nail mail v.2

I have more nail mail. lol. This is one of my last big hauls before I try to slow down. I recently joined a Birthday Club through PaA, and the ladies (and gentleman) are amazing, so I'm going to focus more on getting them their presents.. Hopefully it will help me with a no-buy for myself unless I ABSOLUTELY have to have it. I'm going to focus on working through my un-trieds (I have about 100 I'd say).. I have some more nail mail heading my way, but after I receive all that, I'm definitely going to try to slow down my polish hoarding. This time my nail mail is from NinjaPolish! Pretty amazing site... they're mostly sold out of stuff right now.. But for an order of $35 bucks you get free shipping.. and the shipping was super fast. I think I ordered in the middle of the week, and I had in my hands by Saturday! There was also a mis-label issue with one of the light bulb polishes, and they're sending me the replacement for free, and I get to keep the mis-labeled one! I haven't done research yet to see which it is.. maybe you guys can tell me!?

The packaging.. just a regular flat rate envelope.. :)

It was all bubble wrapped snuggly tight! 

A lovely clear holder thingie.. from Jessica Cosmetics.

All the polishes that I got were Jessica Cosmetic polishes... I LOVED the bottles on these. 

Just an extra pic of my sweet pup making an appearance! 

Funky town & Shake your Booty

Scene Stealer & Girls night Out.

Shopping Spree.

Lucky Star and Starry Night... She sent me an email saying one of these is labeled wrong, but from research, it looks like they are labeled right!

PS... Please help welcome my sissy Spen'sar into the blogging world.. she began her first blog today, and she will be using it to document things for her little precious baby, Laila. Her link is http://spensar-thehappyhippie.blogspot.com/

Giveaway -- Mermaid's Dream!

Its giveaway time again here at The Princess & the Polish! I have been staring at this giveaway prize for weeks waiting to give it away, and I just can't do it anymore. I purchased this myself when I ordered mine from HSN... Its such a beautiful polish & I am so happy to be giving it away! I have decided to use Rafflecopter for this one, as I'm trying to see how it works out. So all entries will be done through the wiget below! The giveaway is open to US followers only.. apologies, yet again, to my international followers... I'm still not up to speed on international shipping. My last giveaway did NOT require you to be a follower; however, this one will. It just seems more fair to those who have been following me from the beginning. The polish is brand new, still in the box, and never opened! The open bottle shot is from MY personal bottle of Mermaids Dream.

You can see swatches here.

thank you!

Just a wee bit of an update... thank you to everyone who remained patient with me as I worked through the mess I created, LOL... I have added a new followers function. I signed up at HelloCotton! If you haven't seen it, please check it out! Its a great platform for new followers. Its a really pretty awesome website. If you sign up for HelloCotton and would like to follow me, just use the little button thingie over there ---->.

We'll be back to regularly scheduled blog posts, soon. I swearrrr! :)

Thankful Thursday.

This week, I am especially thankful for:

1. Hot baths --- there doesn't seem to be anything as soothing to me.

2. My niece Laila turning 2 months old on March 4th. She's been such a blessing to all that are in her life. 

3. Best friends that allow me to use their house as a temporary stop on my journey home in tornadic  thunderstorms...

4. Getting to see my nephew Wyatt during that temporary stop.

5. Documenting everything I eat.. Its giving me a better understanding of what I put into my body... and how to work out meal plans that leave me with enough calories to make it through the day.

6. Photoshop!

7. Getting my Capital Colours collection in the mail!

8. My amazing followers who have taken this mess of a name change in stride, though its been rather embarrassing for me. 

9. Another day off on Friday. It will allow me to catch up on things. For those who don't know.. I work 10 hr shifts in a call center... I'm a team lead so I balance a lot of different things... it gets exhausting, but I love my job. I'm off Wednesdays and weekends... but there doesn't ever seem to be enough time to do everything I need to do.

What are you thankful for this week?

nail mail v.1

Ya'll... I am sosososo excited to share with you today the nail mail that I got... First, a little background. I absolutely LOVE 'The Hunger Games' trilogy. So, when I found out that China Glaze was coming out with the 'Capital Colours' collection, I knew I HAD to have it. So, what did Desiree do? I pre-ordered in February off of Amazing Beauty Supply... because I live in Tennessee... and our Sally's stores are always really slow on getting new collections... So I wanted to be guaranteed that I'd have them... They were due to be released on March 1st. Apparently Sally's locations were putting them out early, because several people had them a couple of weeks in advance... Anyway, March 1st rolls around, I still have no shipping notice. A couple more days go by, no shipping notice and my order still reads 'awaiting fulfillment.' I messaged them. No response. Long story short, I wound up cancelling through paypal, and I ordered off of Ebay. I've never ever had a bad experience with Ebay... I ordered them Sunday, they got to me today! I was super surprised at the fast shipping of the seller. I realize now that I was probably super impatient with Amazing Beauty, but they failed to communicate anything to any of their customers about the hold up with the shipping of the polish. People that had pre-ordered in January were just getting their polishes this week... so I knew it would've been a much longer time for me to get mine, so I just decided to cancel. 

I apologize early on for the flash in all of these pictures.. I didn't check my mail until tonight, so there was no natural light.

After opening the top of the box... she actually packed these REALLY well.. the box fit around the polishes perfectly so there was no chance for them to move... I was really impressed with the packing!

The first time I've ever received any polishes in the original China Glaze boxes! I was super stoked, lol.

Each rectangular box held 3 polishes and were surrounded by packing peanuts.

L to R: Mahogany Magic, Harvest Moon, Agro

L to R: Hook and Line, Smoke and Ashes, Stone Cold

L to R: Dress me Up, Foie Gras, Fast Track

L to R: Riveting, Electrify, Luxe and Lush

So there you have it! My amazing nail mail (amazing to me!) that made me smile today. Have you read The Hunger Games Trilogy? Will you be seeing the movie when it comes out? Or will you purchase some of these lovelies? I will DEFINITELY be posting about these lovelies as I wear them... :)

Who can guess what my favorites are out of the 12?