Kiko Giveaway winner!

Kiko Cosmetics Giveaway winner!

Woah guys! I had a LOT of entries to go through, 668!, so I'm really really sorry for the late announcement! I threw everything in a spreadsheet and drew a random winner by using www.random.org. Of course you all want to know by now who's the lucky girl...

...but first I want to thank you all so much for participating, you're all awesome! And now, without further ado.. the winner is... *drumroll*

winning entry

Geeo, congrats! I'll email you shortly for your details :). I'm really sorry for those who didn't win.. maybe next time!

With love,
- Michèle

Kiko Giveaway

Kiko Cosmetics

Hi guys! During our vacation (that isn't over yet, woohoo!!) we made another trip to Germany. And Germany means: Kiko cosmetics! I absolutely adore this brand, so much quality for so little money. And since a lot of you were bummed out this brand is only available in limited countries I couldn't leave the store without picking up some polishes for you guys!

The polishes I got:

• 270 - Sparkle Touch Aqua Paillettes
• 278 - Microglitter Dark Orchid (pretty much a dupe of Artdeco 275)
• 300 - Pearly Malachite Green (swatched here)
• 301 - Microglitter Black Purple

The rules

• You have to be a follower of my blog (I will check)
• Leave me a comment with your email address
• Optional: You can earn one extra chance to win by reposting this on Twitter or your blog - include a link to your tweet or blogpost
• It doesn't matter where you live, this contest is open internationally.
• You can enter till the 31th of august, 11:59pm - CET.
• I will use www.random.org to decide the winner

Good luck!
- Love, Michèle

ManGlaze Giveaway: The Winner!

Hi guys! My giveaway ended last night, so the last few hours were spent going through entries, sorting them out in a spreadsheet. There were so many, I was so overwhelmed, thank you ALL so much for entering and the neverending support!
I used www.random.org to determine the winner and I'm pretty sure you're very curious to see who the winner is...

... I can tell you one thing, the winner won 2 awesome nail polishes by ManGlaze: Matte is Murder and Fuggen Fugly. Second, the winner is a she, and she lives in a country where a lot of my readers come from...

...Brazil! So who is it then?! With no further ado, I present to you the lucky winner:

Congratulations Karla Scoparo! I will be e-mailing you for your address shortly :-)

Surprise Puppy Giveaway Winner!

Ik heb eindelijk alle inschrijvingen geteld! Het waren er heel veel, heel erg bedankt voor het meedoen allemaal! Ik vond de puppynamen waar jullie mee kwamen echt geweldig. Een paar vna mijn favorieten waren Wall-E en Wasabi. Als we niet besloten hadden om ouderwetse Nederlandse namen te gebruiken waren die zeker een optie geweest!

Helaas heb ik wel een aantal inschrijvingen moeten diskwalificeren omdat ze niet aan de regels voldeden en omdat dat niet leuk is voor ons allemaal ben ik van plan om de volgende keer de regels aan te passen.

Hoe dan ook... toen ik eindelijk alle inschrijvingen geteld had heb ik ze op mijn formuliertje ingevuld en www.random.org gebruikt om de winnaar te bepalen.

I finally counted all the entries! There were so many of them, thank you all for entering! I loved all the puppy names you guys came up with. A couple of my favourites were Wall-E and Wasabi. If we hadn't decided to go with old-fashioned Dutch names those would have definitely been an option!

I'm sorry to say I did have to disqualify some entries because they didn't follow the rules and because that's not fun for either of us I plan on changing the rules for my next giveaway. 

Anyway... when I finally counted all the entries and entered them on my form I used www.random.org to decide the winner.

De bijpassende inschrijving:

The matching entry:

"I, love to try this brand out. 
I'm a follower by Blogger and you are on my blog roll as well. 
If I got to name on of the puppies, I would call her Wendela, I feels suited to a soft and fluffy dog. 
I blogged about this here: 
http://polishpixelpig.blogspot.com/ "

Gefeliciteerd PolishPig! Ik heb een email gestuurd en hoop snel te horen welke Catrice nagellakken je graag wilt hebben. 


En omdat je niet over puppies kan posten zonder foto's...

Congrats PolishPig! I sent you an email and hope to hear from you which Catrice polishes you'd like to win.

And because you can't post about puppies without pics...

They grow so fast! They were on puppy porridge here but they are eating kibble with a bit of water now.

Proud mommy

Wamke, one of the two puppies my sister is keeping.

Bushes are there to be attacked, right? This is Wammes, the one we are keeping. He's a hand full!

ManGlaze Giveaway!

Yes you read that right :-). I was enjoying my ManGlaze polishes so much, I just felt the need to share some of the ManGlaze awesomeness with you! And to be honest, you guys are all so great and supportive and funny and sweet and caring, so consider this giveaway as a small gesture of my thanks. Unfortunately I cannot buy everyone nail polish so I'll be giving away Matte is Murder (click here for swatch & review) and Fuggen Ugly to one lucky winner. The rules? Pretty simple: You have to be a follower of my blog (I will check) Leave me a comment with your email address It doesn't matter where you live, this contest is open internationally. Optional: You can earn one extra chance to win by reposting this on Twitter or your blog - include a link to your tweet or blogpost in a separate entry. You can enter till the 21th of May, 11:59pm - CET. I will use www.random.org to decide the winner I won't be sending out this package myself, I will order straight from the ManGlaze website and make sure it gets delivered at your address. Yay for laziness! ;-) Well dear readers, if you wish to enter: good luck!

Surprise Puppy Giveaway!!!

Nee niet gelijk boos worden! Natuurlijk ga ik geen puppies weggeven! Laat me even uitpraten!

Ik heb twee heel lieve Nederlandse Schapendoezen genaamd Bikkel en Anoek en Bikkel wordt papa!
Op dit moment is Renske, de schapendoes van mijn zus, zo enorm zwanger dat ze nauwelijks meer kan lopen en de puppies komen dit weekend! We weten niet precies hoeveel het er worden maar de dierenarts vertelde dat we moesten rekenen op iets tussen de 6-12!
Bikkel is de voorste hond en Renske de zwarte daar achter.

No don't get mad! Of course I'm not giving away puppies! Hear me out!

I have two very cute Dutch Sheepdogs called Bikkel and Anoek and Bikkel is going to be a daddy! Right now my sisters sheepdog Renske is so pregnant she can hardly walk and the puppies are due next weekend! We don't know exactly how many puppies there are going to be but the vet told us we should be counting on anything from 6-12!
Bikkel is the dog in the front and Renske the black one behind him.



Dus dit is het geval. Ik wil heel graag een nieuwe giveaway doen omdat de laatste zo leuk was en omdat ik zo enthousiast ben over de nieuwe lakjes van Catrice dus ik zet deze giveaway online voordat ik zelfs maar de lakjes of de foto's heb of het exacte aantal lakjes weet.

So here's the thing. I want to do another giveaway so bad because the last one was fun and because I'm very enthusiastic about the new polishes from Catrice so I'm putting this giveaway online before I even have the polishes, the pictures or the exact number of polishes.


Dit kan ik je nu al vertellen:

• Deze giveaway zal open zijn voor iedereen over de hele wereld!

• Er zullen lakjes uit de nieuwe lijn van Catrice in zitten want de nieuwe kleuren zijn geweldig en ik wil ze delen!

• Een van die lakjes zal Catrice Sold Out For Ever zijn welke, naar mijn mening, zelfs dichter bij Chanel Jade komt dan Claire's Dreamcatcher!

• De overige Catrice lakken mag de winnaar ZELF uitkiezen!

• Er zal ook als extra nagellakverdunner in zitten want hoe geweldig de kleuren ook zijn, de formule laat helaas wat te wensen over.

• De hoeveelheid lakjes hangt af van hoeveel puppies er geboren gaan worden!

Update! De puppies zijn eerder geboren maar alles is goed gegaan. Het zijn er negen geworden!



Here's what I can tell you:

• This giveaway will be open to everyone around the world!
  

• There are going to be polishes from the new Catrice line involved because the new colours are amazing and I want to share!

• On of those polishes will be Catrice Sold Out For Ever which, according to my opinion, is an even closer dupe to Chanel Jade than Claire's Dreamcatcher!

• The other polishes will be chosen by the winner HERSELF!

• There is going to be additional nail polish thinner involved because the colours may be awesome but unfortunately the formula of the new Catrices does leave something to be desired.

• The size of this giveaway will depend on how many puppies are born!

Update! The puppies were born early but everything went well. There are nine puppies!




De regels:
Lees deze alsjeblieft goed. Ik vraag niet veel maar in mijn laatste giveaway heb ik toch een aantal mensen moeten diskwalificeren en dat is niet mijn favoriete bezigheid.

Verplicht:

1. Je MOET een volger van mijn blog zijn! Nieuwe lezers zijn natuurlijk altijd welkom! Ik prefereer het als je mijn blog volgt met Blogger of Google Friend Connect (dat dingetje met de fotootjes rechts, het is heel makkelijk! Dat beloof ik!) zodat ik bij kan houden hoeveel mensen me volgen maar als je me op een andere manier volgt laat me dat dan alsjeblieft weten.
2. Laat je emailadres achter in je comment. Je mag deze zo opschrijven dat spambotjes er niks mee kunnen maar zorg wel dat het duidelijk is voor mij. Ik moet contact met je op kunnen nemen als je gewonnen hebt!
3. Vertel me hoe jij je puppy zou noemen als jij een van deze haarballen zou krijgen. Let op: de naam moet met een W beginnen!

Extra:

Je kunt een extra entry verdienen door iemand te vertellen over deze giveaway en dat mij te laten weten. (liefst met een link) Je kunt erover bloggen (alsjeblieft met link), twitteren (@DutchNailBlog en laat alsjeblieft een linkje achter), een spandoek aan je auto hangen en hiermee door de stad rijden, het op een forum posten (ook weer met linkje graag) enz. Wees creatief! Maar check alsjeblieft wel eerst even op mijn giveaway niet al is gemeld door iemand anders. We willen niet spammen!
Zorg er alsjeblieft voor dat deze extra entry in een aparte comment staat! Dat maakt mijn leven een stuk makkelijker!

Je kunt dus maximaal twee entries verdienen.

De giveaway eindigt op 30 April om middernacht lokale tijd!

-edit- Ik ben vergeten te melden dat de winnaar gekozen zal worden door www.random.org.

Ik zal deze post updaten met meer nieuws en foto's gedurende de giveaway.


The rules:
Please pay attention to these. I'm not asking for a lot but in my last giveaway I've had to disqualify some of the entries and I hate to do that.

Mandatory:

1. You MUST be a follower! New followers are certainly welcome! I prefer if you follow me through Blogger or Google Friend Connect (The thingy with the pictures to the right, it's really easy! I promiss!) so I can keep track of how many are following me but if you follow me in another way please let me know.
2. Leave a comment with your email address. Feel free to write it in a way so spambots can't get to it but make sure it makes sense because I need to be able to contact you if you win!
3. Tell me what you would call your puppy if you would get one of these fur balls. Note: The name has to start with a W!
   

Additional:

You can get one extra entry if you tell someone about this giveaway and let me know about it. (preferably with a link) You can blog (please provide a link), tweet (@DutchNailBlog and please provide a link), stick a banner on your car and drive around town, post it on a forum (again, link please!) etc. Be creative! But please make sure to check message boards and fora to see if someone else already posted it. We don't want to spam anyone!
Please make sure to leave your extra entry in a seperate comment! That would make my life a lot easier!

So you can get two entries max!

This giveaway ends April 30th at midnight local time! (GMT+1)

-edit- I forgot to mention the winner will be chosen by www.random.org.

I'll update this post with more news and pictures as we go along.

THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED!

Giveaway Winner!

Hoi allemaal, ik weet dat ik al te lang afwezig ben maar ik kon dit niet te lang laten duren. Als eerste allemaal bedankt voor het meedoen! Ik vond het erg leuk om een giveaway te hosten dus ik ben zeker van plan om dit in de toekomst vaker te gaan doen.

Daarnaast wil ik natuurlijk ook Enchantra bedanken voor het sponsoren van deze giveaway en voor het aanbieden van de 15% kortingscode DTCHNLBLG in hun webwinkel.

Hi all, I know I've been absent for way too long but I couldn't let this stretch out too long. First of all a big thank you to everyone who entered! I liked hosting a giveaway so I definitely plan on doing more of these in the future.

Second I would like to thank Enchantra for sponsoring this giveaway and for offering a 15% discount in their webshop to my readers with the code DTCHNLBLG.

Ik heb alle inschrijvingen geteld en ben toen terug gegaan om het aantal tweede inschrijvingen te tellen en heb die allemaal op een lijst gezet. Ik heb het op deze manier gedaan om ieders kansen om te winnen te spreiden. Als je twee inschrijvingen had omdat je over de giveaway geblogd, getwitterd of op een andere manier aangekondigd hebt en mij dit hebt laten weten zijn je inschrijvingen niet als opeenvolgende nummers geteld maar bijvoorbeeld als #1 en #78.

I've counted all the entries and then went back to count the number of second entries and listed all those. I did it this way to spread the chances of winning for everyone. If you had two entries because you blogged, tweeted or announced my giveaway in any way, shape or form and let me know about it your entries would not be following numbers but for instance be numbered #1 and #78.

