tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14514262344087148752024-03-05T02:46:05.135-05:00Le Vernis ChocolatAudreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-72492770193204833652010-09-01T12:00:00.001-04:002010-09-01T12:00:05.596-04:00What I know for sure Wednesday....<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...that this will be the hardest post I have ever written.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is with a heavy heart and tears in my eyes that I write this post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">First some house cleaning -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Congratulations to Pamela Green!! She was the winner of the Finger Paints Super Sunday Sweepstakes!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Okay, now for the hard part...please know that this decision that I have made was one that I was in hopes would be one that would not need to be made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I have Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Close your mouths and get your chin up off your keyboard! It's not a death sentence, but a Immune Deficiency Disorder. I will live a very long and prosperous life to buy np till they put me 6 feet under!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">This is not a new revelation for me - I was diagnosed 5 years ago. I am medically retired from the federal government. I cannot drive over 10 miles due to double vision and headaches (thank goodness all my np dusties are within that 10 mile range!!) I take more pills than the average medicine cabinet can hold. I take pills to wake up, I take pills to go to sleep, I take pills for pain, I take pills for spasms, I take pills for fatigue, I take pills for stress, I take pills for...well you get the idea - oh, and lets not forget my monthly visits to the hospital that requires an IV Infusion!! I walk with a cane and have on occasion been restricted to a wheelchair, but for the most part I do walk unassited, albeit slow. No WONDER I'm into nail polish - it's cheaper than booze!! ...and it lasts longer too!! *if you have any Kleancolor - it get's you high too!!*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Why am I telling you all this now? Well, this summer has been very, very challenging for me. Heat is a major stressor of symptoms for people with MS. The heat wave that we experienced this summer taught me one thing - IT WAS HOT AS HELL AND I WAS MISERABLE!! That being said - my body has been in a constant flare or exaserbation mode (when your body becomes symptomatic and revolts on you!!) for the last couple of months. Yes, I stay in air conditioning so all things considered I am as comfortable as one can be - but moving around and going outside has been non existent for me except for doctor appoints, of which I go to at least twice a month - for poking, proding, basting and turning, pulling, tugging and testing..yuk!! But it is a life I have become accustomed to and one that I think I have adjusted to, not settled, but adjusted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">What I know for sure...as much as I enjoyed being a blogger for the short time that I was welcomed onto your computer screen, and for all the friendships that I have formed through e-mails, cards and personal phone calls, my symptoms have progressed to the point that I can no longer continue to be of service to my customer base without sacrificing my health.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">My MS is like a box of chocolates, I never know what I'm going to get from day to day. I say my MS stands for Mysterious Symptoms!! There are days my legs don't want to cooperate, there are days my arms don't want to cooperate, there are days I have double vision and can't tell if I have one bottle of np or two in front of me (those days are rather comical) *maybe I really DON'T have two helmerz full of np* and there are days I have headaches to the point I can't lift my head. There are even days where the entire left side of my body is paralyzed - thank GOD I'm a righty!! All that being said - you can imagen how difficult swatching has become for me. It was taking me almost 2-3 hours to do swatching of one color. Imagine the days I would have double vision and wonky arms - between trying to paint on my fingertips and not my fingers and taking pictures of my hands and not my feet were rather frustrating and hillarious!! I didn't know wether I should laugh or cry! Holding the camera was no fun either - not because I couldn't focus, but I couldn't see!! I was afraid of dropping the camera, when my arms were weak, and we all know how husbands can be about their shiny toys and gadgets!! :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I have enjoyed my few months here in the blogesphere and will always cherish the friendships I have made through np. I guess just like any addictive disorder, we all hold dear to the friendships that are made while going through therapy!! *thank goodness for MUA* I don't like my physical therapy that I have to endure for my MS, but np therapy is one form of rehab I don't mind staying a member of for life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I thought changing my schedule and postings would allow me to continue to at least be participative. I cannot. *why didnt my body come to this revelation BEFORE I showed myself full monty with a nekkid face - ARRRG* I was really trying to stay active and engaged with you all - but I had to come to the realization that the swatching, picture taking, uploading and posting was just too much for me and I was taking too long to bounce back from a flare up *symptoms that occur due to over stressing your body or your mind* <em>My flare ups were heat induced. I was in no way shape, form or fashion stressing out because I was blogging - but because of my symptoms and trying to maintain a schedule of posting regularly.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, instead of being of disservice, I bow out gracefully, okay - more like awkwardly, but never the less, I bow out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, to my fellow bloggers, to whom I know the challenges of which you deal with, can definitely understand how difficult this has been for me and to my fellow constituents,...I digress, fellow followers I say THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! This has been one hell of a run (okay, slow walk) for me and I have enjoyed every step of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I will continue to buy np like a mad woman. I will continue to take my biotin (amongst the many other daily pills I have to take). I will continue to buy dupes because I'm buying so fast I forget that I already had that color (no, I do not have a spreadsheet - that's just too much like work). I will continue to be on MUA nail board being a silly person because it makes me take my mind off the pain. I will continue to correspond with those of you who correspond with me. I will continue to always think of you and be grateful of the time we had together - it was truly rewarding for me to know that even for a few months - I was able to be of service.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, what I know for sure - and everything I need to know about life, I learned from my little bottles of polish...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP doesn't care if you don't talk to it today</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP doesn't get upset when you put on an Essie instead of a China Glaze</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP doesn't care if you don't have on the right 'underwear' to hide VNL</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP doesn't care if you have to move it from the drawer it was in for the last two months, because you have more polish you need to put in that drawer</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP doesn't care if you move 5 more blues or reds in</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP has no respect of person - it looks good on everybody!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP does not have a status to uphold whether it be a .99 Wet 'n' Wild or a bottle Clarins 230 selling for $300 on ebay </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NP is well, NP - at the end of the day all that matters is...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">do YOU like your little (or large) stash?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">are YOU happy with the choices you've made?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">are YOU not sacrificing anything to fulfill a lemming?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">are YOU being true to yourself or trying to keep up with others?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">are YOU willing to play it forward and go that extra step to fulfill a lemming for someone else?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">can YOU afford your little (ok large) habit?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">does it truly make YOU happy?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, when you see apaige2u on MUA give me a wave, o/* or a high five *\o. I will always have my gmail so you can always drop me a line or two there as well.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, for the last time I write...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">...that does it for me today!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Until next time - Happy Polishing!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">and remember <strong>NOW IS NOT FOREVER</strong>!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Le Vernis Chocolat!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">For more information on Multiple Sclerosis</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nationalmssociety.org/">http://www.nationalmssociety.org/</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">*sniff* *sniff*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">*wipes tears off key board*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-25034784858428230932010-08-26T13:10:00.000-04:002010-08-26T13:10:18.683-04:00Claire's Meg Peg<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Let me show you my little fren...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAvaA_U85FyAaTOBgg6rT7mVnzoskV1QiAxOzLZR2qlPC-5IXLQAyy6agdAo4xD5rbzdVG0jk_Gf_8BJ5ggdQljvAdV2XXpiOTWyJ2pjrP_4iD-38rdClW5nQUK4iF_4AQobqdLoopuxGl/s1600/NOTD+050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAvaA_U85FyAaTOBgg6rT7mVnzoskV1QiAxOzLZR2qlPC-5IXLQAyy6agdAo4xD5rbzdVG0jk_Gf_8BJ5ggdQljvAdV2XXpiOTWyJ2pjrP_4iD-38rdClW5nQUK4iF_4AQobqdLoopuxGl/s320/NOTD+050.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went shopping yesterday, well, sort of...I went stash shopping!! It's amazing to me that amongst so many np's that some of us have accumulated over time - some for collecting purposes and others, because, well, it was only $1 so I just had to get it!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfugHhSN9RdV3ZMDZeqyn-_XYI4CCMFURsjK657RZvtj8w-LrgZIDcNxdz3NHNhJRLFzkLi5JeYoAFSO4Bn3N8wq5P7hfPvfh0o3bY528bsuNEqJaL8R8lhhfl67_i2u90RNge2y8wSosE/s1600/NOTD+101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfugHhSN9RdV3ZMDZeqyn-_XYI4CCMFURsjK657RZvtj8w-LrgZIDcNxdz3NHNhJRLFzkLi5JeYoAFSO4Bn3N8wq5P7hfPvfh0o3bY528bsuNEqJaL8R8lhhfl67_i2u90RNge2y8wSosE/s320/NOTD+101.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, this little pretty was neither of those - I received her in a swap from a great NBer!! It's amazing to me that out of so many pretties, I actually remember each and everyone of them and where they came from and how I acquired them - yet I can't remember to take the clothes out of the washing machine on some days!! Go figure!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5gKDk4uBAURWgx17wDU1pUmO2QkSprd-OBmLF-AzoKURQQwUsBRXqK_2hMwMXO2zWQdqZ2N9TX-Q0hSkRNOfsuEenyil4vLKQCVUOIekJNtZ-SpAFLmIKNQEpLIi4_6nbvyNZomTDJzC/s1600/NOTD+052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5gKDk4uBAURWgx17wDU1pUmO2QkSprd-OBmLF-AzoKURQQwUsBRXqK_2hMwMXO2zWQdqZ2N9TX-Q0hSkRNOfsuEenyil4vLKQCVUOIekJNtZ-SpAFLmIKNQEpLIi4_6nbvyNZomTDJzC/s320/NOTD+052.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Isn't she pretty? Look at that holo!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sadly she is only one of two Claire np's that I own, the other being Dream Catcher, and that too was also a gift from a swap - from a seperate NBer. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTu1SbnOQ9xC844Xjj7rIb9cDz9zzLIh1BLCRXIBQcmsBivg5Mbqqt4RpU0SKcExfH5usza15H5PJ7pP8gvRoz1GpMApP7c5IDvUtPXzkOL1aEvgH0sDY8hl6fw4Neu00KbC8j0pNrNKI4/s1600/NOTD+063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTu1SbnOQ9xC844Xjj7rIb9cDz9zzLIh1BLCRXIBQcmsBivg5Mbqqt4RpU0SKcExfH5usza15H5PJ7pP8gvRoz1GpMApP7c5IDvUtPXzkOL1aEvgH0sDY8hl6fw4Neu00KbC8j0pNrNKI4/s320/NOTD+063.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meg was a funny little thing. Her holo just screamed in the bottle, but on the nail, not so much - she more glitteres her way on my nails. Beautiful none the less. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiep8KkQjSq_50uRccU-TXPMwQEZxOAzl7cOrhKQJelNSri09alb0gGKcfJTChuvycZq2FOPrwGYVyV7YvFry_8cbxXuNFuMeFw8T2KDmBNf9jvu-IzxbJxawf0UMR3y15TxmtzIFqvMqO/s1600/NOTD+093.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiep8KkQjSq_50uRccU-TXPMwQEZxOAzl7cOrhKQJelNSri09alb0gGKcfJTChuvycZq2FOPrwGYVyV7YvFry_8cbxXuNFuMeFw8T2KDmBNf9jvu-IzxbJxawf0UMR3y15TxmtzIFqvMqO/s320/NOTD+093.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She dried with a rather kind of plastic finish *-* I applied 3 coats. I intentionally made her a full mani right from the start - I had already done my prep work and applied my treatments, I was not going to back out of it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjnuXfNT7V4tWVFsn4N08fLVAMzCrQKlTltUPUofzjXhytODAWMlSRQ7wWnf69qHtpzxTM3i_yrpeIzRHh8CFygzKe7LlT3x1vxyy8aKNKnNwmwGNUnVeekn-3FnVxk0V-IOBmAik_49T/s1600/NOTD+053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkjnuXfNT7V4tWVFsn4N08fLVAMzCrQKlTltUPUofzjXhytODAWMlSRQ7wWnf69qHtpzxTM3i_yrpeIzRHh8CFygzKe7LlT3x1vxyy8aKNKnNwmwGNUnVeekn-3FnVxk0V-IOBmAik_49T/s320/NOTD+053.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I know not all holo's play well with certain bc's or tc's, but the plastic satin finish she had was not something I was expecting. So, I slapped a regular tc on it (Revlon Color Stay) and finished her off with SV - </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMPKIs4_no8iobosCnpcNdNrnM_Rz4jKKhqd1Iv3VMkGXo9p0Jr3b72pNCKZ_3UOZIvPoKr7VQILr4BE6aYQumlm1OFFZujN91hZMe6FbXLKWhQvbdecp91huXRDNT_PiowHVzQlAVlb1/s1600/NOTD+086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEMPKIs4_no8iobosCnpcNdNrnM_Rz4jKKhqd1Iv3VMkGXo9p0Jr3b72pNCKZ_3UOZIvPoKr7VQILr4BE6aYQumlm1OFFZujN91hZMe6FbXLKWhQvbdecp91huXRDNT_PiowHVzQlAVlb1/s320/NOTD+086.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">her shine was beautiful after that!! Gotta love SV! (at least I do anyway)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I have been trying out some new nail treatments and I must admit I am rather pleased with the results. New to my routine are Gelous, Salon Science Instant Artificial and Fiberglass Network, also by Salon Science. All of these products can be found at Sally's. I have been alternating the Gelous and Instant Artificial but for the most part always use the Fiberglass Network. I love how strong they feel now with a full manicure, they even look a lot smoother as well.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Well, that does it for me and Meg Peg today.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">What have you overlooked from your stash lately?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Funds a little tight but you want the thrill and gratification of a new np - shop your stash!! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">You just might be pleasantly surprised at what you might find, again!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Until next time - Happy Polishing!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"><em>Don't forget the give-a-way!!</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-54879290956286437202010-08-25T11:39:00.000-04:002010-08-25T11:39:52.109-04:00What I know for sure Wednesday!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...everything I ever need to know about life - </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I learned from my np stash!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIaRvFIYEhQp4f12TKNOCCBoYwKuY2PVutnNjvmesL3O8DcchbYOdQuH6J4fdE23hIP1SyIE_7pCji7Uct3VJNa7Eq6VGhHrrHchBiMek3Hs2gVyTa10wTLT42eP01ho8lF_M-j6SPmS4/s1600/NOTD+019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="392" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIaRvFIYEhQp4f12TKNOCCBoYwKuY2PVutnNjvmesL3O8DcchbYOdQuH6J4fdE23hIP1SyIE_7pCji7Uct3VJNa7Eq6VGhHrrHchBiMek3Hs2gVyTa10wTLT42eP01ho8lF_M-j6SPmS4/s400/NOTD+019.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Today I bring to you Racing Green by Barry M.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">This np was a dream to apply - but I needed 4 coats since I did not wear my underwear prior to application</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I am such a nasty hussy - no underwear!! :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Alrighty kiddies - gathering around the computer monitor, you're about to learn something - </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">so listen up.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAjDQ2HQ8jAHHJgoxWII9OPVX33VU_lkFHnMK21hm2szdodF9UBX2GQYH87Vl7jtSaRsv_HjtGzpc2IAG-GX2vX4QpbpN7QWCc2a0Wtjtet7KQVr36vFbrDK6lGKnYg686cwxEGSe1RdA/s1600/NOTD+038.