Jacava Phene Street - and an exciting Giveaway!

I'm excited about today's post!  I have a third lovely Jacava polish to show you, plus some nail art I've done using the new polishes, plus details of an exciting Jacava giveaway which will allow one lucky person to win the entire Woodlanders polish collection!

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These were the three polishes I tried:

You can see my swatches of Holbein Place and Justice Walk by clicking on the links.  Today I have Phene Street to show you. 

This is the darkest of the three, and is a gorgeous muted, dusky purple. I really love the tone of all three of these polishes (and of lots more in the collection) which really does fit in with the misty autumnal woodland idea of the collection. 

Phene Street is another polish with a fantastic formula and finish. This is two coats, although this was opaque with one. I only added a second out of habit!

I really like how these colours go together, so I also used them for a couple of nail art looks. First off, I used sellotape to make a simple blocked tape design. 

I  was really pleased with this, and wore this for a day at the weekend. 

The colours go so well together, I think!

Then today, I've used the colours to make a gradient and a water marble. 

These worked really well for water marbling, I was very impressed! And they're fabulous for gradients - I love how nicely they blended.

Last up, the exciting news! Jacava are running a competition which will allow someone to win the entire collection! (See the range here - that's SEVENTEEN bottles of polish!)  All you have to do is check out their Twitter or Facebook, and follow the instructions to enter.  



These polishes were provided for my honest review. I don't get anything if you enter or win the competition (I'm entering it too!)  See my Disclaimer section for more information.



 

Elanor's Nails Birthday Giveaway!

Elanor's Nails is THREE years old this month! I really can't believe I've been blogging that long - I still feel like a total newbie!  

I wanted to have a big giveaway to celebrate, and to thank my lovely readers. I really appreciate the support I get from you, especially the people who take the time to get in touch in various ways. I've made lots of new friends through this blog, and lots of new and inspiring nail people, and it seemed a perfect chance to thank you.  Lots of really lovely companies who I've reviewed for over the years have also been spectacularly generous, so I am really excited to have so many awesome prizes! 

I mean - just look at all this which you can win!  Because there is polish, I'm afraid I can't post outside the UK, so this is limited to UK entrants only, I'm sorry!  And because I can't post more than 4 bottles at a time, I've split this huge box of goodies into seven separate prizes, which means I'll be able to have seven separate winners. 

So, here are the prizes!

Prize 1 

The winner of this prize will get one pair of Pedi-Sox and one bottle of Sof-Spa foot cream by Pedi-Sox (see reviews here), one Models Own Hair Chalk (see review here), one pack of China Glaze nail polish appliqués (see review here), two bottles of Jacava polish, one bottle of Jacava Prestige Top Coat and one bottle of Jacava Prestige Base Coat (numerous previous reviews of Jacava polishes here, although not these colours as they are brand new!) 

Prize 2

Winner number 2 will get a pair of Pedi-Sox, a bottle of Sof-Spa cream, a Models Own Hair Chalk, a pack of China Glaze nail polish appliqés, a Jacava Prestige Top Coat and Base Coat, and two Jacava polishes.

Prize 3

Winner number 3 will get a Models Own Hair Chalk, a pack of China Glaze nail polish appliqés, a Jacava Prestige Top Coat and Base Coat, and two Jacava polishes.

Prize 4

Winner number 4 will get a Models Own Hair Chalk, a pack of China Glaze nail polish appliqés, and the three China Glaze polishes pictured (Get Outta My Space, Polarized, I Herd That).

Prize 5

Winner number 5 will get a Models Own Hair Chalk, a pack of China Glaze nail polish appliqés, and two of the new Models Own Diamond Dust collection, Princess Pink and Heart Red.

Prize 6

Winner number 6 will get 4 Jacava polishes, and 4 different nail vinyls by She Sells Seashells - one stripes, one lightning bolts, one chevrons and one set of spiders' webs. (I bought myself a whole bunch of these, see blog post coming soon, so these are a little extra from me!)

Prize 7

And finally, winner number 7 will get a Jacava Prestige Top Coat and Base coat, and two Jacava polishes. 

