China Glaze Retro Diva Collection Giveaway!!

So as promised, I am giving away the China Glaze Retro Diva Collection, in its two boxed sets! One person will win the Get Down Tonight set, one person will win the Let's Cruise set. Two winners! Yay!

You can be anyone, anywhere in the world, all you have to do is email me your name, and tell me which China Glaze nail polish is your favorite and why. My email is polishmayhem@gmail.com, it's also in my profile. I will draw two winners at random next Monday afternoon.

Good Luck!!!!

SOME FURTHER INFORMATION!!:
I don't mind if you haven't tried China Glaze, or can't get it. Winners will be picked randomly, not based on answer. Anyone, anywhere in the world can join.
I will pick what set you get, I will try to accomodate a request but can not promise anything at all.
I will get tracking info on the package only if you are in the US, but not if overseas. I may choose to get insurance, I don't know. All the shipping and packaging for this contest is coming out of my pocket, though the polishes come from China Glaze. I will NOT be sending you replacements if something breaks in shipping, or if it never appears. If you are in the USA, since this is a large prize I MAY choose to get insurance. But if I don't I will be very sorry and commisserate with you, and if you are not in the USA you are just out of luck. Sorry, darlings. No one has not gotten a package yet except poor AdorePink, whose polish seems to have vanished. She will probably get another one since it isn't a huge expense for me. But for this giveaway, what I wrote stands.

China Glaze for Days! - Last Day Glass Fleck Extravaganza

To celebrate the last day of China Glaze for Days, I give to you all my glass fleck polishes I have not already posted about on the blog. Enjoy!

China Glaze Fairy Godmother:


China Glaze Belle of the Ball:


China Glaze Straight Up:


China Glaze Martini Lunch:


China Glaze Martini Pedicure:


China Glaze Shaken Not Stirred:


China Glaze Tarnished and Varnished:

Islanders at Ironman Canada - Results

Islanders at Ironman Canada

667 - 11:49:50 HUGHES, CORENA - STRATFORD - 16/141 W40-44
1:11:53(Swim) 6:11:39(Bike) 4:14:43(Run)
788 - 12:03:48 DICKIESON, SCOTT - CHARLOTTETOWN - 109/314 M45-49
1:10:03(Swim) 6:10:27(Bike) 4:33:22(Run)    
1180 - 12:48:49 DALTON, PAUL - ST. EDWARD - 92/236 M50-54
1:25:03(Swim) 6:37:30(Bike) 4:31:02(Run)    
1455 - 13:25:28 DALTON, PAULETTE - TORONTO - 40/73  W25-29
1:33:26(Swim) 7:02:42(Bike) 4:37:21(Run) 

Full Results  

CBC's Photo Gallery from Ironman Canada

Ironman Canada photos on Flickr: Here, here and here.

Diversity - The best part of the Canada Games

Alex & I spent 4 days at the UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place watching Track & Field.
Alex was volunteering half of each of those 4 days.

We both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and witnessed some great competition.

The very best part for me was the diversity.

Athletics included Special Olympic athletes running sprints,

as well as wheelchair races.

I hope this trend grows and soon includes many more sports.
Currently Swimming and Athletics in the Summer Games and
Figure Skating and Basketball in the Winter Games
include Special Olympic and/or Paralympic athletes.

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze Thataway

Thataway is kind of like an orange cremesicle for your nails. Shimmery and orange but more on the peach/coral side. Fun for summer.

Remember tomorrow is, sadly, the last day of China Glaze for Days and I will be starting a giveaway, both halves of the China Glaze Retro Diva Collection, so two people will win 6 polishes each!! Stay posted tomorrow!

China Glaze Thataway:

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze Treehugger

Hmmm, I posted a bit late for Saturday picnic polish choices, but this is what I would have suggested. A nice grass green with a lovely shimmer!


China Glaze Treehugger:

Friendship Run

It was cloudy and 14 degrees.

The Friendship Run for Prince County Hospital at Summerside.

The loop course on road and trail.

Mike MacKinnon won the race and set a race record of 34:12 and Jennifer Perry for the top female.

I finished in 43:11, came in 18 out of 107 runners and 2nd in 20-29 silver medal. Beating 29 seconds from last year.

My brother visit 2 weeks and came to watch the race.

More Photos

Official Result: 18th out of 107
10K in 43 minutes, 11 seconds

Friendship Run 2008
Friendship Run 2007
Friendship Run 2006
Friendship Run 2005
Friendship Run 2004

Running For Autism

Not Against It
acceptance, inclusion, awareness

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze Liquid Leather

China Glaze Liquid Leather is part of the Patent Leather collection. It was designed to be stunningly shiny and it accomplishes that very well. It also has a gorgeous wet look! It's a jelly, not a creme, so it's easy to apply, and errors clean up well without staining the skin. This picture is two coats, and no top coat!

