Three year Blogiversary

I can’t even believe it! I started this blog with just shy of 100 polishes, three years ago January 29th. I have grown to well over 500 and a overwhelmlingly amount of overloaded shelves. I have met so many other amazing and polish addiction enabler bloggers, some of which I have become super close with. ❤

In honor of my Anniversary I have decided to do a giveaway!

Did you hear about the amazing deal of KB Shimmers that E! is hosting right now? If you haven’t or didn’t get to snag this yet, here is your chance!

I am giving away this set of full-sized KB Shimmers which includes: Ice Queen, Low & Be Bold, Urban Camo, Falling for Hue, Let’s Not Coral, and Sweet Wave. The link above shows the swatches of these gorgeous colors.

In the past I have always opened this up to International followers however unfortunately to the rise in Shipping costs this giveaway will be US only. I’m sorry girls!

Click the Rafflecopter below to enter now for your chance to win the above set. Winner chosen Friday February 6th. See below for rules.

**GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED — THANKS TO ALL THAT ENTERED**

• Giveaway starts now and ends in two weeks on Friday February 6th @ 12A EST.
• Winners have 24 hours once notified to provide the your address or another will be chosen.
• Giveaway prizes will be shipped out Saturday, February 7th.
• All Entries will be checked, please no cheating, not fair to others and wastes my time checking! 😦
• ONE winners will be chosen for all 6 colors, one set.
• Giveaway open to US only
• Open to Mae’s Beauty followers only
• Must be 18 years or older

Pink of Hearts

OPI is back at it with their 8th Annual limited edition Breast Cancer Awareness duo in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.

This years set includes a pink entitled Mod About You and this gorgeous pink cream jelly with various pink and white glitters suspended in it entitled The Power of Pink. The pink jelly can be worn on it’s own (takes about 2-3 coats to be opaque) or over-top Mod About You. The set comes with a pink glitter nail file with a breast cancer charm. This year OPI will donate $25,000 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation (US) and $5000 to Rethink Breast Cancer (Canada) in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The Set retails for $16.95 but you are in luck! I have a set to giveaway!

First check out my swatches of these beauties. I did two coats of Mod About you on my ring finger for accent and I stamped Orly’s Miss Conduct using my ribbon stamp. I did two coats of The Power of pink on the rest of my nails.

This giveaway is  a Rafflecopter giveaway **GIVEAWAY CLOSED**

Open to Mae’s Beauty followers only.

Must be 18 years or older. Open Internationally.

Giveaway starts now and Ends Friday November 24th at 12Noon EST prize will be mailed out Saturday 25th.

GOOD LUCK!!!

The Great Polish Giveaway of 2014

I was invited by Nail Polish Canada to nominate a polish for their Great Polish Giveaway of 2014. NPC has partnered with Cirque Colors, NCLA, & Picture Polish to host the biggest giveaway ever. As more bloggers participate, the lot of polishes grows and grows! One winner will take home up to 200 nail polishes from over 10 brands!

I added Cirque’s Lichen

 

 

For swatches of this, click the picture to be brought to The Fancy Side.

For more details on the giveaway, click here.

a Rafflecopter giveaway <<- Click here to Enter through Mae’s Beauty

-Open to US and Canada only

-You can enter through my link, through any other contributing bloggers links, in addition to NPC’s links.

-One winner wins the whole prized lot!

-All bloggers even if they nominated a color may also enter through the above methods.

 

 GOOD LUCK LADIES!!!

 

Giveaway Alert

Do you remember back in May when I did the NAILMATES review? If you haven’t seen it, you can see it here. Well.. the company sent me 3 sets to giveaway to three lucky ladies 🙂

 

 

• Each prize includes ONE NAILMATES kit that includes includes 10 reusable NAILMate caps, 20 removal pads, 1 nail file. Along with ONE pack of 30 refill
• The giveaway starts at 11A on Monday June 30th and will last until July 16th at 11A EST
• There will be THREE winners chosen, one for each prize set
• Giveaway open Internationally
• You MUST be a follower of Mae’s Beauty either via BlogLovin’, email, or WordPress
• Must be 18 years or older
• Be sure to come back daily some of the entries can be done on a daily basis for more entries
• Click the Rafflecopter below to enter 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

GOOD LUCK!!

