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
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