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuAjDQ2HQ8jAHHJgoxWII9OPVX33VU_lkFHnMK21hm2szdodF9UBX2GQYH87Vl7jtSaRsv_HjtGzpc2IAG-GX2vX4QpbpN7QWCc2a0Wtjtet7KQVr36vFbrDK6lGKnYg686cwxEGSe1RdA/s400/NOTD+038.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NOW IS NOT FOREVER!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">For the most part, I have tried to always make sure my mani's were pretty decent prior to taking a picture. Sure, who amongst us has not always wanted that picture perfect mani - only to change it, if not that same day, within a few days!! Oh, what we go through to be beautiful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiylTsEiUMZpFO4CpsjJz84PteMvn55wtX5vFeOKpKqEntPZx2bmnUzf0TvVywD10_fvit95yM-sK4Zp6HqkHddcCdbQRGNDOWVF84QR6Viq0LhI3OttcRqbpNKLXDNKoFN-g_JsyHQ4qN5/s1600/NOTD+040.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiylTsEiUMZpFO4CpsjJz84PteMvn55wtX5vFeOKpKqEntPZx2bmnUzf0TvVywD10_fvit95yM-sK4Zp6HqkHddcCdbQRGNDOWVF84QR6Viq0LhI3OttcRqbpNKLXDNKoFN-g_JsyHQ4qN5/s400/NOTD+040.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Well, now is NOT forever. Can you imagen only having the same mani day in and day out?? Of course not! Mani's will change and so does life. No matter how well we plan and prepare and hope for the best - life is going to take twists and turns that makes us a little disgruntled, upset, angry and confused. Does any of this sound familiar???</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Well, what I know for sure - NOW IS NOT FOREVER!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HYKbFCtBuH6UNfbJmEXx-aELq7-Odr2PqpZmXddnf92Fnvk-INH35X5hpAi7BTXiBOkaMgQFt3405sW8aKb7apVSSVVWMy-d24bZ4E3vbwMxCafrW2Bvrg2W9ZvqYOjCyw9Li1GBwBiz/s1600/NOTD+048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9HYKbFCtBuH6UNfbJmEXx-aELq7-Odr2PqpZmXddnf92Fnvk-INH35X5hpAi7BTXiBOkaMgQFt3405sW8aKb7apVSSVVWMy-d24bZ4E3vbwMxCafrW2Bvrg2W9ZvqYOjCyw9Li1GBwBiz/s400/NOTD+048.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">See how this mani bubbled on me?? I didn't plan on the bubling, I did all the things I was supppose to do for a great mani - but it happened and yet - I took the picture anyway!! Yes, I stuck with it and it really doesn't look half bad, right? I did all the right things, but clearly something happened that I had not factored in. Now, I could have done one of two things, taken it off and started all over or just be upset and not take the picture. Clearly I chose to just roll with the punches and use it as a life lesson. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg13fr6bpmaTGcOVnF9hmPdMF4uY7eOWEeXtIgSMQs1qooiky7hlo4ZewZtPSOZG4qrJitPlECFU2q9INNpqHP93KFn679oL80zlrJcq0mQSQuzZb7ZHCl1P_GdLWQVk-U8rIErQ9AqVc8f/s1600/NOTD+031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg13fr6bpmaTGcOVnF9hmPdMF4uY7eOWEeXtIgSMQs1qooiky7hlo4ZewZtPSOZG4qrJitPlECFU2q9INNpqHP93KFn679oL80zlrJcq0mQSQuzZb7ZHCl1P_GdLWQVk-U8rIErQ9AqVc8f/s400/NOTD+031.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> Just like acetone changes a mani - so will life change it's course. No matter what your mani looks like now and no matter how much acetone you use, there will be some staining and maybe even some burning if you have a hangnail or a small cut. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxRfn2a6-H5Hr7OnDuMqZoOLm6D-uPqUgbgQgDHBOTOFkcdG8U3r1cAX9ltlP2kLHXi0wnYLXUVjoQqjf7X_X1Fi0PT7P_9NBHjuXMtSS9bA1fmw2vfYL9Tl7AX8FnoR6Td1uEIuZLvLf/s1600/NOTD+027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgxRfn2a6-H5Hr7OnDuMqZoOLm6D-uPqUgbgQgDHBOTOFkcdG8U3r1cAX9ltlP2kLHXi0wnYLXUVjoQqjf7X_X1Fi0PT7P_9NBHjuXMtSS9bA1fmw2vfYL9Tl7AX8FnoR6Td1uEIuZLvLf/s400/NOTD+027.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">What I know for sure, you have to find the right acetone that works for you! Mine is meditation and relaxation (okay - mine is really Valium and Vodka - but don't tell my therapist!! *-*) - with a little elbow grease and patience, the staining will come out, the hangnail or cut will heal and the stinging will stop, and we will once again have a clean surface, go back to our stash and ponder the next mani and hope for a better outcome the next time!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qQ9TyAf94u3TPWeSkujHKnTnALlROmXgWyaiTaEg9sBZwTz01YbEog3syadtpsLwSf3Ok4VBBBqAoRSg8ZPi4aK8-BtI5tA2jJyrSU2K-_o2RNdSn6fzM1UGRFcjNAdGo-jFmRQKbmZG/s1600/NOTD+1882.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4qQ9TyAf94u3TPWeSkujHKnTnALlROmXgWyaiTaEg9sBZwTz01YbEog3syadtpsLwSf3Ok4VBBBqAoRSg8ZPi4aK8-BtI5tA2jJyrSU2K-_o2RNdSn6fzM1UGRFcjNAdGo-jFmRQKbmZG/s400/NOTD+1882.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Don't you wish life was like a remote control and we could change the chanel when we didn't like the program that was on?? * le sigh*</em></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, boys and girls, what have we learned today!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Acetone makes everything better and will change the outlook of your mani - because </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">NOW IS NOT FOREVER!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, until next time - Happy Polishing!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Don't forget to enter the Give-a</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">way if you have not done so already!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Tell a friend!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">~~Don't be shy - leave a reply~~</span></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-23621545605725032172010-08-23T10:54:00.000-04:002010-08-23T10:54:40.815-04:00Maybelline Monday Mani!!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">GOOD MORNING!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First let me say - OOPS! My Bad!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I forgot to post my Super Sunday Sweepstakes!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, it may be a day late, but it does not fall short of a goodie!!</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the giveaway for this week!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxjBTb29b6w1OB0GSWufdzMfJXqjqxnWyy6Xjuep62A6oOcNVqffWRfhaN4fso8G7_9B9lOblBlR__c6CXvPZ8O-zg1JTc3o_Aht0DTrixy5QslYUR0nIDCJF9iUpDSoCYv_mljwN8yVM/s1600/NOTD+017.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxjBTb29b6w1OB0GSWufdzMfJXqjqxnWyy6Xjuep62A6oOcNVqffWRfhaN4fso8G7_9B9lOblBlR__c6CXvPZ8O-zg1JTc3o_Aht0DTrixy5QslYUR0nIDCJF9iUpDSoCYv_mljwN8yVM/s400/NOTD+017.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RULES:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. You must be a follower</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. You must leave a comment this week on a post</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. If you twitter, post about this giveaway </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Have your own blog, post this giveaway</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Leave me your e-mail address (you can do it privately </span><a href="mailto:levernischocolat@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. Wanna increase your odds - bring a new friend to become a follower this week.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. Hop on your right foot 10 times, hold your breath, wink your left eye - I'm kidding, I'm kidding!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's it!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner will be announced next Sunday (If I don't forget!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winner will have 72 hours to claim their prize!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(The same winner will not win twice within a 30 day period)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Okay - now on to the Monday Maybelline Mani!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">This was a Dollar Tree find in a double pack that was clearly repackaged from another store called Phar-Mor for $2.59. Gotta love Dollar Tree finds!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">BRONZE BEAM</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuP-UU_jwSCfW4DNSOHcNnQBe3MhUI1RsU20KrBWZBJDjVTp8yrKdoBcWGDt_hQQQSDjaLCeCI4ThEnLq4QazA7fLQ4i5BOTPEq56yKc9kVKh-Oga39FXEoRdK37b1HX6w9RxbyUgg2dy-/s1600/NOTD+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuP-UU_jwSCfW4DNSOHcNnQBe3MhUI1RsU20KrBWZBJDjVTp8yrKdoBcWGDt_hQQQSDjaLCeCI4ThEnLq4QazA7fLQ4i5BOTPEq56yKc9kVKh-Oga39FXEoRdK37b1HX6w9RxbyUgg2dy-/s320/NOTD+006.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">First let me say - my DH picked out this np. Bless his heart, he wanted to be a part of the process. He ever so gently bent down on one knee, very carefully opened the Helmer (see my red baby in the background) and just began to look through one draw to make an educated decision...and this Maybelline is what he came up with!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTztKzAiNw8YFE7rFOBjYoL-kcXWtSTPgXZLDDyYezubP98D-k8QfgjQX0TpiqMqXfHb8JGWL0ign3NAwMh9wd82BdHB5y_4DDibu8ql1u3t9isO8_N0Ge-dMtNabJId4Qx_P5V4hcER-y/s1600/NOTD+011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTztKzAiNw8YFE7rFOBjYoL-kcXWtSTPgXZLDDyYezubP98D-k8QfgjQX0TpiqMqXfHb8JGWL0ign3NAwMh9wd82BdHB5y_4DDibu8ql1u3t9isO8_N0Ge-dMtNabJId4Qx_P5V4hcER-y/s320/NOTD+011.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">In his defense, he had no idea this was going to be such a PITA to apply and he didn't see my struggling to really make this np look half way decent (which I think is a total fail on my part). This is three days old.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0eC6-5RNfg8_fU4L2WkiAn48nk0nENBeTTqiSLMokKGCKeLAbUYRmvEmqZiR_TpxWSKu0D85HOMQckM7OGcopOrqXPsNz7EwK_yqKwuF4QVWHMJhpbDC7m5Vib_pPITZbVbV0Z6kLmnlb/s1600/NOTD+013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0eC6-5RNfg8_fU4L2WkiAn48nk0nENBeTTqiSLMokKGCKeLAbUYRmvEmqZiR_TpxWSKu0D85HOMQckM7OGcopOrqXPsNz7EwK_yqKwuF4QVWHMJhpbDC7m5Vib_pPITZbVbV0Z6kLmnlb/s320/NOTD+013.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>(ARRGG!! Look at those aweful cuticles!)</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">The part of this which was solely my fault is that I did not add thinner!! This stuff dried like pure sand paper!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyPruCyjEjo4hlfLh5Kmfnwmn2777RzmRee3Qb5KFyulqo5nH7jEnyWcUOt2Qj5LNKBsfedTx9pBEjbqHHqLs_4G4Es6COC28hyXJf-AoN4qCc0H1bt-P8VpH9d82sr-WaylYxFUIap3j/s1600/NOTD+010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLyPruCyjEjo4hlfLh5Kmfnwmn2777RzmRee3Qb5KFyulqo5nH7jEnyWcUOt2Qj5LNKBsfedTx9pBEjbqHHqLs_4G4Es6COC28hyXJf-AoN4qCc0H1bt-P8VpH9d82sr-WaylYxFUIap3j/s320/NOTD+010.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Look at those orange flecks shining!!</strong></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Between my mani extender and SV - I smoothed that baby out and when my DH finally saw it he ever so proudly proclaimed "I like that!" I just politely gave him a sheepish smile with a raised eyebrow and said 'thanks!'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">So, considering your seeing the end result what do you think? </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I'm a big girl, I can take it!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">What the hell was I thinking when I committed to the FOTD FRIDAY'S????</span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Well, here I am in all my nekkidness and glory!! I figured if I start out this way, I really have no where to go but up, right? *just say yes so I'll feel better*</span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Okay, so, since this is the first time I've ever tried taking pictures of my own face, which is no easy task by the way, this was the best of the worst. </span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I do not have oily skin - that is me perspiring from trying to take so many dang pictures in the bathroom!</span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">*there's GOT to be a better way*</span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">1. SO, first things first - NEVER use soap on your face!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">ALWAYS use a <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/cleansers/default.aspx">cleanser</a>, preferrably one with an astringent which will save you some steps.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">2. ALWAYS use a <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/moisturization/default.aspx">moisturizer</a> - NEVER use lotion or vaseline on your face - it clogs your pores!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">*Do this every morning and every evening</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">3. NEVER go to bed with make up on and never put make up on a dirty face.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Now, if your under the age of 21, you can pretty much stop reading right here. For those of us older, keep reading!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">4. There is no such thing as too much <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/moisturization/default.aspx">moisturizer</a> - especially this time of year when the weather is changing, so is your skin. Just like healthy nails, keep your skin moisturized, moisturized, moisturized.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;"> *Include your neck in the cleansing and moisturizing*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">5. In the morning after <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/cleansers/default.aspx">cleansing</a>, I use a <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/agefighting/default.aspx">day time moisturizer</a> with SPF 25, you can go higher if you like - this works for me. Sunscreen should be applied all year long, not just in the summer. Sunscreen should be worn when the sun is shining - end of story!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">6. Then I will use a <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/moisturization/default.aspx">Tinted moisturizer</a> that is SPF 20.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I complete my look with cosmetics (you'll see all that as the weeks go by)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">7. In the evening I wash everything off with my <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/cleansers/default.aspx">cleanser</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">8. Then I apply an <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/agefighting/default.aspx">evening night solution</a>, it's not a solution, that's just the name of it, that has antioxidants and collagen enhancing properties (at my age, I need all the help I can get).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">9. I finish with an <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames/skincare/moisturization/default.aspx">intense moisturizing cream</a>, the cream isn't intense, that's just the name of it,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">brush my teeth and off to bed to watch T.V. or read the NB or a good book!!</span></div><div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOW!! Can you believe I have been gone for 6 weeks?? It truly doesn't feel like it's been that long, but a day did not go by when I did not receive an e-mail, txt, phone call or even a RAOK from one of you!!</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">I have been busy with life but not my nails - they really took a beating from lack of TLC - but I think I am back on the road to recovery now. I've only done 4, yes 4 mani's in 6 weeks and had to cut my nails down to nubbins twice for breaks and chips. The one thing I will share with you is that I am still not cured from my H1N1, you know, Haz 1 Needz 1 more *giggles to self*. Anywho, I decluttered my stash and helmerized!! Not with just 1 but 2! The red ones are really nice - it matches my sitting room!! I am now a hot red sassy helmer owner!! Told you I was not cured...and I need 2 more, I still have quite a bit of overflow!! I dare not reveal how many polishes I have!! Let's just say I'm closer to over 1,000 than I am to under 100. :-O I've only bought 1 collex since I've been away, the VV collex by ChG and a few d/s brands here and there. I know I have a lot to catch up with. *close your mouths people, it's not nice to read with shock and awe*</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">It has truly been a very humbling experience these past couple of weeks...hence the subtitle. I will be making a few positive and welcomed changes to my blog, at least I think so anyway. Wait, it's MY blog and if I say they're good changes, then they are good changes!! :-) I was and am much too lazy to change my page so I figured I'd just change the contents with-in it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">WHAT I KNOW FOR SURE...</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">Life is short, just like all of my bottles of np. Never take any day for granted. Regardless of what your dealing with today - it will look a little brighter in the morning. Just like some of my mani's, I hate it the day I do it. I go to bed, tossing and turning about the ugly mani I did, but the next morning - my mani looks a lot better than what I thought it did the night before, especially once I put mani extender on, it really shines and looks pretty decent - just like my life!! I lost a good nights worth of sleep worried about something that ended up not being half bad at all. (SMILE) *carefully steps down off soap box*</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">My future plan is to designate each day to a theme: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">SUNDAY: Super Sweepstakes Sunday - every Sunday will be a give-a-way by way of a sweepstakes. WHY, you may ask? Remember I had quite a few of doubles, so I have decided to give them away to you my readers!! If your a follower, you're entered. If you commented that week, you're entered. If you tweeted that week, you're entered. That's it. (The same person will not win twice with in a 30 day period) No fuss for me. You will know the week before what polish(es) will be entered in the sweepstakes and then you can decide if you want to enter that week or not. *hint - one week someone will win a Hidden Treasure*</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">MONDAY: Monday will be my comparison days. If you want to know if something is a dupe or if you want to see a color comparison - just let me know!! If I don't have it and can't get it I will let you know. Monday Matches will be all up to my reading audience.