And the winner is…..

Congratulations Denise, you win the Venique minis, and Danielle, the OPI Gwen minis!

I have emailed the winners this morning! Congratulations Ladies and Happy Valentine’s Day

And the winners are……

Congratulations Luchessa, you are now the proud owner of the Mariah Carey Liquid Sands Minis 🙂

Congratulations Elisabeth Good, you are now the proud owner of the Mariah Carey Holiday Minis 🙂

 

Thank you to everyone that entered, and welcome new followers! Stay tuned there might just be one more surprise coming your way as my TWO year Blog Anniversary is quickly approaching, I can’t even believe it!

 

 

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The Giveaway ends tonight **Giveaway now closed ** , be sure to enter for your chance to win one of either the Mariah Carey OPI Liquid Sands Collection minis or the Mariah Carey OPI Holiday minis

• Giveaway already started and ends in mere hours, tonight Midnight Est.
• All entrants will automatically be entered in both giveaways
• TWO winners will be chosen, one for each prize.
• Giveaway open Internationally
• Open to Mae’s Beauty followers only
• Must be 18 years or older
• Be sure to come back daily some of the entries can be done on a daily basis for more entries
• Click the Rafflecopter below to enter

**GIVEAWAY CLOSED**

NOTD 181 – Capricorn

How was your New Year celebrations? Have you entered the Giveaway yet? **GIVEAWAY CLOSED**

For my Birthday my amazing (almost) Birthday Twin Frosso got me Color Club’s Capricorn pack that came with matching jewels. I couldn’t wait to try this vampy beauty. It’s black with red sparkles mixed in

I paired this with my new ILNP holo Very Ornamental. I stamped Capricorn overtop and put the gem in the center.

Well that’s it for me.. before I go I have two things… Don’t forget about the **GIVEAWAY CLOSED** there are still 6 days left to enter!

Secondly I may not be posting as often in the near future… Because…. WE GOT A PUPPY!!

Keeping up with the theme ( other dogs are Blizzard and Tempest ) our newest addition is Avalanche or Ava for short. She is 10 weeks old and we just got her Saturday night. Here are some pics

2013 in review collage style

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

In addition to the above report which I always find kinda cool, I also put together a collage for each month this year of the posts I did, a recap if you will 🙂

Don’t forget to enter in the New Year Giveaway! **GIVEAWAY CLOSED** to go to that post! 🙂

NOTD 180 – New Year’s Nails – Impeccable AC Slater + GIVEAWAY!

Well goodbye 2013… I am happy to put this year behind me. A lot of happy things happened but a lot of not so happy as well. My husband had two surgeries this year, my (four-legged) daughter had two surgeries… among other health and personal issues I am just ready to move on and start anew. Among the good things, I have am up to over 2,000 blog followers, close to 100 Facebook likes, and continued a special bond with a very special group of ladies. 😉 Cynthia, Lesley, Nicole, Jessica, Amy, Frosso, and Siobhan!

I have a special New Years mani for you using one of my few last unswatched ILNP’s. This is Maybelline’s Impeccable Greys with a somewhat firework stamp stamped over top the gray, using ILNP – AC Slater.

It’s subtle, but I love the way the holo shows over this gray. Under normal light this barely shows, its only under my light box or very bright lights that you can see this gorgeous holo peeking through.

So what are you wearing for NYE, and what are your NYE, NYD plans?

I almost forgot, before I go I have one final (actually two) giveaways  I am calling this the New Year Giveaway! See below for prizes and rules. (Click the Rafflecopter link at the bottom to enter)

First Prize: Mariah Carey’s minis, Vision of Love, Warm me up, Wonderous Star, and All Sparkly and Gold

Second Prize: Mariah Carey’s liquid sands minis in Emotions, It’s Frosty outside, and Kiss me at Midnight

• Giveaway starts now and ends in two weeks on January 14, 12AM EST.
• All entrants will automatically be entered in both giveaways
• TWO winners will be chosen, one for each prize.
• Giveaway open Internationally
• Open to Mae’s Beauty followers only
• Must be 18 years or older
• Be sure to come back daily some of the entries can be done on a daily basis for more entries
• Click the Rafflecopter below to enter
  **GIVEAWAY CLOSED** Thank you to all that entered

Good Luck!!!

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And the Winner Is…….

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

I have emailed the winner this morning!

And who knows….  there might be one more giveaway before the New Year coming your way!

NOTD 179 – Featured Color Friday – Icey Duo

Happy Friday and Happy Holidays (just in case I am not able to post again for a while with the upcoming craziness) 🙂

As I said in my last post, I picked up Butter London’s Double Take Ice Duo at Ulta the other day. It’s … amazing! I absolutely loved the formula of both of my first ever Butter’s. The blue is just as stunning as I’d hope it’d be from the looking at it in the bottle. and I actually like the glass shardy ice topper and I wasn’t sure I would.

This is the website’s description: Opaque, navy shimmer. A twist on the traditional style of dress in British private schools.

Here is a close up of the shard topper

I am totally in love with my new blue and topper… Although as I said in my last post, due to the price this will probably be my only Butter’s unless I can find another amazing sale!

A very merry unbirthday to me! Don’t forget, I also picked up the Double Take Fire Duo and it’s up for grabs right now for my Birthday Giveaway #1! ***GIVEAWAY CLOSED***

Alright guys, as I said just in case I can’t post until after Christmas, Have a Happy Holiday (I will post my Christmas manis’ after in one post) and of course

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Birthday Giveaway #1 **GIVEAWAY CLOSED**

Hey guys!

So I got a coupon in my email today for Ulta and I needed more of my UD mascara… I went to go get that and bought myself a little Birthday present! I own a lot of polish but I always try to go to the places that I know I can get them for the best prices. I don’t want to be spending 14+ dollars per polish, I can’t justify it. So this is why to this day I still don’t own any Butter Londons…. Until today! The two pack gift sets were on sale, plus I had an amazing coupon, that for once, didn’t exclude Butter London! I bought myself the Double Take Ice Duo! 🙂 and I have one to giveaway to you 🙂

Soooo… for one of you lucky ladies, I have the Double Take Fire Duo.

** GIVEAWAY CLOSED **

 

To Enter: You MUST be a Mae’s Beauty Follower either via Bloglovin’ or via email. ( I do check all of the entries ) 🙂

You must be 18 or older

Open Internationally

** GIVEAWAY CLOSED **

NOTD 178 – Featured Color Friday – Indie Hello Kitty

Woohoo It’s finally Friday! I feel like I am so behind this year, I have no decorations up, nothing wrapped, still a few people to buy for, etc. I am usually way more prepared by now. I think it’s that Thanksgiving was so much later, it’s totally throwing me off. I have been working on Saturdays for OT, this Sunday I have a party to go to, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of next week I have things going on, along with Doctors, etc. mixed in to that, it’s just insane!

Anyway, enough about my crazy schedule and lack of preperation this year, on to this beautiful ILNP pretty that I have been telling you all so much about lately. This is Indie Go by I Love Nail Polish. It’s a gorgeous blue holo with mixed in blue sparkles and subtle color change.

This picture is a little blurry but you can just see the amazing holo/sparkle and slight color change! 🙂

I then stamped my Ice skating Hello Kitty and I took my Milani nail art bottles and filled in some of the stamp. I colored in her headband and scarf pink and added glitter to her skates and her headband for some sparkly detail. 🙂

Don’t Forget to enter the Winter Nail care giveaway! **GIVEAWAY CLOSED** Thank you entrants

Lastly, the Week 2 Contest voting also ends this weekend, click on the picture to go vote. Thank you!

So are you as un-prepared as I am this year?

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Don’t forget about the **GIVEAWAY CLOSED**

Hey guys, the Winter Nail care giveaway exclusive to Mae’s Beauty Followers is coming to a close this weekend. Don’t forget to enter!! Open Internationally!

