Wednesday, October 31, 2012

TIHC Day 11: Recreation of your favorite

Well this is day 11 of Bec's challenge. Recreate your favorite from another challenger..


Well this is the last day!!! I cheated again...I am posting pictures of my favorites from each challenge:

Day one: Jas's Blingtastic Nail Blog


Day two: The Silverinator



Day three: The Girlie Tomboy



Day four: Somewhere over the polish rainbow




Day five: Lacquer or Leave Her


Day six: Plisherrific



Day seven: More Nail Polish



Day eight: Pretty Purple Polish



Day nine: Amoki's Corner



Day ten: Pink & Polished





~Carrie
www.sassylacquer.storenvy.com






Tuesday, October 30, 2012

TIHC Day 10: Trick or Treat

Well this is day 10 of Bec's challenge. Trick or Treat.....

I cheated a little with this one...


 Little Man's Fall Festival at Pre-K
 Big Kid's Fall Festival at School, with my mom and step dad.
 Big Guy as a clown
 The gang at the Church's Trunk or Treat
 Some cute puppies there...
 Filling our buckets!
 Little Guy bowling, he did so good! Emma knock them all down on her second shot, is that a spare?
 Petting the goat, this black one wanted to escape, he kept inching closer to the gate...
 Parker fishing
All Done.


~Carrie
www.sassylacquer.storenvy.com

Monday, October 29, 2012

TIHC Day 9: Graveyard

Well this is day 9 of Bec's challenge. Graveyards...

Creepy..






~Carrie
www.sassylacquer.storenvy.com

Friday, October 26, 2012

TIHC Day 8: Witches

Well this is day 8 of Bec's challenge. Witches!


Again...going for cute here...


I used China Glaze neon orange (2012) as a base. On the index finger is a cauldron, and the pinky has a moon and broomstick...can you see Polished Components Fire's Night on the broom and cauldron?


On my ring finger I planned to tape it off and create legs using nude around the legs and then put black witches shoes on the feet...but I got tired of doing nail art, and the kids were screaming for Lunch!

Got to have the kitty cat...


If you can't tell ...the middle finger has a witches profile on it, including a GREEN wart, LOL...

Do you Love? I do! But I took this off less than 10 hours later to do nails inspired by these pins:

http://pinterest.com/pin/196469602464581946/
http://pinterest.com/pin/196469602465340088/

Yes, I only left you with links, you'll have to click on them ;)

~Carrie

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Guest Post: Carinae from Carinae L'etoile's polish stash

Hello there! I was getting tired of Gold and Pink mani's so I reached out to the community for some guests posts.

If you want to help me out also this month with a pink AND gold mani for Pediatric and Breast Cancer Awareness, just email me!

This month I and now others, will be sporting a pink AND gold manicure everyday, except the days of my Halloween challenge I am participating in.

Why? To support Breast cancer awareness month and because I forgot last month or rather didn't really know because it isn't as publicized as Breast Cancer is, Pediatric cancer awareness.

I have a friend that has a wonderful little boy, E. (See Below) He is so strong and so brave! He is fighting the evil dragon, that is what they call it. He has a GREAT supportive family, that has also been very strong and brave. I want to support them as well and what better way to do it then to do fun mani's?? If your the donating type, there are three charities that my Friend recommends:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, St. Baldricks, and Curesearch
Here is Carinae:

Nail art has never been my forte. I decided to bust out with the dotting tools and my tape...Don't laugh too hard.

The colors I used were Ginger and Liz's Got My Groove Back and OPI's If You Moust You Moust.
I wanted to do something fun for me, but not in the Ruffian Mani with a French Mani accent kind of way I do things.
I took some tape and made the V you see on my pinkie nail. I also taped off my middle finger in the section. I also busted out with the dotting tool. Truth be told, I've always been a bit scared of doing nail art and, most importantly, the dotting tool.
Dotting tools are a little frustrating to me. I can't seem to master using them. I know that they're fun and I love seeing what people have done with them, but for some reason I just can't ever really get it to work. Everything always looks like a fail. At least to me...and then to make matters worse, I thought I'd try to make this pink and gold mani all cute by using a matte top coat on my pointer and ring finger. You can't even tell it has the top coat on. It looks sort of...shiny. Le sigh. Oh well, at least I tried and I ventured out with nail art...It's something I rarely ever do. I may have to try it some more.
So here is my offering of a mani for Pediatric and Breast Cancer awareness.
 




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Thanks for stopping by!
 
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Thank you Carinae! I love Polka Dots!
 
About 40 minutes left on my 30% off sale, 3 bottle min.
Code: 30thbday
Ends 10 AM EST Oct 25th
 
~Carrie

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

My 30th Birthday!!!

Hey everyone! Breaking in here to say:

It's my 30th Birthday!!!!!
SEE VERY END FOR A SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR YOU!!!

I did something different....I put some of my likes and some of my hopes, some things I want to see in the future and somethings I want to be in the future...