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">TUESDAY: Will still be FATT tuesday (Finger Art Tutorial Tuesday) No explanation needed.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WEDNESDAY: What I know for sure... This day will take on anything and everything under the sun that will relate to some revelation that I received through the week. Please feel free to share with me on those days - because I may use your words of wisdom as well. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">THURSDAY: I have no crafty idea yet, sorry!! :-(</span> <br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">FRIDAY: This is a new one for me - FOTD!! Yes, I am coming out from behind the computer screen and will be revealing pieces of me (well my face anyway) to show techniques and routines that I have learned and found to be tried and true over time, for me anyway.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">SATURDAY: NUFFIN!! I need time to gather myself.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">No pics today - no sun and I took no pics while I was on hiatus. I will be catching up one nail at a time and look forward to hearing from each and everyone of you!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WELL, I AM CHECKING IN TO SAY - IM STILL HERE AMONGST THE LIVING, WHICH IS ALWAYS A GOOD PLACE TO BE, WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVES!!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I AM GLAD TO REPORT THAT:</strong></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>NO CHILDREN WERE UNEXPECTEDLY BORN (THOUGH I CANNOT CONFIRM NOR DENY IF THERE WERE ANY CONCEIVED)</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>NO BAIL HAD TO BE PAID</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>NO ONE WAS COMMITTED TO AN INSTITUION (THOUGH ON SOME DAYS IT WAS ????)</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>NO ONE WAS ADMITTED TO THE ICU</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>THERE WERE NO SHOTGUN WEDDINGS</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>THERE WERE NO UNEXPECTED FUNERALS</strong></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>SO, CONSIDERING THE ABOVE - LIFE IS STILL GRAND!!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>WHICH BRINGS ME TO THE POINT THAT I NOW NEED TO GO TEND TO SOME MUCH NEEDED ME TIME (MOMS NEVER GET ENOUGH OF THAT!!) I HAVE ONLY DONE TWO MANICURES IN THE TIME THAT I HAVE BEEN GONE THUS FAR, AND AM SO MISSING THE NAIL POLISH ROUTINE - BUT FAMILY COMES FIRST. NAILS WILL GROW BACK - FAMILY WONT.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>I AM PLANNING A GET A WAY FOR A FEW WEEKS AND UPON MY RETURN, WHICH WILL BE 1 AUGUST, I WILL BE DOING A GIVEAWAY!! I WILL BE DE-STASHING AND GIVING YOU THE EXTRAS - THIS TIME IT WILL BE A PEDICURE GIVEAWAY - JUST IN TIME FOR THE BEACHES!!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>SO, I WILL BE COUNTING THE COMMENTS AND THE NEW FOLLOWERS THAT COME MY WAY FROM THIS DAY FORWARD.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>ALL YOU NEED DO IS:</strong></span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>COMMENT AS OF TODAY UNTIL THE 1ST OF AUGUST.</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>BRING A NEW FOLLOWER WITH YOU AS OF TODAY TIL THE 1ST OF AUGUST</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>THE NEW FOLLOWER NEEDS TO MENTION YOUR NAME</strong></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>FOR EVERY NEW FOLLOWER - I WILL ADD AN ADDITIONAL ITEM/POLISH/TOOL TO THE GIVEAWAY - SO HOW BIG THIS GIVEAWAY GETS IS ALL UP TO YOU GUYS!!</strong></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>THIS IS MY WAY OF SAYING THANK YOU FOR ALL THE E-MAILS, PHONE CALLS, TEXT MESSAGES AND CARDS I HAVE GOTTEN THUS FAR.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>MY BLOG MAY BE SMALL, BUT MY FOLLOWERS ARE LOYAL AND THAT MEANS A LOT TO ME.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>SO UNTIL 1 AUGUST, KEEP ME IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AND I WILL BE BACK REFRESHED IN FULL FORCE AND FABULOUS AS ONLY LE VERNIS CHOCOLAT CAN!!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>UNTIL 1 AUGUST...HAPPY POLISHING!!</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>XOXOXO</strong></span>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-54608113940353918332010-06-30T20:16:00.000-04:002010-06-30T20:16:04.385-04:00Leave of Absence<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>DEAR FELLOW FOLLOWERS:</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>DUE TO CIRUMSTANCES BEYOND MY CONTROL I WILL BE OUT OF THE BLOGESPHERE FOR A FEW DAY - EXACTLY HOW MANY WILL BE UP TO THE MAN UPSTAIRS.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>I MUST GO TEND TO FAMILY BUSNESS THAT NEEDS IMMEDIATE ATTENTION,.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>THIS IS AS MUCH SHORT NOTICE FOR ME AS IT IS FOR YOU TO READ ABOUT.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>I AM HOPING AND PRAYING I WILL NOT BE GONE FOR MORE THAN A FEW DAYS.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>I WILL CHECK BACK IN WITH YOU ALL SOON.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>DONT STOP CHECKING BACK IN WITH ME AND I AM FINE - YOU KNOW THE CLICHE' - YOU CAN PICK YOUR NOSE, BUT NOT YOUR FAMILY!!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>LE VERNIS CHOCOLAT!!</em></span>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-39756739688268062482010-06-29T10:30:00.000-04:002010-06-29T10:30:44.373-04:00OH SHREK!! (Pt 2 of 2)<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WELL, I KNOW I HAVE BEEN USING TUESDAY'S AS MY FAT TUESDAY - BUT I WANTED TO FINISH WITH THIS COLLECTION - SO NEXT WEEK WE SHALL BE BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED POSTING!! :-) SO STAY TUNED!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ON WITH THE SHOW!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UP FIRST...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4P8a3KrMzL3OjkMK4h1bWUvB_8Q0SfZmktKOYk5rrDPJUzmU-H1Be6PoWvekmXizGiIAXWHSqFR7VvVOp9J97X-Dq0I2NfzgbpFjE9HrtXpuLN4LuETmtSzjRZ0IE2H88hCM1kw_IYEtS/s1600/NOTD+1625.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4P8a3KrMzL3OjkMK4h1bWUvB_8Q0SfZmktKOYk5rrDPJUzmU-H1Be6PoWvekmXizGiIAXWHSqFR7VvVOp9J97X-Dq0I2NfzgbpFjE9HrtXpuLN4LuETmtSzjRZ0IE2H88hCM1kw_IYEtS/s320/NOTD+1625.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AS I STATED YESTERDAY, I HAVE SEEN THE SHREK MOVIES AND, UH, I DON'T REMEMBER THE CAT BEING BLUE! DOESN'T BLUE SIGNIFY SADNESS?? </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPizjiBVfnZ7qHGcUub-Nav40kfaD4S5siKjSLyVbomQeldDPXaEzAR_J66188as4F1e7VA4G9aXag2ts8rV9QrHELpidaEK1_Ywa8e7JPDhyGWZKZgp4YVHkimrJRQ5QiD_S2ffbfoeDw/s1600/NOTD+1629.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPizjiBVfnZ7qHGcUub-Nav40kfaD4S5siKjSLyVbomQeldDPXaEzAR_J66188as4F1e7VA4G9aXag2ts8rV9QrHELpidaEK1_Ywa8e7JPDhyGWZKZgp4YVHkimrJRQ5QiD_S2ffbfoeDw/s320/NOTD+1629.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THAT LITTLE PUSS AND BOOT'S WAS ANYTHING BUT SAD!! NOW CATTITUDE HE HAD PLENTY OF, BUT, BLUE??? WHAT AM I MISSING HERE?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihAxw9K3GaU1SoWGoO_D5A1nYccdvFOSzbdJQaIpbtMgRIQ6cXHOxTwv2rAnqcUyEr8abINdqxm78Z80TmW24yUh1IyjUsmlwlx7j-7TIpocXldKgl_SK5-5k0NqBBVIAyh0aFgWsJQXTZ/s1600/NOTD+1630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihAxw9K3GaU1SoWGoO_D5A1nYccdvFOSzbdJQaIpbtMgRIQ6cXHOxTwv2rAnqcUyEr8abINdqxm78Z80TmW24yUh1IyjUsmlwlx7j-7TIpocXldKgl_SK5-5k0NqBBVIAyh0aFgWsJQXTZ/s320/NOTD+1630.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">REGARDLESS OF WHERE SUZY OF OPI THOUGHT THAT THIS COLOR BLUE WOULD BE REMINISCENT OF A CAT OR ATTITUDE IS BEYOND ME, BUT I WILL SAY I DO LIKE THIS COLOR. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrLOWJy5bNYcsDdNjncpYjdMHuGCxgyBYwpwWDFBe0j1SySAoXz0eJGFGD0MJrGGeuK_LKqBIzYSGZBwDJtZb_z5fG4Cd6xt-e0InACZ9cb1IrhKQR9ZEH9W3bDvzgwDKVuTTYKoTsw2Fv/s1600/NOTD+1631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrLOWJy5bNYcsDdNjncpYjdMHuGCxgyBYwpwWDFBe0j1SySAoXz0eJGFGD0MJrGGeuK_LKqBIzYSGZBwDJtZb_z5fG4Cd6xt-e0InACZ9cb1IrhKQR9ZEH9W3bDvzgwDKVuTTYKoTsw2Fv/s320/NOTD+1631.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> IM PRETTY SURE THERE ARE OTHER BABY BLUE'S THAT WERE CLOSE TO THIS AND IT'SS PROBABLY DUPEABLE, BUT I DID NOT HAVE ANY IN MY STASH SO I COULD NOT SHOW ANY COMPS. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4sMDtnVK0jRKe8Oi1vUvr4ADWRVohupVKssSHkwQVryq7d_Qx0Vn1r1oHBlP1Cf4fXaPKvLtcC7JsbCHo3pyoMucXEQbZaP2Iz4ySCIsXvXfWx6YsqwDWHa99iRi3Ce4C6ANdXEzuO-Rl/s1600/NOTD+1633.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4sMDtnVK0jRKe8Oi1vUvr4ADWRVohupVKssSHkwQVryq7d_Qx0Vn1r1oHBlP1Cf4fXaPKvLtcC7JsbCHo3pyoMucXEQbZaP2Iz4ySCIsXvXfWx6YsqwDWHa99iRi3Ce4C6ANdXEzuO-Rl/s320/NOTD+1633.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">BUT I WILL SAY SUZY GOT IT RIGHT ON THIS SHADE - AT LEAST FOR ME ANYWAY!! I WAS NOT ONE FOR WEARING BABY BLUES, BUT THIS ONE WORKS FOR ME. IT WAS THIN LIKE THE OTHERS BUT IT WAS A PRETTY COLOR AND I ENJOYED IT!! (HENCE SO MANY PICS OF THIS ONE!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikC1wKJOHhemELIkOGoCSLCW8FyvoNZMnsl50UlVke64Vd3QIdsaiHl5Zyx-3NS0TwTSimTfN-suxAHXfZ69ZHgGU9HxBv4MNFp0vA4jlbF3EVsreWe9blPCPiz2y9ZBO_hD7o_RELCAPC/s1600/NOTD+1640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikC1wKJOHhemELIkOGoCSLCW8FyvoNZMnsl50UlVke64Vd3QIdsaiHl5Zyx-3NS0TwTSimTfN-suxAHXfZ69ZHgGU9HxBv4MNFp0vA4jlbF3EVsreWe9blPCPiz2y9ZBO_hD7o_RELCAPC/s320/NOTD+1640.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO ENJOYED THESE MOVIES AND SAW PURPLE FOR THE DONKEY AND SAID 'WHAT????' OUT LOUD TO THEMSELVES???</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3DVuKmOSfylG4jA7ECSlVjhZtF0ZlIGJOBvEEOtbIJm4DH-ZVFntY44DzGug_vwxvdmGZgv1xeOktbmPXZl8zQ75lBLN9VcXdi4wvl0XAKoBJD5WjhiwjEmPj6a3SCDcf3KiAtAhQMqV/s1600/NOTD+1651.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3DVuKmOSfylG4jA7ECSlVjhZtF0ZlIGJOBvEEOtbIJm4DH-ZVFntY44DzGug_vwxvdmGZgv1xeOktbmPXZl8zQ75lBLN9VcXdi4wvl0XAKoBJD5WjhiwjEmPj6a3SCDcf3KiAtAhQMqV/s320/NOTD+1651.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">PURPLE AND DONKEY'S KIND OF MAKES ME THINK OF BEING DRUNK AND SEEING GREEN ELEPHANTS!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux_BBN_A-GpUKbXAlIYC0NVKkOHL6butop4P3B6eNx4dj-9T6mrw-2oINws-miYjw-kj5e8BfNwfRZyomll3fPtWMopaOwAes8Uwxl4dkYntCrtGF6kSUEeAfzj-lm2esDQKVzcF6X7Up/s1600/NOTD+1649.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjux_BBN_A-GpUKbXAlIYC0NVKkOHL6butop4P3B6eNx4dj-9T6mrw-2oINws-miYjw-kj5e8BfNwfRZyomll3fPtWMopaOwAes8Uwxl4dkYntCrtGF6kSUEeAfzj-lm2esDQKVzcF6X7Up/s320/NOTD+1649.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DONKEY, IN MY OPINION, SHOULD HAVE BEEN A GREIGE - BUT THEN AGAIN, SUZY DIDN'T CALL ME AND ASK WHAT COLOR SHE SHOULD HAVE MADE DONKEY - BUT I SURE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THAT FOCUS GROUP WAS THINKING WHEN THEY THOUGHT PURPLE WOULD WORK FOR DONKEY!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWoUj69MFJQjXoSugkDZd8P0IP0ZZG2TacmmdFblwKu_GNu73IkfDq6aC2yZzzDZW0Nh-VPrsJWH8CLPP5qSUb_k5-y0bmxxRDghbuSXV_86UPkbz1l1ckIyQdtQNKadADwSSfN9_vLfr/s1600/NOTD+1653.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWoUj69MFJQjXoSugkDZd8P0IP0ZZG2TacmmdFblwKu_GNu73IkfDq6aC2yZzzDZW0Nh-VPrsJWH8CLPP5qSUb_k5-y0bmxxRDghbuSXV_86UPkbz1l1ckIyQdtQNKadADwSSfN9_vLfr/s320/NOTD+1653.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">COLORFUL, DONKEY WAS, BUT PURPLE HE WAS NOT!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">THAT BEING SAID, I DID ENJOY THE COLOR AND LIKE THE OTHERS THE POLISH WAS RATHER THIN - BUT WORKABLE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjScYOKM22FEfzUrBJVhnmskK2zA4lxWrGmYC3rpHHoCeFjUVouC4LMUYLhKEbmjxsDzT2HdbZZLB_0CaT_lUVW7xHkPY9-eZUSnVk1Nj6OlUTRnfG3s791jJgJCF0VqbWHh2yjKYLrkxwv/s1600/NOTD+1666.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjScYOKM22FEfzUrBJVhnmskK2zA4lxWrGmYC3rpHHoCeFjUVouC4LMUYLhKEbmjxsDzT2HdbZZLB_0CaT_lUVW7xHkPY9-eZUSnVk1Nj6OlUTRnfG3s791jJgJCF0VqbWHh2yjKYLrkxwv/s320/NOTD+1666.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">REALLY? WHAT PART OF YELLOW SCREAMS FIERCE TO YOU?? I MEAN REALLY!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oGy5czmcQK_B_1m_NHurVfWzL1DQmV3kgkvF3oAs8kWsHLvsrIdqUCaks0fbo3D0DamSntceVwoAt3eNdTAkZd0oV7vsR6c2gfaXDGznDgjLdCTGEbWNnDO_i3TwwcS-AtCHCN4INwFe/s1600/NOTD+1676.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-oGy5czmcQK_B_1m_NHurVfWzL1DQmV3kgkvF3oAs8kWsHLvsrIdqUCaks0fbo3D0DamSntceVwoAt3eNdTAkZd0oV7vsR6c2gfaXDGznDgjLdCTGEbWNnDO_i3TwwcS-AtCHCN4INwFe/s320/NOTD+1676.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YELLOW IS NOT A VERY LARGE COLOR GROUP IN MY STASH - JUST BECAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS A COLOR THAT WOULD TURN ME INTO LOBSTER FINGERS - BUT THIS ONE DID NOT. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8e4aZuTItcIl25T3bAP_VD-KvzFkognPrBbFDavzI_uxCNbx4CG630Ub38iLym_UD8ceSFZUsbDBAAmn4R35t-Tk_1KVO2nctIsSdrxHiXUmsX1JB5AjxhFJWHuZdzsaQGi8EF_EfmhuM/s1600/NOTD+1671.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8e4aZuTItcIl25T3bAP_VD-KvzFkognPrBbFDavzI_uxCNbx4CG630Ub38iLym_UD8ceSFZUsbDBAAmn4R35t-Tk_1KVO2nctIsSdrxHiXUmsX1JB5AjxhFJWHuZdzsaQGi8EF_EfmhuM/s320/NOTD+1671.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'VE ALWAYS HEARD THAT YELLOW WAS A HARD COLOR TO WORK WITH - AND AGAIN, THIS ONE WAS NOT. EXCEPT FOR BEING LIKE ALL THE OTHERS IN THIS COLLECTION, IT WAS THIN, BUT WORKABLE. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSl_HFP38tioEWxtghTEFRX5mWaTVhJyWJjPa9438ZP_-TacMopmbwX7OygkIqf0LV-vJAME-XG85yPJYJDTKGMg-vISgReeI8PzIaASOYS7KhdjCtqjuejNygUoPvV_p5wOuNP2FKA6P4/s1600/NOTD+1674.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSl_HFP38tioEWxtghTEFRX5mWaTVhJyWJjPa9438ZP_-TacMopmbwX7OygkIqf0LV-vJAME-XG85yPJYJDTKGMg-vISgReeI8PzIaASOYS7KhdjCtqjuejNygUoPvV_p5wOuNP2FKA6P4/s320/NOTD+1674.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I ENJOYED THIS COLOR BETTER THAN I THOUGHT I WOULD. MAYBE FIONA SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE COLOR IN THIS COLLECTION THAT SUZY SHOULD HAVE HAD AS RED OR EVEN PINK - BUT YELLOW DOES NOT SCREAM FIERCE TO ME AND AS WE ALL KNOW - FIONA WAS VERY FIERCE WHEN DEFENDING HER LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR HER MAN - SHREK!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">WELL, THAT DOES IT FOR ME TODAY! OH, ALL OF THESE COLORS REQUIRED 4 COATS SINCE THEY WERE SO THIN AND EVERYTIME I TRIED TO EVEN IT OUT I ENDED UP WITH BALD SPOTS - BUT BY THE FOURTH COAT IT WAS OPAQUE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">SO, DID YOU GET ANY OF THESE? WHERE THEY THIN FOR YOU TOO? DID YOU ENJOY THEIR COLORS?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">UNTIL NEXT TIME....HAPPY POLISHING!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DONT BE A GHOST....LEAVE ME A POST!!</span></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-65807216536082838442010-06-28T12:31:00.000-04:002010-06-28T12:31:42.412-04:00Oh SHREK!! (Pt1 of 2)<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I KNOW I AM SO TARDY TO THE PARTY ON THIS ONE. I AM SO BEHIND ON MY SWATCHING, BUT I PROMISE I WIILL CATCH UP ON SOME OF THE COLLECTIONS THAT I HAVE. SOME OF MY POLISHES HAVE BEEN SO NEGLECTED, I FEEL AS THOUGHT I'VE LET MY AUDIENCE DOWN. :-( SO HANG IN THERE WITH ME CAUSE I AM SWATCHING AS FAST AS I CAN!! :-0</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ON WITH THE SHOW!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO HERE IS THE FIRST OF THE SHREK COLLECTION... </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEl2jU-6AXGRyVI1OZT5kKGtVWZ_Kpm28iK791yyJFg2_bpMz6QBDZOMEAVpEU__ikuPLWClQOmdzIPa17Rvmq_Y9sXV0S-6wHejy4LcZiu2uVNGuOHh3tuxFEqns106TwNuMETo6BCh1M/s1600/NOTD+1530.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEl2jU-6AXGRyVI1OZT5kKGtVWZ_Kpm28iK791yyJFg2_bpMz6QBDZOMEAVpEU__ikuPLWClQOmdzIPa17Rvmq_Y9sXV0S-6wHejy4LcZiu2uVNGuOHh3tuxFEqns106TwNuMETo6BCh1M/s320/NOTD+1530.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ACTUALLY LIKED THIS COLOR AS ODD OF A COLOR AS IT MAY SEEM (PROBABLY BECAUSE I HAVE S SUIT AND SHOES THIS COLOR!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIaLblAWoXMnFTL1MbSHcko5s4jFiyMKT9z2eZ7qT6zhyphenhyphenrI-lD1gpF790-d1rcxqVSG4nFCcITrCUio9pcU5xgvAi-qPQwa9biTEuy2ujFwF5gDji5f4_iNSemUzF5gup99r9FdvvHn8j/s1600/NOTD+1532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwIaLblAWoXMnFTL1MbSHcko5s4jFiyMKT9z2eZ7qT6zhyphenhyphenrI-lD1gpF790-d1rcxqVSG4nFCcITrCUio9pcU5xgvAi-qPQwa9biTEuy2ujFwF5gDji5f4_iNSemUzF5gup99r9FdvvHn8j/s320/NOTD+1532.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IT LOOKS LIKE SPLIT PEA SOUP (I HAPPEN TO LIKE SPLIT PEA SOUP) AND I THINK SPLIT PEA SOUP WAS ACTUALLY THICKER THAN THIS NP WAS TO APPLY!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvfmJnygqkz0qovLqxjp-e5_xUzM3rjax79i9LvzOLTsEA1EaJEcBiXFBCo7kisT-2SEiH7uMieFbARIBksdrdkGyrCrWpeoVKb-DRxzhifNquL-HouwCxG-hPk3u5aDdDh03381A96bh0/s1600/NOTD+1543.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvfmJnygqkz0qovLqxjp-e5_xUzM3rjax79i9LvzOLTsEA1EaJEcBiXFBCo7kisT-2SEiH7uMieFbARIBksdrdkGyrCrWpeoVKb-DRxzhifNquL-HouwCxG-hPk3u5aDdDh03381A96bh0/s320/NOTD+1543.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS IS REALLY A PRETTY NAIL POLISH (I THOUGHT SO ANYWAY) AND IT SHONE PRETTY WELL TO ME AND ALMOST CHANGED COLORS DRASTICALLY FROM SHADE TO SUN! SHE NEEDED FOUR COATS TO BE EVEN.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeR0lCV7_CX0f3RBXK0HmRa8gbsv1JaZ7o_MfwcwHVMHttGaPQWhxdxPQGlj4oH2riN2IMYdiEOZhR6yQDXlaNFMbM6KtkHAALTVDPDgQQJKVTtiu4JMUlpW1U_kRRoSHe_tb2X7iLTupQ/s1600/NOTD+1554.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeR0lCV7_CX0f3RBXK0HmRa8gbsv1JaZ7o_MfwcwHVMHttGaPQWhxdxPQGlj4oH2riN2IMYdiEOZhR6yQDXlaNFMbM6KtkHAALTVDPDgQQJKVTtiu4JMUlpW1U_kRRoSHe_tb2X7iLTupQ/s320/NOTD+1554.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'VE SEEN THE SHREK MOVIES - EXCEPT FOR THE THIRD EDITION - I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL IT COMES OUT ON DVD BECAUSE ME AND 3D DON'T GET ALONG TO WELL. ME GET'S MIGRAINES!! (ARRRG!!) I DIGRESS...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHy8Rz-T1WxkqkXGc3oRb52uKD4MM95z6jwUKcEphzaU9loJuJ6VArMXVVu7ugrsRDKdJnsb-B15KRsAp0jDDjYgqctKUXrCGjZ0SGLwydWnxaqixSlJYb9zF7Soc2LK3t7q-Ifqp-ko-/s1600/NOTD+1566.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSHy8Rz-T1WxkqkXGc3oRb52uKD4MM95z6jwUKcEphzaU9loJuJ6VArMXVVu7ugrsRDKdJnsb-B15KRsAp0jDDjYgqctKUXrCGjZ0SGLwydWnxaqixSlJYb9zF7Soc2LK3t7q-Ifqp-ko-/s320/NOTD+1566.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...BUT I COULD NOT FIGURE OUT FOR THE LIFE OF ME WHO RIMPLE WAS AND WHY THEY CHOSE THIS LILAC OR LAVENDER COLOR TO REPRESENT HIM. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqCRbI03Au0cXW-Sm9AP9OupP9hzM1dpBMIrBdEzV6Z8FU_W13kPpi98sVE_HHmRwLyjvFRx_mCLYNrglsEMtunZcgJBxe0jheQDNCGoVAJz8kbiA9qjakBzWpPI726r_uen28omugQYe/s1600/NOTD+1563.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAqCRbI03Au0cXW-Sm9AP9OupP9hzM1dpBMIrBdEzV6Z8FU_W13kPpi98sVE_HHmRwLyjvFRx_mCLYNrglsEMtunZcgJBxe0jheQDNCGoVAJz8kbiA9qjakBzWpPI726r_uen28omugQYe/s320/NOTD+1563.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS WAS A BIT THIN TOO, BUT APPLIED PRETTY WELL. I ACTUALLY LIKED THIS COLOR AS WELL. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I KNOW THOSE OF YOU LOOKING AT THIS COLOR ARE WONDERING 'HOW CLOSE OF A DUPE IS THIS TO DONE OUT IN DECO??'</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPzQ1_FgZMM9WcM3C3_cXbjBtDtO2BG49pzTwVtRsXG1tg5Ae8t3q168bLoQQnvmawosMJ6rPEI1L2z2u2R7DkrWOyoRFYUnxX9jFO9Q6wsjiboUhWujiQoZV08O3iklw93ptjAurucycr/s1600/NOTD+1576.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPzQ1_FgZMM9WcM3C3_cXbjBtDtO2BG49pzTwVtRsXG1tg5Ae8t3q168bLoQQnvmawosMJ6rPEI1L2z2u2R7DkrWOyoRFYUnxX9jFO9Q6wsjiboUhWujiQoZV08O3iklw93ptjAurucycr/s320/NOTD+1576.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DONE OUT IN DECO IS LIGHER (AND THICKER)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">INSIDE PIC</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgkAXwwkSbbDYjAGyorsVPuOopbnGbURcuF6IXZP1VBRDRtU5WF5YM0ukW5S_z_qhJHr8Fj1aw66uZA6sAEYOL8PsgParo926236SXleoNW2doaQb21NBQI0pDmrkNvGaz10j2kxOwUNN/s1600/NOTD+1591.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgkAXwwkSbbDYjAGyorsVPuOopbnGbURcuF6IXZP1VBRDRtU5WF5YM0ukW5S_z_qhJHr8Fj1aw66uZA6sAEYOL8PsgParo926236SXleoNW2doaQb21NBQI0pDmrkNvGaz10j2kxOwUNN/s320/NOTD+1591.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OUTSIDE PIC</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguDoiCfiwExF56sTrmm923A_CTLWAmNg9k_6tBCZI8RCUg3vmZj534p2q-2URDnDRLesQkA6xHBwTeTTfBqSPnkQjz1ncZKTr1U5RZsyntTS4e5rz3Ug44LXpkfJzg-uicT0Uk7IuUaub_/s1600/NOTD+1589.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguDoiCfiwExF56sTrmm923A_CTLWAmNg9k_6tBCZI8RCUg3vmZj534p2q-2URDnDRLesQkA6xHBwTeTTfBqSPnkQjz1ncZKTr1U5RZsyntTS4e5rz3Ug44LXpkfJzg-uicT0Uk7IuUaub_/s320/NOTD+1589.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I LIKED THEM BOTH COLOR WISE, BUT DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH YOU LIKE LAVENDER'S OR LILAC'S YOU MAY NOT NEED BOTH - THOUGH THEY ARE NOT DUPES, THEY ARE CLOSE ENOUGH THAT YOU MAY ONLY NEED ONE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ukHq27uJmtvzJ3pqMoxuXQQ0Q9KOBDheE1VeWCHeYH6z2bwv1qtmu4A5gq8SD5DnjNXiNQmw4mqw2jE4hBU3RhS_Mm8WZ9HIIkSwXWL2gG5-n1qM7CgnU82yO7BfWWa2Nt_ZI88xWHX-/s1600/NOTD+1598.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4ukHq27uJmtvzJ3pqMoxuXQQ0Q9KOBDheE1VeWCHeYH6z2bwv1qtmu4A5gq8SD5DnjNXiNQmw4mqw2jE4hBU3RhS_Mm8WZ9HIIkSwXWL2gG5-n1qM7CgnU82yO7BfWWa2Nt_ZI88xWHX-/s320/NOTD+1598.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HAVE NO IDEA WHY THERE IS BLUE IN REFERENCE TO AN OGRE, AS PRETTY AS IT MAY BE, THIS COLOR ASSOCIATION WITH THE CHARACTER BORE NO REFERENCE FOR ME.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjep3vbk3sryjB6NyncO9Ii5K7RVU8LXwvVVDRFpH83AW-JiayBBcI5DMMJkT9YilqCPohIh_3WtryvLU1g8JmUxQQDMazb3TyDcR8-D5FTDuGAqxL8lt4UMR6Mfx7gWI8fjDr8PjEXvlVg/s1600/NOTD+1606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjep3vbk3sryjB6NyncO9Ii5K7RVU8LXwvVVDRFpH83AW-JiayBBcI5DMMJkT9YilqCPohIh_3WtryvLU1g8JmUxQQDMazb3TyDcR8-D5FTDuGAqxL8lt4UMR6Mfx7gWI8fjDr8PjEXvlVg/s320/NOTD+1606.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHE TOO WAS A LITTLE RUNNY, BUT PRETTY AS THE AQUA SHORE SHE APPEARS TO SHINE AS.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMZOL5n5xE1gQSwvpJbY5IpfmdLil5OYXoWUnkd7CcPdtaosyPA4tpZatqLG1rySyxognj27SmDSEwBHjx3hhLFuqGU-wqkEkW7lN32rQA-HnEI89F2Ptf3Sf5uOs1asZvlhvT5iuPIIE/s1600/NOTD+1604.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEMZOL5n5xE1gQSwvpJbY5IpfmdLil5OYXoWUnkd7CcPdtaosyPA4tpZatqLG1rySyxognj27SmDSEwBHjx3hhLFuqGU-wqkEkW7lN32rQA-HnEI89F2Ptf3Sf5uOs1asZvlhvT5iuPIIE/s320/NOTD+1604.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ALTHOUGH IT WAS RUNNY AND REQUIRED 4 COATS VS MY PROVERBIAL 3 COATS THAT I NORMALLY DO.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HEARD THE WHEELS OF MY FELLOW FANS SAYING 'HOW CLOSE SUZY SAYS FUNG SHEY IS TO THIS COLOR'...AND TO PLEASE MY FELLOW READERS, HERE YA GO!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtJW16P9vd_FIeB2x6ZYO6_N9sBAhqyxDSP3oF0FghBYrJNc0kEdXLEMOsB2HSFgLHJzjX7U1JSHkMNVV1iOR8aBNThIhKtc9zGbXZl0YbLV8FKXLnTfT2n8t7heREbMQ8KYqN-nrUeBEb/s1600/NOTD+1593.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtJW16P9vd_FIeB2x6ZYO6_N9sBAhqyxDSP3oF0FghBYrJNc0kEdXLEMOsB2HSFgLHJzjX7U1JSHkMNVV1iOR8aBNThIhKtc9zGbXZl0YbLV8FKXLnTfT2n8t7heREbMQ8KYqN-nrUeBEb/s320/NOTD+1593.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AS YOU CAN SEE SSFS IS LIGHTER TO WHERE OTTB IS A SHADE DARKER AND I WOULD BE INCLINED TO SAY HAS A DUSTY LOOK TO IT.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WQNDzDl36OS7xIMm0OA32S0-KKbk91vCDkhp1KYBiUroOtCB_DP37UsGWSs6QQ6y04zD3WGrRbIBKZc-GDjyMKVAXO9gnRUARQ2g498nR-DD8qfu5OpL13gqaA0A05JBPsG4r6bmzzwf/s1600/NOTD+1617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WQNDzDl36OS7xIMm0OA32S0-KKbk91vCDkhp1KYBiUroOtCB_DP37UsGWSs6QQ6y04zD3WGrRbIBKZc-GDjyMKVAXO9gnRUARQ2g498nR-DD8qfu5OpL13gqaA0A05JBPsG4r6bmzzwf/s320/NOTD+1617.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OTTB EVEN ALSO SEEMS TO PULL A LITTLE TEAL WHEN COMPARED TO SSFS. I WOULD BE INCLINED TO SAY THAT YOU WOULD NEED BOTH DEPENDING ON YOUR LOVE OF TEAL OR AQUA BLUES, SINCE THEIR SHADES ARE SO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, IN MY OPINION.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipInQIh3aYoEiVEZKJydteyXAJM7bbDaT1e6KHEnehtWHmurw0kdzu3TLP1mhQYzy-S1K8cTfWFh_Wqo3HZFNMFBGhH8tOmX1pirqjYGsNe7wyy60vLZ0pgdUTHlYnb8GczLjeryWrpcu5/s1600/NOTD+1618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipInQIh3aYoEiVEZKJydteyXAJM7bbDaT1e6KHEnehtWHmurw0kdzu3TLP1mhQYzy-S1K8cTfWFh_Wqo3HZFNMFBGhH8tOmX1pirqjYGsNe7wyy60vLZ0pgdUTHlYnb8GczLjeryWrpcu5/s320/NOTD+1618.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO THERE YOU HAVE IT!! THE FIRST THREE OF THE SET OF SIX. BESIDES HOW THIN THESE POLISHES WERE - AND IT COULD HAVE JUST BEEN THE ONE'S I HAPPENED TO GET A HOLD OF, THEIR APPLICATION WASN'T TOO BAD.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WELL, THAT DOES IT FOR ME TODAY. TOMORROW I WILL BRING YOU THE REST OF THIS COLLECTION.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-72109418769263815712010-06-25T10:03:00.002-04:002010-06-25T15:07:14.132-04:00Sunrise by Cover Girl<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello Fellow Followers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I bring you a RAOK from my friend Janet. She thought I would appreciate this color - and I really do!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjed6nIWeOTUi3mgSsZ3D3kY1lnM1Se8zAQt_otJuFBgp3wBtRKhpxMtNdUn79Pi4vYn89qBkBlaVJq4rNEB2ZPIHrZhcZRkUbN8fFBs4oKfeNNSLwFaGMfyfmA3WkJbKQE09fOldMYwDRX/s1600/NOTD+1510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjed6nIWeOTUi3mgSsZ3D3kY1lnM1Se8zAQt_otJuFBgp3wBtRKhpxMtNdUn79Pi4vYn89qBkBlaVJq4rNEB2ZPIHrZhcZRkUbN8fFBs4oKfeNNSLwFaGMfyfmA3WkJbKQE09fOldMYwDRX/s320/NOTD+1510.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at the vibrancy of the color!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNnfnWHnnLNT-ZCS5ZLR_Oq1XeeCzNb6KhRo8txigDRa5nSYsA6E8GlrnkUyh5Ih5EDcsundWN3bVUxl6UZYWVDFL2C-8VCxpPeKbs-n7FsRBaPo8UGZhsNtt-YdkNXqX_i1Tl6BJ4TBN/s1600/NOTD+1496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUNnfnWHnnLNT-ZCS5ZLR_Oq1XeeCzNb6KhRo8txigDRa5nSYsA6E8GlrnkUyh5Ih5EDcsundWN3bVUxl6UZYWVDFL2C-8VCxpPeKbs-n7FsRBaPo8UGZhsNtt-YdkNXqX_i1Tl6BJ4TBN/s320/NOTD+1496.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look at the Gold shining through!!</span><br />
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</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh she's mesmorizing, isn't she??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03sY_1VVQA1Z7SV7H1xIgylB7kF39eNCvQZDas1F61reQ0Ixjv88ns8AI5avcDH28HCXzE5stquI8NR5eSa3h1pfPVrKf3wj4ezky8eOwLctEs4gl5FF4x5y58o8m9FrrPwJNDcpmI3fc/s1600/NOTD+1493.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi03sY_1VVQA1Z7SV7H1xIgylB7kF39eNCvQZDas1F61reQ0Ixjv88ns8AI5avcDH28HCXzE5stquI8NR5eSa3h1pfPVrKf3wj4ezky8eOwLctEs4gl5FF4x5y58o8m9FrrPwJNDcpmI3fc/s320/NOTD+1493.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-RlKGf2TZcjj7DLXrOedKygkbLkhkx7TYreATgrfbtFESoIFDJ124DZkeEw0bR-9okUwVRtztVwEBzZO6YvilGIpdpvRrkr3xmbq0LQMsg16WU5kVwvifNj9BOCZ57AX4uW9QI77XDjeX/s1600/NOTD+1498.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-RlKGf2TZcjj7DLXrOedKygkbLkhkx7TYreATgrfbtFESoIFDJ124DZkeEw0bR-9okUwVRtztVwEBzZO6YvilGIpdpvRrkr3xmbq0LQMsg16WU5kVwvifNj9BOCZ57AX4uW9QI77XDjeX/s320/NOTD+1498.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm speechless at her performance!! She applied well. The first coat was a little streaky, evened out by the second and the third coat gave it complete coverage. I was very happy with the application. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPHoGPdHR9QxV_kxJZYdcwiws4blN49Ia6W0RR-MtkJ2OzcP81-Ys5QWmabBViHUnG6b8FihfqcHpo5dal-lUTYCzk29tpJ8_b1PRpdPqlbboZ_a0jzDxashTE9CYBgISKGMXcI_1Bo2i/s1600/NOTD+1484.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXPHoGPdHR9QxV_kxJZYdcwiws4blN49Ia6W0RR-MtkJ2OzcP81-Ys5QWmabBViHUnG6b8FihfqcHpo5dal-lUTYCzk29tpJ8_b1PRpdPqlbboZ_a0jzDxashTE9CYBgISKGMXcI_1Bo2i/s320/NOTD+1484.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The only downside was the very long brush - I felt as though I should have been moping the floor instead of painting my nails! :-) None the less, I was very pleased with this color and I'm sure she'll be making a full debut real soon - maybe even this evening as a pedi!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif4T98Cm7s4D3BThufSFvFY-scJ8BIqYNTtMB0cDHu85-bMxi5fwsJ8wRo-9txbwSej86KFINfZUryL-sj8doMPIINUClKSwbcJdpNcCW1Wxf5D2v2N4-UmFwagUI1Jn-n0pQdDZBu_t9C/s1600/NOTD+1501.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif4T98Cm7s4D3BThufSFvFY-scJ8BIqYNTtMB0cDHu85-bMxi5fwsJ8wRo-9txbwSej86KFINfZUryL-sj8doMPIINUClKSwbcJdpNcCW1Wxf5D2v2N4-UmFwagUI1Jn-n0pQdDZBu_t9C/s320/NOTD+1501.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, do you have any Cover Girl nail polishes from back in the day?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">This is my one and only and Im surprised they are not still in circulation today.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I guess getting your hands on Cover Girl today is like getting your hands on Street Wear NP. Oh the days of yesteryear were some good ol' days for NP!! If we only knew then what we know now!! :-)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, that does it for me this week!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Have a great weekend! Enjoy the sun and have some fun!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">See you all back here on Monday Morning with some swatches of collections!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Untiil Next Time...Happy Polishing!! </span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-25394997693012675092010-06-24T10:00:00.003-04:002010-06-24T10:00:08.157-04:00THROWBACK THURSDAY!!<div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OKAY - ITS STILL HOT ENOUGH HERE TO FRY AN EGG IN MY DRIVEWAY!! WHEN WILL THIS HEAT WAVE BREAK!???!! ARRRRGGG!!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DECIDED TO SHOW SOME OLDIES BUT GOODIES TODAY. THESE WERE SOME SWATCHES THAT I HAD DONE BEFORE I CUT ALL MY NAILS DOWN. (OKAY - TRUTH BE TOLD, I'M STALLING FOR TIME WHILE I CATCH UP ON MY SWATCHING WITH MY SHAWTIES - YOU CANT FAULT A BLOGGER FOR TRYING!!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE FOLLOWING SWATCHES ARE COLORS FROM THE HANDS OF HOPE COLLECTION FROM </span><a href="http://www.overallbeauty.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OVERALL BEAUTY</span></a> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND </span><a href="http://www.bbcouture.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BB COUTURE</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS COLLECTION WAS MADE WHEN THE TRAVESTY HIT HAITI IN MARCH OF THIS YEAR AND KIM AND CINDY DONATED A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT FROM THE SALES OF THIS COLLECTION TO THE RED CROSS TO SUPPORT THEIR RELIEF EFFORTS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THESE COLORS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE - THEY WERE MADE JUST FOR THE FUNDRAISING EFFORTS. ISN'T IT JUST LIKE A BLOGGER TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING YOU CAN'T GET YOUR HANDS ON!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">*INSERT EVIL WITCH LAUGH HERE*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE GOOD NEWS IS THERE IS A NEW COLLECTION CALLED <a href="http://www.overallbeauty.com/catalog/cantina-nights-summer-collection-p-1361.html">CANTINA NIGHTS</a> THAT YOU CAN VIEW <a href="http://www.overallbeauty.com/catalog/cantina-nights-summer-collection-p-1361.html">HERE</a> WHICH HAS SOME VERY SIMILAR COLORS THAT I KNOW YOU MAY ENJOY FOR YOUR SUMMER MANI'S AND PEDI'S</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SINCE THESE WERE SWATCHES, I'M PRETTY SURE I ONLY DID A BC, 2-3 COATS OF NP AND TC. HOW MANY COATS I REALLY DON'T REMEMBER - BUT I DO REMEMBER THEY WERE PRETTY OPAQUE AND APPLICATION WAS RATHER SMOOTH.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ENJOY THE SHOW!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO WHERE YOU ONE OF THE ONES WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE PURCHASED THIS SPECIAL COLLECTION (P.S. I WAS 'SUPPOSE' TO BE ON A NO-BUY DURING THIS TIME BUT I FELT THIS WAS SUCH A WORTHY CAUSE IT WAS WORTH ME BREAKING MY NO-BUY!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UNTIL NEXT TIME...HAPPY POLISHING!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DONT BE A GHOST - LEAVE ME A POST!!</span></div></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-69017872263974591452010-06-23T10:00:00.002-04:002010-06-23T18:56:38.627-04:00A DREAM NO MORE, IT'S A FANTASY COME TRUE!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE SUN GOING DOWN - DID MY NAILS LAST NIGHT AND TOOK PICTURES AT THE FIRST SUN BREAK AND POSTED BEFORE IT BECAME TOO HOT - IT'S STILL HOTTER THAN SATAN'S BALLS IN HELL!! *WIPES BROW FROM ALL THE SWEAT FROM JUST TYPING*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ANYWHO, HERE I HAVE A LONG LONG LEMMING (THAT I REFUSED TO PAY FOR WITH THE HIGH PRICES ON EBAY) BUT THE IRONY OF IT ALL IS THAT I BOUGHT ANOTHER HTF OFF EBAY AND THE SELLER PUT THIS IN WITH IT!! SO I ENDED UP WITH TWO HARD TO FINDS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!! SO, THE LESSON I HAVE LEARNED - IF YOUR GOING TO SHOP ON EBAY - KEEP YOUR LEMMING LIST UPDATED WHETHER YOU ARE ON MUA OR A BLOGGER!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ON WITH THE SHOW!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ISN'T SHE PURRDY??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApy92rEtJS8TMLZket0N7Oj8Lo4ocWijDt2EHXWVba8IEbEynf6VL3Nkoob5R9_e2dhv1ypcNmDKB5byjjGHJCwbhAlYFXyeX0cmqWtnVCMmrrzKkhfmMbhVSAKksd18CXvyq3PN_B_OG/s1600/NOTD+1451.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhApy92rEtJS8TMLZket0N7Oj8Lo4ocWijDt2EHXWVba8IEbEynf6VL3Nkoob5R9_e2dhv1ypcNmDKB5byjjGHJCwbhAlYFXyeX0cmqWtnVCMmrrzKkhfmMbhVSAKksd18CXvyq3PN_B_OG/s320/NOTD+1451.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I MEAN REALLY!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vvvqtZPopbfk0fPvOgKEmRvY3_uzqqfvTTyUBAeeIqvhqUqubncNwZe-J0VacbaiRMvXH9G3Mzw-mZl0AziXYDhjJuGkqhvmJZg8H3a_po2s-JLwbYurxHv_3Re5PzaV7gEeP7IAHmdC/s1600/NOTD+1452.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-vvvqtZPopbfk0fPvOgKEmRvY3_uzqqfvTTyUBAeeIqvhqUqubncNwZe-J0VacbaiRMvXH9G3Mzw-mZl0AziXYDhjJuGkqhvmJZg8H3a_po2s-JLwbYurxHv_3Re5PzaV7gEeP7IAHmdC/s320/NOTD+1452.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I PUT THIS ON AT NIGHT...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3AkqbVh_5nvSfEhmtQM9Tph3LA2gAI5DKvr_fi-Cz85y9dl0-7qccgQAzqz9tXRH4VCFCLr-cpKyxiYuhPd4LG9XsFUvkZc1DvHZArCjQq40GDA6EsKLS2JFE0h_4uaVHiv7WWSlMJxVL/s1600/NOTD+1461.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3AkqbVh_5nvSfEhmtQM9Tph3LA2gAI5DKvr_fi-Cz85y9dl0-7qccgQAzqz9tXRH4VCFCLr-cpKyxiYuhPd4LG9XsFUvkZc1DvHZArCjQq40GDA6EsKLS2JFE0h_4uaVHiv7WWSlMJxVL/s320/NOTD+1461.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...AND BOY DID SHE!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HAVE A FEW OPI DS (DESIGNER SERIES) NP BUT I WANT MORE - CAUSE YOU KNOW ME I HAVE THE H1N1 DISEASE - I HAZ1 NEEDZ1 NORE!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WELL THAT DOES IT FOR ME TODAY - </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DO YOU HAVE ANY DS NP FROM OPI?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">HOW MANY DO YOU HAVE?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">UNTIL NEXT TIME - HAPPY POLISHING!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(OFF TO GO FIND SOME ICE CUBES TO PUT IN A TALL GLASS OF ICE TEA!!)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DONT BE A GHOST - LEAVE ME A POST!!</span></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-40433700804535453682010-06-22T13:00:00.000-04:002010-06-22T13:00:03.874-04:00FAT (Finger Art Tutorial) Tuesday!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LET ME FIRST START OFF BY SAYING I APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU!! I DO NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT YOU CAN BE SURFING OTHER BLOGS OR OTHER POSTS AND SOME OF YOU TAKE THE TIME DAILY TO COME SEE LITTLE OL' ME AND WHAT I HAVE TO SAY FROM DAY TO DAY (WELL MONDAY - FRIDAY ANYWAY).</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I SAID ALL OF THAT TO SAY THIS. THIS HEAT WAVE THAT WE ARE HAVING HERE IN VIRGINIA HAS REALLY TAKEN A TOLL ON ME - I DO NOT DO WELL IN THE HEAT AND THE HUMIDITY ALONE KEEPS THE HEAT INDEX IN THE 100'S, SO, TODAY'S POST WILL BE BENEFICIAL BUT MAINLY IN PICTURES USING ONE FINGER!! I JUST DID NOT HAVE THE ENERGY TO DO AN ENTIRE HAND FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES, BUT I KNEW I WANTED TO BRING MY AUDIENCE A FAT TUESDAY POST. I WAS IN BED THE ENTIRE TIME OF THIS PICTURE TAKING - SO I MAKE MY APOLOGIES NOW FOR ANY 'WEIRD' SIGHTINGS YOU MAY SEE THROUGH OUT THIS POST. AGAIN, I SAY THANK YOU - YOU ALL MEAN SO MUCH TO ME.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OKAY - ON WITH THE SHOW!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">HERE WE ARE AT WEEK 3 WITH MY AU NATURAL NAILS WITH MY BIOTIN AND PRENATAL VITAMINS AND WATER DRINKING (REMEMBER - THEY WERE DOWN TO THE QUICK JUST THREE WEEKS AGO!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSkdE7dxDUAd9clg2ylKXO8dpHpoDhEE7tExBBL4xJsBH3jZJ_dV5qZilb1mB5dIh2oiDkWsJ2gcLqik8O4ZqMxLi3fQjk-REnYttFL6ECnv7Q_Xjrq5FUYKrSq1oSB2exWDhSV_9g1bN/s1600/NOTD+1293.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdSkdE7dxDUAd9clg2ylKXO8dpHpoDhEE7tExBBL4xJsBH3jZJ_dV5qZilb1mB5dIh2oiDkWsJ2gcLqik8O4ZqMxLi3fQjk-REnYttFL6ECnv7Q_Xjrq5FUYKrSq1oSB2exWDhSV_9g1bN/s320/NOTD+1293.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TODAY I AM GOING TO ATTEMPT TO SHOW YOU TWO ALTERNATIVES TO DOING A FRENCH MANICURE. I PERSONALLY DON'T CARE FOR THE STARK WHITE CHICKLET TYPE OF FRENCH AND I HAVEN'T FOUND A NUDE OR NATURAL NP THAT I LIKE ON MY TIPS WITHOUT MY NAILS LOOKING DIRTY - SO TODAY WE WILL USE A WET N WILD COLOR, GRAPE CRUSH.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4wp9_ENOb8kxV9_B_Tz6Vmhnyb3FEYJK9-aEBzNwAKqeKr9qkzc5oYFMZuXj06CGFM9JjguPvJLUbXN3HMkBAgmB9FynB2zNHDPQZtuHFk6qrlJgMGgCG1J4a0nngqZFATp23gQ3UEeFy/s1600/NOTD+1430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4wp9_ENOb8kxV9_B_Tz6Vmhnyb3FEYJK9-aEBzNwAKqeKr9qkzc5oYFMZuXj06CGFM9JjguPvJLUbXN3HMkBAgmB9FynB2zNHDPQZtuHFk6qrlJgMGgCG1J4a0nngqZFATp23gQ3UEeFy/s320/NOTD+1430.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I WILL SHOW YOU TWO WAYS - USING THE FRENCH GUIDES THAT COME IN MOST FRENCH TIP KITS AND A FREE HAND - WHICH IS MY PREFERENCE - BECAUSE I HAVE MORE CONTROL.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">FIRST UP IS THE FRENCH GUIDE TUTORIAL. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9BGeydyRGyZ7sUaKxHcsBfx4ixv3JfKX5qIdDRHHQ7cxP2UsstXAow6DDeKo_hG64A4pCXU832OW9FbtMeu4nuJ0S2XMOxzHhVNojtiyUAsTA49xCmHW1p-1SGMG8xvfBltc-Xu-jFCh/s1600/NOTD+1285.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV9BGeydyRGyZ7sUaKxHcsBfx4ixv3JfKX5qIdDRHHQ7cxP2UsstXAow6DDeKo_hG64A4pCXU832OW9FbtMeu4nuJ0S2XMOxzHhVNojtiyUAsTA49xCmHW1p-1SGMG8xvfBltc-Xu-jFCh/s320/NOTD+1285.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I ALWAYS START MY FRENCH MANI'S ON A BARE NAIL - REGARDLESS OF THE METHOD I USE, BECAUSE FOR ME - IT MAKES THE FIRST COAT OF THE NP A LITTLE MORE CLEANER TO ME.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFVAsPedhKMjUM3bTkljUGZDwshpqq3zDKhNk67m28qodmTl1SQCBu91M907OdAU4_NeUhKD7Lx1tm9JvQybM4dW4sfnMtttq63LqtkAQZBoecE1-O2M1KdgHxtcpw8aSxcyTZRITvncEV/s1600/NOTD+1294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFVAsPedhKMjUM3bTkljUGZDwshpqq3zDKhNk67m28qodmTl1SQCBu91M907OdAU4_NeUhKD7Lx1tm9JvQybM4dW4sfnMtttq63LqtkAQZBoecE1-O2M1KdgHxtcpw8aSxcyTZRITvncEV/s320/NOTD+1294.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I PLACE THE GUIDE DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH THE NATURAL CURVATURE OF MY NAIL AND PRESS FIRMLY.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzI0N0qfX99YOSdunXTKmyfuakfJZNtj_e-KJufq-Vkb3KjzFZHOpsF9sVWC5J9IHhJ_rk6fopVFc7Da2Xs12jF0AoMRYwcEFaH4mWaOoNhG-i461iy7uWAyYz_J_EkcCnJd3BZElEdBb/s1600/NOTD+1319.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzI0N0qfX99YOSdunXTKmyfuakfJZNtj_e-KJufq-Vkb3KjzFZHOpsF9sVWC5J9IHhJ_rk6fopVFc7Da2Xs12jF0AoMRYwcEFaH4mWaOoNhG-i461iy7uWAyYz_J_EkcCnJd3BZElEdBb/s320/NOTD+1319.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THEN I TAKE MY NP AND PAINT OVER THE TOP PORTION UNTIL OPAQUE. I DON'T WAIT FOR IT TO DRY - BUT TRY TO DO NO MORE THAN 2 COATS BECAUSE THE THICKER THE POLISH - THE GOOPIER (ANOTHER MADE UP WORD) IT WILL BE WHEN REMOVING THE GUIDE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBi5u448Q3JUE7njCCY_yAUFim9lbhba6sPXzQKzCAD0tdg8GOdebD02pVkEDNak6H7Dl1lyPgBsKA4pOQAmz1rQY8Ey7sTdIl655KrfdiB_kn5nDz3X2KYZAKtjEf34zSSFSjLSzfKKam/s1600/NOTD+1322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBi5u448Q3JUE7njCCY_yAUFim9lbhba6sPXzQKzCAD0tdg8GOdebD02pVkEDNak6H7Dl1lyPgBsKA4pOQAmz1rQY8Ey7sTdIl655KrfdiB_kn5nDz3X2KYZAKtjEf34zSSFSjLSzfKKam/s320/NOTD+1322.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HERE IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AFTER THE REMOVAL. YOU MAY OR MAY NOT NEED TO DO SOME CLEAN UP AROUND THE EDGE OF YOUR NAILS DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH HAS BLED UNDER THE GUIDE FROM THE NP. YOU WANT TO REMOVE THE GUIDE WHILE THE NP IS TACKY WET SO THAT YOU GET A CLEAN REMOVAL AND YOU'RE NOT PULLING DRIED NP OFF WITH THE GUIDE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3yRUZOHp46S6v2ReDptfrgt6ltSXAZJXFb8vOJjdx4wwaswzW5K3vfQ63GeJbOaXctJvbq0p_STn-FBtlUZJAM384P_6s__O_btW_cAXLZecyT9MCoWJH3CM6GfRng6rh8XXvhM39jQe/s1600/NOTD+1406.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx3yRUZOHp46S6v2ReDptfrgt6ltSXAZJXFb8vOJjdx4wwaswzW5K3vfQ63GeJbOaXctJvbq0p_STn-FBtlUZJAM384P_6s__O_btW_cAXLZecyT9MCoWJH3CM6GfRng6rh8XXvhM39jQe/s320/NOTD+1406.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AT THIS POINT YOU CAN PUT ON ANY TOP COAT. I USE THE ORLY FRENCH MANICURE TOP COAT - THAT'S JUST MY PREFERENCE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVES_JoZYOsXnKUxYrQOMVvHihV1x1KD15QxLE5RwaVbVPAs0WHMurjvaG7UF5Bnazza4wfBvb8YQJvF4Fzib02AuC8sPutUciztmEmGNKv6VsXIZPvi2-bKczZ7E3WjABGbo8Pqr-bcvS/s1600/NOTD+1411.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVES_JoZYOsXnKUxYrQOMVvHihV1x1KD15QxLE5RwaVbVPAs0WHMurjvaG7UF5Bnazza4wfBvb8YQJvF4Fzib02AuC8sPutUciztmEmGNKv6VsXIZPvi2-bKczZ7E3WjABGbo8Pqr-bcvS/s320/NOTD+1411.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ONCE YOU HAVE APPLIED THE TOP COAT YOU CAN STOP THERE, BUT I WENT A STEP FURTHER AND APPLIED A SHEER NP, SAVINA HOLOGRAM WITH GLITTAH TO GIVE IT A NICE CONTRAST.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCfBGXLDx62yGrHCJEnuJ7dKA8FNfh3-KtF4Jh-0R5EXXW0pEJqj8V__DncbeZ0J66ekSmxZaUfKPgnGSNnSPpVWXTHirdy5c1QC1Xdw1Kte6JY6Z5XfxsVYOHw6E2OVFS71tm-4ibA6a/s1600/NOTD+1394.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCfBGXLDx62yGrHCJEnuJ7dKA8FNfh3-KtF4Jh-0R5EXXW0pEJqj8V__DncbeZ0J66ekSmxZaUfKPgnGSNnSPpVWXTHirdy5c1QC1Xdw1Kte6JY6Z5XfxsVYOHw6E2OVFS71tm-4ibA6a/s320/NOTD+1394.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LOOK AT THE PRETTY GLITTAH!! (HAD TO BLUR IT FOR YA)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">NOW TO SHOW YOU THE FREE HAND VERSION. I LITERALLY START BY PAINTING NP ON MY NAIL TIP UNTIL I HAVE COVERED THE ENTIRE NATURAL CURVE OF MY NAIL.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_FsRKNWw51ictKc6F9hNdRveQC_Z06M47wIp8NkJZzaoL7p0JmLEMPTX3-8Gphd3dP7Sfkct_zm0sxkRjvJMyazptxG932ZALwhswmRfMEn__v5MRJB-lZg50Md6uFwDdD6yBAiI_dH6_/s1600/NOTD+1401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_FsRKNWw51ictKc6F9hNdRveQC_Z06M47wIp8NkJZzaoL7p0JmLEMPTX3-8Gphd3dP7Sfkct_zm0sxkRjvJMyazptxG932ZALwhswmRfMEn__v5MRJB-lZg50Md6uFwDdD6yBAiI_dH6_/s320/NOTD+1401.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinl_jTyfPQbTdIeQbl_E-mRPwIS5VczS85u0sOKk7vJu_AO3KoM_52q8KTcikw3E1cPotBWqoZTWrS_EXtQaq9PMgL0mc4rHePxnqot0rFFSHaGJKdesBmvzl5RMLaW147jxYh3q3rdDtN/s1600/NOTD+1402.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinl_jTyfPQbTdIeQbl_E-mRPwIS5VczS85u0sOKk7vJu_AO3KoM_52q8KTcikw3E1cPotBWqoZTWrS_EXtQaq9PMgL0mc4rHePxnqot0rFFSHaGJKdesBmvzl5RMLaW147jxYh3q3rdDtN/s320/NOTD+1402.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THEN I USE A BROW BRUSH AND ACETONE TO CLEAN IT UP AND MAKE IT LOOK CLEAN AND FRESH. (THE BRUSH I USE FOR MY FRENCH CLEAN UP IS ROUNDED NOT FLAT OR ANGLED.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSuUogw9Hhu9O5iwHqQ9hGvc7ogWxz-hBIOamWA5N0p0zUkI6LRybCPQce5FA_KTILBs774L4TpsiBj5kOMTKpA1pvzAGASWQwCzLmgZqykIoJzqN8qttoH6B7ZDoeskFcFugIUQlWp4L9/s1600/NOTD+1416.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSuUogw9Hhu9O5iwHqQ9hGvc7ogWxz-hBIOamWA5N0p0zUkI6LRybCPQce5FA_KTILBs774L4TpsiBj5kOMTKpA1pvzAGASWQwCzLmgZqykIoJzqN8qttoH6B7ZDoeskFcFugIUQlWp4L9/s320/NOTD+1416.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEK-c15hXK9Yejy2nwnML6ZIG60VzwYiIqkJfxU5kg6pY9EKoY3oFYfpNdWMlyZ_MYzPysPMbHNa37my626p3sZXkL64tTL6cxLrA6ARsvimAakDpzwu8eWti67FFVpyEVkh-rr28UWQtD/s1600/NOTD+1405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEK-c15hXK9Yejy2nwnML6ZIG60VzwYiIqkJfxU5kg6pY9EKoY3oFYfpNdWMlyZ_MYzPysPMbHNa37my626p3sZXkL64tTL6cxLrA6ARsvimAakDpzwu8eWti67FFVpyEVkh-rr28UWQtD/s320/NOTD+1405.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">END RESULT...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirlrL6t2FbJE5XwPEz4g6YUcnM596EuaI4GP8bPYLTnrzG79kTka4bv_iTYxBJYcTRyfG8WiW63H_OY_jly2yMXRA0o6GDuDvgwvPKJDrOIkUUjdTCKXKjTXEZ4b3t8YwzjVJCc-_6Phm2/s1600/NOTD+1404.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirlrL6t2FbJE5XwPEz4g6YUcnM596EuaI4GP8bPYLTnrzG79kTka4bv_iTYxBJYcTRyfG8WiW63H_OY_jly2yMXRA0o6GDuDvgwvPKJDrOIkUUjdTCKXKjTXEZ4b3t8YwzjVJCc-_6Phm2/s320/NOTD+1404.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AFTER I APPLIED MY TOP COAT, I HAD TO JAZZ IT UP A BIT...</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I FEEL SO PROUD!! I ACTUALLY USED THE SAME WET N WILD GRAPE CRUSH FOR THE FISHNET DESIGN, WHICH IS M57. INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE FULL PLATE HORIZONTALLY, I TURNED THE STAMPER SO IT WENT ON VERTICALLY, I FIND ROLLING THE STAMPER GAVE ME MORE CONTROL THAN JUST A STRAIGHT DOWN STAMPING MOTION - THEN I JUST DID SOME CLEAN UP AROUND THE EDGES SO THAT IT HAD A VERY CLEAN LOOK.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">SO WHAT DO YOU THINK???</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJW0CJ5kLj6LBOBn0oZNaqu5cEr5wYMo1Q6kvSNc_POEuxsRZ1E3sPDCTPwcArd0XCUhkg7wl0dl41SmDEDA8Bey7sHqoxdYRh18d2uwiIwGugUEx-EzymDujoVhfxLPmOYMQ6hDLzyO6O/s1600/NOTD+1445.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJW0CJ5kLj6LBOBn0oZNaqu5cEr5wYMo1Q6kvSNc_POEuxsRZ1E3sPDCTPwcArd0XCUhkg7wl0dl41SmDEDA8Bey7sHqoxdYRh18d2uwiIwGugUEx-EzymDujoVhfxLPmOYMQ6hDLzyO6O/s320/NOTD+1445.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHICH OPTION IS YOUR PREFERENCE? DO YOU USE EITHER METHOD? HAVE YOU BEEN AFRAID TO DO A FRENCH MANI BEFORE NOW?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">WELL NOW YOU HAVE BEEN EDUCATED ON THE PROCESS, SO GO FOR THE GUSTO AND GET CREATIVE!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-57232712747629651742010-06-21T10:50:00.000-04:002010-06-21T10:50:33.668-04:00Mystery Monday - What color is this??<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GREAT FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND. WE SURE DID AT OUR HOUSE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ALL 3 OF OUR CHILDREN ARE GROWN AND ON THEIR OWN. AS MANY OF YOU HAVE READ, OUR OLDEST IS IN THE AIR FORCE SERVING OUR COUNTRY PROUDLY OVERSEAS, OUR YOUNGEST JUST GRADUATED FROM GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, FROM STATESBORO GEORGIA (DUH - HENCE THE NAME GEORGIA SOUTHERN!!!) AND OUR DAUGHTER - WELL, SHE IS WORKING......OUR LAST NERVE!! :-)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO , SINCE WE HAD NO CHILDREN AT HOME TO MAKE A BIG TO DO AT OUR HOUSE - WE JUST WENT TO BREAKFAST, THEN ON TO CHURCH, WE CAME BACK HOME - ORDERED TAKE OUT AND WERE BUMS THE REST OF THE DAY. HUBBY DID GET A MANI/PEDI FROM ME, HE REALLY ENJOYED THAT. HE SAID I DID A BETTER JOB THAN THE TECHNICIAN AT THE NAIL SALON!! WA-HOO!! THAT WAS THE GREATEST COMPLIMENT. NO, I DIDN'T TAKE PICTURES - IT DIDN'T EVEN DAWN ON ME TO DO SO. *SLAPS HANDS - BAD BLOGGER!! BAD BLOGGER!!*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO, HERE ARE MY PICS OF MY MYSTERY POLISH OF THE DAY</span>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8usEXBcWuuQOtdUFHIvM8rA-DUO1cGW7WmsA2f_W8uDV5rtHDDa1nN210_nBvkhSnGI9ID0ENirM3jDkuF21QA781rYeCP2O8c0xmryaLEvRIR7w4mY-ik0N3FFaNQNNenTglSezKZeOY/s1600/NOTD+1215.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8usEXBcWuuQOtdUFHIvM8rA-DUO1cGW7WmsA2f_W8uDV5rtHDDa1nN210_nBvkhSnGI9ID0ENirM3jDkuF21QA781rYeCP2O8c0xmryaLEvRIR7w4mY-ik0N3FFaNQNNenTglSezKZeOY/s320/NOTD+1215.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I RECEIVED THIS AS A FREEBIE (I GET A LOT OF FREEBIES FROM SWAPPING AND CP'S) AND I THOUGHT IT WAS RATHER UNIQUE. I REALLY DIDN'T AND STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT TO THINK OF IT.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivMZAbPvX97Ir0wa0rF-MMYGdaT5AdjsnIy42A_QsjBoMgBdYTpM1YiLmz4Ye5zWE-x5UHXyagxIzJ8RVmRjivuvLh1lvupvuOsfGrwAElFtZmaLao22nsw5C1aFrmsotCcp20REZBE_Ar/s1600/NOTD+1219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivMZAbPvX97Ir0wa0rF-MMYGdaT5AdjsnIy42A_QsjBoMgBdYTpM1YiLmz4Ye5zWE-x5UHXyagxIzJ8RVmRjivuvLh1lvupvuOsfGrwAElFtZmaLao22nsw5C1aFrmsotCcp20REZBE_Ar/s320/NOTD+1219.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THAT CAP READS GREEN, BUT I COULDN'T CAPTURE IF IT WAS BLUE, GREEN, IRIDESCENT AND/OR DUO CHROME. SO I JUST CALLED IT MY MYSTERY POLISH!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIK1pu11x15pBjyAMpCZL_vLC8uBHnSh7hZzjSyzacaahcC5CV7UW9d_YetW61h3f26utrOHrmmRgR_jGQAqjoDKIm6VHROG5uJytttfZ8nvunqrdkdb6ABO_iY4N1dmCX63GPX_x6edTh/s1600/NOTD+1238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIK1pu11x15pBjyAMpCZL_vLC8uBHnSh7hZzjSyzacaahcC5CV7UW9d_YetW61h3f26utrOHrmmRgR_jGQAqjoDKIm6VHROG5uJytttfZ8nvunqrdkdb6ABO_iY4N1dmCX63GPX_x6edTh/s320/NOTD+1238.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SEE, IT FLASHES IRIDESCENT. IT'S ALSO A FROSTY POLISH WITH FLASHES OF PURPLE, PINK, BLUE AND GREEN. OR IS TI JUST ME SEEING ALL THOSE COLORS. (MAY STILL BE SUFFERING FROM TOO MANY MIMOSAS!!) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoznzX-s47xyiW0AdK5uSLSrIdt9-YET1M8jH1-Hv3baO5GxfQELDaZ-SD0z_5lPUHo5RV8r9puCAL_0GS4vLF5WaLulIvTEgVHBrPXvepc3g37eAtp2qwhYzbVCIZgKsxrI30B2Mjh_eB/s1600/NOTD+1196.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoznzX-s47xyiW0AdK5uSLSrIdt9-YET1M8jH1-Hv3baO5GxfQELDaZ-SD0z_5lPUHo5RV8r9puCAL_0GS4vLF5WaLulIvTEgVHBrPXvepc3g37eAtp2qwhYzbVCIZgKsxrI30B2Mjh_eB/s320/NOTD+1196.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS POLISH HAD SO MUCH GOING ON WITH IT, I COULDN'T CAPTURE THEM ALL. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">MY WONKY FINGERNAIL BROKE THIS WEEKEND!! IT BROKE DOWN TO THE WHITE MEAT!! I DARE NOT SHOW THE EERIE FINGER, AND YOU WON'T BE SEEING PICTURES OF MY RIGHT HAND FOR A WHILE. THERE WAS NO BLOOD, BUT A LOT OF PAIN!! HOW DID I BREAK IT YOU ASK - SHOE SHOPPING!! YES, SHOE SHOPPING!! I SAW A PAIR OF TO DIE FOR SANDALS THAT I JUST HAD TO HAVE, I KNOW I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO IS A SHOE FANATIC!! ANYWHO - WHEN I REACHED FOR THEM AT THE TOP OF THE RACK, I LOST MY BALANCE, REACHED FOR THE RACK TO CATCH MY BALANCE, MY HAND MISSED, BUT MY NAILS SNAGGED THE RAIL AND I YELPED LIKE A PUPPY THAT HAD JUST BEEN STEPPED ON!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(I GUESS YOU FIGURED OUT BY NOW - I WAS IN THE CLEARANCE SECTION OF THE STORE AND NOT THE FRONT, WHERE THEY HAVE SALE ASSOCIATES WHO GO GET YOUR SHOES FOR YOU!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6tPDnumxH1nabKsKcRLPPKSP6DRuiUyOEclQ30O4T1nrRLMdpIGRqmfh0FF0pXGCHMcyQ38d_MmG_hldiTCSqJbRRrTgn0MvDAnRreC2SlhRcmOO9j5AbHcRm97G4qXeUXSn6I-leEg9z/s1600/NOTD+1194.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6tPDnumxH1nabKsKcRLPPKSP6DRuiUyOEclQ30O4T1nrRLMdpIGRqmfh0FF0pXGCHMcyQ38d_MmG_hldiTCSqJbRRrTgn0MvDAnRreC2SlhRcmOO9j5AbHcRm97G4qXeUXSn6I-leEg9z/s320/NOTD+1194.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">THEN MY THUMBNAIL BROKE - ON THE SAME HAND - ON THE SAME DAY, REACHING FOR THE HANDLE OF THE DOOR TO LEAVE THE MALL AND SNAPED IT!! (I REALLY NEED TO LAY OFF THE MIMOSAS - THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT!!) MY THUMB NAIL DIDN'T BREAK DOWN AS FAR AS THE RING FINGER, SO I WAS ABLE TO FILE IT DOWN AND IT LOOKS BETTER, BUT NOW IT'S REALLY, REALLY SHORT.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrn_Baw_V71hIXEa-ROFV9YNGJZyPFrtuY21NojCJtNvJ6UOqS9h2fvz7FOjqc3F7ibZ8VTv0U8Q4NjwGhaZB66Gzc0bag-8tiQAp930h6a28i5boE3SHDVsQ1lSO4ZlaGo5yypfvUksd/s1600/NOTD+1188.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ru="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUrn_Baw_V71hIXEa-ROFV9YNGJZyPFrtuY21NojCJtNvJ6UOqS9h2fvz7FOjqc3F7ibZ8VTv0U8Q4NjwGhaZB66Gzc0bag-8tiQAp930h6a28i5boE3SHDVsQ1lSO4ZlaGo5yypfvUksd/s320/NOTD+1188.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OH YEAH, BACK TO THIS MYSTERY POLISH - I BLURRED THIS ONE ON PURPOSE TRYING TO CATCH SOME OF ALL THE COLORS THAT IT HAD GOING ON WITH IT. IT REALLY WAS PRETTY. IT WAS SHEER, SO IT DID REQUIRE AN OPAQUE NUDE POLISH UNDERNEATH AND THIS WAS THREE COATS - SO THAT LET'S YOU KNOW HOW SHEER IT IS, PRETTY, BUT SHEER.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DO YOU HAVE ANY POLISHES THAT MAKE YOU GO, HMMM? DO I LIKE IT OR NOT? IT'S NOT UGLY, JUST DIFFERENT.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">WELL, THAT DOES IT FOR ME TODAY.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">P.S. I DIDN'T EVEN GET THE DARN SANDALS AFTER ALL THE PAIN AND SUFFERING I WENT THROUGH TO TRY THEM ON!! :-(</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-78766348943293644082010-06-18T08:00:00.001-04:002010-06-18T08:00:08.110-04:00Mirmosa?<div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLWERS!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IT'S FREEDOM FRIDAY AND I'M TAKING SOME FREEDOM AND LIBERTY WITH MY NAIL PICS TODAY.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AS MANY OF YOU KNOW I AM PART OF A PROUD AND LONG SERVING MILITARY FAMILY. MY HUSBAND AND I BOTH RETIRED FROM THE NAVY AND ARMY RESPECTIVELY AND OUR SON IS PRESENTLY SERVING OVERSEAS WITH THE AIRFORCE.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BEING WITH THE MILITARY AFFORDS YOU THE FREEDOM AND LIBERTY OF TRAVEL TO SOME GREAT (AND SOME NOT SO GREAT) PLACES OVERSEAS.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisL9GbvYWSFb8axUuWXwscZxzD-jjB2pcGnNgdEKJ3UdEFz5Lp1uObMru9qAxYNLC5Qlcnun8wI8NCXyUkazGuFXXvmjTfvFeUh2dWsjjE92wzK5kWjMFa2Noi1sIS0KOgge535oSa_cL3/s1600/NOTD+1252.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisL9GbvYWSFb8axUuWXwscZxzD-jjB2pcGnNgdEKJ3UdEFz5Lp1uObMru9qAxYNLC5Qlcnun8wI8NCXyUkazGuFXXvmjTfvFeUh2dWsjjE92wzK5kWjMFa2Noi1sIS0KOgge535oSa_cL3/s320/NOTD+1252.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WELL, ONE THING I KNOW FOR SURE - A MIMOSA (PLAY ON SPELLING, I KNOW) IS ORANGE - NOT WINE COLORED!! EVERY COUNTRY I HAVE EVER VISITED THAT I HAVE ENJOYED THE CITRUS TASTE OF THIS DRINK HAS BEEN AN ORANGE HUE!! *hiccup* (A MIMOSA IS A DRINK MADE OF ORANGE JUICE AND CHAMPAGNE) *hiccup*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLoFpIPWcwHOsmqcWerk8SxYH6VCRiOweW9MzUp7Di6kR4lxuIbHpWEhNKHehz9BeXTASM0g0d9tV7ry1wmbp8FUR9Grl91mEuLOsB-1BNhysRcIfVXJRm-zkdiF4lzvwdRbZ6dsoXjXau/s1600/NOTD+1253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLoFpIPWcwHOsmqcWerk8SxYH6VCRiOweW9MzUp7Di6kR4lxuIbHpWEhNKHehz9BeXTASM0g0d9tV7ry1wmbp8FUR9Grl91mEuLOsB-1BNhysRcIfVXJRm-zkdiF4lzvwdRbZ6dsoXjXau/s320/NOTD+1253.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO IT LEADS ME THINK WAS THIS MIMOSA MADE WITH BLOOD ORANGES AND NOT PURE ORANGE JUICE? (IS IT JUST ME OR HAVE YOU ALL NOTICED THAT SINCE THE WEATHER HAS BEEN NICE I HAVE BEEN HAVING MORE REFERENCES TO ORANGES IN MY POSTS!) *WAVES HI TO RMC IN FLORIDA*</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcROBLT67_HPjjIT8Vv1PjM_I-3vu8fSOqOtM5VdaeYiD0EnCioos1J0GNLLpi5edYKCQ7lhSA59Iq1COP1c1TOW9ICYzMhMP-v_Uqx_PZdRubpbcW7l_sXI2D4_qi6aJm9_AZyI3T8LL1/s1600/NOTD+1255.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcROBLT67_HPjjIT8Vv1PjM_I-3vu8fSOqOtM5VdaeYiD0EnCioos1J0GNLLpi5edYKCQ7lhSA59Iq1COP1c1TOW9ICYzMhMP-v_Uqx_PZdRubpbcW7l_sXI2D4_qi6aJm9_AZyI3T8LL1/s320/NOTD+1255.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">(dont know why me camera and photshop program keeps flipping me pics upside down)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ANYWHO - THIS POLISH WAS SENT TO ME AS A FREEBIE FROM A CP (CUSTOMER PURCHASE) I DO LOVE THE COLOR- BUT I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE BRAND. I THINK IT MAY BE A SALON BRAND? I VAGUELY REMEMBER BACK IN THE DAY OF YESTERYEAR WHEN I USED TO WEAR ACRYLICS ((SHUDDERS AND APOLOGIZES TO MY NAILS)) SEEING THIS BRAND IN THE SALON THAT I USED TO FREQUENT - BUT I COULD BE WRONG. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfgRu1-5v7qK1F_1Ie3v-jLdXP_qV0F7CH_7Y_9qtBuUGqnUDJCx2Iq9fEJb7PrKuf3H3mbLBHQA1ntmvhi7VtBcSRZY4T_AEDjRxNElj4K3SZi53GdyEy-1iplUiYcAEUwkjRCx0krR9/s1600/NOTD+1258.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCfgRu1-5v7qK1F_1Ie3v-jLdXP_qV0F7CH_7Y_9qtBuUGqnUDJCx2Iq9fEJb7PrKuf3H3mbLBHQA1ntmvhi7VtBcSRZY4T_AEDjRxNElj4K3SZi53GdyEy-1iplUiYcAEUwkjRCx0krR9/s320/NOTD+1258.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHE NEEDED THREE COATS BECAUSE SHE WAS A LITTLE STREAKY - AND I WORE HER AS FULL MANI TODAY AND NOT JUST AS A SWATCH - BUT SHE WILL BE COMING OFF THIS EVENING - BECAUSE SHE BUBBELED ON ME!! I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS ENVIRONMENTAL OR OPERATOR MALFUNCTION - BUT I DO KNOW THE ONLY THING I LIKE BUBBLES IN ARE MY BATHS AND MIMOSAS - NOT NAIL POLISH!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSgDHzlCleQs9924RsbT8H7VGGWA1OY9V6UbbbuQJEnYmuxy0p6-nGZAOmduuRTSTr5xe52QRsPXl1G-mio7TzdB3QdGZAzwFSFw8jShOj5sRMDsKQiOTcKehEPFAcFn7vukXb4YR8lvYV/s1600/NOTD+1263.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSgDHzlCleQs9924RsbT8H7VGGWA1OY9V6UbbbuQJEnYmuxy0p6-nGZAOmduuRTSTr5xe52QRsPXl1G-mio7TzdB3QdGZAzwFSFw8jShOj5sRMDsKQiOTcKehEPFAcFn7vukXb4YR8lvYV/s320/NOTD+1263.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ANYWHO - HERE IS WHERE MY FREEDOM FRIDAY COMES INTO PLAY - HERE ARE TWO PIECES THAT WERE BROUGHT BACK FROM JAPAN!! THE VASE IN WHICH I AM TOUCHING IS OVER 6 FEET TALL AND 2.5 FEET IN GIRTH - SHE'S HUGE!! SHE HAS A LITTLE SISTER TOO! THEY WERE A SET OF TWINS, BUT ONE WAS BROKEN DURING THE MOVE. I DIGRESS. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWc6olintmVGXgfV5mR33B4ObKh1jvPgb5NJCqYTzC-cldz7PuHAWoEL8kYqKoxfk2Ng6Ypx41AXjkzdSkVHSdhauubjzo37zbgcQYa9f2zuIJz29Kyj6sgNrGrQ0A-eFQuXCzp7JlZ1f8/s1600/NOTD+1264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWc6olintmVGXgfV5mR33B4ObKh1jvPgb5NJCqYTzC-cldz7PuHAWoEL8kYqKoxfk2Ng6Ypx41AXjkzdSkVHSdhauubjzo37zbgcQYa9f2zuIJz29Kyj6sgNrGrQ0A-eFQuXCzp7JlZ1f8/s320/NOTD+1264.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7b9eY_rxCWpABuBq61DtxcwctjRzhsK_bwSuqh8MmHmSxJrP5lWLoKvYEVs0pVPvJAHIJPJjymgaN8WOCzx6-U9_TQ6eib3Fddda4r5AFzN1388OGpelBsRqOcUX2-gsN7EudqkfRUxOs/s1600/NOTD+1270.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7b9eY_rxCWpABuBq61DtxcwctjRzhsK_bwSuqh8MmHmSxJrP5lWLoKvYEVs0pVPvJAHIJPJjymgaN8WOCzx6-U9_TQ6eib3Fddda4r5AFzN1388OGpelBsRqOcUX2-gsN7EudqkfRUxOs/s320/NOTD+1270.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfIm5QHDHIrbuyRtfRhYHEudXFMGNYcyHkhYOM-T353VXFQVZetR7511Ge3KTJUDWfDGmRTYd-V3jX0w_iGdYJrrGD9BPyPFqnsub6hwOzP4V4vJN0dZdP1lPacSvKes4wz-sO8Q47Fq6d/s1600/NOTD+1273.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfIm5QHDHIrbuyRtfRhYHEudXFMGNYcyHkhYOM-T353VXFQVZetR7511Ge3KTJUDWfDGmRTYd-V3jX0w_iGdYJrrGD9BPyPFqnsub6hwOzP4V4vJN0dZdP1lPacSvKes4wz-sO8Q47Fq6d/s320/NOTD+1273.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EfoghB3I0rgQAjXwDDOs0yXWMNfIr-j567LqLMdsYts42YG93i2DVRI-ioQTBqscVlDjc7VoT_-O4kRw3trWBwgYhFSLjUoJ2bOPXRXujKwgYt368dJErPmIJOn1qpKfJ_R4n3dvEFrR/s1600/NOTD+1274.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EfoghB3I0rgQAjXwDDOs0yXWMNfIr-j567LqLMdsYts42YG93i2DVRI-ioQTBqscVlDjc7VoT_-O4kRw3trWBwgYhFSLjUoJ2bOPXRXujKwgYt368dJErPmIJOn1qpKfJ_R4n3dvEFrR/s320/NOTD+1274.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THEN HERE IS A PARASOL THAT IS USED IN OUR FOYER FOR DECORATION - SHE'S REALLY DAINTY AND DECORATIVE AND SITS ON THE FLOOR IN THE CORNER. USING THE MACRO WOULD HAVE BROUGHT ME IN CLOSER - BUT THEN YOU WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO SEE THE PRETTY LITTLE JAY BIRD!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjy4RkcfmWdd5tWbku2St3Re_qWRJbtjvwNf-YGfdYPKkIKgWFcf-HtBExiL9rqDsMKkf3EwDYRImxJd-Kq0ZtMkT-Ojb8OGLc0-Awmzmc-UIdT5WkWroGI99UwB4xQrCUpts6zu6siNBk/s1600/NOTD+1268.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjy4RkcfmWdd5tWbku2St3Re_qWRJbtjvwNf-YGfdYPKkIKgWFcf-HtBExiL9rqDsMKkf3EwDYRImxJd-Kq0ZtMkT-Ojb8OGLc0-Awmzmc-UIdT5WkWroGI99UwB4xQrCUpts6zu6siNBk/s320/NOTD+1268.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzv6Thglair36jAyHCc8ev5TuGVt41HYmJYIDVFe41qyLUcLR3M2obL9UMGGzCke6yGoh6PkQqX0KNP6-XKskT2Ex_HWXYlDPmA5A39EcrfS2O_uRLzi4VIWEhueUJt61mW1zYbmMqtswG/s1600/NOTD+1267.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzv6Thglair36jAyHCc8ev5TuGVt41HYmJYIDVFe41qyLUcLR3M2obL9UMGGzCke6yGoh6PkQqX0KNP6-XKskT2Ex_HWXYlDPmA5A39EcrfS2O_uRLzi4VIWEhueUJt61mW1zYbmMqtswG/s320/NOTD+1267.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO, I SAY ALL OF THAT TO SAY - I THANK YOU!! I THANK YOU ALL FOR ALLOWING MY FAMILY THE PRIVILEGE AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SERVED YOU WITH OUR COUNTRY SO PROUDLY AND BE ABLE TO HAVE BLOGS AND VOICE OUR OPINIONS, LIKES AND DISLIKES AND DRINK MIMOSAS WHENEVER THE SPIRIT MOVES US.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HAVE BEEN TO COUNTRIES WHERE SUCH LUXURIES ARE LIMITED AND LIBERTIES SUCH AS THESE ARE GRANTED TO THE WEALTHY AND THE PRIVILEDGED.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SO AGAIN - I SAY THANK YOU FOR WELCOMING ME INTO YOUR LIVES WITH MY LITTLE BLOG AND ALLOWING ME THE FREEDOM TO BE ME AND HAVING DONE BUT A LITTLE PART OF ALLOWING YOU TO BE YOU, AND DO THE THINGS YOU LOVE!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">HAVE A FUN FILLED WEEKEND!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UNITL NEXT TIME....HAPPY POLISHING!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">"Off to go find me some saki!!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">'hiccup'</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-88812842757671934592010-06-17T10:00:00.001-04:002010-06-17T10:00:02.043-04:00This Painted Lady has Dragon Breath and a Butt Naked Bronzer!!<div align="center"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TODAY I BRING SOME POLISHES THAT WERE SENT TO ME FOR REVIEW AND WERE PART OF THE GIVEAWAY FROM LAST WEEK. THE OPINIONS ON THESE POLISHES ARE MINE SOLELY AND HAVE NOT BEEN INFLUENCED IN ANY WAY SHAPE FORM OR FASHION.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OKAY - ON WITH THE SHOW!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9DJvcuyDIj9tKxusjgZGxVISvfVjma6dWQOyzSbT0wJuk77bX8lTm0vqvvbVvi0EgdilghiPltDqmg74DleOKUn2TpXY8sPWZ-qSzHpUR5XqdLs2exaDv_o55WK2tXEQbW_Vm0u40iNV/s1600/NOTD+1126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG9DJvcuyDIj9tKxusjgZGxVISvfVjma6dWQOyzSbT0wJuk77bX8lTm0vqvvbVvi0EgdilghiPltDqmg74DleOKUn2TpXY8sPWZ-qSzHpUR5XqdLs2exaDv_o55WK2tXEQbW_Vm0u40iNV/s320/NOTD+1126.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE PAINTED LADY IS PART OF THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTION. SHE TRULY IS A LADY!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkHPvmRAt4NWIO9Raq3-_3Xl2CZIxPavo34P20qqZytXt_JZF-seVHFMYOUnENSVKZRRJwmDVnzpfqh-kzXxZgx88IqMSh-YTdjubADiGB8VwnN8OSdreCDOFhX5UJtPqvZFKEH8FNVEH/s1600/NOTD+1151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkHPvmRAt4NWIO9Raq3-_3Xl2CZIxPavo34P20qqZytXt_JZF-seVHFMYOUnENSVKZRRJwmDVnzpfqh-kzXxZgx88IqMSh-YTdjubADiGB8VwnN8OSdreCDOFhX5UJtPqvZFKEH8FNVEH/s320/NOTD+1151.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SMOOTH APPLICATION AND REQUIRED 3 COATS COULD HAVE BEEN DONE IN TWO - BUT I LIKED HER A LITTLE MORE PIGMENTED WITH THE THREE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kihwbNrk-jHN74oXKvBh1zMKBX7lTRcp22bhUR1w6Cp_ikDxBDu76q6PugYOt1g8z0S7hYpsxRojWcehSAhLiUNnlO00ALzXEow9_9RHTSEexLPWZNNT_nCfb9hAASJjPFFCsBgSwF5Z/s1600/NOTD+1136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4kihwbNrk-jHN74oXKvBh1zMKBX7lTRcp22bhUR1w6Cp_ikDxBDu76q6PugYOt1g8z0S7hYpsxRojWcehSAhLiUNnlO00ALzXEow9_9RHTSEexLPWZNNT_nCfb9hAASJjPFFCsBgSwF5Z/s320/NOTD+1136.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LOOK AT THAT TEXTURE - JUST THE PEEL OF NAVEL ORANGE!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I DID HAVE TO USE A NUDE OPAQUE FIRST, BECAUSE SHE WAS A SHEER ONE - BUT WAS AS GOOD AS THE FLORIDA ORANGE THAT SHE LOOKS LIKE IN HER TEXTURE ONCE I APPLIED THE FINAL TOP COAT OF ORLY'S T2B.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOfBhxxXT-36qZiNpVbVs_cfQWLxzpfUAU5wc2H-sH4yY3YalyDa9YeTL7ZIDKEyROB_nxWxxqu8Xkvuvcw2Kd-X7zBZ_f47knoy6q4930sGCwwDygqTGD-qV-MAijKoPcoloIV9__Lsp4/s1600/NOTD+1139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOfBhxxXT-36qZiNpVbVs_cfQWLxzpfUAU5wc2H-sH4yY3YalyDa9YeTL7ZIDKEyROB_nxWxxqu8Xkvuvcw2Kd-X7zBZ_f47knoy6q4930sGCwwDygqTGD-qV-MAijKoPcoloIV9__Lsp4/s320/NOTD+1139.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DOESN'T SHE LOOK GOOD ENOUGH TO PEEL - I MEAN SERIOUSLY - JUST LIKE A NAVAL ORANGE!! AND SHE WAS JUST AS SWEET TO LOOK AT TOO!!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyUwl5UsjsZVU40E2GDYLr0N1_KEX3c0Uaq0PJ2bvOiJu4LuaKin26mdORchncz7a4ap1A8kYo2SE3SVUk_RowJY7r6tlwAy_kS7LOG7j1VlqHrKZrqDX9MFQuOcvi3iBSzW1i9sLE4ihK/s1600/NOTD+1179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyUwl5UsjsZVU40E2GDYLr0N1_KEX3c0Uaq0PJ2bvOiJu4LuaKin26mdORchncz7a4ap1A8kYo2SE3SVUk_RowJY7r6tlwAy_kS7LOG7j1VlqHrKZrqDX9MFQuOcvi3iBSzW1i9sLE4ihK/s320/NOTD+1179.jpg" /></a> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND THE YELLOW GLASS FLECKS THAT LOOK LIKE GLITTAH BUT THEY'RE REALLY NOT BECAUSE SHE WAS SMOOTH AS BUTTER ONCE SHE DRIED - SO THAT MAKES HER A JELLY, RIGHT??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo0T-fKnEbgtJfcfiC7-wpPuAmkMwqTymEGgosYUh9h0JKJjTcQDC6z4YYcyC2R9itiaKRqrt7EtXzc5B9Y1xiQWE-mSy804w13r5R806t8fZKI7nP8QAoyKbEPc8r_dr6z0tZGtJzLDTh/s1600/NOTD+1185.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo0T-fKnEbgtJfcfiC7-wpPuAmkMwqTymEGgosYUh9h0JKJjTcQDC6z4YYcyC2R9itiaKRqrt7EtXzc5B9Y1xiQWE-mSy804w13r5R806t8fZKI7nP8QAoyKbEPc8r_dr6z0tZGtJzLDTh/s320/NOTD+1185.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE PAINTED LADY HAS A DIRTY MOUTH AND NEEDED SOME ORBIT FOR HER DRAGON'S BREATH</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyL6RxEzYTVZ4rmr7LSQOK6fZDgyI9-MvVese1-sB6-DYdLKgR43C2JKnxJBA3DjN9Y9Gyr2PyHQKTdBvOgFo5DDFNWDxyMifZ1SV3pM4Lks39FWsqIy92q4fWwjk_qB2hAvWDQZsadip/s1600/NOTD+1211.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyL6RxEzYTVZ4rmr7LSQOK6fZDgyI9-MvVese1-sB6-DYdLKgR43C2JKnxJBA3DjN9Y9Gyr2PyHQKTdBvOgFo5DDFNWDxyMifZ1SV3pM4Lks39FWsqIy92q4fWwjk_qB2hAvWDQZsadip/s320/NOTD+1211.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DRAGON'S BREATH IS FROM THE FAIRY TALE'S COLLECTION</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I REALLY DONT HAVE THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS ONE SO JUST LOOK!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVxuuxgNKxzkrUAspcFROJMRUjXvYkhhisGo1fWPgRN_yGLG0LMDAqfxlA5OHFHRoq7207mCWCj0W4CTCXU8GaFlAI4XrPlWdw9UmJrw6z_DmFYd9GAtbngaWgumFOthC-wEe83c7yA7X/s1600/NOTD+1220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPVxuuxgNKxzkrUAspcFROJMRUjXvYkhhisGo1fWPgRN_yGLG0LMDAqfxlA5OHFHRoq7207mCWCj0W4CTCXU8GaFlAI4XrPlWdw9UmJrw6z_DmFYd9GAtbngaWgumFOthC-wEe83c7yA7X/s320/NOTD+1220.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JUST LOOK!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiig3zLfv2tp4Hcd1qDT3sDt1hHs6thWmFn4amsoTOY98flrcV471cMj0hiuJDHarvifL1V3UGeaKt88Zrd7w2PYwIFVroo45vZyetH095u7CB3lVo_OsIzlpYM58nC898klMQV4ZOzZClr/s1600/NOTD+1199.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiig3zLfv2tp4Hcd1qDT3sDt1hHs6thWmFn4amsoTOY98flrcV471cMj0hiuJDHarvifL1V3UGeaKt88Zrd7w2PYwIFVroo45vZyetH095u7CB3lVo_OsIzlpYM58nC898klMQV4ZOzZClr/s320/NOTD+1199.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OH HOW PRETTY SHE IS - AND YES, ANOTHER JELLY!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> OMG!! CAN I SAY IT AGAIN - OMG!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUtK4xfmqGeG6EZDATe8-QfnGUw5sZbb9cVDQkSeWxRoMr8nXqqDIvKlKx-JoYkLNhGi1N4M5oTIKR4QFjB7glOYhucrwrHBOo-O2yoO9OUHqWrD0gTsberA8C-lhmnkb1lB0ca3KEh33/s1600/NOTD+1222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUtK4xfmqGeG6EZDATe8-QfnGUw5sZbb9cVDQkSeWxRoMr8nXqqDIvKlKx-JoYkLNhGi1N4M5oTIKR4QFjB7glOYhucrwrHBOo-O2yoO9OUHqWrD0gTsberA8C-lhmnkb1lB0ca3KEh33/s320/NOTD+1222.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HAVE NEVER WORN ANYTHING AS GORGEOUS OR LUSCIOUS AS THIS ONE HERE (I DIDN'T SAY I DON'T HAVE ONE IN MY STASH - IT JUST MEANS THAT ITS UNTRIED AND LOOKING AT ME MAD AS ALL GET OUT CAUSE I PASSED IT UP, YET AGAIN)</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THEN THE LADY BUG WITH THE DRAGON BREATH DECIDED TO GET BUTT NAKED!!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgme8MEGvCAucRfEC7CTObPnNt41eywmcXKZPo58_YKV9xZvG8PJlLeILG6d8yU-yaj1EfzYe46Y1UfR-oQIn596eo5bRoGqukPlGzc1-6-PbnHW31w1NIDvXLHi7NzCqrVguj8k63TyUnR/s1600/NOTD+1130.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="189" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgme8MEGvCAucRfEC7CTObPnNt41eywmcXKZPo58_YKV9xZvG8PJlLeILG6d8yU-yaj1EfzYe46Y1UfR-oQIn596eo5bRoGqukPlGzc1-6-PbnHW31w1NIDvXLHi7NzCqrVguj8k63TyUnR/s200/NOTD+1130.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> THINK SHE LIKES TO BE NAKED BECAUSE SHE IS FROM LAST YEAR.