**GIVEAWAY CLOSED** Thank you entrants

Lastly, don’t forget to also vote for my nails for me (or whomever you thinks is the best) For Nail Polish Canada’s Week 2 ‘Holiday Decorations’. Click on the picture below to be taken to NPC’s page to enter. Type your name, your email, and the drop down for Mae’s Beauty. Voting Ends Sunday December 8th

Winter Nail/cuticle care

A while back I had done a post about OPI Nail Envy and still to this day, I am absolutely in love with it. It has done wonders for my nails! As you know, my sister came to visit last week and I used it on her nails. A week later, she is hooked too and can’t wait for her nails to be strong and grow like mine. We got to talking and she then asked how I care for my cuticles and it got me thinking to do this post. We all care for our nails/cuticles differently so I wanted to share how I will be caring for mine this Winter.

For one my hands tend to get very dry and sometimes even cracked in the winter months. The lotion I use to stop that and to keep my hands soft is by Miracle of Aloe and it’s called Miracle Hand Repair. This stuff is seriously amazing. You only need a little and it might feel thick at first but once you rub it in and it soaks in it works wonders!

The next products are what I use for cuticle care.

I use Sally Hansen’s gel cuticle remover and Revlon brand cuticle pusher. This cuticle gel and from what I know of others, most cuticle remover gels you need to leave on your cuticles for a few moments to soften them.

I then use the flat part of my pusher and push the cuticles back and the rounded part to clean up what I’ve pushed. Finally, but not always any other clean up I use my cuticle clippers for.

Finally, and hand in hand with my lotion I use cuticle oil. Usually I use the cuticle oil first and then apply lotion. I have one at home, my Julep rollerball applicator and at work I have Sally Hansen brush on. I apply the cuticle oil and rub in, I then apply my lotion and voila, smooth hands and cuticles.

Well there you have it, that is how I care for my hands/cuticles. I do this stuff more frequently during the winter months but all year, still care for them the same.

How will you be caring for your nails, hands, and cuticles this season?

Before I go,  I have a few items to give away that might help you 🙂

First up is a 5 piece Manicure set which includes: Nail clippers, cuticle pusher, cuticle clipper, Tweezers, and a glass nail file. It comes in this cute little case.

Secondly in the giveaway is Formula 10’s cuticle cream.

Finally, OPI’s Nail Envy!

You can win all three of these prizes! This giveaway is for Mae’s Beauty Followers only.

The giveaway starts now and ends in just under two weeks on December 7th, when the lucky winner will be chosen. Good Luck! Click the Rafflecopter link to enter **GIVEAWAY CLOSED** Thank you entrants

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Blogiversary Day

Today, one year ago, I posted my very first post here on WordPress. I started my blog, and its gotten crazier and more fun each and every day. I get so excited when I get emails for comments and likes and can’t wait to go respond. I have made so many friends, met people from all over the world, found other amazing blogs to share my journey with, it’s just been amazing! In just one years time, I have gotten over 1,300 followers, and I love each and every one of you!! 🙂

With that being said, I am now going to announce the two winners to the Blogiversary giveaway. IF you are not one of the winners, This was not my first giveaway, and certainly won’t be the last so be sure to stick around for next time 😀

THE WINNER OF PRIZE ONE IS……. POLISH ALCOHOLIC!!!!!!!

THE WINNER OF PRIZE TWO IS……  SIOBHAN from For the love of Makeup and Nail art!!!!

I have just sent the winners emails, please respond within 48 hours your full mailing address so that I can send your goodies!!! Congrats to the winners!

 

NOTD 104/105 – Fail Storm

As most of you saw the first week of January, Zoya hosted this amazing sale! Get three Zoya colors for only the shipping of $10.00 It seems like forever ago…. I just got mine after impatiently waiting! LOL One of the colors I wanted is of course a very popular color and was backordered. The polishes arrived today and just in time too!

Yesterday, I painted a design with “Deborah Lippmann – Strange Love” as the base, I then used some nail art tape and made some designs using “Zoya – Kissy” I didn’t like the contrast, it was way too close and you couldn’t see Strange Love in between. I took “Milani – nail art in silver glitter” and painted some stripes to frame it off. I didn’t HATE it, but I certainly didn’t love it. After one day, my polish all started to chip off so of course, I then hated it. I did not have this problem with “New Flesh” so I am not sure if it’s my base coat or “strange love”.

