Guest Post Series, with Polish Obsession. Featuring Razzle Dazzle and Nail Art

Hiya!! I am so happy to have Marisa from POLISH OBSESSION on the blog today. I have followed her blog for a long time, and she is a long time customer of Girly Bits, so it's perfect that she is here today to share her creations with all of you. Marisa always has a wide variety of colours and textures on her blog, and had quite an assortment of Indies, so she is a good reference point if you are looking. She is also quite active on TWITTER, so be sure and check her out!

Thank you Marisa, for sharing with us today, and especially for choosing things close to my heart.

♥Pam♥

Hi fellow nail polish lovers!!

My name is Marisa and I'm the writer of Polish Obsession.  I'm so happy to have the opportunity to do a guest post for Pam.  I'm a huge fan of her polishes and I've been a blog follower for a long time, so I'm truly honored.

For this post, I wanted to do something really fun, so I grabbed Razzle Dazzle, one of my favorite Girly Bits polishes.  Here's what I came up with.

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Index finger: Sally Hansen Fuchsia Power with polka dots using Nicole by OPI I'm a Belieber and Girly Bits Razzle Dazzle
Middle: Orly Au Champagne as a base with I'm A Belieber and Fuchsia Power using a fan brush
Ring: Tape mani (using striping tape) with Razzle Dazzle and I'm a Belieber
Pinky: Three coats of Razzle Dazzle on its own.

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I'm a huge lover of pink and purple together, so I really like how this mani turned out.  I decided to do the fan brush technique on my middle finger because it's something Pam really liked when I did a previous mani using the technique.

Thanks for reading!  I hope you guys liked seeing this mani.  Thanks for having me Pam!

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Girly Bits Season of Sparkle Collection~Winter 2012

Introducing the Season of Sparkle collection for Winter 2012

This collection includes glitter top coats, shimmers, micro glitters, jelly based glitters carefully selected to give you maximum sparkle and wear-ability out side of the usual Holiday season.

 

 

Eggnogoholic

A soft winter white with just the right amount of nutmeg gold glitter.

Ornamental My Dear Watson

A clear based glitterbomb, that includes every colour you might  see on your tree.

Visions of Sugar Plums

A deep plum jelly base, with iridescent and shifting glitter  

that will have you dreaming of sugar plum fairies.

Long Winters Nap

A deep grey jelly, with various sizes of grey and periwinkle glitter, and a hint of blue. 

Soft and comforting, just like your favourite winter jammies.

 

♪You're a Mean One...♪

A clear based glitter, with multiple sizes of green and red, along with a smattering of black hearts.

After all, mean ole' Mr. Grinch did have a black heart.

 

Fathomless

A deep teal jelly, with dense green and gold micro glitter 

 that sparkles with all the mystery and wonder of the season.

Eight Crazy Nights

A clear based glitter, full of sparkle and bling. 

Blue, silver, holographic and transluscent white glitters.

Heirloom

A clear based glitter with all the vintage shades of a Victorian era holiday.

Hot Toddy

A warm red, with gold and red micro shimmer.

Reminiscent of sipping a hot toddy with cinnamon sticks, 

by the glowing embers of a fire on a cold winters night.

The release date will be announced soon, along with swatches.

Season of Sparkle will be available through the following authorized distributors

 Llarowe

Harlow & Co 

Overall Beauty 

Mei Mei's Signatures 

 

Also available in limited quantities at

Girly Bits Cosmetics 

To keep up to date on new collections, release dates and availability be sure to follow the

 Girly Bits facebook page

You can also find us on 

Twitter 

Pinterest 

and

Google + 

Thank you!

♥Pam♥

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SlapDash ~ New collection

Good Friday afternoon!!

I have been so absent from the blog, and I miss is terribly. Of course my absence is due to furiously mixing and pouring and shipping. I can not thank you all enough for your amazing support, and I feel very blessed to be able to share my passion with you. It's been an amazing experience so far, and I am looking forward to what the future brings. We have many new things in store here at the house of Girly Bits.

Speaking of 'We', I would also like to give a HUGE thank you to Tara, my new employee, assistant, co-worker. She has been the sanity to my craziness, and I would be lost with out her. I am forever grateful to have her on board along with you, on this journey, following my gut and my heart, learning things along the way, never looking back, and having no regrets.

Thank you! ♥

Now. on to pics of the new collection!!

SlapDash Collection ~ Summer 2012

 SlapDash consists of 5 summer brights, all in a jelly finish, with shimmer and glass fleck.

 

Jelly Shoes is a fantastically bright hot pink, with a wicked pink/purple shifting shimmer. Totally tubular.

 

This is three coats, no undies.

 

 

 Banana Hammock is a medium yellow, that lies somewhere in between lemon and banana. Or perhaps two lemons and a banana? *rim shot*...Thank you, I'll be here all week =)
It has a gorgeous green shimmer, that is on the shy side

 This is three good coats, no undies.

As with most yellows, this one requires patience to apply, but it is worth it.

 

 Glo worm is a bright neon lime green with a fabulous golden yellow shimmer.

 

This is three coats, no undies.

 

 

Arctic Sunrise is a Sky Blue with fantastic pink shimmer that is not shy at all! I created this last year, and never found the right time to release it until now.

 Thank you to Amy at I'm Feeling Nail-Venturous, for her gorgeous swatch. You can see her other swatches of Girly Bits on her BLOG by clicking HERE.

 

Thank you yo Karine at Nailderella for the use of her swatch of Arctic Sunrise. 

 

 Cu Blue is a deep indigo, true jelly, with loads of copper shimmer that are not shy to come out and play.
If you are curious about the name- Cu is the elemental name for copper.

 

Three coats, no undies.

 

These are available on my store, as well as Llarowe.

My Facebook page  has the most up to date info on re-stocks, and other places you can buy Girly Bits.

At this point, I am trying to keep my distributors as well stocked as I can, and when I have them available in my store, I am trying to keep the inventory cap off, so their should not be an issue with a cart hold.

Our turnaround time is currently about 3 days, excluding weekends and holidays.

Thank you for looking!

♥Pam♥

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Girly Bits- Rogue

As a polish creator, I love all colours, and textures. As a polish wearer, I have my favourites, but there is little I won't wear. Reds are probably the colour I wear the least, and nudes. One of the nice things about being in close contact with a lot of  polish lovers, is being able to take requests for colours, and it is very rewarding when I have the opportunity to be able to fulfill someones request.
So, today I bring you Rogue. I was asked by a friend- Red Rogue ( who also happens to be Canadian),  to create a red jelly with holo glitter. In the process of working the colour, I wandered away from the original idea, but loved what I was getting. I called it Rogue, in honour of Red, and also because it had wandered away from the original intent.  When I was done, I showed  Red, and she loved it. So here she is. A red jelly, with pink and violet glitter, and red micro bar glitter.

If you could have a polish made just for you, what would it be?

Thanks for looking!

♥Pam♥

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More Girly Bits join the party

Today I am very excited to show you a custom creation that is part of the Girly Bits first collection. I have posted this one before, but since it is now officially part of the first collection, here it is again.
I present to you Sailor's Delight.

While chatting with a fellow nail polish lover, she mentioned to me that she was looking for an orange-red, like the sunset. She wanted something that would represent the saying "Red sky at night, Sailor's delight; red sky in the morning, Sailor's take warning. I promptly hopped up, ran to my polish lab and threw some things together. What you see here in the result.
She was very pleased with it, and thrilled that I had managed to bring her idea to life. She named it, and Sailor's Delight is now a part of the first Girly Bits Collection which is now available.

You can access pricing and ordering information by clicking the tab at the top of the page or by clicking here
You can also send me an email at pamsgirlybits@hotmail.com

It is a beautiful red-orange with the most amazing micro-glitter. It applies very smoothly, and is just jelly enough to let the glitter show all it's sparkly goodness.

I am very excited for this project, as it has been a lot of fun creating, mixing, testing and showcasing my creations.

Till next time....

Thanks for looking
♥pam♥

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Polish fume overdose=sleepy brain cells, but pretty polishes.

I am sure you must be thinking I had abandoned you. Never my dear friend. I have been busy in my polish lab getting my line ready for release. My brain is in slow motion the past few days, and I am thinking it's from  huffing fumes hehe
Here is another sneak peak at a few more of the contenders for the premiere collection. Mind you, these are just quick swatches but I thought you might like to see them.

This one is called Sailor's Delight. This is a custom creation for a friend.

 She told me her vision for a colour, and the name, and this is what I came up with.

It will be in the first release.

This shows two versions of grey, one with a blue shimmer and one with a multi coloured shimmer. I haven't decided which I like better yet, but one of them will make the cut.

 I am leaning towards naming this Stormy Skies.

Which one do you like better?

This is one that I love, but I am not sure if it will make the cut for the first release. 

It is un-named as of yet, and I am open to suggestions :)

I am getting very excited about releasing these for sale in the very near future.

Thanks for looking!

♥pam♥

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OPI Espresso Your Style, and Gold Shatter

Good Morning lovely readers! I have been thinking of all of you that may have been affected in one way or another by hurricane Irene. I hope this finds you well and safe and relatively dry. I do not live in a hurricane zone, and we have had really good weather. It's hard to imagine that while skies are blue here, there is an angry storm to the East unleashing her fury on innocent people. I expect we will see the tail end of it here with a few days of rain by the weekend. We are relatively unaffected by most natural disasters in this area, although this year has brought more tornadoes, and hail than I have ever seen in my life, and we have felt two earthquakes as well. By 'feel' I mean I could feel my couch swaying and see my bird feeder swinging. In no way were we ever at risk of any damage here at all. If I had not been sitting still chances are I would not have felt it at all. I really feel for all of you who deal with unsettled Earth on a regular basis.

I swatched OPI Espresso Your Style for a friend of mine, so I decided to show you as well. It is a beautiful rich deep warm brown with a lovely gold shimmer/microglitter. This was three coats, but I admit I was in a bit of a hurry so if I had been more careful I might have been able to get away with two.

 Espresso Your Style was originally released in the Kick up Your Heels collection in 2006, which I believe was a black label. Mine is from the re-release and is a green label.

This was taken outside.

I decided to throw my new OPI Gold Shatter over top just for fun.

Gold Shatter is pretty, and I can't wait to try it over other colours. It didn't shatter well here so I will have to experiment with it over completely dry polish vs slightly tacky polish.

Thanks for looking!

♥pam♥

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