Daarna heb ik www.random.org gebruikt om te beslissen wie de winnaar zou zijn en het winnende nummer is:

Then I used www.random.org to decide who the winner would be and the lucky number is:

"Too bad, I won't have the balls to put an announce at my local supermarket. Ah ah!
Let's keep it simple: I'm a follower on here via blogspot (and I'm in Europe).

It's great to celebrate Spring. <3>

Nathalie van Jellynat! Gefeliciteerd Nathalie! Ik heb jer een email gestuurd voor je adres zodat Enchantra je jouw prijs kan opsturen!

Nathalie from Jellynat! Congrats Nathalie! I sent you an email to collect your shipping info so Enchantra can send you your price!

And the winners are ..... *drumroll*

So finally! My giveaway has ended and I'm about to announce 2 lucky winners. First of all: boy I need to thank you all so much for participating and following me! I've had 299 comments, worth of 404 entries! This was definitely beyond my expectations, overwhelming to say the least. Needless to say I've had a lot of work sorting everything out, haha!
While I was on this I caught some cheaters too, I'm not as dumb as you might have thought, ha ha (I did think it was pretty lame though).

Well with no further ado, I present to you the two winners:

Set 1:

Set 2:

I used www.random.org to determine the winners, and kept everyone's preference in mind.

Congratulations ladies! I will be e-mailing you shortly.

Of course I feel the need to add some nail spam, so here is Sinful Senorita by H&M, a gorgeous pink with great application. And you might not think it is, but it's definitely a holo in better lighting.

Take care and till next time!

Let's Celebrate Spring With a Giveaway!

Sorry dat het zo lang geduurd heeft om deze giveaway online te zetten. Het is zo hectisch hier nu dat ik er gewoon niet eerder aan toe ben gekomen.

Sorry it took so long to post this giveaway. It's so hectic here I just didn't find the time to get to it earlier.



Winter is absoluut mijn favoriete seizoen maar de lente komt daar al snel achteraan. Ik houd vooral van de dagen als de sneeuwklokjes door de sneeuw breken en de bomen bloesem beginnen te krijgen. Het is nog steeds koud maar je voelt dat de zonnestralen sterker worden en je gezicht verwarmen. Ik zou prima kunnen leven met 8 maanden winter en 4 maanden lente!

Ik weet dat niet iedereen dit met me eens is maar ik weet zeker dat we allemaal blij zijn dat de lente er bijna is dus om dat te vieren en om jullie allemaal te bedanken voor het volgen van mijn blog wil ik een giveaway houden. Dit kan je winnen:

Winter is my all-time favourite season but spring is a close second. I love the days when snowdrops are coming up out of the snow and trees start to blossom. It's still cold, but you can feel the sun is gaining strength and is starting to warm your face. I could live with 8 months of winter and four months of spring!

I know not everyone feels this way but I'm sure we are all glad that spring is almost here so to celebrate this and to thank you all for following my blog I wanted to do a giveaway. This is what you can win:

China Glaze Light As Air and China Glaze Grape Pop from the Up&Away Collection

Konad plate M64 (One of my favourites. I love the paisley design!)

Konad Double Sided Stamper and Scraper

De regels:

Ik houd niet van al die uitgebreide inschrijfopties die iedereen tegenwoordig lijkt te doen dus ik houd het simpel.

1. Je moet mijn blog volgen! dit is een entry waard. Vertel me alsjeblieft in je post hoe je The Dutch Nail Blog volgt.

2. Om een extra entry te verdienen kan je iemand vertellen over deze giveaway. Ik ben niet kieskeurig over hoe je dit doet! Blog erover, tweet erover (@DutchNailBlog), post het op hyves of facebook, hang een briefje in je lokale supermarkt (als je dit doet maak dan alsjeblieft een foto. Dat lijkt me een geweldig gezicht! lol), post of een forum of message board (controleer alsjeblieft eerst of de giveaway niet al genoemd is, ik wil niet alle nagelforums spammen!), etc.

Je kan dus in totaal twee entries verdienen.

De giveaway eindigt om middernacht op 21 Maart lokale tijd. (GMT+1)

Deze giveaway is gesponsord door de geweldige mensen van Enchantra en is alleen open voor Europese volgers van The Dutch Nail Blog.
Sorry aan mijn lezers van elders maar ik maak het goed met jullie met mijn tweede giveaway!

Edit: Denk er alsjeblieft aan om je emailadres in je comment te zetten of in te loggen op het comment systeem met een bestaande account (google, blogger, twitter) waarin je emailadres staat zodat ik contact met je op kan nemen als je gewonnen hebt!


The rules:

I don't like the elaborate entry options everyone seems to do right now so I'm keeping it simple. 1. You have to be a follower! This will earn you one entry. Please tell me how you are following The Dutch Nail Blog in your entry.

2. To earn one extra entry you can tell someone about this giveaway. I'm not picky on how you do this! Blog about it, tweet about it (@DutchNailBlog), post on facebook, hang a note in your local supermarket (if you do, please post a pic. I'd love to see that! lol), post on a forum or message board about it (please check if the giveaway hasn't been mentioned there before, I don't want to spam every nail board out there!), etc.

So you can get a total of two entries.

Contest ends March 21st at midnight local time. (GMT+1)

This giveaway has been sponsored by the wonderful people of Enchantra and is open to European followers only. Sorry to my followers from elsewhere but I'll make it up to you with my next giveaway!

Edit: Please remember to include your email address in your comment or login to the comment system with an existing account (google, blogger, twitter etc.) that includes your email address so I can contact you if you win!

Herome - New Delhi & Romika's Giveaway!

Hi everyone! Since my last post a lot of new readers have joined my blog, I was amazed! So welcome to all of you!

As some of you might already know, my mom has a blogs: Romika's Nails. At the moment she is having a great giveaway to celebrate her 100 followers. This giveaway includes some really beautiful polishes and nail care products by Herome, a Dutch brand. So please hurry on over there!

I also have some stuff by this brand, so I thought I'd show you one of the bunch Romika is giving away! This pretty baby is called New Delhi, and it belongs to the W.I.C. collection. W.I.C. stands for World Inspired Colors, all the polishes are named after big cities. No wonder their color selection is huge: check it out.

I really like the color I'm wearing, it's a dusty minty aqua green creme. It's definitely a hot color at the moment. I applied 2 coats for complete opacity. The formula was okay, a bit on the thick side but it worked out pretty well. For those who couldn't help themselves and went crazy during the Models Own sale: this one looks a bit like Slate Green, but a tad lighter and more yellow.

This was it for today, take care and till next time!

Yeah baby! Giveaway time!

I made it to 250 followers! *Does happy dance*. Like I said I appreciate and love you guys so much! I'd never expected to find such a warm and welcoming place. And now I can finally thank you guys! Let's show you the goods: I'll be giving away 2 sets, one set a winner, so yes there will be 2 lucky winners!

The first set includes 4 great shades by H&M: Chicks Envy Me (a bright orangy red I actually like - this color doesn't look right in this photo), Fashionista, Liberty Girl, and the highly sought after Bella's Choice!

The second set includes 3 semi holo nail polishes, also by H&M: You Rock My World, Sinful Senorita and Mad About You. These are pretty awesome, the application is amazing. The holo effect is very subtle (unless you're walking on sunshine), but I think they're mega cute anyway. I'll try to swatch some of these any time soon.

I've added some photos for reference, these are swatched with my own nail polish. The nail polish that I'll send to the winners is brand new and never been used!

Fashionista

Bella's Choice

Chicks Envy Me
Sinful Senorita

Ok, the rules!

1 - You have to be a follower of my blog
2 - Please enter your e-mail address along with your preference for set 1 (the 4 shades) or set 2 (the 3 semi holos).
3 - It doesn't matter where you live, entering is open for everyone!
4 - You can earn extra entries by:
    - Reposting this giveaway on your blog (feel free to use the pictures in this post!),
    - Following me on Twitter
    - Tweeting about it
If you do this, please let me know in your comment by showing me the URL's.
Note: You can only use these for extra entries if you follow my blog.
5 - You can enter till the 10th of March, 11:59pm - CET.
6 - Since I love you all so much, I'll let www.random.org decide who the lucky winners will be ;-).

I really hope you'll enjoy the items I gathered and if you choose to enter, good luck!!

China Glaze - Ruby Pumps - & Upcoming Giveaway!

Hi guys! Today I only have time for a short post, so here it goes! This probably is one of the prettiest nail polishes made! You all know her by now, but Ruby Pumps by China Glaze deserves all the attention she can get. I snatched this one from my moms Helmer, it's a beauty! Definitely a must have, so I'll have to get me one too! The formula was amazing, after 3 coats you'll have the most gorgeous red sparkly nails ever.

I also wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone so much for reading, commenting and supporting my blog, you've all made this blog a very warm and welcoming place to be for me. I've passed 200 followers last week, which I've never expected, not even in my wildest dreams! To thank you guys I'll do a giveaway when I hit the 250 mark. Think H&M nail polish! And probably some other stuff on which I haven't decided yet! Maybe OPI's Reflecting Pool since it's not that easy to find overseas? So please stay tuned for updates about this :-).

Take care and till next time!