Zoya Smoke & Mirrors Giveaway - CLOSED

Giveaway tiiiime! If you're wondering why I hadn't mentioned that I was planning on doing a giveaway, it's because I wasn't. When I got home from Greece, there was a FedEx package from Zoya waiting for me - I immediately wondered what it was, because I'd already reviewed Smoke & Mirrors and Touch, the most recent Zoya collections. But when I opened the box, I found, much to my surprise, another full set of Smoke & Mirrors. I didn't know what I should do with them, so I emailed Zoya's PR to let them know about the mistake, and they generously told me to share them! So, consider yourselves lucky...without this bit of luck, I wouldn't have had the money to host a giveaway for quite a while. You can see pictures of the polishes above in the collage I made of my pictures, and the color drops are cropped from the image in Zoya's press release. To see more, bigger pictures and my review of the polishes, check out the Smoke post here and the Mirrors post here.

Now, on to the rules of the giveaway. Since Zoya provided the product, I'd like to help them out a little, so there will be a few additional options. The giveaway will end Thursday, August 11 - I'm sorry to make it so short, but I'd really like to have it all wrapped up and still have a full week to get ready before I move into college the week of the 21st. So, here's how it's going to work:

+2 for following Never Unpolished via GFC

+1 for tweeting about the giveaway

+1 for following me on Twitter

+1 for putting the giveaway somewhere on your blog

+1 for following Zoya on Twitter

+1 for telling me what your favorite Zoya polish is

Also, the giveaway will be USA-only, because I am scared to death of shipping fines. Sorry!

Aaaaand, there you are! Don't forget, you only have until next Thursday to enter, so get cracking! :)

250 Followers Giveaway! CLOSED

This giveaway is now closed.

EDIT: Idiot that I am, I forgot to say that this IS an INTERNATIONAL giveaway. I don't care where you live; you can still enter!

I've been compiling some stuff for a giveaway ever since I got close to hitting 200 followers, and I finally decided to post it...there's more stuff I'd like to accumulate, but I figured I had held out long enough. :) Here's the prize: Cover Girl Arctic Violet, Cover Girl Pink Ice, Finger Paints Romanticism Ruby, China Glaze peppermint cuticle oil, Revlon Perplex, an unnamed Sally Girl layering polish, China Glaze Fairy Dust, a silver Kiss striper, Sinful Colors Green Ocean, Sally Hansen In the Spotlight, and Sally Hansen HD Laser. Sorry for the horrendous picture...I'll do you a favor and not make it huge like my pictures usually are.

I really want this giveaway to be a way of saying thanks to everyone who has followed me so far, and I thought about making it a requirement that you already have been a follower. Then I figured that there are probably people who read this blog that aren't yet following via GFC, and I didn't want to leave them out (plus, there's nothing wrong with new followers), so this is how I'm doing it:

+1 for being a new follower (as in, you followed after I posted this)
+5 for being an "old" follower (as in, you followed before I posted this)
+1 for tweeting about the giveaway
+1 for putting the giveaway somewhere on your blog (post, sidebar, it doesn't matter)
+1 if you tell me what you'd like to see more of on Never Unpolished

Also, I want to point out that you have to be a public follower for your entry to be counted - I have no way to validate your entry otherwise.

The giveaway will end May 6, 2011,  because that's my 18th birthday. :) Now put your entries in the form and click "submit!"




P.S. All products in this giveaway were purchased by myself, which should be pretty obvious since the products are pretty random. :)

My First Giveaway! CLOSED

In celebration of 77 followers (because seven is my favorite number), I'm doing my first giveaway on Never Unpolished! The prize is:

Sinful Colors Let's Meet, Sinful Colors Nail Junkie, Sinful Colors Hottie, Wet 'n' Wild Red Tape, and Wet 'n' Wild Buffy the Violet Slayer. I tried to include something for everyone. They're all inexpensive drugstore polishes (after all, I am a high schooler with no job), but they're all colors that I would buy for myself. In fact, I do have my own bottles of Nail Junkie and Hottie, and I've used quite a lot of both of them. The rules of the giveaway are very simple:

1) You must be a resident of the continental US. It really pains me, but I just don't have the money to ship overseas right now. Next giveaway, hopefully.

2) You must be a follower. If you are not logged in to your account when you leave your comment, be sure to tell me what your account name is.

3) Leave your email address in your comment so I can contact you if you win.

The giveaway will go until the end of August 18, and as long as it is August 18 somewhere on the planet, you may still enter. Good luck, and my apologies again to those outside the continental US! 

P.S. Psst...guess what I found one lonely bottle of while picking up the giveaway prize? My fiercest lemming, Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure! I wish there had been two so I could give one away, but unfortunately not. However, you can look forward to seeing an extra post tomorrow (in addition to the Orly Enchanted Forest post previously planned) showing off the lovely HT.