Bay of Banana's Charity Fundraiser

This is also serving as my christmas party posts as I missed my work's one(which wasn't fancy and I had more important things to do... like get engagement photos done!)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bay-Of-Bananas-2014/

My friends were very brave to pose for this awesome calendar, all in their "banana hammocks" for the opportunity to help out prostate cancer research.

They held a gala event to launch the calendar, and me and a group of small women business owners got a table. The night was super fun, I love networking, the food was great and the entertainment was awesome!

I wanted to wear my new dress and as my instagram tease pics were these: 

candy cane and holiday sparkle gel nails

    

I hope you guys got excited for today's post!

The night of if you have me on facebook you would of seen this:

   unless you remember the pagent queen episode of "King of the Hill", are a drag queen or know lots of random fashion tricks: this is how you keep your back fat/skin out of the way for a nice smooth back for a backless dress. 

Here's the dress I wore: its from Dollskill.com and is called the "morticia dress"(how could I NOT buy this?!)

here's my look

I did my own hair, I bought a new curling wand: Verge Curl Styx (3 interchangeable barrel curling wand)

Eyes:

• MAC "genuine treasure" eye paint pot 
• GOSH "05 plummy"
• GOSH "14 fox" 
• anabelle" Solar"
• MAC "blitz and glitz" liquid pot eyeliner
• MAC black extreme mascara

The first 3 were all blended on the upper lid and brought around the outer corner to under my eye half way. Starting with a blend of the red and plum, adding the genuine treasure on top. I added more plummy to the outer edge to darken it.

I added the solar to the bottom inner corner of my eye.

Lips were a blend of Merle Norman "bistro berry" and Sinful colours "red".

I had a blast and hope to see everyone out at the next event:

The 3rd anual Ladies Gala luncheon @ the wayland !

Me and Karen(Dolls with Toys) will see you there!

xoxox Scotia-leigh.

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Away and Now Back vol.2

So after my last post I found out how hard it is to actually move and renovate, and work, and have kids.... wow. that was a eye opener.

so now that I am done fully doing my house, new floors, new paint, new furniture and even a new computer, I am ready to be able to write some posts.

Of course this one is going to be my new house themed!

I wanted to match the greys and purples of my house.
My floors are called "vintage oak" which means they are grey with black wood knotting in. And my other floors are dark grey with a bamboo feel to it with black, white and dark brown lines in it.

so I did my nails to match!

the top coat I used was bad and dragged on the last two nails.

my walls are called "purple bloom" with a black trim called "beluga". everything else in my house is either aged bronze, silver, black leather or a dark oak.

it was actually hard to find a purple that matched in a quick minute and will re try this look again later. But I do love this picture because of the shadow my eyelashes catch.

I did my lips in a  bronze colour cause all my wall plates and railings are all a dark bronze.

now that I'm all moved in, I am thinking about adding waxing and shellac services but want to know what you guys think! post comments, email me or comment on my facebook!

xoxox Mamma S.

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EXTRA!

pics of my house!

Jackalope! 

my makeup drawer nice and organized but its only a 1/3rd of what I have

art by  Quillanneofthewoods

trying out some new pintrest nail art

 So I know I haven't done a post with any nail art in a long time so I was looking at my pinterest  to find something to try. 

I found this and wanted to try something like it.

I used my new nail art polishes from Avon,  I used "Cupid" for the base and "passionate plum" for the outline. I really liked using the nail art brushes from Avon, they are nicely pointed and easy to move along.

the Cupid was lighter going on as it seems in the bottle and the plum was perfect, only needed the one coat.

didn't use this color

You can see getting that thin line isn't as easy as it looks, mine turned out way wider. I still really like it though, reminds me of thick linned tattoos or thick lining in old comic books.

xoxo Mamma S.
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Seeing Double

Last night I was going through my giant box of nail polish and noticed I had a lot of the same colours. I don't think I've ever bought doubles so I checked. Nope different companies = same colour or at least to my eyes(wasn't wearing my glasses either).

So I gathered up the ones that were doubles, and some triples and put them on side by side to see the differences. Another blogger I follow the polishaholic does this from time to time as well when she gets new swatches.

This is the one that started me off on this quest: I swore that I already owned this black sparkle nail polish but the OPI "Metallic 4 Life" is from the Nicki Minaj, and I know that I had never bought from that collection before. So when I came home I looked and yes I had a very similar one from Quo called "Throw the Confetti". In the bottles they look really similar but as you can see they are very different on the nail. 1. "Metallic 4 Life" has a sheer black pigment and smaller sparkles compared to 2. "Throw the Confetti", which has a clear polish and bigger sparkles.

The next one I always thought were the same, and are actually made by the same company(Nicole is owned by OPI) are 1. Nicole "Star of the Party" and 2. OPI "Overexposed in South Beach".  1 is way more metallic and a bit of a darker fuschia then 2. 

So this set is triplets but not really: I know the 3 Milani "Pink Out Loud" isn't the same colour as it has a iridescent sheer to it but the pink looked the same to me. 2 is Julep "Nicey" and 1. is Essie "Secret Story".  1 goes on a lot thinner and lighter then the 2. But the 3 Milani is the close to the same pink as a 1 Essie.

1 is Julep "Morgan" and 2 is OPI " OPI ink". I actually think these ones are the same. In the bottle the OPI 2 looks darker but on the nail they are the same.

1 is Sally Hansen "Sea Breeze" and 2 is Julep "Daphne". I have to mention again that the brush that comes with Sally Hansen polishes are way better and easier to manage, especially when you have shaky, arthritic hands. The 2 Julep is actually lighter then the 1 "Sea Breeze".

So now that I know I only actually have 1 double, I feel better knowing I haven't wasted money.

-xox Mamma S

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Warrior Royalty Colouring

Today I was going through my Pintrest photos looking for inspiration. I found two photos, side by side surprisingly of a nice purple combination. One was nail art and one was some elaborate makeup. I've been itching to do both so here they are! I have also been itching to wear my new wig(which isn't itchy at all).

First I did my nails, I used OPI's "Overexposed in South Beach" and "Rising Star", with a plain black nail art pen.

To do the leopard print I put my base coat, then flat coat of the "Rising Star" on. I used the black nail art pen to make little dots that cluster together. I then used my fine tip nail art brush to take the "Overexposed in South Beach" to fill in the dots to make the art nail match the rest.

I also did my eyes, the theme from pintrest was called "Japanese Warrior inspired". I love the white swipe along the water line. I haven't ever really played with the contours of my waterline, usually just stick to the plain black dramatic eye. Or add to the ends for the gothic look.

 I first started out with highlighting my eye with a white shadow. I went over my crease of my lid with first a light pink, then a dark pink/purple colour. I went over the main part of my lid with a matte black, then added a sparkle black. I did the same layering under my eye a bit I then took some ivory cream eye shadow and a small angled brush to create the white line and brought it up a bit along my water line. The last main step was to use liquid black eyeliner to follow along the white and finish off with black mascara.

I love mixing dark pinks, purples and blacks. And I love black and white, which I also decided to add my new white and black wig that I got from Karen from Dolls with Toys so it would match the water line art.

So hope you like my look for tonight(the Rock Truck/Bottom Rockers/Speedway Detectives show @  the Black Pirates Pub)

Keep a eye out on ShawTV my new VLOGS should be out soon!

-xox Mamma S

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Last Julep Maven Box

This will be my last post about the Julep Maven Box. I wanted to try a win 150 nail polishes but I didn't and I am finding that I am getting similar colours and not enough neat ones so yeah I'm done.

 So in this month's Julep Box, I got pixie sticks(which I can't have so that sucks), vanilla mint lip balm that has SPF in it and my 3 new colours; Sash, Sandra and Morgan.

Sasha, the salmon pink colour isn't really my deal but will look nice for a pastel splatter idea I have. It is a nice matte colour.

Sandra is a metallic fuchsia pink. I liked to wear bright pinks when I had red hair, but now that I have dark purple I think I will be looking at more purples and blues for my nails.

That is always the question though when it comes to trying to figure out colours: to match or clash? I usually stay on my body matching and then clash with my clothes. But then I guess I do change it up and clash my makeup and nails with my hair and have a matching outfit.  What do you like to do?

And speaking of matching, Morgan was my favourite colour as it goes great with my dark purple hair!

The vanilla mint lip balm is super nice, I wouldn't normally think that vanilla and mint would go well but they are both subtle enough that the flavours compliment each other.

If any one knows of other good makeup trail boxes please leave a comment!

-xoxox Mamma S.