And the winner is ...

Thank you all for entering my first anniversary giveaway my pretties. I compiled all the entries into a database (which took forever because Google Docs decided to run very slooooooowly), and drew the winner on random.org.

There were 57 entries, and the winning number was:

NUMBER 41! Which was assigned to Kat C. Congratulations Kat C, I've dropped you an email.

Once again thank you all for reading and commenting and being a part of my Pretty Clever family, you make my day so much brighter. If I could give each and every one of you a prize I would.

Selina x

Last chance - Pretty Clever's First Birthday Giveaway closes soon

My pretties, if you haven't entered the Pretty Clever first birthday giveaway yet, you'd better hurry because the deadline is growing ever closer. Since New Zealand is several hours ahead of most of the rest of the world I'm going to to close the competition at 11am Saturday 24 April New Zealand time (or, you know, when I get up - it's Saturday and the kids will be at their dad's!), to give those of you half a day behind us plenty of chances to get in.

So, let your fingers do the clicking, enter the competition!

The deadline looms: have you entered my giveaway yet?

Don't forget my pretties, if you want to enter my first birthday giveaway you only have until this Friday 23 April. So go on, click the link. Click it, you know you want to.

Have you clicked it yet? Remember the competition is open to all my followers, both New Zealand and international. So what are you waiting for? Click. The. Link.

Giveaway reminder - have you entered?

Have you entered my first birthday giveaway yet? Well if not you'd best go and enter hadn't you, because there's some lovely prizes on offer.

Don't forget the giveaway is open to all followers - both New Zealand and international, and closes on Friday 23 April. So get that mouse moving, click on the link and ENTER!

Celebrate Pretty Clever's first birthday - enter the competition

Can you believe it my pretties, on 6 April Pretty Clever turned one. Yes it's a whole year since I started this journey, and looking back it's interesting to see how Pretty Clever has developed. When I started out I was planning to do lots of how-to and advice articles, and instead I gradually found my niche as a Purveyor of the Pretty, with occasional reviews and fashion/beauty news thrown in for good measure. I also might have bought quite a lot of pretty stuff - it's jolly hard exercising restraint when you spend so much time every day staring at pretties!

Anyway, a blog is nothing without its readers, and to thank you all for reading, commenting and sharing in my world of pretty I'm running a competition. As quite a lot of you live outside New Zealand I thought it would be fun to have the prize made up entirely of products from New Zealand companies (which does mean no nail polish though, as there are no New Zealand companies who make nail polish). So I went and did a bit of shopping and here's what I came up with for you:

A Karen Murrell lipstick in Cordovan Natural - a lovely neutral colour. I'll be doing a post about this lipstick range soon, suffice it to say they are the best lipsticks I've ever used, and I don't say that lightly!

A collection of New Zealand made beauty products, from left to right: Merino Lanolin Skin Creme (I swear by this stuff, it is fabulous hand cream), Simunovich Olive Estate Olive Natural Soap, Trilogy Rosehip Oil, Wild Ferns Manuka Honey Soothing Eye Gel (I bought myself a tube of this too, and it feels lovely on), and a cute little Great Barrier Island Bee Co Lip Balm on a carabiner.

Cupcake themed nail files and a cupcake mirror from local fashion chain Glassons.

And finally, the fabulous Artisan Jouel very generously donated this gorgeous lampwork necklace (as modelled by 14 Year Old Daughter).

The photo doesn't do it justice - I have one of these in blue and it is so pretty.

So, to the nitty gritty. To enter you need to be a follower of Pretty Clever AND leave a comment on this post with your email address and how you follow me (and no, "I stand outside your window at night" is not the type of following I mean).

Once you've done that, you can get yourself extra entries by doing the following (each method gets you ONE extra entry).  And I can't stress enough, please make sure you tell me in the comments that you've done these too:

1. Go visit 14 Year Old Daughter's blog, read the post she's done about this competition and leave a comment.

2. Become a fan of Pretty Clever blog on Facebook.

3. Post a link to the competition on your blog.

The competition is open to all, NZ or international, and closes Friday 23 April. So what are you waiting for my pretties? Go on, enter! And thank you all for coming along on this ride with me.

xx

A year's worth of shoes? Count me in!

I'm a bit behind in posting about this, due to the whole having my teeth yanked thing, and I'm not even sure I want to tell you, because the more of you that enter this the less chance I have of winning.

But, it would be uncouth of me not to share this with you my pretties: to celebrate the launch of Style Society (which you may remember I have an upcoming guest post on), Dorothy Perkins are giving away A YEAR'S WORTH OF SHOES. Seriously. That's one pair of shoes per month for a year. My little head is positively popping at the thought. So if the idea of all those free shoes appeals go enter!

And if you win and, you know, get sick of all those free shoes I'll happily share your prize with you. Because I'm good like that!

And then there were three

Over at The Nail Buff they're running a competition to win a gorgeous Nails Inc Sole Sensations pedicure pack. One of the conditions of entry is that you have to do a blog post about your three favourite nail polish colours. This may well be an impossible ask - how do I choose just three when there are soooooooo many I'm in love with? But what the heck, I'll give it a go:

Number 1: Eyeko Vamp Polish



This may have given me some application issues, but that blue/black colour is so dramatic.

Number 2: Barry M Pure Turquoise



Gorgeous, cheerful sky blue - wearing it makes me happy.

Number 3: Barry M Navy



Utterly beautiful navy. What more can I say?

Interestingly enough they're all blue! Anyway, fellow bloggers, head over to The Nail Buff, check out the competition and enter away. Oh and leave me a link to your fave three blog posts too - I'll be interested to see them.