Teal Tuesdays - Ovarian Cancer Awareness

 

This week our tealicure is to support a good cause! It is to raise awareness for Ovarian Cancer. September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness month with September 7th being National Wear Teal Day!

I decided to keep it simple and straight to the point! :) This is Essence Romeo and A England Saint George using the Bundle Monster BM321 plate. Isn't it perfect! Teal ribbons!

Here I tried my HK Girl topcoat that I talked about last week here. And you know what? No dragging or smearing of my stamped image! And look at that shine! Shiny sparkly teal ribbons! :) You can purchase HK Girl Top Coat at Glisten & Glow

The is a group called Teal Toes (facebook group here and website here) that talks about wearing teal in to raise awareness. The website states:

"Our mission is to raise awareness of ovarian cancer.

How?  By painting your toenails teal, the ovarian cancer color.  By getting your friends to paint their toenails teal too, and then by talking with people when they ask about it, to make sure that they know the signs of this whispering killer.

Any time of year is good for teal toes, but we especially recommend September, the ovarian cancer awareness month!"

 Please spread the word by showing your teal! For more information please visit Teal Toes or Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

There are also some polish companies that are donating sales to Ovarian Cancer Research Fund. Color Club has a set of polish, OCRF Polish, and they will donate 50% off the proceeds for an entire year! Please click the image below to be sent to the site!

Also, Diamond Cosmetics is donating a dollar for every kit sold! Please click image below to be sent to their site!

Such awesome deals and service! Please check them out and let's raise some awareness! Painting my toes teal tonight! :)

Don't forget to check out the other ladies that are showing support and awareness with their tealicures and our fancy links! :)

Love Yourself Mani: Essence No More Drama and Barry M Foil Effects

So I decided to do a simple palette cleansing mani! :) I choose Essence No More Drama as my base and stamped with Barry M Foil Effects in Silver using Bundle Monster BM 314 plate. I love how it turned out! Simple and beautiful! :)

 

Here is Essence No More Drama. See that clearance orange there on the bottle? I got this polish for 49 cents! Best 49 cents ever spent! This polish is a dream! Applies evenly and smoothly. 

Here it is again in direct sun. Such a gorgeous shade of light purple!

Another angle of the stamped and finished mani. I love how the Barry M Foil Effects seems to glow! Love!

I really liked this mani and wanted to do something for me, that I enjoyed. This is part of the Love Yourself manis. For more information click on this picture or the one in my sidebar to be taken to the facebook group!

Adventures in Stamping: Inspired by Something You Love = Owls and Mustachios!

Well, hello there Adventures in Stamping! It's been a month and a bit since I participated! Whoops! But I could not pass up this theme: Inspired by something you love! And, um, hello, what do I love? Owls and mustachios! Grr with the crooked mustachios.......I mean I meant that and he is doing the little mustache twitching! ;) It's so hard to line it up just right. I need a see-through stamper! :)

Now, this mani is all full of stuff I love. My base color is Orly Nite Owl. This is my favorite polish! (hence it being in the middle in my header photo!) Love love love it! Applies wonderfully! Then I stamped the owls using Barry M Silver Foil and Bundle Monster BM 309. This is the best silver ever to stamp with! Love it too! And then I stamped the mustachios using Konad Black and QA28. And this black is ah-mazing! Love it!

That's a whole lotta love going on huh! Yep it is! I hope you don't mind the mustachios and that you aren't sick of seeing them.......tomorrow is one more chance to see them! Shhh! ;)

Here is Orly Nite Owl is all it's splendor! This is two thin coats! Lurve it! A nude with a silvery shimmer, um yes please! :)

Monkey See Monkey Do Mondays: Flip Flops!

Monkey See Monkey Do Mondays are where we re-create manis from different blogs or pictures we have "pinned" on Pinterest, and link back to the original blogger!

