Cancer Awareness Challenge

Hi Guys.

This month I 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. 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


So here is today's Manicure, I used Finger Paints Give Pink a Chance and China Glaze Blonde Bombshell.

This is a cute little (BIG) bow that I made last night....Em is sporting it to school today, We will see how well it holds up on her, might make more to sell...what do you think?

 

Is their a Cancer that has affected your life?

 

 

~Carrie

15 Week Challenge......Part One, Week Twelve

Hey girls...

Remember me telling you I was skipping week 11 because I had done dots lately and just didn't feel like? I also mentioned that I had done some of my cousin's daughter's nails on Christmas, and they just happen to be Polka Dots.

So here are those, sorry for the crappy cell phone pictures, I had forgotten my camera, and had to use Husbands cell phone.

Top is Hannah's Silver with red/green glitter snowman, and bottom is Jordan with Black Diamond and dots with some of the prisms colors.

This is Aliya, she had a dark blue with a shimmer blue on top.

This is Chloe, had Prism Diamond as a base, and a pink a maroon i forget the names of as dots.

Thank you girls! I enjoyed painting them as much as you enjoyed letting me. The only one I don't have a photo of is Keira's, they had left before I thought about it. She was who I had brought my supplies along for, she is four I think. She asked her mommy if her nail polish cousin could do her nail, LOL! So Sweet!

Ok so onto this weeks Challenge. Stripes. I almost chucked the out the window because of the candy canes from this post, but decided to go ahead and do it.

I used NYC Skin Tight Denim as a base, it was .25 cent CVS clearance purchase!
For the stripes:
Pinky: Zoya Phoebe
Ring: Finger Paints Winter Sky
Middle: Essence Bella
Index: NYC Empire State Blue
Thumb: NYC Cashmere Creme

I just used very little polish with the brush they came with... I like it.

See ya next time!

<3 Carrie

Inputs...

Hey there lovely readers...

I am wanting to put in a Pin It button, maybe a FB like button or a Twitter button, would you use them? Do you not bother....Do you just read and move on....

In this new year, what would you like to see. I want to post at least one nail blog a week, one recipe a week, and I really would like to start something cool, never before seen, 'thing' on a blog, I just don't know what that is yet, lol...

I'm kind of at a creative block....I wish I was as good as some other bloggers out there..wishing never got anyone anywhere though, did it.....

My Feet are cold, its 52 degree's outside right now....

My Christmas tree is still up, is yours?

I feel fat....I really really want to lose weight....if only I could snap my fingers....I'm just a lazy slacker who doesn't want to put the effort into it...I wish I wasn't like that, oh there I go 'wishing' again.

Oooooo Look what I got my hands on....

Essie Shine of The Times is in the middle, one thick coat, FP Flashy is on either side of it, one coat on the right and two coats on the left. All over WNW Black Creme.

I'm thinking about putting some of my polish I don't like anymore up for sale also. Or ones I have bought that I have doubles of....

Until next time...
<3 Carrie

It's December!

Okay so I am really proud of myself right now....I did an awesome job with tonight's Mani. Although my pictures suck, there was little light outside, and it was the sunset light so it was orangeish....

Ok So I started out with China Glaze's Passion in the Pacific as a base coat. Then I tipped my pinkie, middle, and index fingers with Finger Paints All you need is color. Then on a plastic baggie I made little white circles with Sally Hansen's Xtreme Wear White on and topped it with Confetti Ice Ice Baby for a 'snowy' effect. Then a made little santa hats on the baggie with China Glaze's Ruby Pumps. I topped the work with Out the Door, let it dry, and then came back to it. I topped my ring ringer with a top coat and pulled one of the white circles off of the baggie and placed it on my finger to the edge of it and toward the tip, pressed it down gently and then took a hat off of the baggie and placed it on top the white circle. I then used a dotting tool and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Sun Kissed to make a nose, then placed two dots with WnW Black Creme for the eyes and then made a mouth, and then topped the hat with a dot of the white used for the circles. Then went back and dotted all of my fingers with the Confetti Ice Ice Baby....to make it look sparklie/snowie. Then topped it all off with Seche Vite.

*Excuse the blister on my thumb, I burnt it a couple days ago on the oven rack, ouchie!*

Again, I'm sorry about the cruddy pictures, I really need to fix my light box.....

What do you think?

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

And Don't forget to spread the word about my Christmas/Holiday Themed Mani contest! Grab my button over on the left and put it on your blog for me! Please? Thanks!

<3 Carrie

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

Yay, Black and White! I went with a halloween themed Mani, because well, its that time of year, perfect! I started off with Finger Paints Where art Renoir? Its a black creme with some silver shimmer. Its on the thicker side, I have noticed most of their polishes are like that, I picked up some thinner and dropped a few drops of it in the FP WAR, and shook it up and it was much better!

I ordered some gems online for .99 cents, there was a post about it on the FB page PAA, and I jumped it, who could pass that up?  Well I forgot about them until I just got them day before yesterday, love getting surprises!

Ok, back on track....

I then added ghost guys, using Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On and a dotting tool. Then I used Sinful Colors Black on Black with a dotting tool and did the eyes and mouth....

Added some gems to one ghost...

Then on the other hand, I was just messing around...
I got out my stamping plates, picked out a witch, and a web and spider, stamped those...eh their ok...I used LA Colors silver.

I used a dotting tool to create me own web, same color LA Colors Silver.

A ghost again...

And then some really cool creepy eye, using my new gems...

