To celebrate the grand opening of Beautopia Nails' new Etsy shop, I'm doing a giveaway! Two people will each win a set of custom hand-painted nails. The winners can choose any design on my site or in my shop and they'll be made to order. There are a couple ways to win and you can enter daily if you so desire. I'm trying out Rafflecopter for the first time because putting in names in to the randomizer is pretty time consuming. And this way you can enter multiple times without causing me to pull my hair out and wish fervently for death! :D WIN! The contest will start today and will run until Friday, April 27th and the winners will be chosen and contacted the following day. Good luck!!!

I'm doing a second giveaway on Tumblr if you'd like another chance to win, reblog the post on tumblr:D

Even if you don't win, please check out my shop and if you find something you like, or would like to order a custom set of your own, use the code BEAUTOPIA10 for 10% off your first purchase!

PS: I've never used Rafflecopter before, so if there are any issues, please let me know!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!

A few days ago we showed you swatches of the beautiful new OPI Holland Collection, and now here's your chance to win this set of minis featuring four of the colors from the collection! There are a couple simple ways to win, so read on to find out how!

Giveaway is active from the time of posting until Friday, February 17th at midnight. Winner will be notified the following day. This giveaway is open internationally except where prohibited by law or shipping restrictions.

How to win:

You MUST be a follower of Beautopia on OnSugar to win (you can follow by clicking "Start Following This Site" on the widget to the right of this post, directly below the Google+ badge), and do one or both of the following:

1)  Comment on THIS post telling us which of the Holland colors you like the most. If you haven't seen them yet, click here to view swatches.

2) You can earn a second entry by tweeting the text below about this giveaway, just be sure to add the tweet link to your comment on this post. 

"  WIN an OPI Dutch Treats set from @BeautopiaNails! Visit http://tinyurl.com/752y5x8 for more info!  "

GOOD LUCK and have a great week!

Edited to add winner.

CONTEST NOW CLOSED

Winner: Courtney33!

I numbered all the entries and entered them into Random Line Picker and #7 was the winner.

Win a copy of the fabulous polish-centric book, Enamel Diction by Australia-based The Initiative. I have to be honest, The Initiative and Enamel Diction are both really an enigma. I don't understand quite what the Initiative is, but I know this book is awesome and a cool addition to your library if you're a nail and/or color junkie. it's filled with great quotes and references and it tells you what your choice nail polish says about you. It's a fun book, and The Initiative is giving a copy to one Beautopia reader!

Here's how to win:

Contest will run from now until Midnight on Saturday, October 8th, 2011. Winner will be announced the next day. Good luck!!

1) You must be a follower of Beautopia, either through Google Friend Connect or OnSugar. Both ways to follow are found to the right on this page. If you're already a follower; Thank you! You rock! Now, just write a comment on this post telling me what your favorite color of nail polish is. It can be a general shade, or a particular brand and color name. Let's see what everyone's favorite color says about them! If you want a second bonus entry, don't comment yet! Read on...

2)  For your bonus entry just follow @BeautopiaBlog on twitter and tweet: "Win a copy of @EnamelDiction on @BeautopiaBlog! http://bit.ly/oZcz2O" To make sure that this tweet counts as your extra entry, please tell me in your comment that you tweeted it and your twitter name and I'll put you in an extra time!

It's been a while since we've done a Beautopia giveaway, so I'm super stoked. I hope to have another Halloween themed giveaway when this one ends, so watch out for that. This time one Beautopia reader will win this OPI Spookettes nail polish set. Included in the set are 4 mini lacquers in He's My Boo, Mummy Knows Best, I Only Date Werewolves and the new limited edition glow-in-the-dark Zom-Body To Love along with a bunch of cute Halloween nail decals.

Contest will run from now until Friday, September 23rd at midnight EST. Winner will be picked and notified on Saturday, the 24th.

I want to make this as simple as possible so here's how to enter:

1) Leave a comment on this post telling me why you want to win the set. This one is mandatory for entry. Read number two before commenting if you want a second chance to win!

