Perfectly Polished Tips 233 - Zoya Giveaway!

I am doing a small giveaway over on my Facebook page. Please check it out! Up for grabs are:

Arizona

Meg

Myrta

Tracie

I'll pick a winner sometime on Monday :)

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!

Perfectly Polished Tips 218 - Bare Naked Nail Challenge Week 4 Update

My left hand is showing lots of improvement this week, the right hand, not so much. I am wondering if it is because my right hand is my dominant hand. I use it more so it gets more abuse? This week's goal will be to give righty a little more TLC.

Before
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3

Left Hand

Left Ring Finger

Left Thumb - Peelies are pretty much gone!

Right Hand

Right Thumb - TBH it looks worse than when I started!

I have no idea what is going on with my right hand, my thumb specifically. I use the same amount of product on each finger give or take a bit. I moisturize evenly, I think. I know I need to work on not using my nails as tools. I think this is a big reason that I keep my nails so short. However, these pictures prove even short nails are susceptible to damage.

I did not cut down my nails this week, I was curious to see what kind of growth I was getting. Here is a this week's left thumb & last week's left thumb pictures. There is some nail growth and the damage is just about grown out.

Hopefully things start looking up for my right hand! I am still fighting to not push back my cuticles. I want to grab my Blue Cross remover and an orange stick badly. I am staying strong though. I think my left hand's cuticles have reached a turning point. I'm excited about that!

Please don't forget to check out my Sneekpeeq Giveaway. You have to be a new user and unfortunately signing up for Sneekpeeq's services will change your facebook page over to the timeline layout. I completely understand if that makes the contest unappealing!

Perfectly Polished Tips 215 - Sneakpeeq Giveaway (Again)

I got word from the company that NO ONE entered! If you did enter please shoot me an email. I'm going to have the contest run for a couple of more weeks. I don't know if there was a mistake in my links or if no one was interested. Either way I'll give it another shot.

Sneekpeeq is a social shopping website that works with Facebook. Basically you can browse products on the site, then "peeq" at the price tags. The website will then share what you "peeqed" at on your Facebook timeline. The site allows user to earn badges for discounts and such. They currently offer home, food, and fashion items for up to 70 % off retail. They have partnered up with over 400 brands and that number is growing.

When it comes to the Perfectly Polished Tips/sneakpeeq giveaway, everybody wins! sneakpeeq is giving my readers 20% off their next purchase just for entering, plus a chance at the Grand Prize. One winner will receive a $25 gift card to use on their favorite food, style and home products—that goes a long way in sneakpeeq’s amazingly low-priced boutiques!

 Come see all the things you love but haven’t discovered. sneakpeeq only has new products that you have never seen before!

To enter:

1.Click HERE to sign up with sneakpeeq 
2. Like Perfectly Polished Tips on Facebook

The winner will be announced on my blog on 03/23/12! 

*Contest/website is US only.

Perfectly Polished Tips 210 - Sneekpeeq Giveaway

Sneekpeeq is a social shopping website that works with Facebook. Basically you can browse products on the site, then "peeq" at the price tags. The website will then share what you "peeqed" at on your Facebook timeline. The site allows user to earn badges for discounts and such. They currently offer home, food, and fashion items for up to 70 % off retail. They have partnered up with over 400 brands and that number is growing.

When it comes to the Perfectly Polished Tips/sneakpeeq giveaway, everybody wins! sneakpeeq is giving my readers 20% off their next purchase just for entering, plus a chance at the Grand Prize. One winner will receive a $25 gift card to use on their favorite food, style and home products—that goes a long way in sneakpeeq’s amazingly low-priced boutiques!

Come see all the things you love but haven’t discovered. sneakpeeq only has new products that you have never seen before!

To enter:
1. Like Perfectly Polished Tips on Facebook
2. Click HERE to sign up with sneakpeeq

The winner will be announced on my blog on 03/03/12!

*Contest/website is US only.

Perfectly Polished Tips 203 - Apothica Valentine's Day Glamour Giveaway

Apothica.com is giving away two prize packs for Valentine's Day over on their facebook page. Each bundle is worth $150 and contains some really nice items. You can check out the loot here.

One entry per person. To enter, go to Apothica's facebook page, put in your email addy and share with your friends. Winner will be announced on Valentine's Day, Feb 14th.

Please tell them I sent you! Good Luck!

Perfectly Polished Tips 200 - Zoya Fleck Effect & a 200th Post Giveaway!

In addition to their True collection, Zoya released Fleck Effects. Three holographic, flake-y top coats. They can be worn alone or over any polish of your choosing. In my Zoya True post I showed them over Bevin, Cho, and Farah. To be honest I am not big on any type of glitter, shimmer, or flakes on my finger tips. I prefer cremes, not too sure why. I will go wild on my toes but usually I like to keep it simple. 

I hate showing my naked nails! When I did last month's glitter challenge I really did a number on my nails. I don't know what it is about glitter polish but I always feel the need to pick it off. That in combination with not moisturizing left me with some gnarly tips. I did my best to clean them up so hopefully my photos aren't too offensive!

I found the fleck top coats to be a little on the thick side. For my photos I show each polish with 1 coat (pinkie nail), 2 coats (ring nail), 3 coats (middle nail), and 4 coats (index nail). I would probably go with three coats if I was to wear it alone and I found one coat to be perfect over Bevin, Cho, and Farah. That is just me though, feel free to go wild :) Layering over black polish is also another option.

Chloe is a sheer coral base with duochrome mylar flakes. She has red orange to gold and gold green to blue. Very girly and would awesome over red or orange polished

Maisie is a sheer turquoise base with flakes that shift from blue to green. This is my favorite of the three and would look awesome over blues, greens, and teals.

Opal is a sheer green base with flakes that shift from green to blue. I could see this looking amazing over a pea green or maybe even a neon green.

The Fleck Effect holographic nail glazes are available now at Zoya.com. They retail for $8 each or you can purchase all three for $24.

I have finally made it to my 200th post! It feels like it took an eternity to get here. I don't really remember why I decided to number all of my posts, seems silly now when I think about it. Anyway, to celebrate reaching 200 I am giving away one set of Zoya's Fleck Effect nail glazes!

To enter do any or all of the following:

1. Like Perfectly Polished Tips on facebook.

2. Share my contest in some way, facebook, blog about it, tweet it.

3. Leave a comment letting me know which one(s) you did.

Don't facebook, blog, or tweet? Leave me a comment telling me about your favorite layering combination.

Contest will end on Feb 2, 2012 at 11:59PM EST. Good Luck!

(these were sent to me for review)

Perfectly Polished Tips 190 - More Holiday Giveaways!

SkincareRx.com and Apothica.com are each hosting 12 days of Giveaways on their facebook pages. You have to like each facebook page and can enter daily.

To enter SkinCareRx's Giveaway head over to: https://www.facebook.com/SkinCareRx

To enter Apothica's Giveaway head over to: https://www.facebook.com/Apothica

Good Luck! I'd love to know if any of my readers win.

Perfectly Polished Tips 188 - ASK Cosmetics Giveaway

ASK Cosmetics is holding a "Gigantic Festive Giveaway." The contest is going on now until December 22nd. The prize up for grabs is the company's entire line of products. To be honest I am not familiar with the products, they have been available on QVC for quite some time now. I wanted to share though because I know that everyone likes a giveaway!

You can find the contest rules & regulations on ASK's facebook page which is linked above or on Lisa's blog which you can find here.

The company is based in Canada but the contest is open to international folks as well! Go enter & good luck!

Perfectly Polished Tips 173 - Wah Nails & Motel Rocks Competition

Motel Rocks is a clothing company offering unique and edgy clothing for women. (they carry Model's Own nail polish as well!) Motel Rocks is partnering with Wah Nails and running a competition. Wah Nails is a company that specializes in original nail art. I've been over on the site and they have a lot of nifty designs.

Wah Nails has made a bunch of designs based on Motel Rocks clothing. The company is holding the competition to promote their site and their new designs. To enter head over to Motel Rock's facebook page "like" them and then identify the pieces of clothing that the nail designs are based upon. In the end ten lucky ladies will be allowed to choose one piece of clothing of their choice as a prize.

Here are the designs:

The contest starts today, May 16 2011. I am not 100% on the end date but I will try to find it and report back. Good Luck!

Perfectly Polished Tips 170 - Karmin G3 Salon Pro Giveaway

The lovely people from Hairtools.ca have offered to give one of my lucky readers a Karmin G3 Salon Pro ceramic flat iron.

The styling iron not only straightens but curls as well. It has variable temperature control, and a slim design to allow for ease of use. The tourmaline infused plates allow for shiny frizz free hair making the Karmin G3 one of the best flat irons available.

To enter the giveaway leave a comment here telling me why you think you should be chosen to receive the Karmin G3. Then Like Karmin Hair Tools on Facebook. Please mention in your comment here that you Liked them on Facebook.

The giveaway is open to US & Canada readers only. I will choose a winner on April 20.

Good Luck!

Perfectly Polished Tips 164 - $25 Apothica.com Giveaway!

The people over at Apothica.com have generously offered to sponser a giveaway on my blog. One lucky Perfectly Polished Tips reader will win a $25 gift card to Apothica.com.

What is Apothica.com?

Apothica.com is a great beauty boutique that offers tons of different brands and a great selection. Apothica carries such brands as Clinique, Too Faced, Stila, DHC, and one of my favorites; SpaRitual. Aside from cosmetics, skincare, and hair care products they also offer aromatherapy items. Many of the brands Apothica stocks are all natural and/or organic. This is really important for me; I love my nail polish and make up but have also begun caring more about what I put on my skin and into my body.

How to enter:

Comment on this post with your email address and let me know what you would use the gift card for if you are chosen as the winner.(1 entry)

1. Blog about a brand found on Apothica.com and my giveaway. Be sure link it to the brand on Apothica.com and send me the link for your post. (5 extra entries)
2. Like/Add Apothica on Facebook (2 extra entries)
3. Follow Apothica on Twitter (1 extra entry)
- bonus entry for retweeting their tweet about my giveaway! (1 extra entry)
**Please place all entries in one comment**

Total possible entries: 10

If you are chosen Apothica will contact you and verify your information. Shortly there after you will receive a code in your email for your gift card.

*This is open to international readers as well but please be advised that Apothica DOES NOT ship to all countries*