Some GLITTAH!!!

Hey there! Its Friday!!!! Yay!

My mom was supposed to take my kids tonight, but she isn't feeling well now :(

So no night off for me. Do you have any amazing plans for this weekend?

A couple weeks ago I bought a whole bunch of glitter. Some Icing's, some Milani's, Some Jordana's and some Spoiled's.

Milani Teal,  Milani Red, Icing Radio Super Star, Jordana Funky Gold Town, Spoiled Pet my Peacock

Jordana Sequins, Icing Pop a Bottle, Icing Lemme See Your Peacock, Icing After Party, Jordana Cosmic 

Milani Teal

Jordana Cosmic

Milani Teal and Red

Icing: Lemme See Your Peacock, After Party, Pop a bottle, Radio Super Star

Jordana: Cosmic, Funky Gold Town, Sequins

Spoiled: Jewelry hiest (not swatched), Let me see Your Peacock.


<3 Carrie



Tip of the Week

Hey all! I'm sure most of you know about this but I am sharing it anyhow. The foil method for removing glitter nail polish! It works people! Place cotton on your nails, soak in remover, wrap in foil, let sit for about five or so minutes....

And bam! It just slides right off! How cool is that, no more scrubbing...

<3 Carrie

Layering Glitters...

So while laying in bed trying to go to sleep, my mind goes a mile a minute usually with things I have to do in coming days, or things I need to do....just silly things mainly. Last night I added polish to the list of things that run through my head at night.....LOL.

I thought how cool would it be to layer two different glitters that share a tinted base color. So I was scanning my memory of my stash, and landed on Revlon's Faucets of Fuchsia and Wet N Wild's Behind Closed Doors. They both had the Deep Grey/Black Base, and both had large Hex pieces and small glitters. I applied my base coat, I have been using OPI's Nail Envy-Original. I will have a post later on that, I have been taking weekly pictures of the progress. I have noticed a huge difference in the strength of my nails, they haven't cracked, or broke, or peeled in two weeks! That is amazing!!!

I used Revlon's FOF first, then Wet N Wild's BCD next, then I polished from the middle of my nail to the tip with the FOF, and then used BCD on the whole nail again. If I had used 'underwear' (that means using a dark color like black under the glitter), I wouldn't have had to use as many coats for full coverage. 

I like it, I am almost considering dumping a bit of each into and empty bottle.....

Have a good weekend!

<3 Carrie

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

Glittered Candy Corn!

Alright so I really wanted to use my pumpkin polishes I bought from Tara in PaA, but I couldn't decide which to use....so...

I did a base of Wet N Wild Black Creme and then...

On my pinky is WNW Behind Closed Doors
On my ring is a candy corn, White On- SH XW, Meet Me at Sunset- Essie, and Mellow Yellow- SH XW
On my middle in the Moon Pumpkin Glitter
On my index is the red Pumpkin Glitter
and finally on my thumb I have two of the glitters: the black/silver and the silver black.

This was a cute combo...
I'm sorry my fingers are dry! I lotioned right afterward! :(

Tonight I took all four kiddos to the older two's school for Spooky Story night. It was fun, kind of...they didn't last long, which is good for me, Because I'm not good with crowded public social things....They dressed up...even the little one had a costume on, lol....

Oldest is some black/dark guardian thing from Harry Potter-anyone know what the name of it is?
Drama Queen was a dancing cat, lol, but will be Superwoman for the real deal...
Little Man is Batman!
Handsome was a Ninja.

You know...I have some anxiety about posting their pictures on a public blog...I know some moms who don't, some who will occasionally with heads turned, so they aren't recognizable, and then some that say who cares.....I'm somewhere in the middle....I want to share them , but then again I don't feel like I should...like its welcoming danger in my home, make sense? Anyone else like that?

Ok, so for tomm since my husband works, I bought some crafts for the kids to do for Halloween, some foam things....we'll see how that goes

And I found some Glitter....it bled though and stupidly I bought two different kinds, and added them both, I should have done one at a time to see which one if not both bled....oh well its still pretty, I just have to get the shaking ball things....and perhaps a thicker top coat, than the thin Wet n Wild clear I used....

Don't forget to enter my give-away!

Oh and the challenges and recipes will resume after Halloween!

Is there anything you guys want to request?

