Reminder: Looking for guest!

Hi friends!

I've been looking for guest; most interested in people that don't own a blog maybe because they are timid or too busy to maintain it and people outside US that can give us an insight about products exclusive of their countries.  It can be reviews, swatches, nail art, makeup looks, fashion / health / beauty advice, photo tutorials, etc and you can collaborate as many times as you want.

Interested? let me know in the comments, facebook page or more privately by email
Let your friends know!

PD: I've got emails asking if I'm only interested in International guest.  I'm always curious as to what International beauty & fashion bloggers buy & use, but of course anyone from the US can participate to! 
Don't be shy and give it a try! ;)

Guest Post: Pink & Sparkly with Samantha

Samantha is a friend from my facebook page. She doesn't own a blog (yet!) but I hope that she gets motivated to start soon :D We had some troubles to include all the pictures she took, but we where able to include the final look.

Samantha:
My Random Stash has kindly let me hijack her blog and we thought it would be nice for all of her readers to get some sort of idea of products available in the United Kingdom but this is my very first attempt at a blog, so please be gentle with me. Firstly feel as though I should tell you a bit about myself, my name is Sam and I am 29 years young ( this year instead of getting older i have decided to go backwards, so i will be 28 this year ), live with my partner and have a fantastic 14 year old step son. I'm make up, nail polish in fact any beauty products mad although I don't actually wear make up every day but then some days I really go OTT. I am in fact a bit of a mad lady all round, but if you can't have fun with yourself who can you have fun with???

So lets get onto the NOTD I've. I used MUA shade 12 which in the UK you can get for the bargain price of £1 from a chain of shops called Superdrug. MUA sells pretty much all make up products at really cheap prices they have recently launched their own website and they have now started to deliver internationally which costs up to £7.50, which sounds quite a lot but if you buy a few of their products the postage works out quite fair.
MUA shade 12 is a pink, its quite a bright pink but not over the top and is an everyday, every occasion colour. The brush is quite small but I found that its easy to use.
First I applied a base coat (No7 available from boots, £7.00) then applied one coat of MUA shade 12.
I then decided to give it a bit of sparkle but adding a coat of No7 Twinkle, which is a pale pink glitter polish, but I find that it is so pale that the best thing to use it for is to add a bit of extra sparkle.



Samantha: if you try against all odds and succeed; you are made to blog!
Hope you enjoy her collaboration as much as I did!
If you want to be a guest too, let me know!

Wanted: Guest Bloggers!

Hi friends!

I've been looking for guest; most interested in people that don't own a blog maybe because they are timid or too busy to maintain it and people outside US that can give us an insight about beauty products exclusive of their countries.  It can be reviews, swatches, nail art, makeup looks, fashion / health / beauty advice, photo tutorials, etc and you can collaborate as many times as you want.

Interested? let me know in the comments, facebook page or more privately by email
Let your friends know!

Guest Post: Noelia on how to pamper your nails this season!

I'm super happy & honored to have Noelia from It's not my life anymore colaborating here!  I love my nail polishes, but she is definitely a hard-core fan & connoisseur of the trade.  Thanks to Noelia for sharing her secrets with us on how to achieve beautiful nails and be jolly - all year long
Enjoy! :)

Noelia says:

Nail Care:

• Drink lots of water, this will help hydrate your nails. 
• Avoid using your nails as tools [no picking, scratching, digging, pinching, etc]
• Wear rubber gloves when doing house cleaning and washing the dishes. 
• Avoid using perfume lotions, the alcohol dries them. 
• Always file in one direction this will prevent peeling. 
• Buffing is good, it helps circulation and encourages nail growth. 
• Use cuticle oil at least a few times a week. 

Painting Your Nail Tips:

• Let each layer of polish dry completely before applying another.
• Do thin coats, it will dry quicker and last longer.
• Use a remover with built in moisturizers, this will help limit damage to the nail.
• Remove the cuticle oil with some acetone, this will help you when applying your color.
• Use a base coat with some kind of growth or hardener, this is only if you need it. I will save you time vs having to apply them separately. 

My Top 5 nails polish for the Season  

(* means swatch or tutorial) 

*Sugar Sugar

*Midnight Blue

All About You

  

*San Francisco

*Out of this World

 

Use any brand you like. The idea here is to use red, green, silver, blue and gold anyway you want them on your nails. Be creative! Do different things.

I'm a Sinful Colors fan. The Holiday colors are amazing!

Guest Post by Fernanda: Risqué azulcrination & star

Hello!
I'm very happy & excited about this post, because its the first time I have a guest posting at Random Stash.
By the tittle you already know her name is Fernanda, she is one of my facebook friends.  She's from Brazil and I was for a long time intrigued to now more about the brands that are popular there. In Puerto Rico pretty much all the nail polishes marketed are from US, so seeing something different was refreshing!  I got brave and ask her if she was interested in sharing some swatches here and she agreed :D THANK YOU girl!!!


Fernanda:

This is from the colletion "Sweet Rock 'n Roll" from Risqué - by Model Isabeli Fontana.

It comes in six different types
"Azulcrination" - Is a dark metallic blue (my favorite)
"Star" - Gray glitter
"Isabeli" - A really dark and metallic purple.
"Psico" - Metallic Purple
"Tattoo" - Dark Metallic Gray
"Rock 'n Roll" - Metallic Gray

I'm using my favorite one, Azulcrination (first picture), and then Azulcrination+Star (second picture).
From:Brazil
Brand: Risqué
Durability: +/-5days
Price: $ 2,70 (aprox $1.69 US)

I hope you have enjoyed Fernanda's first guest post as much as I did and that she will continue sharing with us!