Untried Sunday: Elevation Polish Toubkal

Today is gonna be a busy day. Have to bake cinnamon buns, take the twins to the movies and visit my mother's cousin - and blog as well!! So since I couldn't sleep I might as well spend my time on something useful :D

And I was going to show you Jessika the Vampire Slayer, but I just got an Elevation Polish membership and I felt like celebrating by showing you this here instead.

This post will be very short on words and very filled with pictures.

I love my Elevation polishes and the following is no exception - gorgeousness in a bottle!

Easy application and fast drying time. One of my all time favourite polishes.

 The golden glass fleck shimmer in this one just blew me away!!

 *Dies from glass fleck overload*

 

 

This simply  is beauty bottled. Elevation Polishes can be bought at Lulu's Bigcartel Store and they retail for 8.50 $. Luckily for you it is not sold out if you've fallen in love. Lulu will restock again on May 7, so stay tuned for that.

Stamping Saturday

So next up for Stamping day are Dragons!!! I love dragons and they are awesome creatures. I am a RolePlaying Gamer and one of my characters is a teenage wizard - an 18 year old girl who's mentally connected to a thousands-of-years-old dragon. Even got a custom made tote bag from Haut Totes with two Myka Jelina designs. A fairy that was so close visually to how I saw Aevilja and a marvellous dragon. How could I not get a custom bag made out of those images?

So when I was purchasing some new stamping plates from new-to-me Messy Mansion and saw this plate, I just had to have it.

So which colours to use? One of my nail polish friends was in that awesome RAOK I mentioned here and she sent me a long wanted China Glaze, Flying Dragon. Awesomeness in a bottle!!! Thank you Ana!! So this was a no brainer for base. And what to use to stamp with other than a-england Dragon and St. George. I still need to practice more, but I think these turned out nice.

These are taken in my bathroom under artificial light - so pardon the orangy fingers, and concentrate on the holo magnificense instead ;)

Here comes St. George to slay the dragon:

Look at that beautiful blue and pink shimmer in Flying Dragon!!!! And the dragon stamp is just mindblowingly awesome:

 

This is taken in my light box and shows the base colours of St. George and Dragon - but the holo effect got lost:

Indirect sunlight - and a GINORMOUS chip I hadn't seen until I cropped the picture, but I just love the way Flying Dragon looks here:

 If you don't own Flying Dragon, you need to get it. It is just amazing. And if you stamp you better go buy some from Messy Mansion, her plates are to die for.

Untried Sunday

So I missed Untried Sunday last week, sorry if you showed up to see what was the accent nail on my last Untried Sunday - so I'd better show you today :)

You're Invited is from Lacquistry's Halloween 2012 collection. Being the Glitter Bomb Queen on the indie polish scene, Jenna sure knows how to do 'em, this collection has been no exception. You're Invited is one layer on top, I had only to slightly manipulate the brush to get the coverage you see on these pics.

Formula was really good, not too thick and fast dry time as well.

Undies is Elevation Polish Tindur, a lovely very, very pale green with that lovely in-tone shimmer that I so love in the shimmers from Elevation. This was a dream to put on. I don't know what Lauren puts in her polishes but her pastels are so easy to work with. No significant dragging and perfect application in two layers.

As I've said a number of times before I really love that fiery ember like feeling you get from orange glitters - this is no exception.

And some close-ups for you to enjoy the glitters even more:

So for next Untried Sunday I will show you the last of the Halloween 2012 glitter polishes from Lacquistry that I own: Jessika the Vampire Slayer. And stay tuned, there might be some more random posting coming up this week :D

Stamping Saturday...on sunday.

And then it became sunday here in Denmark before this got up :D

I've had this polish combination flowing around in my head for quite some time and during my Easter break in Sweden there was finally a sunny day for the first time in like forever for me and luckily I brought both polishes.

This combo is China Glaze Purr-fect Plum with Color Club Cloud Nine and the plate is Dashica XL SdP 32.

I am really enjoying this stamping thing so I'm considering doing it on a more regular basis which means stamping on random days when I feel like it more than making it a set day for it.

My first Red Dog...

Today I have something beautiful to show you. Red Dog Designs is an indie brand made by a girl whom I met in one of the facebook polish groups. Gina does gorgeous glitter bombs that are totally fantastic. In february she released a Valentine collection inspired by Mr. Ol' Blue Eyes aka Frank Sinatra and I fell totally in love with it. I have three of them and here is the first, Be Careful, It's My Heart:

I instantly new which polish I'd use it with when I got the polish and I do believe these two are a perfect fit: China Glaze Deviantly Daring from last year's Bohemian Lustre Chrome Collection.

Totally gorgeous together, I think.

 I did some close-ups so you could see the different glitters:

The Ol' Blue Eyes Collection retails for 8.75 $ a piece and can be purchased at Red Dog Designs Bigcartel store, where her two previous collections also are available.

Light It Up Blue for Autism Awareness. A Blogger Collaboration post

I'm a little late to the party but since this is for a good cause I decided to contribute anyway.

A couple of years ago we had an 18-year old boy working with us in the film archive for two months. We pride ourselves of being an open minded work place (one of the archivists suffers from Cerebral Palsy) and to be working with us turned out great for him. Some of the job functions are rather repititive and systematised and furthermore we are a happy and caring bunch of people who want all our coworkers to feel at home. He suffered from Aspergers Syndrome and wanted to see if he would eventually be able to master some kind of job position suited for him. When he left us he expressed that being with us had made him decide to apply for a dedicated high school that specialises in working with youths suffering from Aspergers. Us being open minded helped him on his way and that is why autism awareness is important - if we "healthy" people stay open minded we are more likely to help the "less healthy" in finding something that is meaningful to them and will make their life a little less difficult.

Since blue has been chosen as the colour to signify autism awareness nail bloggers are donning their blues to support the cause.

I've seen Reciprocal Sponge Gradient manis floating around on nail blogs and thought I'd try it but just do it a little differently. Therefore my tape stripes are asymmetrical but I think they ended up being only so-so:

I've had some Kiko's sitting in my untried drawer and three of them were blue so the decicsion on which polish brand to use for this mani was an easy one to make.

 

I apologise for the rather poorly clean-up. I'd forgotten to wrap up my fingers so I ended up with nail polish all over - and it being highly pigmented blues you can imagine how easy clean-up actually was :P

Kiko 339 Cornflower, Kiko 385 Pastel Blue, Kiko 337 Periwinkle Violet.

Autism Facts:
Autism Spectrum Disorder ASD is a range of neurodevelopment disorders, characterized by social impairments, communication difficulties, and restrictive, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior.  Autistic Disorder sometimes referred to as autism is the most severe form of ASD while other conditions along the spectrum include a milder form known as Asperger Syndrome.

Although ASD varies significantly in character and severity it occurs in all ethnic and socioeconomic groups and affects every age group.

Males are four times more likely to develop ASD than females

Some common signs of ASD are:
Focusing on one item and excluding all others for prolonged periods of time

Become both withdrawn and indifferent to social interaction

Failure to respond to one's name or make eye contact

Many children follow patterns of twirling, rocking and even destructive behavior such as banging their head or biting.

Children with characteristics of ASD may also have conditions such as epileptic seizures, Tourette's Syndrome, attention deficit disorder, learning disabilities, and Fragile X Syndrome which causes mental retardation.

Because ASD varies in severity and symptoms it is not uncommon for it to go on unrecognized.

Currently scientists do not know exactly causes ASD although it is likely that both genetics and environment do play a role.

Some therapies and treatments have helped with the severity of symptoms in some individuals, sometimes symptoms improve with age, but as of right now there is no cure for ASD.

To support Autism Awareness Month some of my fellow bloggers have banded together to get the word out and Light It Up Blue for Autism Awareness!