<3 Carrie

15 Week Challenge......Part Two, Week Seven (Halloween)

Hey guys! I have another Halloween based challenge for ya! This challenge was a glitter sandwich. I picked up a new polish over the weekend, Sinful Colors Cloud 9, its an Orange glass flecked/shimmer polish. Its like sparkly Orange Juice on my nails! It really is super pretty, and I don't care for Orange. I had bought Tangled in my Web, and two others, and was waiting for them to come in the mail and they did, yay! (nail mail post later on this week) So I put on a few layers of TMW from Wet N Wild's On the Prowl collection, and then topped it with one more coat of SC's Cloud 9. It is totally awesome, kind of looks like poppy seeds in Orange juice now, lol....the Orange also made some of the TIMW look Hunter Green, perfect for Halloween/Fall!

So here is my Glitter Sandwich! (totally picture spam, sorry)

Pretty awesome, right?

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15 Week Challenge......Part Two, Week Six

Halfway there people, Halfway there!

So this challenge I had to choose a favorite thing....well I couldn't, so instead i did a few of my favorite things...
I love cats...
I love the color blue...
I love roses...
I love flowers...
I love flowers... Again...

I used China Glaze Sexy Lady as a base, its pretty, its pink-not my favorite color, bright and fun. Its a creme polish, it went on nice and smooth.

On my thumb, I stamped a cat. I used Sinful Colors Black on Black and the Hello Kitty plate (M71) from the Born Pretty store. I then made cat paw prints with the same black polish and a dotting tool.

On my index, I just slopped some sparkly goodness from Revlon-Blue Mosaic. It is super pretty with lots of different sizes, and some green in there.

On my middle, I went with a purple rose....if you look close you can see the tiny sparkles from Orly Velvet Rope. Plate used was: BM14.

On my ring I used a Fimo flower decoration...

On my pinky I went with flowers again, and stamped Sinful Colors 24/7 on first using plate BM16, then used Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear's Lacey Lilac and plate BM12. Very Subtle and dainty.

Pretty.
What are your favorite things?

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15 Week Challenge........Part One, Week Six

Hello there....I have been slacking on the posts....well the guts of the posts anyhow! I am sorry. The kids have got me all up in a bind, so much with school and wanting to play outside, and then all the stuff that needs to be done inside is just outrageous! Mom's/wife's shouldn't have to tackle everything! I need to make a chart....with who gets what chore...or else I am going to go insane...

I need to decide on what my chart will include and who will do what and when and then get a big poster board, write it all out and then have it laminated, I want to have that up by Saturday! So anyone out there have any ideas on who to delegate which chores to....you know the basics....pick up clothes, put away clothes, clean toilets, mop floors, vacuum, etc....Dishes after dinner....what are the most important things that I need the kids/husband to help with?  My kids are 8.5, 6.5, 4 and almost 1!

This weeks challenge was Violet. I found this purple a couple months back at the dollar tree. It is very very purple! Goes on smooth, no problems, very opaque, creme finish. Love this color, it doesn't have a name...You can see a bottle shot here. I wanted something extra for this Mani, so I added some sparkle to my ring finger, China Glaze Techno.

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My First Franken! Taking Name submissions!

Hey there all! I finally made my franken! Whats a franken? Its a polish that you make out of other polishes you have on hand that you love or hate.....or just want to oomph up a bit! Kinda like Frankenstein, haha! 
I didn't really have an idea in my head for a particular color I was kinda just throwing in what I thought would look good. 

Here is the list of polishes that made my franken:
NYC, Starry Silver Glitter
NYC, Cashmere Creme
WNW, Blue Wants to be a Millionaire
WNW, Gray's Anatomy
WNW, Party of Five Glitters
SH XW, Gunmetal
and WNW Fantasy Makes Confetti

Its similar to Deborah Lippmanns Glitter in the Air. Although hers in more dainty, and sheerer, and less sparkle.

polishes

A Quick swatch after mixing, BEFORE bottle

This is the bottle AFTER adding WNW Fantasy Makers Confetti

After Bottle

Swatch with confetti

swatch

 The Pictures below, are all the original formula BEFORE I added in the WNW fantasy makers confetti:

Well what do you guys think? Like it, Love it, Hate it, Its ok? Any name ideas?