Pink for Suzie!

Recently a friend of mine found out that she has breast cancer.  This is something that has struck far too close far too many times for me.  She has been a real trooper though and her strength and optimism is inspiring.  She has been blogging about her experience and it’s quite an interesting read.  In fact, I find myself wishing that she’d started blogging long ago as I like her writing style.
The other day she asked that a group of us expats in our Facebook group do our toenails pink for Breast Cancer awareness, but I saw it just a few hours too late and had just gone for a pedicure yesterday and gotten a really cool blue color on my toes.  So, I did my nails instead… I’m sure it all counts.
I have a great story about my pedicure but I will share that next time!
Products used:
Essence Nail Art Protecting Base Coat
Sparrow Me The Drama (2 coats) from the Pirates collection by OPI
Fairy Dust by China Glaze
Seche Vite Topcoat

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See Ya in Two Weeks!

I am off on holiday!  We are going to the south of France to visit my husband’s family and will be taking off on our own to spend five days camping in the Pyrenees!

This is where we will be camping.  Pretty awesome, right?
See you all in two weeks! 

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*Queen Wave* Oh! OH! I’d like to thank my mother and…

Awards! More awards! haha  Oh I love me some awards, have I mentioned? It makes me feel special!  Yes, I really am that easy.


The girls from Haute Lacquer and The Manicured Monkey have sent me the Top 10 Award! Thank you thank you!

Rules:
1. Thank the person who tagged you and link to their blog.
2. Put the Top 10 Award logo on your blog.
3. List your top 10 cosmetics.
4. Choose 10 bloggers to tag, link to their blogs, and let them know.

Oh jeez, the only cosmetics I’m into at all is nails… let me think of what my favorite polishes are at the moment (that I own and have tried).

1. Nfu Oh 40
2. Nfu Oh 68
3. OPI Pirates Collection
4. Essence Circus Confetti
5. Orly SHINE
6. Essence Nail Art Twin Troy
7. OPI Katy Perry Collection
8. Miss Cop Diamante Blanc
9. Seche Vite Fast Dry Topcoat
10. Sinful Colors Frenzy



I also received the Sunshine Award from Neeka at In The Life of a Milf!  Thank you SNICKERDOODLE! hehe

1) Favourite color – Purple
2) Favorite Animal – Dogs
3) Favourite number – 12
4) what perfume am i using right now – White Diamonds
5) Something you always wear with you and identifies you- my wedding rings
6) What's your passion? Photography
7) Getting or giving presents? – Getting!
8) What was the last eyeshadow you used? – I don’t wear eyeshadow
9) Favourite day of the week – Sunday .
10) Are your nails painted right now? Duh, yeah!

I am gong to cheat and tag 10 people for BOTH of these awards.  If I pick ten people with blogs I really like, they are deserving of both I figure!  I understand that some probably already have the awards but that’s ok, they will just feel extra special.

1. Rebecca Likes Nails
2. The Trace Face Philes
3. Good Lack, Nail
4. Nailside
5. A Day in the Life of Dollface
6. Beauty by Kayla Shevonne
7. Trailer Hood Chic
8. Das Experiment
9. Shadow's Nail Art
10. The Nailasaurus

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PAA’s Monday Nail Art Challenge

A while back I joined a group on Facebook called Polish-aholics Anonymous, which was created by Traci from The Trace Face Philes.  It’s basically a group of women who love polish and nail art who came together to share their obsession.  It’s a great place to chat about nails if that’s what you are into and what I like most is that there are a lot of women in there who make me feel a lot better about my little addiction.  Some have hundreds of polish!  So I always have a "I could always be worse…” example! haha
The group decided to start doing weekly nail art challenges on Mondays.  Todays was polka dots!!  You know how much I love doing dots!

I got my inspiration from a blog I came across, and I so wish I had thought to bookmark it!  On the blog they credited a girl on YouTube who first inspired her.  Here is the video tutorial I, and the girl who’s blog I first saw it on, followed to create this mani.



Mine didn’t come out quite as neatly as hers, and it really made me wish I had bigger nails!   Sometimes having small nail beds can be a right pain when it comes to nail art, but we work with what we got!
I may not take part in all of the Monday Nail Art Challenges, but I’m going to try.  It’s really fun!
Products used:
Claire’s Super Speed Black Polish
Essence Stamp Me! White
Miss Sporty Gold
Essence Nail Art Protecting Base Coat
Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat
Sally Hansen White Nail Art Pen
Essence Mysterious Black Nail Art Tip Painter

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Zebra Stamping

The other day I wanted to try something cool with some Lego stickers my husband had.  I was going to paint my nails white and add the stickers to the nail and put a topcoat over, it was all very cool in my head.  It didn’t work out quite as I had hoped… The stickers were a little too thick, plastic rather than thin paper, and they wouldn’t stay bent to stick to the nail.  So I gave up.
I sat there with white nails and was wondering what to do with them.  I was feeling a little wild (rawr!) so I went for a Zebra print. I wish I’d thought of that on my recent trip to the zoo. Doh!
Products used:
Essence Nail Art Protecting Base Coat
Catrice Snow Motion (white)
Essence Black Stampy Polish
Seche Vite  Top Coat
Konad Plate M57

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Givaway Win Nail Art

I’m really milking this giveaway win, aren’t I?!
I loved these polishes so much I wanted to try to do something fun that included all three.

Cute, huh?  I just love it! I really like dotting, I can imagine it would be even more fun with the proper dotting tools, rather than my homemade jobbies.
I was going to take a photo of the mani with a matte coat, but when I put the matte coat on it looked almost exactly the same!
I’m hoping to get at least another day or two out of this one, it’s just too cute to try to remove already.

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