 Thumb to Pinky meanings: Forever Love (red + infinity symbol), Favorite color (Purple), I want to see snow, I want to QUIT being a 'Couch Potato', and I want to see Fall colors.
 Colors from Thumb to Pinky:
A England Perceval and Funky Fingers Sand & Stiletto's
China Glaze Grape Pop
Zoya Raven, unnamed Syn Cosmetics flakie, NYC white
Polished Components COUCH POTATO with Revlon Cherry
Finger Paints Shades of Fall with some orange and gold accents

 Meanings from Pinky to Thumb: Be Happy/Find Happiness, Birthday Cupcake, Favorite color (Blue), Be Rich (LOL), GLITTER!!
Colors from pinky to thumb:
Sinful Colors Firefly with WNW black Creme
To many colors to remember, lol base is Essie Splash of Grenadine
Pure Ice Strapless
Zoya Ivanka with Jordana Funky gold Town
Four diff glitters layered..NOPI Fabulous is my middle name, WNW correction tape, Confetti Tasmanian Devil and Funky Fingers Sand and Stiletto's

I hope you enjoyed my 30th Birthday Mani!!! I did!!!

~Carrie

In honor of my 30th birthday (TODAY), I am running a sale for 24 hours starting NOW, for 30% off, a three bottle minimum is required.
Code: 30thbday
Ends: Oct 25 10 AM EST
Not sponsored by facebook.
http://sassylacquer.storenvy.com/


ENJOY

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Guest Post: Whitney from Dressed up Nails

Hello there! I was getting tired of Gold and Pink mani's so I reached out to the community for some guests posts.

If you want to help me out also this month with a pink AND gold mani for Pediatric and Breast Cancer Awareness, just email me!

This month I and now others, will be sporting a pink AND gold manicure everyday, except the days of my Halloween challenge I am participating in.

Why? To support Breast cancer awareness month and because I forgot last month or rather didn't really know because it isn't as publicized as Breast Cancer is, Pediatric cancer awareness.

I have a friend that has a wonderful little boy, E. (See Below) He is so strong and so brave! He is fighting the evil dragon, that is what they call it. He has a GREAT supportive family, that has also been very strong and brave. I want to support them as well and what better way to do it then to do fun mani's?? If your the donating type, there are three charities that my Friend recommends:
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, St. Baldricks, and Curesearch

Elijah was Diagnosed with Pre-B ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) on Dec 1st 2010
If you are looking for a way to help, we have an Amazon wishlist setup:
http://t.co/RHZ3ghi

You can also make a tax deductible donation through the Talbert Family Foundation
http://www.talbertfamilyfoundation.org/pages/Elijah.html
 
This page is dedicated to his being Cured and the updates associated with it.
 
Here are some pictures of E:
 E and His sissy early on in his treatment...
 Two weeks worth of bills for treatment...
 Chillin with Spider Boo ....
 His Make a wish trip...
Awesome!
 
Playing with playdoh, this was just the other day, He started kindergarten and is now in the hospital receiving medicine because someone else let their child go to school sick :(

From E's mom today: Being a mom isn't the easiest job regardless of what is happening, but being home with 1 child, being 36 weeks pregnant with another and having your oldest in the hospital with out you is really hard. I hate that I can't be there to cuddle my boy while he is not feeling well. These are the little things that cancer steals from us that other families don't go through.


Ok on to the guest post, Here is Whitney:

Hi everyone! I'm Whitney and I run a little nail blog called Dressed Up Nails. Carrie posted in our polish Facebook group that she was looking for guest posters for this month to do pink and gold manis and I jumped at the chance because I've never done a guest post before and it sounded like fun! I knew I wanted to use gold glitter because glitter makes everything better, and I wanted to use several different shades of pink, so I started sketching out designs and came up with this skittles mani.
 
 
At first I wasn't super pumped about the color combo since I've been so into fall colors lately, but I ended up liking these nails so much. They're by far the girliest, pinkest nails I've ever done.

The colors I used, from lightest to darkest pink, were:
China Glaze Something Sweet
OPI Pink Friday
Zoya Shelby
China Glaze Rich & Famous
Zoya Reagan
 
The gold glitter is one of my favorites, especially for glitter gradients - China Glaze Blonde Bombshell.
 
 
I free handed everything on this mani - at first I was thinking about using striping tape for a couple nails but the fact that I'd have to wait for polish to dry put me off that idea (as usual haha). For my thumb, middle and ring fingers I started with a base of two coats of China Glaze White on White and free handed all the patterns on with my favorite mid-length striper brush. The ring finger took for-ev-er but the rest weren't bad at all. My pointer finger started with two coats of Blonde Bombshell and then I added the gradient dots starting in the middle and working toward my free edge and then back toward my cuticle to make sure I'd have room for all the colors. For my pinky I just used three coats of Rich & Famous and then did a quick glitter gradient with Blonde Bombshell just using the polish bottle brush.

My favorite two designs are definitely my pointer and ring fingers, I love the ring finger design and I want to replicate it for a whole mani at some point when I have like three hours to sit and do my nails. Seriously so time-consuming, I was really glad that I only did this design on one nail haha!

 
I hope you guys have enjoyed my very first guest post! Thank you so much to Carrie for letting me be a part of her pink and gold series!


Thank you Whitney. This is very talented work!

~Carrie
www.sassylacquer.storenvy.com