Go Pink Wednesday October 31

Good morning and Happy Hallowe'en everybody!  How many of you dressed up for work today?  I don't dress up, but I have been wearing my cute Hallowe'en earrings for most of the month, this is my form of dressing up :)

Today is the last day of Go Pink Wednesday, hosted by Finger Painting Fingers and it's been lots of fun coming up with pink nails over the past 5 weeks, it's nice to have something really girly on my nails once in a white :)  I think that Breast Cancer Awareness should be every month, but it was so nice to see all these wonderful ladies coming together to bring even more awareness to the cause and for the cure!

For this I used one coat of Julep Carrie (should have done 2 coats, or at least put a top coat over top so the crackle didn't pull it apart :( ) with Julep Glenda (silver crackle) over top.  I kept it simple for today, also I'm a little late to the crackle polish bandwagon (OK, way late ;) ) and I wanted to see how this would look :)  I'm really digging the crackle polish, I'm glad I got all 4 of the Julep crackles -- Hermione (white), Glenda (silver), Ursula (black), Sabrina (orange).  Can anyone figure out where they got all the names from??  ;)

Thank you Andrea for hosting this!

Go Pink Wednesday October 24

I'm running a little behind with my blog post today.  In my own defence, I built my very first Nail Polish Rack rather than polishing last night because I was so darned excited to make it!  Otherwise I would have done this mani last night :)

Anywho, today is the 4th Go Pink Wednesday, hosted by Finger Painting Fingers, which has been so much fun.  I have a new-found love for the colour pink.  It's not that I didn't like pink before, I just like it more than I did before :)  I have all the colours of the rainbow (literally) in my polish collection and really not that many pink polishes, considering it's a pretty "normal" polish colour.

This week I had to use a Breast Cancer Awareness polish.  This is 2 coats of 365 Days of Color Love My Tatas over 2 coats of Julep Carrie from their Pinky Promise set.

Sunny from 365 Days of Color says: "As many of you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, which means all month long, many companies are donating money all month long to research foundations.  I have always been a supporter of breast cancer awareness and research. As someone who had a breast cancer scare back in 2010, I know how important it is to regularly check to make sure nothing is wrong with your body.  This month only, I will be selling this polish and donating two dollars from each sale to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation."

Julep says: "In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, we have created the Pinky Promise Set with two beautiful pink crèmes and one of our best-selling products. 20% of the proceeds from this set will go to support the National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF)."  The set includes Drew (a darker pink), Carrie (a lighter pink) and their Cuticle Oil.

How great are both of these for doing this for the month of October?  I know there are LOTS of polish companies doing the same, or something similar, for the month of October, but these are the only 2 that I have purchased something from.

Onto the mani :)

Isn't it beautiful?!  I am absolutely in LOVE with this mani.  Carrie is a perfect base colour for Love My Tatas :D  Love My Tatas is an extremely shimmery polish that has a slightly tinted base.  The shimmer is goldy-pink and it has almost rose-gold hexes and squares in it :)  These were a little tricky to get onto the nail but all in all I absolutely love this glitter and can see myself using it often!

If you love Love My Tatas as much as me, hurry on over to the 365 Days of Color shop and pick yourself up a bottle, they are limited edition!  She is only selling them for the month of October, and when stock runs out, that's it!

P.S. -- I have only filed my nails once since my break to try to get them more even in length.  I am really loving them at this length -- what do you guys think?

Go Pink Wednesday October 17

Happy Hump Day Polishers!! :D  I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!  Me.. I'm glad tomorrow is Thursday, my last day of work for the week, and I get to spend the weekend with Tyler and Owen, and Tyler's mom is having an in-home Miche Bag party, so I will likely be purse shopping Saturday night :D  (Just a quick explanation -- Miche Bag is a purse company that sells purses that you can swap the outside of it and keep the inside the same so you don't have to move all your stuff to a new purse every time you want a new look!  Check out their websites for more information -- American and Canadian.  I have the Classic Bag with 14 different shells, you can see them all on my Pinterest Board!)

Today is another edition of Go Pink Wednesday hosted by Finger Painting Fingers and I decided to go with one of my favourite indie brands and polishes from her shop.

Here we ave a simple combination of 3 coats of Elixir Lacquers Tease, a stunning pink shimmer that shifts from pink to purple to blue (sorry for the low quality.. the sun sets at about 7 here in Ontario so by the time I get home and polished it's dark out!), and Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in white to create the dots.  Tease is a seriously distracting polish, so do not wear while operating heavy machinery ;)

This manicure is so super easy, and can be accomplished even if you don't have a nail art pen (they are a little pricey at $8.99/ea, I only have one) -- use a toothpick dipped in polish to create dots in any polish colour!  I usually grab a piece of tin foil (I have one stashed for nail art so I don't waste foil every time), put a blob of polish on it, dip my toothpick in and dot away! :D  Easy, and anyone can do it!

