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Meeting with fellow nail polish enthusiasts vol. 2 (part 3)

So, I already posted about the meeting itself and what was in all of the goodie bags, but you probably also want to see also what was in my own goodie bag? So now I'm gonna show you that and talk something more detailed about some of the products too.

So first of were these Mavala and Sally Hansen products sent by Berner. I'm very interested to try that Mavala Oil Seal Dryer, just because it sounds really weird and interesting at the same time! It somekind of quick drying oil that gives "instant touch-dry manicure while taking care of your cuticles". I've never heard a product like this, so I'm eager to try it and see how it works!

Also of course I was very excited to get those Sally Hansen Lustre Shine polishes. I've been wanting to buy couple of those for a while and now I got three, yay! I think they sent us all the most interesting colors too:
Plume

Lava

Scarab

My favourite one is probably Lava and it was the one that I was going to buy too, but the other two are really gorgeous too!

I got Mavala Honolulu and Roma and they both are really pretty colors. I know some Finnish nail bloggers that don't really like Mavala's polishes and I have only had two before, so I don't really have an opinion of the brand yet. So I'm interested to try these and see how they are.

We all got Dermosil Smoothing Nail Foundation, Top Coat and Primo Cuticle Cream from DermoShop. I'm of course happy about all the polishes that we got, but it was great to have some of these essential products too, because these are the ones that you need almost every day. I haven't tried Dermosil base or top coats before, so this is good way to get familiar with these. However, I usually use only quick drying top coats, so I'm not sure how I will like the regular one, but I will certainly give it a try!

I've used the cuticle oil already yesterday and today, and so far I really like it! The scent is really mild and good and I like the fact that this isn't too greasy, so you can use it during day time without worrying about getting some oil or grease all over the place. I will keep testing this and I'll probably do a more detailed review later.

I got two of those same Lavera Basis Sensitiv hand creams from our fist meeting and I've already used one of these. I think it's really nice product as the tube is so small that it's handy to keep in your purse. However, this isn't moisturising enough for me alone, but for day time use it's fine. I have a revied of this hand cream coming up soon, so more about that later!
I've seen these Benecos polishes around, but I've never tried one, so I'm really interested in how this will be. This isn't probably my favourite color, but we'll see how it looks on nail. These were from Eco Beauty.

Norway Nails sent us some really nice polishes and I had some luck and ended up with three of those! The firs Pretty Serious polish I got in swap and then the second one and the Rainbow Honey one I got from my goodie bag. The Rainbow Honey polish is called Sweet Talk and it looked so delicious that I had to try it, so I have it on my nails right now (I will have the post about it tomorrow for you guys!).

The Pretty Serious polishes looked so cool that I had to take some close up pictures of them:
Gargoyle Ganache

Mummy Mush

Pretty Serious and Rainbow Honey are both new brands for me, so I'm glad to have these to try!
The loose glitters and the nail crystals are from BellaNails and the Wet n Wild Nail Care pen is from JTBeauty Outlet. The nail care pen is also something that I've never tried before, so I'll have to see how it works. The smells seems to be a bit weird for me, I'd even say it smells quite bad, but thankfully the smell doesn't stay on your nails or cuticles for long. I'll have a more detailed review of this too, after I've used it for a while.

So these all came from different sponsors: China Glaze Pink-ie Promise is from Mimax, Catherine Arley is from Beauty Cosmetic, Color Club Splitting Image is from CesarsShop, We Care Icon Magic Asteroid is from Sokos and Miss Selene 236 is from BBE. I had a bit of luck with these too, as I got the China Glaze polish that I didn't already have and the other ones look all really gorgeous too! The only one that I'm not that excited about is the Color Club crackle polish, just because I already have couple crackle polishes and I don't seem to use them that often. But I don't have a blue one yet, so maybe I will figure out some great combo with this one.

I have few of those Catherine Arley holographic polishes and I've really liked the brand, so I think I will like this one too!
Unfortunately, this seems to be missing the sticker where the number of the polish should be, so I can't tell you what it is. But it looks really gorgeous, right?!