In any event here is one crappy picture of, the one day mani ,as I was not able to take pics with my lightbox before it chipped.

Okay so now onto the best part 😀

So my 3 Zoya’s I got were, “Storm”, “Charla”, and “Suri”. Since “Storm” is so sought after of course I had to try that one first. I will pick one of the others for this weeks ‘Featured Color Friday’

Here I am holding “Charla”

Isn’t this color fabulous!!!!

So back to the base coat, I will leave you off with a question: What base coat does everyone use? I have been using nailtiques or Nailtek to help with the chipping and peeling but it doesn’t seem to keep the polish on. Other base coats I was using kept the polish on but my nails were cracking and peeling. So tell me what you use 🙂 I think I need to switch it up a bit here..

Don’t forget about the giveaway, still one week away until TWO winners are chosen! *NOW CLOSED*

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NOTD 98 & Giveaway!

Hey guys! Sorry I have been lacking in posts this week, hope you can understand how crazy its been, I am sure it has been for everyone. It’s finally calming down took some decorations down, etc and so I am back!

I got a lot of very nice and amazing things for Christmas, one of which was a light box! YAY! So hopefully once I perfect the lighting, my pics will be better.

First I am going to show you my nails of the day. I won the Jessica 2012 Fall collection from the fabulous Cynthia’s blog! So I have two of those colors to show you today 😀 I put Cinnamon kiss on my nails with Champagne Bubbles on accent fimger, all two coats topped with seche vite.

Here are a few shots with my new lighbox of my NOTD.

And now….. I have been promising a giveaway for quite some time and the fab prizes are finally here! There will be two winners. The giveaway is for followers only,winner must be 18 years or older, and is open Internationally!

Click here to Enter at Rafflecopter *NOW CLOSED*

(1) I just love all of you

(2)It’s my Birthday Month this month, (Dec 22nd),

(3) Next month is my Blogiversary I cannot believe it! (Jan 29th),

(4) In the month of December, I hit over 20k views,

(5) and over 1000. followers.

Prize #1: ONE WINNER WlLL WIN: Julep Top Coat, Sephora Tempted by Teal,China Glaze Little Drummer Boy, Sally Hansen Raspberry Rave, e.l.f. Cranberry, Sally Hansen Nail & Cuticle Cream, Nail Stamp/scraper, sparkly glequinesque nail art pieces in white.  Prize #2: THE 2ND WINNER WILL WIN: Milani Nail art in Purple Outline, Milani nail art in Draw in pink, Milani nail art in Art of Gold, Vivalanails nail decals, vivalanails white nail art tape, blue caviar beads nail art, salmon flitter strips nail art, green glitter nail art  Click here to be taken to Rafflecopter to enter. *NOW CLOSED*

Good Luck Everyone!

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Blogiversary Giveaway

Hey guys, and Happy Holidays!!! I am going to be crazy busy over the course of the next week or so.. as I am sure most of us are. I have reached out to some of my blogger friends to send me a guest post if they are interested and have some spare time, so keep an eye out for some fabulous blogger guest posts.

I also am putting together a giveaway for the following reasons:

(1) I just love all of you 🙂

(2)It’s my Birthday Month this month, (Dec 22nd),

(3) Next month is my Blogiversary I cannot believe it! (Jan 29th),

(4) This month I hit over 20k views,

(5) and over 1000. followers.

Just plain Insanity! Thank you so much!

I never thought in a million years, that a year later, I would have this many followers, so many lovely new friends, so much blogging support and love, I also came so close in my very first Nail Art Challenge this past month, just crazy!

Thank you all so much for those of you that have taken his journey so far with me. For my thanks, I am putting together a giveaway, I am going to find some goodies today to add to what I already have at home and will post soon. I will most likely end it in January to tie the Blogiversary in too. The giveaway will be open Internationally, woohoo!!! So be sure to stay tuned! ❤