Our lovely Polish Blogger’s Network is having a nailart competition and I entered with this mani :D

I don’t think I really stand a chance compared to the others, but if you like it just a teeny bit go vote for me :D
My entry is number 14 and on the list it says Maria / Polishing the nails, I have 1 vote so far, so I am way behind :P

VOTE HERE

I am so exited to finally having my next giveaway and the blog’s birthday cant be a better occasion :D

So what I am giving away… I guess most of you are interested in that :P

1 winner will receive all these lovely polishes :D

So fill out the form below and you will be entered :) Remember to read the rules, just ask if you have any questions and please write me if I have forgotten anything :P Pictures in this post are free to be used if you want to blog about the giveaway :)

Giveaway will end the 21st of March at midnight. so this means CET +1 ;) And you have 2 weeks to get your entries in.
Thanks for reading and good luck to all who enters :D

Happy birthday dear blog, happy birthday dear blog.. happy b-day dear bloooooog, happy bday.. blabla :P

The blog is “1 year” today :) The reason for the ” ” is that my blog actually is a lot older than that. I have had this URL since November 2005 with a blog on it and before that I had kolastram.dk which I got in 2003 and used it more like a homepage with all kinds of weird stuff on it :P Click on pictures for a closer view ;)

This design I had for a good while on my old blog :) Still think this was a great header :D

And then my blog was hacked, well I dont think it was my blog in particular that had done anything but more like a security breach in wordpress that was used. And then it all of the sudden looked like this on the frontpage and then I actually stopped blogging for a good while.

It wasn’t until last year I figured out I had a hobby that I could actually blog about :P So on March 7th I put up my first post. And that wasn’t nail related at all, that was a picture of a queue thingy at a pharmacy which made a heart with < and 3 :D That’s how geeky I am :P

Since the first post I have had a big increase in the visitors count because of the wonderful and kind network that there is between bloggers :) and especially to mention the nail bloggers :) I owe everyone that link to me huge hug <3

Some random stats:

More than 500 posts

33.000 unique visitors the last year

Over 1500 comments

Most used keyword search was for “Chanel 505″

106 countries has visited the site, 42%  was from Denmark, 24% from USA and rest is spread out over the world :)

The busiest day so far has been with 520 hits

So enough with the facts.. be sure to check back later today for the post on my birthday giveaway :D And thanks again all for reading. Biiiig hug and lots of <3 to you ;)

Wohoo the sun was out today, so I can finally take some pictures :D This polish was part of the China Glaze Romantique Spring 2009 collection and must say even though this is the only one of them I got, this is definitely my favorite! I love the color it has. Only thing there is to say on the negative side is the brush strokes can be somewhat visible but I don’t think it matters that much :) Its gorgeous and I love it :D Btw, do you like it when I have the full sized(as in filling out the entire column) pictures or do you prefer them at bit smaller like these in this post? Let me know in the comments :) Thanks for reading! <3

Hi there! If you live in Scandinavia and you are just as crazy about nail polish as me, you can join a club, where polishes will be sent straight to your door every month! The polishes chosen are mostly brands that is not that easy to come about in Scandinavia and the prices are always reasonable and the customer service is great! So with out much further ado I present this months nailpolish from Nailmail.se which are from Orly. You can choose from the following collections:

I don’t know if you remember but I have tried some of these already. See these links for Sweet collection and Bloom collection. So I think I am getting some of those I need from the collections and going for Blushing Bud from Bloom and Cotton Candy from Sweet and then Iron Butterfly from the Metal Chic collection. You can also order some of Orly’s treatments, like Wont Chip, Bonder or any of the other they have. I can really recommend Sec’n Dry, I made a post here about it :) And remember if you mention my customer no. which is 147 you can get 10% discount on your first month in this fabulous exclusive club for us Scandinavians ;) Be sure to join head over to Nailmail.se and check for further details and prices  :)

This is one of the infamous NfuOh’s, it seems to be quite a lemming in the nail community. And I understand why :P I bought them a while ago but haven’t really had time to try them on other than a quick swatch on each finger. So here is a quick post with the first of them.This is the original color, I haven’t used a base color. So this is how it actually looks :) I have seen a lot of pictures with a black as a base and that looks great to, I mean flakies can make anything look good! :D

