Warm Hands & Painted Nails

I joined 2 swap groups for this Christmas season. Here's my first one: 

Warm Hands & Painted Nails

I was paired with a lovely lady from Quebec! I've never met anyone from Quebec before and this happened to be my first domestic swap if you can believe it! Lia was super nice and found me some awesome goodies! For this swap we had to include a pair of gloves/mittens and a bottle of polish, then whatever extras your heart desired. So what are we waiting for?? Let's take a look at what I got!!

The parcel itself was wrapped in gorgeous paper!

Under the wrapping was a gift box filled with all my goodies and a lovely card =)

Awesome tetris packing skills!

All the lovely goodies! I wanted a cute pair of knitted mittens and these will go perfect with my grey jacket. The blue scarf is also of a style I've been admiring but I probably would be too scared to buy it and try it myself lol...there's also some chocolate and candies, make up wipes, nail sticker strips and oh of course we can't forget the polish!!!

Can you believe I don't have any of these?! I'm super excited to try the Jacob and Bizou as these are completely new brands to me. The OPI is also lovely and will be a great addition to my minis army =) I love all these colours, especially the Jacob one! Can't wait to try them.

And since it's always more fun to see both sides of a swap, here's a look at the package I sent her from Vancity =)

And we can't forget a close up of the pretties! She really wanted to try China Glaze and OPI so I did my best to find her some brands she's yet to try =)

I really love doing swaps! It's a great way to get to get to know people better and it's so much fun buying stuff for others! Now I just need to wait one more day to open my SPS swap package! 

Nail Mail~Customs, Oh No!

Hello everyone! The lovely Marissa from NY helped me order some stuff from Sephora and some stamping plates. Unfortunately when I received the package, customs had inspected it! Oh no!

I was a bit scared to open it...hopefully everything would still be there, and intact! 

Hmmm. Looks like the polishes were a bit rattled and the samples a bit exposed, but everyone was able to complete the journey! 

Look how cute the egg carton is!!

I ordered 4 Hello Kitty Polishes and the 2 Bundle Monster stamping plate sets. Marissa is ever so kind and added in a few samples as well as the Wet n Wild glitter polish! <3 She is so sweet! She also helped me get the Finger Paints flakie polishes!

Here are the Hello Kitty polishes! So cute and they were a great deal! Marissa was able to get them on sale for $5 each, instead of the $7 plus shipping I'd have to pay to get them here! (The store didn't have all the colours and I'd have to pay tax...the HK polishes are regular $13 in Canada, and $10 in the US.) Thanks again Marissa!

Have you ever had a package opened??

Nail Mail~Aussie Swap

I have something exciting to show you today!! I recently arranged a swap with the lovely Rachel from Glam Polish. She had been looking for MUS Greta, I had an extra left and since shipping for both of us is so expensive, we thought we'd do a swap!

This is my first big international swapsies! Look at all the lovelies I got! 

My first
Essence

and

BYS!

Above:

BYS Cracked ~ Mauve

BYS ~ Matte Deep Purple

Left:

Essence ~ True Love

From the Vampire's Love collection

And now for the 

Essence - Colour & Go:

~~Time for Romance~~

~~Break Through~~

~~Space Queen~~

~~Make it Golden~~

~~Choose Me!~~

                                         ~~In Style~~              

~~Blue Addicted~~

~~Hard to Resist~~

~~Where is the Party?~~

Don't these look so pretty all lined up?? I absolutely LOVE how the lids match the colour of the polish! They are also such a great size, @5ml they have enough to last a while, but they are small enough that you can try lots of different colours! I wish we had these here...

You can check out what I sent her here!

Peace, Love and Polish!

Hello everyone! I'd like to share with you a package a got in December from the lovely ladies Rachael and Brenda. This post is about more than 2 amazing polishes though, it is about 2 extremely kinda and amazing ladies and the friendships and connections I've made through polish!

Epic Nail Mail!!!

Here is some epic nail mail I recently received from my friends Traci and Chelsea!
Click on their names to check out their blogs and sales!

Let's have a closer look at what I got!

Here is:

~Gamer Glam~
~Electra Magenta~
~Techno Teal~

From the China Glaze Tronica collection

Here is:

~Kaleidoscope Him Out~
~Visit Me In Prism~
~Don't Be A Square~

From the China Glaze Kaleidoscope collection

  Here is:

~CG In The City~

~Skyscraper~
From the China Glaze Metro Collection

and~Liquid Leather~

~OPI Nail Envy~

The China Glaze Kaleidoscope holos are my favourite type of holo! They are both linear and scattered and sparkly, even when there's no sunlight! I was first introduced to them when I found 2 dusty hunting (searching for old hard to find polish in salons). Chelsea is officially my kaleidoscope hero, as they are very hard to find!

The Tronica's are also a bit holo and I'm super excited Traci could get me some because I was unable to find them locally. I love with these colours, holo or not!

I just can't wait to try all of these out! Oooh I also got my nail brushes today from ebay! I forgot to take a picture though... =p

That's all for now! Hope you enjoyed =D