Welcome to 2012 Giveawayyyyy!!! **CLOSED**

Hey ladies!  I just wanted to thank you all for your continued interest in my blog, despite my recent comings and goings :) 

I've got a wonderful sponsored giveaway for you with a couple of items you can win!  Thanks to Verve 360 Nail salons in Pittsburgh, PA for providing the main prize: two Zoya polishes from their Smoke and Mirrors collection!  

Here's what you can win:

Zoya Anja is a beautiful plum cream from Zoya's Smoke and Mirrors Collection.  Zoya describes it as "a rich, deep, vampy red-toned wine purple with a glossy creme finish.  This vampy shade is both sexy and elegant."  I have to agree with that, hah!  It's a beautiful color that I'd love to have for myself :)

Zoya Anja

Zoya Jem is one of my favorite Zoya polishes that I own!  It's a beautiful duochrome purple shade that shows a lovely array of purples, reds, and bronzes in the sun light.  I reviewed it a while back when the collection first came out here.

Zoya Jem

Thanks again to Verve 360 to providing this great prize!

In addition to this prize I've got a few other things I'm giving away to show my appreciation!  They include two great products I was able to try this year!

First up is a set of the 4* Softlips Winter Flavors that I reviewed here.  You will get 4* Softlips chapsticks in Winter Mint, Sugar Cookie, Sugar & Spice, and Sugar Plum Berry in a cute drawstring bag:

Yes, only two shown here because the rest of mine have traveled into my purse and coat pockets :) But you get 4*!

You will also win a Scünci Linziclip of your choice!  A while back I reviewed the mini version here:

You can chose to win the set of mini Linziclips, like the ones seen above that I received, or you can get a midi sized one:

Since all of these products will be coming from sponsors, and not myself, this giveaway is only open to those in the continental U.S.  Sorry, international followers!  

So once again the prizes are:

-Zoya Anja (Verve 360 Salon)

-Zoya Jem (Verve 360 Salon)

-4* Softlips Winter Flavors chapsticks

-Scünci Linziclip of your choice (4 mini clips or 1 midi clip)

Thanks again to The Verve 360, Softlips, and Scünci!

**Initially I said you'd get 5 softlips, I'm SO SO SO sorry, I briefly re-read my review and mis-counted the names of the chapsticks and there's only 4.  My bad!**

This giveaway is closed! Good luck! :)

Here's how you can enter, I'm doing it a little differently this time!

1) To enter you MUST be a follower via GFC.
2) This is open to Continental U.S. residents only
3) Enter ONLY once, if you enter more than once you will be disqualified. Also normally I'm pretty lenient with entries, if you say you follow me on Facebook and it turns out you don't or you forgot, I've just been deleting one of your other valid entries and letting it slide.  Since I had so many invalid entries last time, you will be disqualified for ANY invalid entry.  So please, make sure what you say you did is true!  I hate disqualifying people, it makes me sad :(
4) This is open until January 19, 2012 at 11:59 p.m. EST!
5) You MUST leave a comment about why you love Zoya or why you want to try Zoya polishes!


You get 1 automatic entry for being a GFC follower, commenting, and filling out the form!  Here are some ways you can get additional entries into the contest:

-Follow @ElementalStyles on Twitter [1 entry]

-Follow Elemental Styles on Facebook (provide Facebook name) [1 entry]
-Share this giveaway and provide proof (on sidebar, giveaway page, blog entry, facebook, twitter) [1 entry]
-Add Elemental Styles to your blog roll (provide a link please!) [1 entry]

Good luck ladies!! 

Finger Paints Flakies!!

Helllllo lovelies!

Sorry it's been a while!  I had all those posts set up for the holidays when I'd be out of town and ended up being busy for much longer than that!  Anywhoooo I've still been painting my nails and taking pictures, so I've got quite a few to show you! 

I'll start with the most recent, because I know lots of people are talking about and searching for the new Finger Paints flakie polishes!  And if you're not, you should be because they are awesome! 

My Sally's had all of them when I went up there this weekend, but as I had forgotten my coupons and I wasn't sure if I'd like them or not, I only picked up the two that I liked the most from swatches: Motley and Flecked.  Oh and the black that came with them: Black Expressionism.  Surprisingly I didn't have a black cream, gasp!  I know, I know...but I never liked dark colors before.  But this one, is GREAT!  I mean, it IS black, but I was still surprised to see that it covered perfectly in one coat.  BUT, since dark polishes are a little unforgiving and I'm a little sloppy, so I put on two coats to cover up parts of the nail I missed.   

First up, Motley:

I had to file my nails down :(

Oooh you don't notice how poor your clean up was until you check out a close up pic :)

Holy moly Motley is a beauty!  It's a beautiful purpley blue-to-green flakie that looks awesome when it catches the light!  It seems super royal blue to me, but I've heard it being called purple before, what do you think?  I love the blue to teal to green transition, it matches my house haha.  It goes on a little sparse for my taste, so this is two coats!

Okay so after I took my time cleaning up black and swatching Motley, no part of me wanted to take it off and swatch Flecked.  I didn't think it'd hold a candle to Motley!  SO I just decided to add a coat of Flecked on top of Motley and BAM! It's awesome:

Wooo!  I love this combination.  Flecked on it's own is a bright teal-to-green flakie and since both Motley and Flecked have the teal/green in them, I thought they'd look great together and I was right!  Flecked is a bit more dense than Motley so I only put one coat on for this look.  Together it's like all the colors of the sea came together on my nail.  In the sun the green from Flecked catches and shines pretty brilliantly.  I think they'd look great over a dark blue or dusty teal polish, as well!  I'll have to try that in the future.

My wallet desperately wants me to resist buying the rest of these Finger Paints flakies, but we'll see what I decide in the future :) 

Have you guys tried these? Do you love them?!

<3 Whitney