Today I have re-created a gorgeous bright flip flop mani! When I first saw it I knew I had to do this mani. You see, I work at Old Navy and this Saturday was our $1 Flip Flop sale! How perfect is that! Oh, and they were a hit at work! :)

This is my inspiration from A Girl and Her Polish. (please click her name her image below to be sent to her site!). Isn't hers gorgeous! I didn't have any neons but chose some bright colors to go with the theme. Now this mani was hard for me to do. I don't do skittles all that well, something about have different colors on each finger is hard for me. And I usually do my ring finger as the accent nail and not the little finger like above. But by golly I was determined to re-created this lovely mani! :)

Now they only problem with this: was what to do for my thumb! Her's isn't pictured! Well, I thought like any good friend of The Crumpet would do and added a purple! :)

See! My purple thumb with more flip flops! :)

Bah! Pay no attention to the wonky little finger, it doesn't get much camera time and therefore isn't trained on how to behave in this situation. This is my right hand because I started stamping before I took a picture to show you the base colors! Duh! >_< But the colors are (l-r): Max Factor Disco Pink, Catrice Blue Cara Ciao, OPI Fiercely Fiona, and FingerPaints Sexy Sundress. My purple thumb is OPI Planks a Lot. I used Bundle Monster BM-309 (this one also has the owls on it!). I stamped using Konad Black and Konad White.

And for kicks and giggles the bottle shots of the polishes I used.

Thank you, A Girl and Her Polish for created such an awesome mani! :)

Would you like to join Monkey See Monkey Do Mondays? Click the image below or the one on my side bar.

Love Yourself Mani: For the Love of Owls!

Today's mani, is purely for me! :) I have been waiting to do this mani since Bundle Monster showed this plate as a sneek peek! I used Essence Romeo for my base. I really love this grey. Great coverage in one coat! Then I used BM-309 (the owl plate!) using Konad black (stains like a mother!) and KleanColor Metallic Fuschia. I LOVE this mani! And what better way to break in a new set of plates then to use one featuring your favorite animal! Win! :)

Flipped this image so that you can see it. Isn't it spectacular!? :)

Here is Bundle Monster's picture of the plate I used. Click on the image to be sent to their site to order the newest set of plates! You won't be sorry. You can also get them on Amazon.

I know, I know, you've seen me swatch this polish a bazillion times. But I love this polish and it works great as a base for stamping and for glitters! This is Essence Romeo, part of the Nail Art Twins.

I really liked this mani and wanted to do something for me, that I enjoyed. This is part of the Love Yourself manis. For more information click on this picture or the one in my sidebar to be taken to the facebook group!

Weekend Haul!

Today was suppose to be my Teal Tuesday post but I was sick all day yesterday and had to work yesterday so I put together this quick post of what I bought over the weekend.

(l-r): OPI Samoan Sand (so happy I found this! Now I can do more Jelly Sandwiches not using white!), Agent Lavender (a purple grey, and nothing like the blue that shows up here!). The last two polishes are a new brand to me, though I have seen them swatched before. They are Sation polishes. The first one is Videogame Vixen which is a clear base with black and silver glitter in micro and small hexes! The second one Band Beauty which is a clear base with multi-colored micro and small hexed glitters. Some of the hexes are even holo-like!

Micro bottle shot of Sation Videogame Vixen. Loving this glitter and the name! :)

Micro bottle shot of Sation Band Beauty. Sorry it's a bit blurry. Nothing wanted to work out today. But I'm loving this glitter too! It's more of the pastel multi-colors and not the basic primary multi-colors.

Also bought some glitters to play around with so see if they hold up to polish! This is a bronze micro glitter.

Another thing of glitter to play with! Bronze hex glitter. I'm really lemming a brown glitter and these are the closest I could find. I hope the don't bleed or curl! I just need to buy some base and I will keep you updated!

Oh, what's this? Could it possibly be the newest Bundle Monster plate set? Why yes, yes it is! Woot woot! I'm so excited to try them! This is my first Bundle Monster set!