Zoya Island Fun Collection!

Check after the jump for more pix and my review!
You can find these colors for $9 each at Zoya.com.
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*Product was sent for review but in no way affected my review as it is 100% my own!

Zoya Buy 3 get 3 Surprise Deal Part 2 of 2

The Get 3 Part :)

Zoya had a deal back in January where you buy 3 colors and you get 3 minis but you had no idea what you are getting until they shipped.  So I bought Prim, Emilia, and Haven! I showed them in this post last week. I will be showing the other 3 colors: Anais, Charlott, and Severine this week after the jump! OH! As a special surprise stay tuned because Zoya read my post last week & I'll be having a 2 more review posts coming up shortly.... not going to tell you what of yet! gonna have to come back to find out! Now on to the Swatches! Keep in mind these were miniature bottles and they were a special collection selected by Creative Director, Rebecca Isa, as perfect transitional shades never before available for purchase & not part of the regular collection!

Check after the jump for more pix and my review!
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Zoya Buy 3 get 3 Surprise Deal Part 1 of 2

The Buy 3 Part :)

Zoya had a deal back in February where you buy 3 colors and you get 3 minis but you have no idea what you are getting until they shipped.  So I bought Prim, Emilia, and Haven! OMG I love the colors and will be showing you them after the jump. I will be showing the other 3 colors next week in a separate post.

I want to say I know a lot of you have missed my posts and I'm sorry. I never knew when I walked into the dr.'s office on 12/30/2013 what I was in for. They told me that had I waited 3 more days I would have been dead. Literally. I had blood clots filling both lungs, one in my right atrium, and one 13 cm one in my lower vena cava vein along my belly. I stayed in one hospital a little over a week before they had a bed for me at UNC where they transferred me to do surgical procedures to take care of the clot in my belly as apparently if I moved it could have killed me. They didn't want me out of bed or ANYTHING! 

I ended up staying in the hospital a total of 20 days. I had to let go of my job with the census bureau because I was told it was work and die or live. My final diagnosis is right side heart failure and I have to have oxygen with me 24/7. This made me fall behind on my reviews and I lost my spot with Zoya because of it. 

I have been doing a lot of work over the last year to get stronger and not rely on the oxygen etc. and I am hoping to prove to Zoya over the next month that I deserve back on their media list because I'd been on it for years and was one of the very few that reviewed every single color in every single collection they sent me compared to a lot of people who only picked one or two etc. 

I am planning to swatch every single bottle I have left to swatch that I haven't swatched that they have sent me. I still have them set aside and will be doing them as soon as these two set of 3 are done. I wanted to do more recent colors first as I did last year prior to being cut without being notified. 

While I'm still sick, I'm stronger and better and back to doing what I was before. So, if you want to see me doing Zoya reviews again, let them know! tweet them, comment on this one or any posts after this one I do. Thanks guys!

Now on to the Gorgeous pictures and thoughts!

My Madison Reed Encounter!

So a few weeks ago I got an e-mail from Madison Reed which is a hair color company based online. You can find them here! They were looking for some bloggers to blog on their thoughts on what their hair says about them. You know, kinda like the old saying blondes have more fun?

I thought it was interesting and went and checked the site out. I'd actually been wanting to possibly color my hair for a while just wasn't sure what I wanted to do. When I went to their site, you have the ability to chat with a colorist or do this really great quiz called the color advisor which you can find here. So I did the color advisor and picked out a color called Palermo Black. 

(BTW- if you click on the Madison Reed button over in the right column, you get $15 towards your first box!)

check after the jump for the rest of the story and the pictures!