2) You can get a second entry by following @BeautopiaBlog and tweeting "Win OPI Spookettes Halloween Set on @BeautopiaBlog! http://bit.ly/oZcz2O" and then make sure to tell you tweeted about the giveaway along with your twitter name.

Good luck to everyone and thanks for reading!

UPDATE 11/15/10: The contest is now closed. I'll be tallying up the entries this week and will have the winner within a couple days. Thanks so much to everyone who entered!!

There are a ton of popular brands on apothica.com, including a couple nail favorites; Deborah Lippmann and Essie. If you're a makeup junkie as well, like I am, then you'll be happy to see you can get widely-available brands like Stila, Smashbox,CARGO and Bare Escentuals. In addition there are a lot of brands you can't get many places online and are only in a handful of brick-and-mortar stores like Becca, Bond No. 9, and Lippmann. The list of brands is pretty impressive actually, which is always great for one-stop-shopping. They state that they guarantee the lowest price on their products and I've done a few random price-checks and they either match or beat the prices of all other retail sites I checked on the products I chose to check.

There aren't a lot of nail brands on there as of now, but of the ones they do I'm pretty excited about, like Lippmann. Deborah Lippmann's polishes have really been starting to grow on me over the last couple years. With amazing shades like Ruby Red Slippers and Across the Universe, and Bad Romance, I've started to really look forward to Lippmann releases. A big positive with Apothica.com for me will be being able to order new Lippmann along with Becca, CARGO, and Smashbox without paying the high shipping cost at someplace like Nordstrom. I've ordered Lippmann from Nordstrom and I can obviously get a lot of other makeup brands there, but you have to order like $200 of stuff to get free shipping, or else it's something like $9. Apothica gives you free shipping with purchases over $49, so that's more convenient and reasonable in my opinion.

Anyway, now that you know a little more about where the winner will be spending their gift card, let's talk about how to win! Each entry form has a possible 11 entries. Please only submit the form once. If you submit it more than once only the first can be counted. You don't have to complete all entries, just the ones you wish. Giveaway runs from right now (November 1) till midnight on November 14. GOOD LUCK!!

Click here to enter!

Korres Zea Mays blush in Pink - $24 at korresusa.com

I'm a blush fiend, and I'm sure a lot of you can relate to that. I have an entire craft drawer devoted to blush alone. There's just something about it. Even though truthfully so many look the same on me there's just something about a giant pan of beautiful pristine color that speaks to me. Among my favorite brands are MAC and Cargo, and now that I've tried this Korres blush, I feel like I'm going to need to start a second drawer.

Before I go any further I just want to mention to you guys that at KorresUSA.com you can get 20% off your $35 order with the code BEAUTOPIA. This code is good till May 20, which will be great for Mother's Day and for self-gifting if you catch my drift. I'll be getting my mother-in-law some stuff and some things for little ol' me might find their way into my cart...

Additionally, three of you are going to win a Korres Zea Mays Powder Blush in Pink! Read on to see how...

1) Be a follower of Beautopia on Google Friend Connect OR On Sugar. You can find those boxes to the right of this post.

2) Leave a comment below telling me about your favorite Korres product. If you haven't tried Korres, which product do you want to try the most?

3) You can tweet the following: "Follow @BeautopiaBlog and win a Korres Zea Mays Powder Blush ($24 Value)! http://bit.ly/cjb0c6" You can tweet daily, but please comment here and leave each tweet link. Sometimes tweets get lost and I want to make sure that if you take the time to tweet, that you get every entry!

This giveaway will end at midnight on 22 May and is open to only US residents because it is brand-sponsored. I'm sorry I'm neglecting you international beauties again, but I promise there's good stuff for you on the horizon!

Click for more photos and the review!

R3 Daily is teaming up with Rescue Beauty Lounge creator Ji Baek to give away two sets of the brand-spankin'-new Surf Collection. There are three shades: 360; a dusty blue, Diddy Mow; a sunwashed green, and Bangin'; a hot surfer chick red! You can read more details here on her site. She has some great posts so if you're not already following her, do! Then just tweet and post about the giveaway and you're entered. I'm going to enter, actually, and this is my post about it, but to be honest, it's such a cool giveaway, even if you've already got the collection, it deserves a shout out!