I want everyone to have lots of changes to win something, so there are loads of entry options in the Rafflecopter widget below. Enter as many or as few as you like. I wanted a little something to go to people who've been following the blog for a while though, so prize number 2 will go to a random person selected only from the correct entrants to my NAME THAT POLISH question!

All 5 polishes in this photo have been shown on my blog at some point over the last 3 years. All you have to do is name them! Leave a comment on this post naming them from thumb to pinkie, brand and colour name please.  If you're stuck, the first letters of each polish name, from thumb to pinkie, spell out something that looks good on nails!  I have turned on comment moderation for the duration of this giveaway, so that people can't see others' answers. If you leave a comment as Anonymous, please make sure there's some way for me to recognise you from the comment!  The photo above shows 2 coats of each polish, with no topcoat, basecoat, base colour or anything else. 

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All prizes kindly donated by companies or their PR, with the exception of the two Models Own polishes and the She Sells Seashells vinyls, which were bought by me.

Giveaway Winners!

I was thrilled to have so many entries to my giveaway - and a huge hello to all my new followers!

The 6 winners are:


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In actual fact, I had to keep redrawing, because the Rafflecopter random thingy pulled out Lauren G's name FOUR times! Anyway, congratulations to all the ladies who've won a bottle of the Models Own/Dogs Trust nail varnish. An email is going out now - please reply with your details and I'll get your prize posted out to you.

Thank you to everyone who entered - especially those of you who shared photos and stories of your lovely dogs! 

Models Own & Dogs Trust Giveaway!

Following on from my earlier post about the Dogs Trust gold polish (see here if you haven't read it), here is my promised giveaway!

I have SIX bottles of this to give away to readers - I'm sorry, but you do need to be UK based due to the postal restrictions.   The competition ends at midnight next Saturday, so you have a week to enter. 

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Born Pretty Giveaway WINNER!

I was so thrilled to see so many entries to my giveaway this week!  HELLO to all you new readers and I really wish I could give more prizes away!

Anyway.... the winner is...


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Congratulations Karen! - let me know your address, and I'll get your prize sent out.  If I don't hear from the winner within 48 hours (by 8pm Wednesday, UK time) I will pick another winner. 

Born Pretty Store Giveaway!

I am SO excited to be hosting a giveaway of Born Pretty Store products today!

For some reason, the last delivery I had for review from Born Pretty Store arrived twice! Very generously, BPS agreed that I could give these away to one of my readers!  So you could win all three of these items, worth over $15 - the set of 12 colours of large glequins (review here), the rose water decals (review here) and leopard print water decal nail tips, which I haven't even posted about yet! 

This competition is open worldwide. Good luck!


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Winner!

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Congratulations Bethany!  My internet is still not working properly - Bethany, please contact me on Twitter (which I can get on my phone) and I'll get your prize sent out asap! 

Pedi-Sox Giveaway Reminder!

Have you entered my giveaway?  If not, there is still time to enter - the contest closes in 6 hours' time. 

It's open to anyone in Europe, and anyone outside Europe who has a European posting address, and you could win these two pairs of Pedi-Sox, one in white with pink details, and the other in lightweight purple. 
 

My First GIVEAWAY! Win 2 Pairs of Pedi-Sox!

If you read my last post (click here) and thought 'I have GOT to get myself a pair of those awesome socks!' then you will like this post!  I am very excited to be able to host my very first GIVEAWAY!!  Thanks to the lovely people at Pedi-Sox, I have two pairs to give away to one lucky reader. 

The competition is open to anyone, but you must have a postal address in the UK or Europe to which I can send the prizes. You can use as many or as few of the entry forms as you like. You could win these two lovely pairs of Pedi-Sox - there is one pair of original weight in white with pink stripe, and one pair of California weight in Springtime Violet.

The Giveaway starts at midnight tonight (UK time) and ends at midnight on Sunday 28th, so you have a week and a half to enter. If you enter your email address it will only be used so that I can contact the winner, I promise not to give it to anyone else, or to use it for anything else.  When the giveaway finishes, I will contact the winner, who will then have 48 hours to respond with their details, and if not, I'll draw another winner.  

Good luck! 

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