My One Year Blogiversary!

Who would believe... 

Today I am celebrating exactly one year since I started this little blog! During this year I have learned so much and it all came from you! So I want to say THANK YOU to each and every one of you who read my posts or even just look at the pictures. A special THANK YOU to those of you who even comment and add your own remarks. I read every comment and I appreciate them greatly.

Ok, enough with the blah-blah. Let's move to the fun stuff - the Party!

1. The prizes to win
2. The Nail Art Contest
3. The Rafflecopter

The Prizes:

In addition to the traditional Rafflecopter Giveaway, I decided to make a little nail art contest. If you send  your entry to the contest, you can get a 10 points bonus to the giveaway, plus - you get to participate in the contest itself. That's much higher chance of winning! Of course, the same person cannot win twice. But the contest prize will be available to the contest entrants only, and the giveaway prize will be open for everyone!

There will be two prizes. The 2nd prize is Essence - Breaking Dawn (LE) collection of four polishes:

Essence - Breaking Dawn (LE). A Piece Of Forever, Jacob's Protection, Edward's Love and Alice Had A Vision - Again.

The 1st prize is Mood Swings - A color-changing nail polish collection made by... me.

Mood Swings - A color-changing nail polish collection. Provocative, Daring, Fascinated, Impulsive and Goggly.

These polishes change their color at body temperature. When your hands are cold - you can see the dark colors. When they are warm - you can see the light color, and in most cases you will see some sort of in-between gradient. Here are some swatches that I made quickly, using hot and cold water to dip my hands in.
Do note that these pictures show the most "extreme" difference between the cold-color and the warm-color of each polish. By regular use you will definitely see the change! But perhaps not as extreme as these pictures, unless - of course - you too will dip your nails into cold or warm water :-)

Provocative: a blackish dark purple with purple and blue mini flakie-shimmer that changes to lilac.
This is two coats. Index and ring with top coat, middle and pinky - without top coat.

Daring: an orange polish with gold and red shimmer that changes to bright yellow. A personal favorite of mine. These are three coats. Index and Ring without top coat, middle and pinky - with top coat.

Fascinated. Bluish dark purple with blue and pink shimmer that changes to periwinkle blue. two coats. Top photo with no top coat, middle and bottom show top coat on the index and ring and no top on middle and pinky.

Impulsive: Blue-based green with lot's of gold flakie-shimmer that changes to bright light lime color. This one is shown in two coats and without top coat.

 Last is Giggly, a purple polish with pink/red shimmer that changes to sweet bright pink. Picture shows three coats. Index and ring with top coat, middle and pinky without.

So...! These are the prizes to be won and I have two sets of each! So two winners of the giveaway will win these, and two winners of the nail art contest will win these too.

The Nail Art Contest information and rules:
- The theme for your entries is FUN! Your nail art should make those who look at it to feel the fun. It shouldn't be complicated or out of this world. It only has to give this fun feeling to everyone looking!
- Your nail art should not be very complicated. What the judges will be looking at is creativity and fun.
- Your nail art should be made on your nails attached to your fingers. That is if you have built nails that are on your fingers and you cannot take them off just for the same of decoration - it is allowed. But if you use glue-able tips that you paint when not on your fingers - that is not allowed. Painting on other people's hands also is not allowed.
- You can use stamping, as long as you use it in a creative way. You cannot use stickers or decals of any sort (even not your own made, as it misses the idea of doing it on your hand)
- You can use nail polish, acrylic paints, glitter.
- You can use foil as long as it is not the only cover of your nail. It should be combined with any of the other allowed materials and it should be used in a creative way.

Your entry should be emailed to me at jinjit@superficiallycolorful.com
Please allow 48 hours processing time and then expect a confirmation email. If you did not get any confirmation to your entry after 48 hours, please make sure I received your mail by either re-sending, emailing or sending me a message on my Facebook page.

The last day to send your nail art photos is the same day the giveaway ends - April 7, just before midnight (EST time). Do remember though - if you entered the nail art contest and you want to fill the rafflecopter with your entry name, don't forget to do it on time! ;-)

There will be five judges. Four of them are not in the field of nails or beauty in general. The fifth judge would be me. After all - it is my party :-)

And If there is anything I forgot - feel free to ask!

The Giveaway!
Sorry for this long long post... but I did place some easy-access links on top ;-)
Anyway, this is the shortest section - the rafflecopter! There are three mandatory entries. The rest will show up once you answer those.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Happy One Year Blogiversary to me - Good Luck To you!!