For those of you not familiar with this polish I took some pictures of the bottle :) As you can see its shaped like a dress, I think its absolutely gorgoues and the best idea for a polish ever :) Nfuoh’s slogan is: “When NfuOh began All of the worlds nailart trend was changed” And who is to argue with them? :P NfuOh’s own blog can be found here and I bought mine at Fabuloustreet.com

I have been sick, hence the silence here. Most of you would probably have guessed this from reading my last post. I am doing pretty fine now and had time to do a mani Friday before going out with my work. As you can see on the bottom picture this is a holo when the light hits it and a when there’s non on it, its just a gorgeous purple :D Sorry about the messy cuticles, tried to brush it up a bit. And in other news I found some more stuff for my blogs birthday giveaway, so be sure to check back soon :D

Better late than never, I wasn’t home last night to bring you this weeks link love in the Polish Bloggers Network, but here it is :)

The first article up I’d like to bring your attention to is nothing nail related, but is definitely worth a read, especially by all the bloggers! Helen’s Nice Thing’s wrote a wonderful article addressing the question, should bloggers be considered as media or press and I think she expressed her views quite remarkably.

Naive Nails wants to show off a mani she’s titled “Love Be Hanged”. A very cute and quirky design.

French Mani anyone?! Well, Babbling Brooke has you covered! Check out her Nailene French Mani Blog Giveaway. She’s gifting three of readers with these fabulous sets… so you better make sure that you’re one of them!

Bye, Bye old man winter, let’s bring on the sun and the pool… as The Swatchaholic brings us wonderful swatches of China Glaze’s Poolside Collection.

Have you been able to view swatches of almost the whole OPI Hong Kong collection? If not, the Nail-Design bring you 9 out of 12 of them.

Maigic Maid has snagged a duochrome drugstore brand polish and nope, I’m not telling you what it is! ;)

This week Tuli’s Nails has a broken heart and she letting her mani tell the story as to why. Check it out!

polishSWATCHES gives you a sneek peek at Tracy Reese’s Fall 2010 Sally Hansen Shades as well as a glimpse of the nail trends that were sported at her show.

You will NOT want to miss out on what Polishing the Nails is cooking up on her blog! Even I’m in the kitchen for this one!

It’s safe to safe everyone loves a good konadicure right?! And even more so when your showing off a gorgeous polish! Cucumpear is donning some very pretty artwork on her tips as well as showing off the gorgeous color p2 Rich.

Looking for a interesting blue nail polish to add to your stash that you might not already have? Then Polish Freak and China Glaze have you covered, but shhh, she said the color is a secret!

Nail foiling and minx like applications are all the rage, but why not try using a nail polish for the same effect? Manicure Mommas swatches Orly Foil FX’s and shows how you can turn your nails into precious metal.

Have you ever heard of Piggy Paints Nail Polish or even considered buying it but haven’t? Well if so, Laquerholic has just given you the incentive to go ahead and plunge. She’s secured a 10% off privelage coupon for all of her readers as well as written a full review

Nail-Design is having a special giveaway to celebrate the fact that she has received over 300, 000 Youtube views on her channel. Wow! Congrats on the great accomplishment!

Lambchop is having a really nice giveaway for readers, but she really needs for you to help her out… by ENTERING!

Today’s you last chance to win some Milani Holos, so be sure to enter Naive Nails contest if you’re one of the many who can’t seem to find them and are lemming.

I sinned! I shopped! But only for some necessities! I was out of mascara and at the pharmacy I saw this cuticle creme so had to get it, cause of the extra dry skin right now. And for the polishes… its not even for me! Its for you! Someone out there can win this. I plan on doing a giveaway when I reach 200 followers here on the blog :) So if any of you are reading here, but haven’t signed up through the Google Friend connect thingy in the side, now is a great time for doing just so :)

I made the picture black and white on purpose so the colors of the polishes would be a surprise for when I announce the giveaway :P And of course since I can see most of you like creme polishes I got just the opposite ;D Nah I think you will like these :D

Thank you for reading :)

Don’t think I have even gone so long without posting a polish in here, but I have been working last week and still don’t have any sun out for taking some good pictures. Okay I’ll stop complaining about the sun now :P

This polish is from the Chocolate Truffles collection from Nubar that was released fall/winter 09. I love the color of this and I cant really remember how many coats this needed but I am pretty sure 1-1½ was enough. I dont wanna say much more since the picture pretty much speak for it self. Looovely color :D