We're getting down to the wire on the Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Week. Hopefully you've seen the other ladies flaunting their pinks this week - I have been sooo busy this week I haven't seen any (or anything else) - so I'm hoping at the end we have some links I can send you to to see them all. Anyway - tomorrow is the last day, and today is not, so let's see what I did!

I hope you've been enjoying the Breast Cancer Awareness Week, hosted by Amanda of Amandalandish.  It's been great seeing all of the pink support manicures and learning all of these very important and necessary bits of information.

Heya there you guys. Today is 3D Day for the 33DC (so many 3's!!) so I decided to do some art using the most amazing Year One by Chirality. This polish was reviewed here by me and is going to be available for purchase this Saturday the 19th of October in a VERY limited amount, so please don't miss it. It's gorgeous and it's special and it's sentimental and you need it!

Yay! Monday! Not really though, right? Does anyone like this day of the week? Well...you can like this post at least, I hope. So this weekend I finally got caught up on all my backend bs and am ready to get to painting these nails again! I've been doing Rejuvacote for 2 weeks (plus 1 week previous of Nailtiques) and it's done a ton of good. No more gels, no more wraps and patches. So far...so good. We still have a bunch of guest posts this month, as well as the rest of the mani's I did prior to my treatment, but come September we will be rockin' and rollin'!!

To see my swatches of the full collection - CLICK HERE.


**items in this post were sent to me for free by the company or their PR firm in exchange for my honest review**

Hey guys. I've been taking a few days off from blogging this week...but I'm back today with something that is probably the most special and heartfelt thing I've put on this blog to date. This week the world lost a truly amazing human being - young Talia Castellano aka TaliaJoy18 lost her battle with cancer, and though it was hard not to cry at this news, I found nothing but smiles when I chose to spend a good part of Tuesday re-living some of my favorite videos of hers. As I told a friend of mine - watch them...they won't make you sad, they will make you smile - because Talia always wanted people to smile and never feel bad or sad for her.

Talia was a true star - thanks to Nicole of Nail Polish Wars you will probably see a HUGE outpouring of mint manicures in honor of this truly special and unique 13 year old girl today.
I've watched Talia's videos since just after starting this blog, and I have to say - she was definitely the funnest and most colorful makeup artist I've ever watched. She had more spunk and sass and talent than people I know twice her age...
I don't usually use this blog as a personal forum but I have to say that cancer really sucks. It took my mom. It took my grandmother. My maternal grandmother as well as my cousin are, however, both survivors!
Unfortunately, the same day that Talia passed away this week, so did a very close friend of my boyfriends, from stupid ass cancer.
Sprinkled in with today's memorial manicure you will find some videos and pictures of Talia.










I also wanted to add this video the local news did on Talia after her passing:
FOX 35 News Orlando

There will be a public memorial held for Talia in August - and if you are interested in donating to the Base Camp Children's Cancer Foundation that was Talia's favorite - you can find out more information HERE.


One last thing before I go...Talia posted this BUCKET LIST on Facebook before she passed away - find something here and do it for her:

OMG you guys - HELLO!! How ARE you!?! I like to drop all of my favorites of theme weeks at the front of the week and for some reason, looking back, I should have posted this one first, because I think this one is my favorite. It's one of those manicures that is SO easy and SO fast but the colors/polishes just made this manicure so much more than I think it would have been with, say, non-textures or glittery polishes. You'll see what I mean when you follow me!