China Glaze Liquid Leather:

Thank You Jared Connaughton!

Jared Connaughton, 2005 Canada Summer Games Gold medalist and Olympic Sprinter visit Canada Games Place and meet me. He gave me his VIP tag. Thank You Jared!
I was on track team at Bluefield in grade 10 with Jared. He broke Provincial records.
Jared's UT Arlington Men's Track Team Profile

MAC Nail Trend Fall/Winter 2009 Nail Lacquers

MAC is easily my favorite makeup. For eyeshadow, blush, lipstick, range of great colors, pigments, glitters, I just can't think of anyone who comes close. I LOVE them. But MAC seems to treat nail polish as a kind of off the cuff item. Their nail polish is not up to the standards of their other items, and it seems to be designed by a sad lonely team in the basement who never get the stimulation the lipstick and eye people get. Mineralize eyeshadow versus their lacquer? Come on. I do not know if all of these are new or rereleases.

Anyway they ARE my favorite brand of makeup so I will always give their nail lacquer a try. This collection is a sedate, darker collection of cremes, and is far better than the offerings from the rest of the year. It's not going to set anything on fire, but it's a sort of "I'm a powerful businesswoman" sort of collection, certainly a lot sleeker and more sophisticated that the rest of the minimal turnouts from earlier in the year. Though having said that it's by no means a slamdunk palette with no problems. The formula spreads easily, though may need a few drops of thinner. It covers well in two coats, using only one can be streaky and leave sheer areas.

Six shades were released today. Let's have a look. If you like any, run out tomorrow or buy online tonight, because as usual they will probably run out in record time.

MAC Cool Reserve is a sort of taupe with a bit of grape thrown in:


MAC Rich, Dark, Delicious is an almost dark chocolate creme, it's way too dark for milk, too light really for true dark chocolate. This actually has an opalescent shimmer in it, you can see it in the bottle in the picture. But on, it does not show. It's just too little in amount and size.:


MAC Beyond Jealous, the dark forest green creme everyone was waiting for, seriously might as well be black. There is no jelly quality to this, so no lighter areas on the edges and top that let you know this is green. Maybe sunlight helps but I am doubting it.:


MAC For Fun is a simple sort of Tyrian purple creme we have all seen before. It's nice, though unoriginal.:


MAC Dance All Night is probably the most thoughtful addition to the collection. It's a dark brick red, that while amazingly badly named (who dances all night in brick red creme nail polish???) manages to be intriguing and sophisticated. My pick of the litter.:


MAC Dry Martini is an olive brown creme that looks like you just changed a baby's diaper. It's utterly incomprehensible to me.:


Tyler Durden's opinion of MAC's Nail Trend Fall/Winter 2009 Nail Lacquers:
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

China Glaze for Days! - Tantalizing Toes and Tipsy Toes

Here are a couple example's of China Glaze's old metallic glass fleck polishes. Maybe a push for them would help bring them back!!

China Glaze Tantalizing Toes:


China Glaze Tipsy Toes:

This Saturday's Race - Friendship Run for Prince County Hospital

Friendship Run for Prince County Hospital
(Points Race)
Saturday, August 29, 2008

Distance: 10K
Starting Time: 9:00 am
Registration: 8:00 am - Wilmot Community Centre, Gillespie Ave, Summerside (find it on the Map)
Fee: $12.00 ($10.00 for RoadRunner Members)
Sponsor: Source for Sports
Fundraiser: Prince County Hospital
Contact: Michael Irvine, 436-6224, mirvine@eastlink.ca
Course Description: Scenic looped course through forest, Confederation Trail and streets of Summerside.
Race Map

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze Celtic Sun

It's still summer, even if some of us are back to school! There's still plenty of time for neons!

Celtic Sun is kinda like "what if I took the ink out of a neon yellow highlighter and painted my fingernails with it?". Maybe you are like me and think that sounds like a lot of fun.

China Glaze Celtic Sun:

Matthew Caseley wins Gold in Hammer Throw

Kurt McCormack wins Bronze in the Triple Jump

Team P.E.I.'s Website
Team PEI Results & The Red Clay Review Newsletters

Our Canada Games Photos

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2009/08/25/pei-canada-games-medal-basely082509.html

P.E.I.'s 1st medal golden at Canada Games

Matthew Caseley speaks to the CBC after his golden performance in the hammer throw event Tuesday at the Canada Games.

(CBC)The host province of this year's Canada Games won its first medal Tuesday with a golden effort from Prince Edward Island's Matthew Caseley.

Caseley, of French River, captured the gold Tuesday afternoon in the hammer throw at UPEI Alumni Canada Games Place. The 21-year-old was in fifth place going into the final.

