This is why the nail polish community is AMAZING ♥♥

 An auction for a good cause, with HTF's and discontinued polishes.

A dear friend that I have met through the polish community is suffering from complications of a life long illness, Type 1 Diabetes. She is unable to work due to those complications, and without health insurance has incurred a great deal of medical bills. She has been turned down for disability, and Medicare multiple times.

Several of us have come together to support her, as we all do, when a friend is in need.
We have gathered 39 bottles of nail polish, some HTF, some Indies, some International and some discontinued and an auction is being held, starting tonight Monday, September 3rd, 2012 until Sunday, September 9th 2012 at 8pm eastern standard time. The auction is open to ALL bidders in the US and international. The identities of the bidders will be kept private, but the current bids will be updated on the spreadsheet twice a day, at 11am and 11pm est. All bids must be emailed to Emorris21@gmail.com. All winners will be notified by email on Monday September 10th 2012, and are expected to send payment via PayPal within 24 hours of that email being sent.

All proceeds go directly to the recipient. If you can share this with your circle of friends, amazing! If you can take part in this amazing event, fantastic!!

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact Emorris21@gmail.com
Thank you in advance for your generosity and caring.

Here is a blog post about it-

http://doctorphilegood.blogspot.ca/2012/09/polish-for-cause-silent-auction-for.html

Below you will find the spread sheet with the items up for auction, and the high bid.
CLICK HERE to see the silent auction list and high bids
Thank you so much, and please, pass this on.

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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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Summer pedicures

 I love doing nail art on my toes in the summer. I feel like the effort I put into nail art on my toes isn't wasted, since it lasts so long. =) Yep, that's the lazy busy person in me talking.

I also like the fact that I can do both feet equally as well. When doing nail art on my hands, my non-dominant hand is great. My dominant hand needs to hide. Or move really fast, so you can't see it.
Getting my feet into a position to be painted and decorated is a sight to behold. I admit, I am fairly flexible, which is a good thing. I also admit I  have lots of 'stuffing' in the way of getting my feet near my hands.

On to the summer piggies--

For this pedicure, I used two coats of OPI Fly for the base. Then I used China Glaze Aquadelic and a large dotting tool to make large and medium dots randomly. If you do not have a large dotting tool, you can use the rounded end of a makeup brush, or open a bobby pin and use the rubber tip, or push a thumb tack into the eraser on the end of a pencil.
Then I used OPI Fiercely Fiona, and placed slightly smaller dots over the large Aquadelic dots, and then filled in the spaces with small dots in Fiercely Fiona and Aquadelic.

Thanks for looking!!

♥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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Pink Pedicure Wednesday

What is this!?!? a normal blog post?
*blinking eyes*
Yes! A blog post.
Wow, I miss blogging. A lot.
However, as much as I have requested an extension, there still seems to be only 24 hours in a day. I would even settle for a few extra days in a week. =)

Yesterday, I did a cute pedi on a customer, so I thought I would share. So yes this is cheating a little, but it's still my work, and it fits with the pink Wednesday theme.

For the base coat I used  OPI Shorts Story- which for the record is one of my all time favourite pinks.
You can see my post with it alone, and with Connect the Dots HERE
One of my fave mani's actually.

On top of two coats of Shorts Story, I did a row of dots on each big toe, using Sinful Snow me White, OPI Pink Friday, Zoya Dana, and OPI Ate Berries in the Canaries.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for looking.

♥Pam♥

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