If you want to check out Elixir Lacquers polish, go to her shop and see what she has to offer!  Every polish I have bought from her has been amazing!

Go Pink Wednesday October 10

Good morning ladies!  Today is the second instalment of Go Pink Wednesday hosted by Finger Painting Fingers in support of Breast Cancer Awareness.  I decided to do just a water marble for today with 2 out of my very small stash of pink polishes.

I painted my nails with a base colour of Avon Cotton Candy and marbled with Avon Cotton Candy and Viva Pink.  I would have included a white in there as well, but I have a really goopy white, which I didn't think would work well, and another white that is so thin and dries way to fast to use in a marble.  Oh the hardships of polishing!

I hope you have enjoyed this mani.  This is probably the shortest post to date, but all the pictures I took of this mani weren't the best, and it was dark really last night by the time I got to sit down so I couldn't try to get pictures again :(

I got a really nice compliment from a lady that came into my office yesterday.  She asked where I went to get my nails done and I told her I did them myself.  She told me they were beautiful :D  Then she asked it my nails were my real nails and I told her they were.  She was so amazed with them, it made me feel so good :D

Check out what the other ladies are doing!

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Go Pink Wednesday October 3

Hello ladies!  So as some of you saw, I was thinking about doing a "Think Pink" Challenge on the Facebook page, but then Leanna Lawson commented, letting me know that Andrea over at Finger Painting Fingers is having "a Pink Wednesday thing".  So I headed to the Facebook page and found the link to her blog to check it out!  I e-mailed Andrea and got all the information, and here we are! :D

I'm sure we all know someone in our lives who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.  One of my friends from high school, her mom had breast cancer.  I don't know the complete back story, but I know that they thought she was clear and it came back and she lost the battle the second time around :(  It makes me sad that there hasn't been a cure found for this, it is so common and you would think that with all the money people have donated and the technology of today it wouldn't be so difficult!  And I know the doctors tell us to check ourselves for early detection, but I will be the first to admit that I don't.  I never think of it, as bad as that sounds :(  I really have to try to remember!

I don't know all the avenues in which I can support cancer research, and with being in a small town it's hard to have access to these avenues if they don't come knocking on the front door, so to speak.  Any time I can, I make sure to support any organizations for all forms of cancer research.  I have chopped off my hair for cancer research in my local health care system and I donate money every chance I can.  If I had a before and after picture of my hair I would definitely post it here, I will have to do some digging tonight and will maybe add it later.  It was done at my high school and every one who participated in "Hair Off for Headwaters" raised money to go towards cancer research.  Then, when the day came, we were all called up on stage in our cafeteria (not during lunch ;) ) and we got our hair chopped.  Some shaved their heads, but I wasn't brave enough to do that.  The hair that is collected at Hair Off for Headwaters is taken to create wigs for people who have gone through chemotherapy and radiation therapy.  I cut about 6-8 inches off my hair.. I cried, but it was definitely worth it!  For me, it will grow back!  My younger sister also did Hair Off for Headwaters.  She did it for her friend who was battling a blood cancer (I'm not sure if it was leukemia) and later lost the battle at the age of 15 or 16.  I think my sister cut close to 10 inches off her hair.

*sigh* Ok, enough with the mushy/sad stuff.  When I saw how many ladies in the nail polish community were doing their nails in support of Breast Cancer for the month of October, I wanted to join in.  If I can't support it in any other way, I would love to say that I supported it through nail art :)

I decided last night that I don't have that many pink polishes, which is weird because it's a pretty "normal" polish colour and I do like pink as a colour.  I guess I'm just drawn to other polish colours before pink, probably because I think "I have lots of pinks!".  I do have more coming in the mail, but they aren't here yet.

For this I used Jordana Happy Days and L'Oréal I Will! white sponged in a gradient.  I didn't realize until I'm typing this now how fitting those names are for looking forward to beating Breast Cancer!

For the ribbon design, because I don't have the Bundle Monster stamping plate (and I wanted to do stamping for this) with the real cancer ribbon on it, I used the ribbon-looking design on Konad plate M63 with Jordana Prune Whip.  I absolutely love the look of this!  It's so hopeful looking and so feminine, which I really love!  I showed it to Tyler when he was at my house last night and he said I "cheated" because I used the stamping plate rather than painting the ribbon on by hand, lol!  What does he know?!  :)

Now, here comes the tricky part.  Andrea has asked me to include an inlinkz link to the blog post to keep everyone who is doing the Go Pink Wednesdays with us linked up.  I have never done anything like this and I'm pretty un-geekish, so here's hoping it works!  (According to my preview it does!  Lol!)  Make sure to check out what all the other ladies are doing! :D

Make sure you show your support for Breast Cancer Awareness and paint your nails pink with us every Wednesday of October! :D  You can post them to my Facebook page to join in on the fun!