Pink Fridays #4

Happy Friday lovely people!  Yay for the weekend :)

Today is my final Pink Fridays post.  If you haven't seen any of the previous posts, Pink Fridays is an event run by Breast Cancer Care to raise awareness about breast cancer (as October is Breast Cancer Awareness  Month!).  Please take a few moments to visit the website and make sure you're up to speed on how to spot the signs of breast cancer :)

So now for the manicure.  I had a little rummage through my bag of untrieds (yes, I have a bag now...) and I was going to go for Orly Robo Romance, but then I spotted Kleancolor Pinky Moon, and I neeeeeeded to use that.  So it's a very simple manicure again this week, no nail art I'm afraid as I was in quite a hurry!

This is Barry M Bright Pink and Matt White, with 2 coats of Kleancolor Pinky Moon.  Now...Pinky Moon...  I fished and I fished, and I fished a little more, and after a bit more fishing I managed to get two moons on the brush.  It ended up very thick on my nail.  But I can forgive it.  I don't think it's totally clear from the picture, but Pinky Moon contains silver holographic glitter as well as moons and bars, all in a very slightly pink base.  It is a pain to use, like a lot of the Kleancolor glitters, but since they're so unusual I'll let them off.  And they're so cheap that I wouldn't mind having to pour a bit of polish out to fish out some pretty shapes.  By the way, if you're looking for somewhere to buy Kleancolor polishes, I got mine on Amazon from BeautyJointEU (have a look here).

Ooh, can I just draw your attention to the top left of the page - I've got a code you can use for 10% discount at Born Pretty Store.  Cheaper nail stuff - yay!

I probably won't get a chance to post again until Monday, as I'll be up in Liverpool drinking lots of wine.  So I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

31 Day Challenge and Pink Friday Mash Up

Now don't be alarmed...but yes, this is a 31 day challenge manicure being posted on the right day.  I know.

Conveniently, on the only day that the 31DC coincides with Pink Fridays, the challenge prompt is 'Insired by a Colour'.  Convenient.  So obviously I chose pink!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  I'm sure if you follow nail blogs, you'll have seen that loads and loads of bloggers have gotten involved in a challenge of some sort or have been posting pink manicures. I've chosen to participate in Pink Fridays, an event organised by Breast Cancer Care.  Breast Cancer Care is a charity that provides support to people diagnosed with breast cancer, as well as lots of information about checking your breasts, diagnosis and treatment.  You can find out more on their website here, where you can also find information about hosting a Pink Fridays fundraising event.

So here's my pink manicure for this week!  I decided to go for something simple but pretty :)

I used Barry M Bright Pink and Matt White, then added a coat of OPI I Juggle...Men, which you can just about make out on my index and middle fingers (bad lighting, sorry!).

Have a ganders at what colours inspired all the other participants today:

Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner

Kat at Hooked On Polish

Diana at Nails By Diana

Aly at Wonderland Beauty

Meredith at Perfectly Polished

Nicole at The Color Republic

Kate at The Painted Pony Nails

Cee at Absolutely Cee

Nail Narcotics

Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed

Shelby at Shelby's Swatches

Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful 

Mixed Mama

Joanna at Sweet Polish of Mine

Patty Greenberg

Liz and Lisa at Lozlosa 

Mari at Nailista 

Greta at How Was Your Day?

Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 

Gini at Sassy Paints 

Chameleon Stampede 

Pam at Nail-E-Glance 

Me, Myself and Polish

Pink Fridays #2

Happy Friday!  Woo!

October is breast cancer awareness month, and so I've decided to make my Friday's pink!  You can find out more about breast cancer and Pink Fridays at Breast Cancer Care.

This week for my pink manicure I decided to have a go at a pink sponged manicure, like the one I did inspired by my doggy for the My Favourite Things challenge (which you can see here).  But in pink, obviously.

I used a base of Barry M Matt White and then sponged with Max Factor Disco Pink, Barry M Bright Pink and a Special FX polish (they don't have names, poor things).

In keeping with sponged manicure tradition, here's a picture of Bailey playing with her bear and looking very pleased with herself :)

I'd love to see how you're making your Fridays pink!  Post your pictures on my Facebook page! You should actually be able to now as well, I didn't realise it was set so that people couldn't before, sorry!

Do you have any exciting plans for this weekend?  My boyfriend's parents are currently on the M25 somewhere en route to coming to visit us for the weekend. I haven't seen them since August, so it should be good! (The wine's in the fridge...).

Pink Fridays #1

Happy Friday!

As you may or may not be aware, October is breast cancer awareness month.  Breast Cancer Care is a charity that provides support and information to people affected by breast cancer, and as part of their fundraising in October they do Pink Fridays :)  This basically involved you doing absolutely anything to make your Friday pink - wearing pink, eating pink, there's even a page on the website where you can make your photos pink.  You can find out more about the charity, make a donation, or register for a fundraising pack for Pink Fridays here.

In my case, of course, I am painting my nails pink!  I'll be posting a pink manicure every Friday in October.  So here's my first one for you:

Disclaimer: This is my first attempt at a bow (in case it's not obvious...haha).

I used Barry M Bright Pink and Matt White, and a pink nail art pen for the bow.

I'd love to see how you're turning your Fridays pink for breast cancer awareness.  Post your pictures on the Polished Art Facebook page!