And for fun, Here are some Pumpkin toes...I used Essie Meet Me at Sunset and a sharpie.

So what do you think?

Click Here for my list of challenges.

15 Week Challenge.......Part Two, Week Four

Okay, I know I skipped Part two of week three and part one of week four, I'll get back to those, I actually have a picture for week four part one (green) but I couldn't wait to show you guys this mani! This week's challenge was the dry marble mani or water marble mani, I chose the dry marble. I have done the water marble and its messy, and time consuming trying to find polishes that spread well...

Anyways... I had out my purple from this challenge, and my yellow from this challenge, and decided to use those. I painted stripes with them on a plastic baggie, just a little rectangle, to see if it worked, and drew lines up and down it, close together.....I didn't really like 'just' that pattern, so I took the toothpick and drew tiny spirals every so often in it. I liked that!

Yellow: Pure Ice, Excuse Me
Purple: Finger Paints, Hue Rang?

I only made that little rectangle, so I only had enough for four fingers...But this was so easy to do. I made the stripes, drug a toothpick up and down, then did my swirls, then let it dry for a few days...really I had forgotten about it. I was reading some blogs that said if you drag too hard the polish will have splits in it, and not pull up off the baggie neatly, so I put a top coat on it, let it dry again, and then cut to size my thumb and ring....just a square type shape.....I put a base coat on my nails, waited a minute or so, and peeled the polish off of the plastic, and set it on my nail, pressed it down lightly with my fingers, then smoothed out any wrinkles or bulges with an orange stick, then did the next finger the same way. I then went back and pressed down around my cuticle with the orange stick to make a 'crease' and then took the pointy side and made holes in that crease, and took off the excess polish, then cleaned it up. Simple, less time than the water marble, and easier in my opinion! I will def do this again, and for all nails this time!

Both polishes were a pearl finish.


Check out the list of challenges here.

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

Hey there....
This one was a total fail. I tried to be all creative and junk, but it didn't work, I really hate showing you this one....
I used my orange mani , Essie-Meet me at Sunset, from the previous challenge, and added Finger Paints Hue Rang? to it, in different positioned moon shapes....icky! I'm not even making it any bigger, because it bites! Essie looks red here...Hmmm...its orange I swear, it was so pretty I didn't want to take it off....

You can see my list of Challenges here.

Oh and I was playing around with my camera today...

This one is great, he's like staring at me wandering what the hell I'm doing!

Those were two different squirrels.

 Also I played with some color today....its pretty horrible, but whatever, reminds me of a peacock!

Speaking of peacocks.....We have a house in the area that is habitated (is that a word?) by some...

Pretty cool right?

Oh and the boys and I did some paintings today why Emma was with Grandma and Grandpa, her first time alone with them....They took her to an art festival in Venice, Florida.....she had fun, and it was nice just to have to boys....

Riley did the water scene, he has posts and rope in the water...with a bird and AB are school initials.
Parker painting lines...but do you see that sideways 'A' (purple), I am starting to teach him to write letters.
I did the rainbow :)

Hope you all have a fantastic day today, and a great Labor Day tomorrow! (USA) The rest of you, hope your Monday goes by fast!!!

An Oldie...

Hey guys....I thought I would show you an old manicure, one I did when I first started my appreciation of polish and design...It's called a 'galaxy' design. I have no idea what the polishes I used were, I know the glitter is from Finger Paints, it was the first one I bought of that brand....I could walk the 20 feet to my bedroom and see, but I'm just lazy....

I used a sponge to sponge on the glitter and then dotted some other color on for a 'star' effect...that didn't turn out too well....I like the right hand better than my left hand which has the 'stars'....

And this was before I realized I needed to take better care of my cuticles! This picture just proves how horrible they were! Ugh! 

Pink Wednesday, just barely....

I keep seeing these really cute fruit designs floating around the nail world. So what better than watermelon, perfect for summer, right? I thought about mixing fruit, I saw a really cool Kiwi design that I want to try also! But I stuck with one fruit....

Watermelon! Have you ever heard that song, Watermelon Crawl by Tracy Byrd?

My Son, Hunter, he is 8 months old, he does the watermelon crawl.....or the army crawl, it is so cute! He is so speedy!

Anyways on to the nails! I used NYC in Midtown for the base color, then added a tip of Finger Paints Go Van Gogh, then added a stripe of LA Colors in a green/gold color. Then added the seeds-I used Wet N Wilds Black creme and a dotting tool.

So whatchya think?

~on the wild side~

Well I was having a hard time choosing/figuring out what I wanted to do with my nails. So I posted on my FB page for people to give me an idea. My cousin Julie, suggested Zebra. I asked her about colors, she said Purple and Yellow....

I used Four colors. China Glaze Tantalize Me (top section of middle finger), a nice light duo shade of purplie pink. Pure Ice in Excuse me, I picked this up just for this purpose (top section of pinkie), its a shimmery/shiny yellow, very pretty! Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Mellow Yellow (top section of index finger), a very opaque yellow. And Finally, Finger Paint in Peaceful Purple (Top section of ring and thumb), a nice glitter polish-goes on thick, but all my FP's go on thick...
Then I took a bottle of Black art polish, they have a small long thin brush in them, and drew pointy lines that alternated off of the sides. I guess its more like Tiger striping then Zebra.....

What do you think? I only got four pictures in before my camera died on me, two with flash, two without, all in my lightbox.


These two are without flash in my lightbox:

These two are with flash in my lightbox: