Guest Post Series, with Refined and Polished featuring Razzle Dazzle

Today's guest blogger is Lakeisha, from Refined and Polished. She and I met a few years ago, in a nail polish group when Girly Bits was in it's infancy. It's so awesome to see that she still has love for the original release of Razzle Dazzle, shown here in the original bottle with the paper label, and two colour logo. It's even a mini! Oh how things have changed.
Lakeisha typically pairs her manicures with fashion inspiration boards, which is a great way of viewing the seasons colour trends. Be sure and check out her blog, for many different colour pairings and fashion styles to suit any taste!

Thank you so much for sharing with us today!
♥Pam♥


Hey dolls! I’m Lakeisha from Refined and Polished and it is my absolute pleasure to be a part of Pam’s guest blogger series! We met several years ago in a nail polish facebook group and it has been great to watch Girly Bits grow into such an amazing brand. Of course for this guest post, I had to start with one of Pam’s polishes. When Pam previewed the first Girly Bits collection in our group, Razzle Dazzle was the one that caught my eye the most. It is a raspberry jelly base that is filled with scattered holo particles and fuchsia, blue, and copper glitter. The base of Razzle Dazzle builds up nicely, so three coats were used. I wanted to pull out the blue sparkles in Razzle Dazzle, so I used two coats of Illamasqua Cameo, a gorgeous cornflower blue, on the accent nails. My favorite types of nail art are polka dots and striping tape and I always love an opportunity to pair the two together. Lately, I can’t get enough of doing various sized polka dots on just a portion of the nail.

I've never used a glitter as the base for a striping tape accent before and I absolutely love the way Razzle Dazzle sparkles under the creme. This look is the epitome of how I like my nail art; simple but chic and relatively effortless. I adore creating fashion boards inspired by the polish I’m wearing as well, since my love for the two go hand in hand. I hope that you all have enjoyed this look. If you would like to see more, please feel free to keep up with me on Refined and Polished, facebook, or instagram. Thanks again Pam for allowing me to share with your fans!

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New shades, behind the scenes, and a restock

I so wish that I could spend more time updating the blog, and sharing the craziness going on behind the scenes.

I have just restocked the store, and once these have sold out I will be closed while we prepare for the next release. I have been trying to keep the store continually stocked, but we have been experiencing a fairly high volume of orders recently, and I don't want to get too far behind. Shipping has been far more efficient lately, with an average turn around time of 3-5 days. We ship Monday to Friday excluding holidays.

Click here to order Girly Bits from my shop.


I do want to share with you some of the newest additions to the core line. You might have seen this on my facebook page recently. I have two new shades that are a memorial tribute to a young man who recently graduated high school with my daughter.

Here is the story-


Saturday, July 21st, our community was shocked, and deeply saddened by the sudden and unexplained death of a local teen, Brady Rogers. Brady and his closest friends and family were at his home celebrating his high school graduation when Brady collapsed and died.
His close knit circle of friends have been reeling ever since, searching for answers, and trying to comfort one another. Brady was larger than life in spirit, personality, and even in his 6'4 red haired, blue eyed frame. He was one of those kids who left an impression on everyone who's path he crossed. He loved his friends and family deeply and wasn't afraid to show it.
Brady's friends have spent the better part of the week, creating tributes to Brady in the form of orange ribbons and posters which they painted the town with, especially along the funeral route from the funeral home, to the community center where a service for Brady was held, with a full house of 700+ people.
My daughter came to me on Monday, asking if I could create a polish, in Brady's memory, and donate the proceeds to the Brady Rogers Memorial Bursary Fund at Kingsville District High School, which he graduated from just weeks before. I told her if she and her friends came up with a colour inspiration, and a name, I could have it done in time for them to wear to the funeral service on Wednesday. They all agreed- a sparkly blue, like Brady's eyes. The name? Roger That. (his twitter name)

Consider it done.

Mackenzie and I paid a visit to Brady's parents- Mark and Susanne Rogers, and left them with 55 bottles of Roger That, to be sold for $10 each, with 100% of the gross proceeds going to Brady's Bursary.

All 55 were immediately purchased, with many requests for more. I have donated 100 bottles to the family, with 100% of the money from those sales going into the fund. I have also poured more and I will continue to offer the polish on my site, for the retail price of $12.50, with $5.00 from every bottle sold going to Brady's Bursary.

I have since released the companion polish to Roger That, called Gentle Ginger. It was inspired by Brady's ginger red hair, and his gentle nature.
As with Roger That, $5 from each sale of Gentle Ginger will be donated to the bursary fund.

 

 And just for fun, here are a few shots of a batch of Gentle Ginger being poured, to go to the local businesses.

Thanks for visiting!

♥Pam♥

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Calendar Girls Part 2 - May to August

Calendar Girls Collection

by Girly Bits

The first part of the Calendar Girls Collection was released in February 2012, with the first four shades in the year long series. The concept is, that the full collection will have a colour that represents each month of the year. It will be released in 3 sets, with the third set available in August/September, completing the collection. July has three colours- one representing Canada Day ( July 1st), one representing Independence Day ( July 4th), and one representing Bastille Day (July 14th)

I have moved my sales over to Big Cartel, and I think this will make for easier ordering and processing.

I have posted the new shades in the store for preview, and I plan on restocking tomorrow, Wednesday May 02 at 12:00 noon EST.

Tomorrow will  be a relatively small restock, to test out the new ordering system. I will have another small re-stock on Saturday, May 5th in the evening to accommodate other time zones as well.

I am sure some of you are aware of the lack of base right now. Once that issue is resolved, I should be able to restock on a more regular basis, in larger numbers.

You can check out the new store HERE.

I have yet to add shipping, as I am still working on that, but the rates will be similar to previous sales, except it will be more of a flat rate based on destination.

Here are a few shots of the newest colours, but please head over to the new store to check out the entire collection, as well as some new products- Glitter, spectraflair, and coming soon- a franken starter kit.

Cheers!!

 

 May-Calendar Girls

Mother May I?!

A medium purple base with aqua squares, red squares, blue, turquoise, pink, purple, opal,

 and aqua hexes in various sizes.

A bouquet of colours.

 

June-Calendar Girls

Daddy's Little Girl

Multiple sizes of sapphire blue, sky blue, purple, and fuchsia in a tinted cobalt blue base.  

 

 July Calendar Girls Mini Collection-49th Parellel.

Star Spangled, Vive la Revolution! and Canadian Eh?

Vive la Revolution is a Limited Edition shade.

 

 July- Calendar Girls

Canadian Eh?

Canadian Eh? contains small and medium white hexes, small and medium red hexes, and red squares in a sparkling clear base. Shown here layered over China Glaze Phat Santa.
It is  one of three, in a mini collection called 49th Parallel, for July Calendar Girls. 

 Canadian Eh? over Star Spangled

 July-Calendar Girls
Star Spangled

Star Spangled is a blue jelly, loaded with red and blue glitter, and red bar glitter. It sparkles like fireworks, and is one of three, in a mini collection called 49th Parallel, for July Calendar Girls.

 August- Calendar Girls

Wet Bikini

Aqua and blue squares and hexes, and tiny opalescent  hexes in a clear base.

 Hocus Pocus is a holo top coat that can be layered over any colour, to give it a magical holo effect.

The nail wheel here shows it layered over various base coats.

Thank you for looking!

♥Pam♥

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Razzle Dazzle introduces her sister- Purple Potion.

Razzle Dazzle was tickled pink when she found out how much everyone loves her, and she would like you to meet her sister Purple Potion. They are both lovely glitters with sparkley holo bits, and they are eagerly awaiting their upcoming travels.

Thanks for looking!

♥pam♥

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The mystery swatch revealed...

Yesterday I posted a mystery swatch that I had swimming around in my collection of nail pics. The right answer is indeed among the comments posted here
And here is the full swatch. Glad you girls liked it!

Thanks for playing :)

♥pam♥

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China Glaze IDK

One of my favourite holo polishes- China Glaze IDK. This looks great as a mani or a pedi. Love love love.
It is a beautiful linear holo, that is basically a light blurple/lilac. It is a standout colour even in the shade, and in direct sunlight it is simply mesmerizing. These are discontinued but sometimes you can pick them up at nail supply stores or salons. Any of the OMG collection is worth getting. It performs best when a matte topcoat is used at a base coat. That prevents drag which can sometimes happen with these types of polishes.

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