Beauty Blog Coalition - Weekly Roundup

Blushing Noir: Could the Dior 384 BONNE ETOILE 5 Couleurs Eyeshadow Palette be the palette to splurge on for Fall 2013? See for yourself!

Mama Fashionista: Better late than never! Mama Fashionista's mini me shares her June Favorites!

Lola's Secret Beauty Blog: Edward Bess Blush Extraordinaire Filled with Desire is a swoon-worthy must-have pink blush! It's truly stunning!

Peace Love and Glitter: Treat AND conceal dark under eye circles at the same time? There is a way, and it's fabulous.

BeautyTidbits : Does LAVANILA The Healthy Deodorant get Harshleen’s stamp of approval?

My Newest Addiction Beauty Blog: Laura gushes over the IT Cosmetics Vitality Lip Flush Butter Glosses. They are her newest addiction.

D.G.S.Beauty: Need a new pair of eyeglasses? Firmoo has a great selection and will send you your first pair for free.

Painted Ladies: Sheila tries two new Color Tattoo pigments from Maybelline - are they worth the $6,99?

TheFabZilla: Yet another anti-aging product! TheFabZilla tries Hydroxatone AM/PM Anti-wrinkle complex. Find out if it's yay or nay.

Beauty Professor: The Beauty Professor has tried a lot of products this summer...here's a video on four of her favorites!

The Stepford Witch: This week, the spotlight is on Dermalogica Concealing Spot Treatment. Read the review to find out if this product does as it claims.

Beauty by Miss L: Check out this blue glitter manicure.

A Little Polish: A Little Polish shows off a great way to incorporate blues and greens into a fun, trendy mani!

Advice Sisters: Advice Sisters' new website called leather and lace advice offers some thoughts on dieting

Icy Nails: Icy Nails: Incoco Real Nail Polish Appliques in On the Edge. Fun and Fabulous!

Lipgloss Break: The Limited turns 50 and celebrates with Dress for Success and giveways. Enter for a chance to win a $50 gift card to The Limited!

Geniabeme: Inglot's Freedom Palette is great for travel and has great choices of shades to choose from!

My Highest Self: Come see Tina's swatches of the Zoya PixieDust Collection for Fall 2013! Which one is your favorite?

Fun Fierce Fabulous Beauty Over 50!: Find out why Tom Ford Bronzed Amber Illuminating Cheek Color is a summer must have item!

AIS - Favorite Color Combo

Happy Sunday Loves! I hope you are all having a great weekend. Unfortunately my husband has been sick and throwing up the entire weekend so our house and plans aren't exactly as happy as they could have been. Anyway, this week's theme in Adventures in Stamping is "Favorite Color Combo". I knew that I wanted to use white to stamp with and I ended up with my go to shade, that was my favorite for as long as I could remember, pink. LOL.

Polishes Used:
-OPI - (Unfortunately I don't have the name of this one!)
-Konad - White
-BM Plate - BM-H18
-HK Girl

Since this these was favorite color combo I decided to try out one of my new BM Holiday plate stamps in this lovely heart pattern; get it? favorite? heart? lol. Anyway, hearts go great with pink and white so i thought this mani was just perfect. The stamp was really nice too (don't mind my wonky ring finger stamping, it was user error not a bad plate lol)

I can't wait to check out all the other favorite color combos out there!

Summer Mani Challenge - Pool Party

This week's theme in the Summer Mani Challenge is Pool Party. After thinking about it all day, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with this mani :)

Polishes Used:
-China Glaze - Electric Beat
-Konad - White
-BM-313
-Sally Hansen - Blizzard Blue
-HK Girl Topcoat

I tried to capture a look of the sun and water reflecting onto the bottom of a swimming pool. I think that I was able to achieve it (at least I see it lol). I really liked wearing this and the blue was so bright and shiny I kept looking down at my nails.

Sadly participation in the Summer Mani Challenge is down but I am hoping it picks back up. In the meantime check out the other lovely mani's that my friends who are still participating created <3

The Nail Challenge Collaborative Presents - Flowers - Week 3

YAY! It's Friday, my favorite day of the work week. There has been a lot of stress at work lately so the weekends are much appreciated.

This week I went with a very plain and simple flower mani.

Polishes Used:
-Nail Tek II
-Liquid Lacquer - Tea for Two
-HK Girl Topcoat

I love Tea for Two on it's own so I wore it alone for a day and then decided to add the pretty flower stickers. I picked up these stickers from Born Pretty Store and hadn't had a chance to use them since my original review so I thought this week would be perfect.

Short and sweet! Make sure to check out what the other super talented ladies of the Nail Challenge Collaborative have done for their week 3 manis!

Crumpet's Nail Tarts: Tri-Polish Challenge

Today I have my second mani in the July Tri-Polish Challenge. I decided to stick with my two blues for this mani, and went with a good old blue leopard design :)

The design started off as blue leopard but the more that I looked at them it started to see a blue frog!

See? I told you, lol. Anyway, this was a nice simple easy design I love how the two blues look together.

Make sure to check out what the other Nail Tarts did for their second July TPC manis!