She's also got an interview with Ji herself!

Grand Prize pictured

So far we've had quite a few entries to the nail art contest, and the contest is nearly half over! I know that way more of you have nail art skillz! There are no rules when it comes to what you can use, use anything you've got! Be creative and enter as many times as you'd like. There are hundreds of dollars worth of prizes to be won, and it could be anybody! Who doesn't want to give winning these prizes at least the old college try? You can send them in one at a time, or all at once, it doesn't matter, I just want to see what you guys can do. Get inspired and get to work!!!! Check out the information on the original post, and get hoppin!

Additionally, starting now, there is an additional giveaway attached to the contest! Whether you've entered a nail art design or not, you can enter to win a special secret prize (it'll include nail goodies, of course) for just telling others about the Nail Art Contest!

Here are the rules for the extra giveaway:

1) Tweet the following: Enter the Beautopia Nail Art Contest before Apr 30, Follow @BeautopiaBlog and see this page for details! http://bit.ly/9x0xqf You can tweet it once a day till April 31 at midnight! Tweet it every day for more chances.
and/or
2) Post about it on your blog. You can use any of the photos in this or the original post.
3) Leave a comment under THIS post with the link to your tweet or post. Please leave a comment for each tweet or post. It'll help me keep track and help to maximize your chances to win!

The winner of the extra giveaway will be announced the week following the contest end.

THE WINNER OF SALLY HANSEN OPULENT CLOUD IS BEAUTOPIA FOLLOWER SUSIES1955! CONGRATS SUSIE AND THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING A READER! THE POLISH WILL GO OUT TO YOU AS SOON AS I GET HOME NEXT WEEK!

One of this past year's hits in the nail polish world, Sally Hansen HD in Opulent Cloud was a most-wanted polish among the initiated. It was here and gone in a flash, but I ran across one in a local drugstore and I snatched it up for you! One of you is going to win it! Here's how to enter:

1) Be a member of Beautopia either through Google Friend Connect or OnSugar (both buttons can be found to the right of this post). Then leave a comment under this post with your Google and/or OnSugar username.

You gotta leave a comment here! :D

That's it! I'm only going to make it a giveaway for followers because that's what I promised I'd do. You guys rock so hard and I wish I had found enough for everyone, but alas, I have one. This giveaway ends at midnight on March 28th, and the winner will be chosen the next day. The prize will not be sent out until the week of April 5th, when I return home from vacation, though, so keep that in mind.

Good Luck!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO MAQUILLAGETALK, SHE'S THE WINNER OF THIS PERRICONE GIVEAWAY!! WINNER HAS BEEN CONTACTED VIA TWITTER.

Perricone MD Cosmeceuticals is giving one Beautopia reader the chance to win a Concentrated Restorative Treatment valued at $100! I am so excited for this giveaway. This cream is an anti-aging night treatment and it contains Vitamin C Ester and DMAE, which has been known to be called "face lift in a jar" by some people. I've never tried anything containing it myself, so I can't vouch for it personally, but given the reputation Perricone products have in the beauty blogosphere, it seems like an interesting product to give a try. So do you want to win it? I know you do! Here's how you can enter:

1) You MUST leave a comment under this post telling us why you need/want this product, and why you think it would be a great product for you. Your reasons will have no impact on whether or not you win, we're just interested in seeing what you have to say.

2) You can get an extra crack at winning, by tweeting "@BeautopiaBlog Giveaway! Win @PerriconeMD Concentrated Restorative Treatment ($100 Value!) http://bit.ly/b1wVCm ". This will count as an extra entry. If you tweet only, without leaving a comment in this post it won't count. To make sure I see your twitter entry, please leave a note in your comment that you tweeted for the extra entry.

3) If you've got a blog, you can post about this giveaway (and use the photo if you wish) to tell your readers about it. Please just leave a comment here with the link.

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