"I knew I was fairly close to a medal, but the gold? I was not expecting that whatsoever," an ecstatic Caseley told CBC News.

Fellow Islander Kurt McCormack followed up Caseley's win with a bronze medal in the triple jump. McCormack, 21, from Souris, attends Dickinson State University in North Dakota.

The national sporting event showcasing Canada's amateur athletes is taking place in P.E.I. until Aug. 29.

China Glaze for Days! China Glaze Frostbite

Okay Frostbite is yet another blue, I feel like I am posting a lot of blues. But the fact of the matter is China Glaze does blues better than ANY other polish brand. Period, and I stand by that. Frostbite is amazingly luminous.

China Glaze Frostbite:

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze VIII

VIII is not black, it's a deep eggplant. It's got more color in person. Very bold.

China Glaze VIII:

Canada Games Volunteering

Results Runner - Athletics

Day 1 - Running results from the finish line to the results room

Day 2 - Sucking up the stats at the finish line

Day 3 - The 2 finish line results runners: Alex MacBain & Alex Bain !

Day 4 - Olympic sprinter Jared Connaughton and Alex
(former teammates on the 2003 Bluefield High School Track team)

Our Photos from Athletics
and Volleyball

Evening at the track

Relay team misses medal

http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/index.cfm?sid=280458&sc=99

	New Haven native Jared Connaughton takes the baton from Canadian teammate Oluseyi Smith while Jamaica’s Michael Frater hands his baton over to Usain Bolt at the start of the third leg of the men’s 4x100-metre relay final Saturday during the world track and field championships in Berlin. (Associated Press photo)

Relay team misses medal

Connaughton and teammates run
a seasonal best time in 4x100

Canwest News Service & The Associated Press

The Canadian 4x100 men’s relay team set a seasonal best time on Saturday at the world track and field championships in Berlin, but it wasn’t good enough to see the team head home with a medal.

The Canadian team, which includes Jared Connaughton of New Haven, finished the race in 38.39 seconds to grab fifth place overall.

The race was won by Jamaica — led by multi-world-record holder Usain Bolt. Jamaica cruised to the gold in 37.31 seconds. Trinidad and Tobago finished second with a time of 37.62, while Great Britain won bronze by finishing in 38.02.

The Canadian team also featured Sam Effah of Calgary, Oluseyi Smith of Ottawa, and anchor Bryan Barnett of Edmonton.

“To tell the truth, we were shooting for the podium,” said Barnett. “The last exchange could have been quicker . . . a season best though so you can’t complain too much, I guess.”

“There’s plenty of room to improve,” added Connaughton. “But 38.39, we’ll take it for now, but I think this is a 37 (second) team and I don’t think we could have said that two years ago.”

Jamaica also won the women’s 4x100 final on Saturday.

Bolt’s third gold medal of the championships failed to produce a third world record because the Jamaican 400-metre relay team only managed to produce the second-fastest time in history.

“It is a little bit my fault,” an apologetic Bolt said, complaining he was just too tired after nine races in eight days.

“I didn’t run the best third leg. I was happy to get around the track and give the baton to Asafa,” he said. “I am dying right now.”

Compounding Bolt’s fatigue was Asafa Powell’s groin injury, which made the anchor runner uncertain until one hour before the start.

Since the Beijing Olympics, Bolt had won five major gold medals with a world record each time. The world record streak ended in the 400 relay after he set two individual marks in Berlin.

“The main thing that counted was getting the gold,” Bolt said.

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze Visions of Grandeur

China Glaze Visions of Grandeur is a whole lotta grandeur. A deep rich red, it's got a lot of gold shimmer in there too. Reminds me of what my husband called my nail polish this past Friday.

China Glaze Visions of Grandeur:

The Desmond Baglole Scenic Road Run

It was cloudy and raining and 23 degrees.

The Scenic 15km run in Millvale.

The loop course on tough hills and road.

Steven Baglole won the race and Rebecca Pike for the top female.

I finished in 1:14:03 and beat 49 seconds from last year and came in 13th out of 30 runners.

The three days run was completed. Paul Burnley also ran all three runs.

Paul & I run 3 races in 3 days

Francis, Mike, Shawn & Nancy ran the course twice .

More Photos

Official Result: 13th out of 30
15K in 1 hour, 14 minutes, 3 seconds

Scenic Road Run 2008
Scenic Road Run 2007

The week 2 volunteering at UPEI track in Athletics at Canada Games on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 4-8pm.

Running For Autism

Not Against It
acceptance, inclusion, awareness

China Glaze for Days! - China Glaze Cowgirl Up

China Glaze Cowgirl Up is a yummy sort of red grape color with a super smattering of dark blue shimmer that gives it a slap of hotness. Very tasty.

China Glaze Cowgirl Up: