the next few days. 

There is a little treat that comes with purchasing the trio though. From the website itself ;;

*Free gift will be either a pair of cubic zirconia earrings, a pair of 1/2 carat genuine diamond earrings (2 pairs will be given away), OR 1 pair of 1 carat genuine diamond earrings (1 pair will be given away).  FREE GIFT ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME, WHILE SUPPLIES LAST!  Earrings will not be replaced if imperfect, damaged, lost, stolen, or missing.

So 3 lucky ladies are going to be getting REAL diamond earrings! Holy crap, that is 1. absolutely generous of her to do! and 2. pretty freaking amazing and it makes opening the box from her even more exciting. Even for those who don't get the real ones, there is still going to be a pair of CZ earrings. In my opinion, it's still a win win.

When I received the box and opened it, you can tell that they definitely take care of their polishes when shipping. Each one was individually wrapped in paper and it had a sticker on it with the Cult Nails logo and the name of the polish. You can definitely tell that she takes pride in not only creating her polishes but as well as the packing and shipping aspect of it all. Along with each individually wrapped polish there were cotton balls to help cushion as well. This was probably one of the best packaged things I have ever seen.

Swatches are under the bottle shots / descriptions

The polishes in the trio are
Tempest - High gloss white nail polish -2 Coats

Blaze - Gold and Copper glitter (Does this remind anyone else of Gryiffindor from Harry Potter?!) 3 Coats (the only reason I used 3 coats is because I smudged it and did 3 to even it out. You can get away with 2 coats though)

Fetish - Black with a wax looking finish to it. -2 Coats

All 3 of these are absolutely GORGEOUS. I've been wanting a white polish for a while so I am pretty excited for it! As for the other two, I am equally stoked for them! 

I also purchased;;

Alter Ego - sheer top coat that casts a green and gold tinge over any polish you put it over. This is also limited edition ($12) I LOVE top coats like this, so I am excited to try it out over different polishes.
1 coat over ORLY Liquid Vinyl

Mazo - Sheer Nude with gold shimmer. (This is on last chance for  $7) I've been drawn to nude polishes lately and I decided on this one and am pretty excited about it! 3 Coats

Swatches:
Sunlight

Shade

The last thing I added to my order, just because were the Multi-Colored Nail Rhinestones. I thought they would be cute to jazz up a manicure!

So, what do you think?! I personally think I fared pretty well considering CN is a Independent brand. In total with tax included I spent $55.12.  I wanted to get Nevermore, BUT I figured since there was already a black polish in the set, I didn't need another one.. even though I still want it like a crazy person.

These polishes definitely exceeded my expectations! I am so pleased that I decided to go ahead and purchase these! 

You can purchase from Cult Nails HERE

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Upon reading the CN twitter, the Anniversary polishes will be sold individually starting on MONDAY 28/01/13! 
They also so ship internationally, so for you beauties who want to try them out you can! xx

Disclaimer: I purchased the above mentioned products with my own money. I am in no way affiliated with Cult Nails nor am I being sponsored or paid to talk about the above mentioned products. All opinions are 150% my own.