Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Nail Polish Tag!



Hello, everyone! Yesterday three of my fellow Bloggers, Kirshten,  Myline, and Pam, made a nail poilsh tag! Check out those blogs here and here and here. Kirshten even made the graphic!!

The rules are very simple:

1. Answer the 10 questions.

2. Pass this tag to 5 other bloggers.

3. Make sure the bloggers that you tagged, knows that you tagged them, by sending them a comment on their blog.


Now, here are the questions:


  1. How many nail polishes do you have? Well I have counted 212, but I ave bought about 10-20 more since then....
  2. What is your favorite brand of nail polish? Well I like the selection of China Glaze, I really don't have a favorite brand though
  3. Do you like crackle polish, or do you hate it? At first I LOVED it, now I just like it. Its a good change up if I don't want to re-do a mani! (just like glitter!)
  4. What is your first nail polish brand? Oooo, Porb a Sally Hansen anr Wet N Wild or NYC. Something cheap....When I got into polish the begginning of the year, is when I expanded my horizens, I bought my first China Glazes!
  5. If you're going to have a nail polish line, what are you gonna name it? Ooo, Good Question...I might leave that a secret for now, just in case! ;)
  6. What nail polish color does not compliment you? Oranges, Yellows, Some Reds...
  7. And what color does compliment you? Purples, Blues, Blacks....
  8. Name two of your best nail art friends? Oh jeez...I have alot of girls I see on my FB group, but I am not very close with any of them too well yet. The Crumpet, Kirshten, and Claire, And Kerrie and Bee, Krissi, there are plenty more names escape me, lol....
  9. What was the best nail polish gift you have ever received? gift....no polish 'gifts' yet. <--- I take that back, the Hubs bought me some nail art pens/markers and some stickers for my bday, I guess that was my best polish gift, lol
  10. Make a speech about thanking the blogger who gave you this tag. Hmmm, a speech about Kirshten.....She seems quite nice...Don't know her to well, but I love that she comments on my blog and follows me, and 'talks' to me online, HeeHee!
The Girls I tag for this are:
Debbie : The Crumpet

Thanks for Tagging me Kirshten!

<3, Carrie

PS, Don't forget to vote on the Franken Name!! <-------------- on the side bar!

PSS, Don't forget about my Christmas/Holiday contest:

 

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

My Butter London's Black Knight Franken: Midnight Sparkles

*Warning, Picture HEAVY!*

Yup I frankened Butter London's Black Knight. It was pretty simple. I used Wet n Wild Black Creme, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Rockstar, and some clear polish....and wala, Midnight Sparkles was born!

Here is BL's Black Night, courtesy of The TraceFace Philes!




And Here is My Franken: Midnight Sparkles!










What do you think? A Good Dupe, or no?

< --------- Don't forget to vote in my Franken Naming poll on the left!!!

Don't forget to check out my Christmas/Holiday Themed Mani Contest:
Pick up this button on the left < ----

<3, Carrie



Monday, November 28, 2011

Franken Time! (contest annoucement)

Hey there kiddos! How was your weekend? We set up our lights outside and our Christmas tree inside, no decorations out inside though....It looks cute! I'll post some of the pictures at a later time!

 I am going to hold a contest for the best Christmas/Holiday themed Mani! Send me your best picture of your best Christmas/Holiday themed mani to: candcnails@gmail.com. You have until December 11th to email me your submission. (One Picture Please) I will then post all of them, and let the voting start on the 12th, and let that run until the 20th, and will announce the winner on December 21st! So get the word out and get your submissions in NOW! Go! :)


Grab that button, (Its over on the left) and paste it on your blog!


Okay, so on to the franken naming...on your left, in my side bar you will see a poll. Below it you will see the franken you are voting on. One of the names is spelt incorrectly, Broken Tiarra is supposed to be spelt : Broken Tiara! Other than that, please vote, the lucky person with the most votes on the name submission, wins the Franken! How cool is that! Here are a few more pictures of it:







You can click on these images to make them larger, and we are naming the purplish one, NOT the green one, his name is Jolly Holly and he has a home in England with The Crumpet!

Tomorrow, another Franken!

<3 Carrie

Friday, November 25, 2011

Turkey, Turkey!

Well my Thanksgiving was yummy to say the least,  bit of family drama.....ya ya....

So Wednesday night, I quickly did a turkey mani...not the best but it was cute. It started lifting Thursday afternoon....

I used Revlon Carbonite as my base...and several Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear's colors for feathers, and then a gold sparkle from Sinful Colors, and a brown from China Glaze, Unplugged.

I did the feathers with a small dotting tool, dragging from the tip of nail toward the cuticle....
Then the dots for the turkey body....The other fingers have feet prints and feather droppings, lol.

Gobble Gobble.....







And  a Mini Me Mani....




Hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving as well, and If your not in the US, I Hope you had a great Thursday!

<3, Carrie

Friday, November 18, 2011

Stuff....

Hey there. I decided I am taking a break from my 15 Week Challenge. With the holidays here, it just won't get done....so I will pick it back up after the first of the year. Sorry.

So this Sunday we are having family pictures done. The last family picture was May of this year, and it was just a random photo, and Husband had his sunglasses on, just like in the last family picture, two years ago....this time I said no sun glasses will be near him! His reply: Well I will glare....I'd rather glare than see sunglasses. Anywho. We are all wearing Black shirts and Jeans. I haven't come up with anything for my nails yet. Any ideas? Leave them in a comment please! 

Here are some naked nails:
Very Shiny

Truly yucky! I think I had some patches on a couple nails here...
I thought I had more....Oh well...Here are the places we are going to have photos taken:






Handsome's first time with the bowl....his face was covered in mac and cheese!



this 212 polishes, not including the ones to the right in the white box, those were freecycle's

El Cheapo's

Misa's, CC's, ChG's crackle's, Some other 'crackle's', Sally Hansen, FP's, Orly's...

Sinful Colors, Zoya's, Pure Ice's, China Glaze's

new things

more new things

and more new things

Max

My Babies :)
Sorry it was so picture Heavy....

<3 Carrie

Sunday, November 13, 2011

15 Week Challenge......Part One, Week Ten




I decided to skip the Part Two Week Nine: Inspired by Feathers, because, well I'm not... :/
But here is one of my favorite pictures of one inspired by feathers:

See Her here

So onto the next challenge, Gradient. I wasn't successful with this, I should have used a sponge...






look how thick it is....ick!

thickness...
I used Zoya Jo as my base. And then NOPI Kendall on the Catwalk, then Sinful Colors Frenzy, and then NOPI Rainbow in the S-Kylie.

Hope your having a great Sunday. My Husband is at America's Got Talent Auditions today! He is singing Lady by Styx. I wish you lots of luck Hunny!

<3 Carrie