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHE JUST SHOWED ALL OF HER BUTT - REALLY SHE DID!! </span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzOLRuPKC62XpgSDotqmgPV5THqN0svrplqzNOev4m6-YzTqL0gtnM1_Py4DiN4ScTn8os9SrYYWIzLAjMU1xGc_vQ3QYQgyilArucJQ-_pdPJX2-3oTT7H7Ji8TZ63cR5_VNM-_I3Tn-/s1600/NOTD+1152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizzOLRuPKC62XpgSDotqmgPV5THqN0svrplqzNOev4m6-YzTqL0gtnM1_Py4DiN4ScTn8os9SrYYWIzLAjMU1xGc_vQ3QYQgyilArucJQ-_pdPJX2-3oTT7H7Ji8TZ63cR5_VNM-_I3Tn-/s320/NOTD+1152.jpg" /></a> </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHE IS ONE OF THE PRETTIEST BRONZES I HAVE IN MY COLLECTION AND HAD NO SHAME. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjKTlKJSCPl9AgSCxgFp8L81iWgTaNlYACi86HZyUh_KajJT5rdeG7gv5kzvhUd48k_J4GARtHzIRjuzORAwGK1AfktzpHUyReiKrI7kpFne73C4xbOKHV8akS6wQQJwYV626HcYva4VK/s1600/NOTD+1181.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHjKTlKJSCPl9AgSCxgFp8L81iWgTaNlYACi86HZyUh_KajJT5rdeG7gv5kzvhUd48k_J4GARtHzIRjuzORAwGK1AfktzpHUyReiKrI7kpFne73C4xbOKHV8akS6wQQJwYV626HcYva4VK/s320/NOTD+1181.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHE WAS A LITTLE SHY BECAUSE WE HAD NO SUN TODAY - AND CLEARLY SHE MUST ONLY LIKE TO SHOW OUT WHEN THE SUN IS SHINING (COMPARED TO BEING SEEN WHERE THE SUN DONT SHINE!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_-ZcZDtSXp3KTMciPMamGjsvLvzDgYwt0zuDlivMP0tKIM7vsJqU3PCzoj9OE-mQ5nO6IM3ELhtnz6lu46iJkgUqMKjTvwhGd_vtZ8RXJhRi6O1KyOskisfw4hiJxkvdv-el-S7RrEZRc/s1600/NOTD+1182.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_-ZcZDtSXp3KTMciPMamGjsvLvzDgYwt0zuDlivMP0tKIM7vsJqU3PCzoj9OE-mQ5nO6IM3ELhtnz6lu46iJkgUqMKjTvwhGd_vtZ8RXJhRi6O1KyOskisfw4hiJxkvdv-el-S7RrEZRc/s320/NOTD+1182.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FOR THOSE WHO DONT KNOW, IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR I HAD AN INFECTION IN MY FINGER AND IT REQUIRED A VERY L-O-N-G NEEDLE, BLOOD, DOCTOR'S AND AN AMMONIA CAPSUL - YEAH IT WAS BAD!! SO, MY WONKY FINGER THERE IS GOING THROUGH A PROGRESSION OF REGROWING AGAIN - WHICH ACTUALLY LOOKS A LOT BETTER NOW THAN WHAT IT DID WHEN MY NAILS WERE LONGER, SO I GUESS NUBBIES ARE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE??? </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WELL THAT DOES IT FOR ME TODAY!!</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED MY LITTLE REVIEW AND SYNOPSIS OF THESE POLISHES. IF YOU DONT HAVE THEM YOU SHOULD AND IF YOU DO HAVE THEM WEAR THEM - THEY WILL TRULY MAKE YOU SMILE OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;"></span></strong></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-88490651112271465152010-06-16T11:05:00.000-04:002010-06-16T11:05:52.281-04:00OH NO! I GOT BURNT!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NO NEED FOR ALARM OR TO BE CONCERNED - I AM FINE, WELL PHYSICALLY I AM. MENTALLY, I THINK I MAY NEVER RECOVER!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpvrnA5Dox9PdXkkhEn-_G5cGWbhUG0lkxIVfPQOfHWubWNGHXime6igKb1zc1zAFSKU9s4PCaKhew2N0BD5mHqo_4_uWzwGcsJttutOQyBoD8bbfcZEYZwItNT865BDLyswQu_Jia25S/s1600/NOTD+1122.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHpvrnA5Dox9PdXkkhEn-_G5cGWbhUG0lkxIVfPQOfHWubWNGHXime6igKb1zc1zAFSKU9s4PCaKhew2N0BD5mHqo_4_uWzwGcsJttutOQyBoD8bbfcZEYZwItNT865BDLyswQu_Jia25S/s320/NOTD+1122.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I WAS RAOKED WITH MY VERY FIRST STREET WEAR NAIL POLISH BY A GREAT PERSON, WHO PREFERRED TO REMAIN NAMELESS, SO I SHALL RESPECT HER PRIVACY.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQLxormjsxbujzCefHudyhEaR1sER78DH49akI_V0J5w7Mc5fIjDVsbp6gWZhVyPJJFcCQYPe1ra3Bw7x6U5T6TNxp94aY7Rf2KM6ezI6xeqNTg_jSUTjc2QwUATMXr_tcUFVHJbfgwNb/s1600/NOTD+1104.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQLxormjsxbujzCefHudyhEaR1sER78DH49akI_V0J5w7Mc5fIjDVsbp6gWZhVyPJJFcCQYPe1ra3Bw7x6U5T6TNxp94aY7Rf2KM6ezI6xeqNTg_jSUTjc2QwUATMXr_tcUFVHJbfgwNb/s320/NOTD+1104.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I'VE HEARD PLENTY ABOUT THESE POLISHES, BUT SINCE I DIDN'T HAVE ANY, AND I DONT BELIEVE I HAD ANY AS A YOUNGER PERSON, I DIDNT UNDERSTAND THE HYPE - WELL NOW I DO!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpgk-zgH49CZjwOfVMS1EtfbGXQcgyJSlxd1CX2WZjYb8-gTzff0nz0LljraE8iWn-pkjQbOEM0tLF60ZRMMktF8yO2VObjeyVr3MtfSKNHuEJYzW4FKEJE_QmdtsFBQlKWsfrtgFKssz/s1600/NOTD+1116.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpgk-zgH49CZjwOfVMS1EtfbGXQcgyJSlxd1CX2WZjYb8-gTzff0nz0LljraE8iWn-pkjQbOEM0tLF60ZRMMktF8yO2VObjeyVr3MtfSKNHuEJYzW4FKEJE_QmdtsFBQlKWsfrtgFKssz/s320/NOTD+1116.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS POLISH WAS A DREAM TO APPLY - I MEAN IT WAS FLAWLESS!! I LOVE A POLISH THAT BEHAVES ITSELF - YOU KNOW, STAYS WHERE YOU PUT IT AND DOESNT GO ALL OVER THE PLACE WHEN YOU STROKE YOUR BRUSH. MY CLEAN UP WAS SO MINIIMAL WITH THIS, THAT I WAS JUST AMAZED!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0E00i2WaRBwHuyenc8uhdWQvomPxhd30Gz7uKLzaUCWSpXaWumpaNMUSEH8K17ywB-LO3kMt1F2WBDa73AKRMBPdbEtn-_RwNFAjQObPOTHHzmBEFEGMINqop8LLjWWFseIXvyYVN_vn/s1600/NOTD+1107.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0E00i2WaRBwHuyenc8uhdWQvomPxhd30Gz7uKLzaUCWSpXaWumpaNMUSEH8K17ywB-LO3kMt1F2WBDa73AKRMBPdbEtn-_RwNFAjQObPOTHHzmBEFEGMINqop8LLjWWFseIXvyYVN_vn/s320/NOTD+1107.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE ONLY THING THAT HURT MY FEELINGS WAS THE FACT THAT WE ARE UNDER GREY SKIES HERE AND I COULDN'T GET A NICE SUNNY PICTURE OF HER - SO HERE SHE IS UNDER ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING IN MY OTT BOX.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILysKnhK6dG2FXT70R2pY4rvgw2QAYllFLol9r4P7VQI5KmAugE71xXuQ2MGoQ9SdTmXxapasHDz0GEWIjAxiVOGvlvbvJhugjz-2IvzFWJQsZWwHqzpMmGwRMrsNjj6Z222l_1z2jSmg/s1600/NOTD+1125.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhILysKnhK6dG2FXT70R2pY4rvgw2QAYllFLol9r4P7VQI5KmAugE71xXuQ2MGoQ9SdTmXxapasHDz0GEWIjAxiVOGvlvbvJhugjz-2IvzFWJQsZWwHqzpMmGwRMrsNjj6Z222l_1z2jSmg/s320/NOTD+1125.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I AM NOW AFRAID, I AM VERY AFRAID THAT I MAY START DREAMING, HALLUCINATING AND PRAYING TO THE NAIL POLISH GOD'S FOR MORE STREET WEAR'S (ME CRIES, ME WALLET CRIES, ME HUSBAND CRIES FOR ME CRYING!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_2ilAxlFYDMQtCI-e4EU7gZccM3m4bLd6ED2hx-dmjpHiatCIOAqyDoQrtcKeRVtG6ajrdAt_rzqaA4QAlwzLy8OK8vZWOM8v1ioeLHjcz8cRJqaiC-UaW_EqBx_gz15dzUALJ_W1FaP/s1600/NOTD+1118.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ_2ilAxlFYDMQtCI-e4EU7gZccM3m4bLd6ED2hx-dmjpHiatCIOAqyDoQrtcKeRVtG6ajrdAt_rzqaA4QAlwzLy8OK8vZWOM8v1ioeLHjcz8cRJqaiC-UaW_EqBx_gz15dzUALJ_W1FaP/s320/NOTD+1118.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WELL, THAT DOES IT FOR ME TODAY. SO TELL ME - HOW MANY STREET WEARS DO YOU HAVE? ARE THEY ONES YOU HELD ONTO WHEN THEY FIRST CAME OUT OR HAVE YOU ACQUIRED THEM IN RETROSPECT?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UNTIL NEXT TIME....HAPPY POLISHING!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>*EXCUSE ME, WHILE I GO TO MY SECOND HOME, EBAY, AND SEE HOW MUCH THESE THINGS ARE GOING FOR*</em></span></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-88314452048967969832010-06-15T13:26:00.001-04:002010-06-15T14:27:14.359-04:00I've been tagged!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqanlUZ-K1c-fkML_Sf4A3Ti8c3qLrLG-b-gQheUEf70ADjNivNjZMmZlP889cFTcZlkto6V4j3VFngh8h0e3JpbeNnG5YbcNynGjMTTE-9T5WdyW0Qp7PzEfNF0TuQGAASgBCABffixE4/s320/Stylish+Blogger+Award.JPG" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Polish Sis tagged me with this award and I am now playing it forward!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Copy the award above, place it on your blog - link your blog back to me and follow the rules below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.nailsbeautiqued.blogspot.com/">Nails beautiqued</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.blacknailpolishandlipgloss.blogspot.com/">Black nail polish and lipgloss</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.susies1955.blogspot.com/">Susies home and hobbies</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.nihrida.blogspot.com/">Nihrida's blog</a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.fortheloveofnails.blogspot.com/">For the love of nails</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.getchanailsdid.blogspot.com/">Getcha nails did</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.body-soulbeauty.com/">Body and Soul</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.polishinsomniac.blogspot.com/">Polish insominiac</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.nynaildiva.blogspot.com/">NY NAIL DIVA</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.polishorperish.blogspot.com/">Polish or Perish</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.lacquerlaine.blogspot.com/">Lacquer Laine</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.thepolishhoochie.blogspot.com/">The Polish Hoochie</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><a href="http://www.candycoatedtips.blogspot.com/">Candy Coated Tips</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">The rules from Polish Sis was to tag 5 - okay so I went a little over board!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then to tell 5 things about yourself:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">1. I Love my Faith and beliefs - without them - I'd be nothing!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">2. I Love my family - especially my kids - cuz they are grown and out of the house and on their own paying their own bills!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">3. I Love blogging - it gives me such a serene scense of accomplishment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">4. I Love a good cigar every now and then (DONT JUDGE MEE!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">5. I Love all my blogger friends - they have been the best to me and keep me going when I'm feeling bad. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I LOVE YOU ALL!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-20773635455823003792010-06-15T08:00:00.002-04:002010-06-15T23:50:07.619-04:00FATT Tuesday - Finger Alternative Treatments and Tutorials<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">OK - SO I'VE DESIGNATED TUESDAY AS FATT TUESDAY (WHO KNOWS WHY - I JUST LIKE THE WAY IT SOUNDS) ANY WHO - SINCE LAST TUESDAY I DISPLAYED MY NEKKID NAILS SINCE I HAD TO CUT THEM DOWN AND WAS SHOWING YOU HOW WELL BIOTIN WORKED FOR ME I THOUGHT I'D JUST KEEP THE THEME GOING AND SHOW YOU MY NAIL ROUTINE TODAY. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I'VE BEEN ASKED THAT QUESTION QUITE A FEW TIMES AND THOUGHT I'D JUST SHOW YOU MY PRODUCTS AND A PEEK INTO MY STASH (I SWORE I'D NEVER BE ONE OF THOSE BLOGGERS - BUT I JUST WASNT UP TO SWATCHING TODAY)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">SO, ON WITH THE SHOW!!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">THESE WERE MY NAILS LAST WEEK </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7E2hAI-n8iU13FiNI2QT7BaQYD9PUNOUOpWt6ZlWu_c6KRBQh3FL6yvVZjTJCNkw2M18-fjtydQdqdrEriCNTg7ROChYX344Pi2XJDfEoYwp5LQ421Kjs96aw_Mwn3iS00F1bes2JQVM/s1600/NOTD+813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL7E2hAI-n8iU13FiNI2QT7BaQYD9PUNOUOpWt6ZlWu_c6KRBQh3FL6yvVZjTJCNkw2M18-fjtydQdqdrEriCNTg7ROChYX344Pi2XJDfEoYwp5LQ421Kjs96aw_Mwn3iS00F1bes2JQVM/s320/NOTD+813.jpg" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These are my nails THIS week - not too much growth - but they're looking pretty healthy!! I have on nail envy - I was debating on swatching and decided against it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQO7-qSYt-dEG4SoQWbFsbnBqzUatoYWWw-930zm8B6Mo-PnUjHgTU5Fiigr27a_Ef7BGidIXrWmsTGrLcn6cg3dsOhRCF53uWV18dAJF1yxEALuBmJVRfi8IeoFeeQWMQ_xbQ59KWRk1K/s1600/NOTD+1036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQO7-qSYt-dEG4SoQWbFsbnBqzUatoYWWw-930zm8B6Mo-PnUjHgTU5Fiigr27a_Ef7BGidIXrWmsTGrLcn6cg3dsOhRCF53uWV18dAJF1yxEALuBmJVRfi8IeoFeeQWMQ_xbQ59KWRk1K/s320/NOTD+1036.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wasnt up to swatching today and I was out of town all weekend - so Im still recouperating!! Week 2 has a base coat of OPI Nail Envy shown here -</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXwdLyStXnhLraJYaX5zRemn6poXCJRVKj_gbxiyU0hFRi2uWgtCOE6fwCQ0uJpo1yK-sR8U1TP8Q-44B31R-uJR4AKCsXFh4qL2ogoCcuio99gxkJ2bxm1l-rY7Fo6tUWFFhEJgMm0Py/s1600/NOTD+1042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvXwdLyStXnhLraJYaX5zRemn6poXCJRVKj_gbxiyU0hFRi2uWgtCOE6fwCQ0uJpo1yK-sR8U1TP8Q-44B31R-uJR4AKCsXFh4qL2ogoCcuio99gxkJ2bxm1l-rY7Fo6tUWFFhEJgMm0Py/s320/NOTD+1042.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next up is what I use to do my mani's each and every time - except for swatching - I never do a mani without following this same routine - it's a little redundant and anal to some - but I am just as much a nail afficianodo as I am a np junkie!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Before removing my polish I will file my nais with a glass or crystal nail file. Doing the filing with your nail polish a) keeps your nails from splitting and b) allows you to see how straight you are actually filing your nails. Then I will buff the top of the nail to keep it smooth and snag free with light buffing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQfNGmCKnauQhmOoztV_gTisHGmMLQxM4aG6nyZ6PswDP70sbF2vpere2Q34OKbQ7lAjzR2H7f1_quYIUJK4G8Wg1IM5QSVmPs2P9fkIResVP3UHWzVkHrLlYzkj9SrsBFk4ZEVIRVKWML/s1600/NOTD+1097.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQfNGmCKnauQhmOoztV_gTisHGmMLQxM4aG6nyZ6PswDP70sbF2vpere2Q34OKbQ7lAjzR2H7f1_quYIUJK4G8Wg1IM5QSVmPs2P9fkIResVP3UHWzVkHrLlYzkj9SrsBFk4ZEVIRVKWML/s320/NOTD+1097.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have many glass or crystal files one for home and one for my purse. I always keep extra's on hand just in case I break one. As you can see - I use these buffers regularly. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After removing any old polish with remover (whatever I grab is what I usually use - but for the most part it's Remover+ </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzug4P64p4bgTaIrIrTC5nen8T2hmLoDzT_cWs3Mjw45bjJHFF_pFSdrViUMienKbGUzSk9BlsG9sPUnmVPoyeF1c9STQBTK5xMMjSOaGddKo-58XDTXcswrvd5a1xGEF-jo7AjqwTnTkN/s1600/NOTD+1098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzug4P64p4bgTaIrIrTC5nen8T2hmLoDzT_cWs3Mjw45bjJHFF_pFSdrViUMienKbGUzSk9BlsG9sPUnmVPoyeF1c9STQBTK5xMMjSOaGddKo-58XDTXcswrvd5a1xGEF-jo7AjqwTnTkN/s320/NOTD+1098.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and I always use felt squares - cotton balls leave too much lint behind and the felt squares gives your cuticles a good massage and thorough buffing for the nails. I usually use white felt that I get it from Michaels and then cut them up into squares and put them in a zip lock baggie.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcOzzeO6XdAqTgqzzHebv9WN09PestSpZwuOi46ezTzSa9WS-TgwUrJuDag3yY09OCFtzLdcgSqga4HNE03qU1Sv3nGIUQ-LVmFKdTSMwIwst_fDTr1lJCkZqtbpmIlWH0FEk2iFm6H_D3/s1600/NOTD+1101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcOzzeO6XdAqTgqzzHebv9WN09PestSpZwuOi46ezTzSa9WS-TgwUrJuDag3yY09OCFtzLdcgSqga4HNE03qU1Sv3nGIUQ-LVmFKdTSMwIwst_fDTr1lJCkZqtbpmIlWH0FEk2iFm6H_D3/s320/NOTD+1101.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you can see - me needs some more felt! :-)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, once all remnants of np are gone I do a soak:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJ0sgqE4HASwc8fVY_4Yk9Ps4kEimmINuecNoC8YMfbYk8LLIKQ65Ni0sDGsgOwnMla2-cf6Pa-iOchEpSDGrAauHG2BwYYiKVZLJJs0DSpXZzGBYrqCj8KTyUGY6eATnYKoIYLwBhhX9/s1600/NOTD+1063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCJ0sgqE4HASwc8fVY_4Yk9Ps4kEimmINuecNoC8YMfbYk8LLIKQ65Ni0sDGsgOwnMla2-cf6Pa-iOchEpSDGrAauHG2BwYYiKVZLJJs0DSpXZzGBYrqCj8KTyUGY6eATnYKoIYLwBhhX9/s320/NOTD+1063.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I use baking soda, a mild hand soap liquid, hydrogen peroxide and either nail cuticle oil or olive oil - whichever I grab first and I put a dash of each into my little bowl on the end that I only use for my mani's. I fill it 3/4 of the way with warm water - let it sit about a minute and proceed to soak my nails into a coma!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also use this lap board regularly:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOp8IL8oEB9iVwdTVvCv7eXaDtuq8pmweFk03FIGQoDtpg3c17rFvNSXzmvk406M7gk9MsNWDQabgLfe4QCbkfqo_dOtxU3u2e8-EwHA8DBHSvqDJ8pV5vMFoo7shLRo6axuhvn0xlvxLj/s1600/NOTD+1089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOp8IL8oEB9iVwdTVvCv7eXaDtuq8pmweFk03FIGQoDtpg3c17rFvNSXzmvk406M7gk9MsNWDQabgLfe4QCbkfqo_dOtxU3u2e8-EwHA8DBHSvqDJ8pV5vMFoo7shLRo6axuhvn0xlvxLj/s320/NOTD+1089.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGzZouKIKg8Dz4RG0GaOYAkmbUm5sepu-xE8gl-eFsi7oCbwpQj5GIkd4hS6aYdf2sZfqYxaq1Ln0EWJ8NVhDiYtziEG6qzDC2uoAgMzx7OTgyVNFwECDt5NJMcBAK7WNQuoC58s6vthc/s1600/NOTD+1095.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGzZouKIKg8Dz4RG0GaOYAkmbUm5sepu-xE8gl-eFsi7oCbwpQj5GIkd4hS6aYdf2sZfqYxaq1Ln0EWJ8NVhDiYtziEG6qzDC2uoAgMzx7OTgyVNFwECDt5NJMcBAK7WNQuoC58s6vthc/s320/NOTD+1095.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love this lap board because it allows me to do my nails in the bed while watching t.v. or on those days i don't feel well and don't want to leave the bed. This lap board opens up and has legs so that it can be used as a lap tray as well as the small flap in front that opens forward for holdiing books if I want to read - I use the front flap to hold my polishes in place!! :-) Or I can us it as it is, flat - which is they way I usually use it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, after I have done a thorough soak I use one of these:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3W3ddChneGL2PLeIBxYNLWUA07zdSkCGyeRhGOUE-Nz4zhzXmm8cltJNzkaKi9_ua9_V1Cs51dr8aUpRjI9CgItBH9m18Kkc_GqLhi6nPcyhLojPoslkziMa2Fqd_Fg3iR_uDQx3I2tNm/s1600/NOTD+1088.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3W3ddChneGL2PLeIBxYNLWUA07zdSkCGyeRhGOUE-Nz4zhzXmm8cltJNzkaKi9_ua9_V1Cs51dr8aUpRjI9CgItBH9m18Kkc_GqLhi6nPcyhLojPoslkziMa2Fqd_Fg3iR_uDQx3I2tNm/s320/NOTD+1088.