*closed* My Three Year Giveaway featuring a-england

Hello all of you, and firstly I will apologise immensely for my absence, I have been a busy little bee and had a lot going on so the blog unfortunately fell by the wayside.  However, I am back with a little bit of a bang....

My little blog turned three at the start of August and I had arranged a little giveaway with the always lovely and generous Adina of a-england.  She has so kindly agreed to donate 4 of her stunning polishes to the winner of my birthday giveaway, and even more exciting that the winner will get to pick the 4!!

Now if you aren't already familiar with a-england you really should be - in my humble opinion - so this is a great chance to try them out...... or if you have been lusting after some to add to your collection but not managed to get them yet, here you go...or if you already own them all, get some back ups! Ha!

For anyone who doesn't know about a-england Adina started up the company a good few years ago now with the explosive first collection, The Mythicals.  She has continued to wow with further collections - The Legend, Gothic Beauties, Burne-Jones Dream, Ballerina and the stand alone collection Heavenly Quotes. As part of the initial collection she also launched the Knight and Shield which are the only top and base coat I will use now since I got them a few years ago.

The image above just goes to show the little details that go into making a-england more than just  your average brand.  Each collection has its own little logo (apart from the Ballerina collection just now it seems) and I always find them so pretty on the site I decided to make a little group picture with them around the a-england logo.

Now in total, across all of these collections, there are 43 polishes....45 if you include the top and base.  And I am lucky enough to have all of these in pride of place as part of my polish collection.  I have shown all of there on the blog, some many times, but I decided to help you choose (and to show them all off again) I would have a little swatchathon.

So without further ado, here are all of the a-england polishes.....  Just so I don't have to keep saying it, every swatch is 2 coats of the polish without a top or base coat.  I love the way a-englands apply, just like butter and always look flawless!  I won't list all the descriptions, just the names, but you can head to the a-england site for some more information on any of these.

In order (the same as they are on the site) we have:

Starting with the Mythicals - King Arthur, Excalibur, Excalibur Renaissance and Merlin.

Morgan Le Fay, Iseult, Guinevere and Elaine.

Lady of the Lake, Tristam, Lancelot and Camelot.

Avalon, Perceval, Galahad and Holy Grail (new edition)

Holy Grail (limited edition).  Then onto the Legends - Saint George, Dragon and Princess Sabra (Tristam Eyes)

Order of the Garter, Princess Tears, Ascalon and Bridal Veil

And then the Gothic Beauties - Dorian Gray, Ophelia, Tess D'Ubervilles and Lady of Shalott

Jane Eyre.  And then the Burne-Jones Dreams - Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty), Rose Bower and Briarwood

Sleeping Palace, Fated Prince.  Now the Heavenly Quotes - Hurt No Living Thing and Love Is Enough.

And the Moonbeams...., She Walks in Beauty, Beauty Never Fails.  And Lastly the Ballerinas - Fonteyn

Her Rose Adagio, Encore Margot and Dancing with Nureyev.

Whew!!!  Now thanks for sticking though that and I hope you liked what you seen.  Hopefully I helped your decision and didn't make it more difficult ha!

Now for the giveaway part.....  it is open internationally, should be live from now!!! and will run for the next week.  Please use the Rafflecopter widget below to enter.

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Good luck and thank you all so much as always and I hope you stick around after the giveaway is over ;)

Rebecca x

a-england Fonteyn

I have today to show you the last polish from the a-england Ballerina collection, Fonteyn.

Fonteyn is a silvery lavender holo polish, the holo in this one is great, and coverage, as to be expected with a-england was perfect.

The only bad thing I can say is that this is the last polish in the Ballerina Collection and I will have to wait on Adina to use her creative genius and release another collection :p

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.  On a side note, I got some a-england vouchers for my Christmas and since I - very luckily - have one of all of the polishes from the site, I used my voucher to get backups of the Knight and the Shield and also Camelot and Lancelot.  I use these polishes regularly, the Knight and Shield with every mani and Camelot and Lancelot so often alone or as a base for other colours so I am super happy I got these as I was onto my last bottles of all four!

But anyway, back to Fonteyn.

a-englands can be purchased from the official site if you are in the UK, or Llarowe for International customers.  You can find a list of all the a-england stockists on the site.

Thanks for looking <3

 

Some products in this post were sent to me for review.

a-england Her Rose Adagio

Here we have the third from the Ballerina Collection from a-england, Her Rose Adagio which is another great holo polish from Adina.

Eugenia of Ommorphia Beauty Bar describes this best as a faded Rose polish but I like to think of it as a-england does nude polish.... and does it well.  You probably know I am not a great fan of nude toned polishes, I like polish vampy or bright but I loved wearing this one, so delicate and pretty.

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.

a-englands can be purchased from the official site if you are in the UK, or Llarowe for International customers.  You can find a list of all the a-england stockists on the site.

Thanks for looking <3

 

Some products in this post were sent to me for review.

a-england Dancing With Nureyev

Firstly Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!  Sorry it is late and for the lack of posting over the festive period but was kept pretty busy between family and friends so can't complain.

For my first post of the year I have for you Dancing with Nureyev from the new a-england Ballerina collection.  Now I knew I would love this one before I even tried it on, as well, it is blue, but not just blue, it is a violet leaning blue which has an almost linear holo effect and looks even better on the nails than in the bottle.

Here is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.  You could probably get away with 1 coat of this one as coverage was great as always.

 

It is probably no surprise to you that I  really love this one and I dare you not to love it too once you have it on your nails!

a-englands can be purchased from the official site if you are in the UK, or Llarowe for International customers.  You can find a list of all the a-england stockists on the site.

Thanks for looking <3

 

Some products in this post were sent to me for review.

a-england Encore Margot

Today I have for you all the first of four polishes from the new a-england Ballerina Collection.

You have probably been seeing these around a lot, as I know I have, and love them each time I have seen them. 

a-england polishes seem to be a bigger and bigger hit with each collection and this is due to the standard of the polish and the fact you know each polish in the collection is going to be stunning before you even see it.

So the first I will show you is Encore Margot which is a pale icy silvery blue polish and as always with a-england application was perfect and if you are careful you could get away with just one coat.

The holo in this polish seemed almost linear and the effect in sunlight (when it makes an appearance here) is so pretty.

This is 1 coat of the Knight, 2 of the polish and 1 of the Shield.

I love this polish, and wore alone when I first got the collection through, and them again with a-england Merlin over the top for my Christmas night out at the weekend (and am still wearing it) and have received so many compliments.  I cannot wait to show you the rest of the collection either and I hope you all like seeing them as much as I like wearing them.

a-englands can be purchased from the official site if you are in the UK, or Llarowe for International customers.  You can find a list of all the a-england stockists on the site.

Thanks for looking <3

 

Some products in this post were sent to me for review.