I have a week spot for light browns/taupes with silver or golden shimmer, so I'm pretty sure I will love this one too! Miss Selene is a new brand for me also, so I'm happy to give it a try.
 
These four Bundle Monster plates (BM 218, BM 224, BM 301 and BM 316) and the water decals came from Adenina. There are some really nice images in these plates, but I'm not sure when I will have the confidence to try them, because every time I try to do some stamping I just end up with a lot of mess and nothing else... Oh well, at least I know how to use those water decals! :D
 
I've also never tried any of Mereneid products, so now I have great chance to try them! Like I said, there's always need for good base and top coats and that Cuticle Oil (the purple one) smells really good (it's Freesia-scented). Also, I'm a orange lover, so I will probably find use for the orange polish too!

The glitter polish looks really interesting too, it has a green tinted base, so I'll have to see how it work layered over different colors.

The Bos sent everyone of us all these products. There were some different color options, but I got the pretty pink make-up bag and the Maybelline Express Finish polish called Denim Dash. My boyfriend was so eager to try those toe nail scissors that they are already out of the package.. :D

Last but not least are the two bright and summery Essie polishes from L'Oreal Finland. These are called Lights and Action and they are from Essie's last summer collection called Poppy-Razzi. Essie is one of my favourite brands, so I will certainly use these!

So, is there anything you liked to see first?! :)

pekal

Meeting with fellow nail polish enthusiasts vol. 2 (part 2)

I know you all are very eager to know what was in those goodie bags we all received from yesterday's meeting, so here comes the post where you can see all the products! The meeting was held in my home, so I had the opportunity to take pictures of all the products before they went into everyone's goodie bags. Therefore, in this post, I'll show you all the products that the sponsors sent us and then I'll have another post later today where I'll show you what I got from my own goodie bag. I got some amazing products too from my goodie bag, but there were many great items that I didn't get, so that's why I wanted show them all to you. Remember, these weren't all for me, eventhough I kinda hoped they were...

Finnish webstore Adenina sent us all cute pink bags like this, which had four Bundle Monster stamping plates and one sheet of water decals in each of them. These came in day before yesterday and I was so busy, I didn't have time to take pictures of all the bags together, so this here is the one that I got.


Local arts & crafts store called Askarteluliike Kätevä Käsi gave us a gemstone wheel and four tubes of glitter. Unfortunately, I didn't get any of these.


BBE (importer of Miss Selene, Flormar, Golden Rose and more) sent us these 15 Miss Selene polishes.
 
Bulgarian webstore Beauty Cosmetic sent us 6 Catherine Arley polishes and 6 Seventeen polishes. I was kinda hoping to get one of those Seventeen polishes as I've never tried one before, but I had one Catherine Arley in my goodie bag (it is really gorgeous one though, so I'm not complaining!).

Finnish webstore BellaNails sent us all cans of loose glitter and some nail crystals and also brochures. For our Finnish readers BellaNails also gave a discount code, that you can see here.

The Finnish imported of Mavala and Sally Hansen, Berner, sent us all three Sally Hansen polishes, Sally Hansen Diamond Flash top coats, Mavala Oil Seal Dryers and two Mavala nail polishes for each of us.

French webstore Chez Delaney sent us these six polishes: two Nfu Ohs, one Color Talk, one Color Club, one China Glaze Crackle and one Bell. I didn't get any of these either.

DermoShop sent us all one Smoothing nail foundation, one Top coat and one Primo cuticle cream.
 
Local eco cosmetic beauty salon and shop Eco Beauty sent us mini Lavera hand creams, three Benecos nail polishes and a pile of cream samples.

JTBeauty Outlet sent us some Sally Hansen nail care products, two Wet n Wild nail care pens and two different nail buffers.

L'Oreal Finland sent us all two Essie polishes.

Finnish webstore Love It! sent us these 5 polishes: two Deborah Lippmanns, one PopBeauty, one Barry M Effects and one MeMeMe. I didn't get any of these either, which was a bit disappointing as I was of course secretly hoping to get one of those Deborah Lippmann polishes...

Estonian nail salong Mereneid sent us all one cuticle oil, one base coat and one top coat. Also everyone got two nail polishes and two nail files. 

Finnish webstore Mimax sent us 15 China Glaze polishes and some pens.

Norwegian webstore Norway Nails sent us these six polishes: two Rainbow Honey polishes, two a-england polishes and two Pretty Serious polishes and also three discount codes for the store. I had a bit more luck with these as I got two in my goodie bag and then also swapped one to another product that I didn't have use for. All our sponsor have been so sweet and generous, but I have to give special thanks to this (new to me) webstore! The communication worked so well and the products came really quickly and they were even in this cute little package:
 
Adorable, right?! Of course they were fist in a cardboard box, but this was in it and then inside this they were all packed separately in bubble wrapping and ziplock bags. So because of this experience, I can really recommend this store!

Sokos gave each of us one We Care Icon nail polish.


The Bos sent us so much! Everyone got one Maybelline Express Finish nail polish, one pair of  Revlon toe nail scissors, one make-up bag, discount codes and one, that I really don't know what it is in English.. Footrasp maybe?! Well, the thing you use to get the dead skin of your feet... :)

We had also one sponsor more: CesarsShop. They sent us 12 Color Club polishes (regular color polishes, crackles, scented top coats), 6 Konad stamping plates and 6 Konad stamping polishes, but these were sent to another participant and so they arrived with her just before the meeting started, so I didn't have time to take a picture of these products.

So like I told you already before, we had some really generous and sweet sponsors and I was really amazed how much interest different companies showed towards our event! It was really amazing and now we all have some many great new products to try!

I'll have another post up really soon, where I'm going to show you what was in my own goodie bag and also talk something about the products that I found most interesting, so stay tuned!

pekal

Meeting with fellow nail polish enthusiasts

So yesterday was a very exciting day, because we had a little get-together with fellow nail polish enthusiasts here in Eastern Finland. We had a great day filled with laughter, good food and of course a lot of talk about nail polish related things. We also had some pretty amazing sponsors that were really generous!

This is gonna be a massive post, so prepare yourselves, because here we go!

First we did a round of introductions and then we swapped or sold some polishes to each other, so basically everyone left with the same amount of polishes that they came with... 


Then we had some food... Yeah, with some I mean a lot and everything was also sooooo good, though I didn't manage to even try everything as there was so much food on the table. Well, at least no one left hungry! :D


So as I mentioned we had some really generous sponsors, so this is what the inside of our goodie bags looked like! 

Everyone got:
Apipila by Mimax stamping plates from MiMax
3 Zoya polishes from the Finnish importer NailCity (there were couple extra ones too and some lucky winners got those)
Lavera Wild Rose Eyegel, Body Spa and Basis Sensitiv handcremes, and some moisturizing samples from the Finnish importer NHS

Also Lush and CosMerya send us some products to raffle.

All the polishes from NailCity and CosMerya

All the stamping plates from MiMax


 And then here's what I got from the goodie bag and from the raffle


 From left to right: Natty, Daul and Frida
(yay, I finally got one of those Zoya Gloss collection jellys to try!)
All the Lavera products are from the goodie bag, except the one Basis Sensitive handcreme and Deep Steep moisture stick. Those two I won from the raffle. Can't wait to try all these too, I already opened the moisture stick and it smells soooo good! Also I haven't really tried any of Lavera products before, so now I have a great chance to test them.

Then I also of course bought or swapped some polishes, these are: OPI Gouda Gouda Two Shoes, OPI Nothin' Mousie 'bout It, Models Own Grace Green, W7 Baby Pink, a-england Ascalon and OPI mini That's a Hot Orange. I guess I know what I'll be wearing as my Valentines Day manicure already, lol. :)


Of course we had to also take picture of our manis! I will show you mine later in a different post, but can you guess which one of these it is? I had to borrow this pic (and the next one) from Katjamaria as I managed to delete all my own pics of this manicure circle...

And lastly, here's the whole group! I really can't tell you how much fun we had and it was really great to get together with people who love nail polish as much as I do! And we have also made plans already for the next time, so I can't wait!

Thanks again girls and also all our great sponsors!

pekal

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