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If it's been a rough week for me or more than a week since i've done a mani i will use one of these products with the orange stick after my soak. I can't pick one over the other because I like them both - so I have a back up of each (The Borghese I get from Ross for $3.99!!) The SH usually from walmart.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">OR</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ZC_9AeyZ-hmU7f9eOJVmc3GnxPq767uxgmLsVshOREwRTaInEzvc1rVTZpHU7-Hzjmzp7E1uCe8VEuYiL69Up0vQlmEI0vyY5lA6pQGDhusc-2Y9mofhucJRSeoOphuUdUYzLr96Qjbk/s1600/NOTD+1072.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ZC_9AeyZ-hmU7f9eOJVmc3GnxPq767uxgmLsVshOREwRTaInEzvc1rVTZpHU7-Hzjmzp7E1uCe8VEuYiL69Up0vQlmEI0vyY5lA6pQGDhusc-2Y9mofhucJRSeoOphuUdUYzLr96Qjbk/s320/NOTD+1072.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I've been really good about keeping up with my nails then I'll use this cuticle softner and remover that you can get from sally's for about $2.99. I will say I like this one because it is not as harsh on my cuticles as the gel and I can use it each and every time I do a mani to keep my cuticles maintained. I also keep a bottle of this in the shower because it's awesome on your toes as well. Rub some on you toes before you get in the shower - shower as usual - then use a scrub brush and whala - you're virtually cuticle free!! (I also use a pumice stone and sugar scrub on my feet while in the shower as well.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After my nails are thoroughly clean - THEN I use this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwulz4vlBntXRJK9GDR8GgAHxVLkrkO0np2_MND6vlL_Z_ILe3O-YjvB088DGD6-b_9Z2gi5ftBYPnCFDtUvBAKuK6mKnL4rLL-kl_jaRe889C-DP8fsTresTgJbTugSLRWMnFj4WHM9An/s1600/NOTD+1067.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwulz4vlBntXRJK9GDR8GgAHxVLkrkO0np2_MND6vlL_Z_ILe3O-YjvB088DGD6-b_9Z2gi5ftBYPnCFDtUvBAKuK6mKnL4rLL-kl_jaRe889C-DP8fsTresTgJbTugSLRWMnFj4WHM9An/s320/NOTD+1067.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To me - this is the next best thing to the pedi egg (which I also use religiously) If you have not tried this - you have been missing out on mani heaven. This is Satin Hands by <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames">Mary Kay</a> you can order it <a href="http://www.marykay.com/ceciliajames">here</a> under the Body and Sun link. There are two kinds - fragrance free and the peach scented. I like the peach sented cause well, it smells good. I use these in the order of which they are numbered. After I have done my cuticles, I put on #1 and rub it all in, then I use the exfollient , #2, and really concentrate on the cuticle area and then I wash it all of off and use #3 the lotion, and my hands are as smooth as satin when I get done - If you don't have it - your missiing out on a great hand treatment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have on occasion used the emollient cream solo with latex gloves on and let them sit for about 5 or 10 minutes and it's just like a home made parrafin dip!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then I will wipe my nails down with an alcohol pad or pure acetone and gather my nail treatments. These here I NEVER do a mani without, but I also have others that I may use on occasion depending on if I'm swatching or trying out somethng new for effect - but these here are my HG of all treatments. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVewP6i36oP6Bi8E3Oi6Bs-JUmwCay8u8B_hwHB8ezaRhF0_bMTEbGtki6HBMyj-3CKM4DG5kONKx2cycaCdTITOFNFwyxxy8TWiHSgqdF7tuyEaVBTUjp__cR0ofBXNZL2zAPZtba1Zxu/s1600/NOTD+1046.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVewP6i36oP6Bi8E3Oi6Bs-JUmwCay8u8B_hwHB8ezaRhF0_bMTEbGtki6HBMyj-3CKM4DG5kONKx2cycaCdTITOFNFwyxxy8TWiHSgqdF7tuyEaVBTUjp__cR0ofBXNZL2zAPZtba1Zxu/s320/NOTD+1046.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I forgot to add David, Barielle Mani Extender, Poshe or SV - whichever I pick up first is the one I finish my mani with.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These below, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I actually keep these in a basket - but I put them here in a cigar box for your viewing pleasure:</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWuixEQhfTkLi-d4RN9yIg3vp111RzV90D5XN_ma2prIg1Gq_HKuqHI9nQk-y38dxMOdS22mHkNoD0tOfSsYWkqUrZVLiUcSYIwTQr48Y0pUYArHnrBoE9fn49ZwH1-AJiavqq2vBo9weX/s1600/NOTD+1087.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWuixEQhfTkLi-d4RN9yIg3vp111RzV90D5XN_ma2prIg1Gq_HKuqHI9nQk-y38dxMOdS22mHkNoD0tOfSsYWkqUrZVLiUcSYIwTQr48Y0pUYArHnrBoE9fn49ZwH1-AJiavqq2vBo9weX/s320/NOTD+1087.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also have mattes as a treatment - because I didn't want them in my stash.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is where I keep all of my other "stuff":</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3Cjqm6zd550lB3ty5LJxOyr2bFIGaSk_58YfuMdeDYK8Ge2LiG_j0PKpGmHfgCSE-DYRcsPvjb51gugVEpQWbbBcuR9x5esxFxrTU_PpXrMmm9T5WCjgXLfrqKKPCaJMwGbE0ciS7wrQ/s1600/NOTD+1048.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3Cjqm6zd550lB3ty5LJxOyr2bFIGaSk_58YfuMdeDYK8Ge2LiG_j0PKpGmHfgCSE-DYRcsPvjb51gugVEpQWbbBcuR9x5esxFxrTU_PpXrMmm9T5WCjgXLfrqKKPCaJMwGbE0ciS7wrQ/s320/NOTD+1048.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvBH9LUhJstZIpDU0d0rj4AEfCh8Su3ULlgfACHnedCyaQKcjtg-zqlGpG2FPcTwpEOiQubXrPl91vJObdqAsruDZ0ACaVlKj4n9hD46CfTJknREYsw8bp72WLkKv4Dw8BohS11jhtVAz/s1600/NOTD+1049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOvBH9LUhJstZIpDU0d0rj4AEfCh8Su3ULlgfACHnedCyaQKcjtg-zqlGpG2FPcTwpEOiQubXrPl91vJObdqAsruDZ0ACaVlKj4n9hD46CfTJknREYsw8bp72WLkKv4Dw8BohS11jhtVAz/s320/NOTD+1049.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyj0EP3h5huY4dBuKNLwBddua5ClloZGLtV4QtPQ09ONcLmvUc8jskDHHyAw69D8OjgSVhWGelMWtvGya_mzUCyPmkEITRW-1zaXapDMk854vLjhjaof_pU9Jb9FxYQ6pW-bRneHV0gU7/s1600/NOTD+1050.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyj0EP3h5huY4dBuKNLwBddua5ClloZGLtV4QtPQ09ONcLmvUc8jskDHHyAw69D8OjgSVhWGelMWtvGya_mzUCyPmkEITRW-1zaXapDMk854vLjhjaof_pU9Jb9FxYQ6pW-bRneHV0gU7/s320/NOTD+1050.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMWD-3I5BCuAGUnewk5oLKWTb4F7PGYhKku6lEBY8zQMeHutmMrnKdFQKSvqhiYmaMGWKDGP_msoiz9DvOOhN_LGqE1KPH0wYJLag3n8ASMU89AWwSHcu7f0n5yjxilpmgUNBC-4WYrBJ/s1600/NOTD+1052.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYMWD-3I5BCuAGUnewk5oLKWTb4F7PGYhKku6lEBY8zQMeHutmMrnKdFQKSvqhiYmaMGWKDGP_msoiz9DvOOhN_LGqE1KPH0wYJLag3n8ASMU89AWwSHcu7f0n5yjxilpmgUNBC-4WYrBJ/s320/NOTD+1052.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34w7yMRU5TK1t-gjxM_X0Zu7pyWRSmKiZbBpZ4o3b449I77j525CpRnEB2lwfgbLu9QYCAI-azApQs_QPQde3sC4qJAsfysWHTqmQbrN8ZzGGOKJXMLNEydcS0A5BQFUAczdbrw038CVF/s1600/NOTD+1053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34w7yMRU5TK1t-gjxM_X0Zu7pyWRSmKiZbBpZ4o3b449I77j525CpRnEB2lwfgbLu9QYCAI-azApQs_QPQde3sC4qJAsfysWHTqmQbrN8ZzGGOKJXMLNEydcS0A5BQFUAczdbrw038CVF/s320/NOTD+1053.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This tote has truly saved my life!! You can order yours from organize.com <a href="http://search.organize.com/search/catalog-organizeeverything1--keywords-square_totes--page-2">here</a> You will have a plethora of totes to which to pick from as well as colors and different shapes. This tote here only cost me $23 and it was worth every penny!! I know michaels and joanne's have similar one's for scrapbooking - but this one here has been a life saver!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XgJrQ2QLnNNuyG8KhYZJ4gJ3F-jkX7vHAWFrTBwb4UzXcCvdDtzS0VBgER6Nm9bZGi5oYF57JRSikvCUYLQgBQjE-j41cS8O58PAu05Fh0DTvszXgbNg_aLYKY3bR4Bxw7xUfQR4I3R2/s1600/NOTD+1058.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XgJrQ2QLnNNuyG8KhYZJ4gJ3F-jkX7vHAWFrTBwb4UzXcCvdDtzS0VBgER6Nm9bZGi5oYF57JRSikvCUYLQgBQjE-j41cS8O58PAu05Fh0DTvszXgbNg_aLYKY3bR4Bxw7xUfQR4I3R2/s320/NOTD+1058.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and this is what she looks like when she's full!! I put EVRYTHING in here!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After my soak and cuticle cleaning and get the treatments I'm using, I pick a color, grab my tote and go to wherever I plan on doing my mani anywhere in the house!! My lap board stays by my bed so I dont have to carry that anywhere. What a time saver this is for me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Now for the hardest part of doing a mani - this part can literally take me hours if not days -</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Where do I get my colors from you may be asking????</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(I swore I would NEVER do this....)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtO8Tm9YFbssSJ8aV4Gm_6LFQsiXUYrYVyjRGhU5KMLVty_avpxTRDse8ceCAS-UKdsoeBk5LvzLY7uiaJVLv1fpcHIdbQViMPHWD2MUbCcEse9nwQScm5ht3JRpT9Pqvsb10UIeFKWAtV/s1600/NOTD+1078.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtO8Tm9YFbssSJ8aV4Gm_6LFQsiXUYrYVyjRGhU5KMLVty_avpxTRDse8ceCAS-UKdsoeBk5LvzLY7uiaJVLv1fpcHIdbQViMPHWD2MUbCcEse9nwQScm5ht3JRpT9Pqvsb10UIeFKWAtV/s320/NOTD+1078.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJtZh3YDhrsKYIm-q0dO0CSlrUXFUTHKpdm-SqSSRJxx8CuqglvYp-zLl0QGtIrdt8IMsCCkewD7jbC-m58GCsZ-Vz8avGw_f2_A6igqlvLkMz633OrFQ8_PhY5RfRYAEbGmxOEIwWg_d/s1600/NOTD+1079.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJtZh3YDhrsKYIm-q0dO0CSlrUXFUTHKpdm-SqSSRJxx8CuqglvYp-zLl0QGtIrdt8IMsCCkewD7jbC-m58GCsZ-Vz8avGw_f2_A6igqlvLkMz633OrFQ8_PhY5RfRYAEbGmxOEIwWg_d/s320/NOTD+1079.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjATUw5ozmvkaU-JtaXsXGwG2J5of3BZ-q_z4vCuDRinGHP68Xp6Ed49LTZ32sCphbHlR5UOht96pjH7ntWLerMlelaegdk-gpjkwVt6az7uRtTF-x2kVmIWhRsCeweGbAGGcmm5t_eUe/s1600/NOTD+1082.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjATUw5ozmvkaU-JtaXsXGwG2J5of3BZ-q_z4vCuDRinGHP68Xp6Ed49LTZ32sCphbHlR5UOht96pjH7ntWLerMlelaegdk-gpjkwVt6az7uRtTF-x2kVmIWhRsCeweGbAGGcmm5t_eUe/s320/NOTD+1082.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...there are just the ones I cleaned out from last week - I still have three more drawers of which are still in mayhem - that I refuse to tackle at this moment. So it is still in disarray - but chaotically organized in cigar boxes!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">After all is said and done from the soaking, and decuticlizing (did I just make up a another word), exfoliating, priming and polishing, I don't go to bed without putting on a heavy duty emollient cream and some cotton gloves (I could not show you pictures of my gloves because they were dirty and in the wash - I need to get a second pair, anyway).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Throughout the day I use:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAF1prR0pgqAVbSJZLYkLiPCz4qqJd8Z7fsHv2s8cndMO9pKhGe7jktMtPmUt1GjxxC1LL35JeNBphcD_6WdREew-I-0wVv0aAbfmMWutVp8uWbsG2cwfIoOSSfGi8W5p7OpJ2vE7D7pc6/s1600/NOTD+1074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAF1prR0pgqAVbSJZLYkLiPCz4qqJd8Z7fsHv2s8cndMO9pKhGe7jktMtPmUt1GjxxC1LL35JeNBphcD_6WdREew-I-0wVv0aAbfmMWutVp8uWbsG2cwfIoOSSfGi8W5p7OpJ2vE7D7pc6/s320/NOTD+1074.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OR </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge87xb4nwYJriVdlGfATPn6Wd99yJDl3cL66j_FunV1KVzRNIKtMCoNkp7V7RpQIy4LaBC_StEVgzPW_CvAGwQrevE16NZ3pr6-PzMS8dMhVCd3vymoAJT_F-bdAqncpkCFbpNZJ12YO__/s1600/NOTD+1076.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge87xb4nwYJriVdlGfATPn6Wd99yJDl3cL66j_FunV1KVzRNIKtMCoNkp7V7RpQIy4LaBC_StEVgzPW_CvAGwQrevE16NZ3pr6-PzMS8dMhVCd3vymoAJT_F-bdAqncpkCFbpNZJ12YO__/s320/NOTD+1076.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not one of those persons that has issues using oil on their cuticles so I will use these through out the day - and sometime I will use both - depending on how dry my hands and nails are.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I drink water constantly,take biotin and prenatal vitamins religiously and moisturize, moisturize, moisturize!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I NEVER, NEVER, NEVER do any kind of house work or chore without some type of gloves on and I will put on a hand cream before putting the gloves on so that my hands will be moisturizing while I'm cleaning. I love it!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, that does it for me today - I know this was long and lengthy - but I just wanted to show you my entire routine and hope that I have encouraged something new or reinforced something old.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Unitl Next Time - Happy Polishing!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-87959986829848502322010-06-14T10:01:00.000-04:002010-06-14T10:01:32.827-04:00Rainbow in the Dark...<div align="center"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I FEEL VERY PROUD AND HONORED TO BE BRINGING TO YOU TODAY A FRANKENING</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THAT I RECEIVED FROM A VERY PERSONAL FRIEND THAT BEFRIENDED ME ON THE NAIL BOARD MY VERY FIRST WEEK THERE.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHE HAS BEEN SUCH AN INSPIRATION TO ME AS A NAIL AFFICIANADO AND A MENTOR ON HOW TO BE A GREAT BLOGGER.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THOUGH SHE SURPASSES ME ON FOLLOWERS BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS - THE ONE THING SHE TOLD ME WHEN I FIRST STARTED BLOGGING WAS TO BE TRUE TO MYSELF AND DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN THE B.S. - AND THOSE WORDS STILL RING TRUE TO ME TODAY!! THANK YOU <a href="http://www.blacknailpolishandlipgloss.blogspot.com/">EVIL ANGEL</a>!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I MUST ADMIT I AM NOT ONE TO HAVE KNOWN ANYTHING ABOUT THE MUSIC OF RONNIE JAMES DIO - BUT IF <a href="http://www.blacknailpolishandlipgloss.blogspot.com/">EVIL ANGEL</a> CREATED A FRANKEN JUST FOR HIM - THEN I KNEW HE HAD TO HAVE BEEN SOMEONE SPECIAL. WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT THIS WAS A LIMITED EDITION CREATION THAT WAS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME DEAL - I JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO PURCHASE THIS!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I HOPE I DID THIS POLISH JUSTICE, <a href="http://www.blacknailpolishandlipgloss.blogspot.com/">EVIL ANGEL</a> AND MAY RJD RIP AS HE SMILES AT YOU FOR YOUR 'RAINBOW IN THE DARK'!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I DIDN'T FEEL THE NEED TO SAY ANYTHING - THE PICTURES SPOKE FOR THEMSELVES!! THIS POLIS APPLIED LUXURIOUSLY. IT DID NEED 3 COATS FOR OPACITY, BUT IT WAS WORTH EVERY STROKE. I USED ORLY'S T2B FOR THE B/C AND T/C.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">IF YOU DIDN'T GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE THIS FROM EVIL ANGEL - THEN YOU TRULY MISSED OUT ON A GEM OF A POLISH AND A FABULOUS GLITTERY JELLY. IF YOU DID GET ONE, THEN I AM SURE WE ARE ONE OF THE FEW, THE PROUD AND THE SELECTED TO BE WEARING IT!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(I KNOW, CORNY - BUT MILITARY SLOGANS RUN THROUGH MY VEINS!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">WELL, THAT DOES IT FOR ME TODAY.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AND AS ALWAYS -</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><em>"DON'T BE A GHOST - LEAVE ME A POST!!"</em></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-82852963142330184592010-06-12T10:00:00.001-04:002010-06-12T10:00:02.133-04:00OPI vs ORLY<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS POST IS FOR <a href="http://crystaliciousss.blogspot.com/">CRYSTALICIOUSSS</a>!! SHE WANTED TO KNOW THE DUPEYNESS (DID I JUST MAKE UP A WORD??) OF </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OPI'S FLOWER TO FLOWER VS ORLY'S FIESTSA!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HERE YA GO CRYSTAL - I HOPE I DID IT JUSTICE FOR YOU!!</span></div> <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I AIM TO PLEASE WHEN ASKED ABOUT A COMP - AND IF I HAVE IT ON HAND I WILL DO MY BEST TO GET THOSE COMPS TO YOU FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">SO, AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY ARE NOT DUPES - BUT DEPENDING ON YOUR LOVE OF PINKS, YOU MAY NOT NEED THEM BOTH. THE OPI DOES HAVE A SLIGHT SHIMMER TO IT THAT I LIKE A LOT, TO WHERE AS THE ORLY IS A FLAT DEEP PINK - WHICH I LIKE ALSO.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">AS MANY ON THE BOARD HAVE READ THAT I HAVE A DISEASE </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">THE H1N1</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">IF I HAZ 1 ME NEEDZ 1 MORE </span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I KNOW THERE IS NO CURE AND I DON'T WANT THE VACCACINATION!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY AND AS ALWAYS...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">HAPPY POLISHING!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">DON'T BE A GHOST<strong> </strong>- LEAVE ME A POST!! ;-)</span></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-42021709395858451452010-06-11T09:10:00.000-04:002010-06-11T09:10:14.759-04:00I'VE BEEN DUPED!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FAITHFUL FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TODAY I BRING YOU AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION THAT MANY OF YOU MAY HAVE HAD BUT DID NOT KNOW THE ANSWER TO.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">LET'S GET RIGHT TO IT:</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvr4ysUKUkZ4nlGxkd6BeRUY5VnaRO6WknBJ0g-Pj3dMTLeYwwXoqSBUMaqPDR4SFbNLDIrTiiXzKWK7MjXB46ceXfcwDOuvGHjjSIlvTXQ2Hqs5_lQwFc8fbnC-5LTAeDijMM31og0gR/s1600/NOTD+959.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvr4ysUKUkZ4nlGxkd6BeRUY5VnaRO6WknBJ0g-Pj3dMTLeYwwXoqSBUMaqPDR4SFbNLDIrTiiXzKWK7MjXB46ceXfcwDOuvGHjjSIlvTXQ2Hqs5_lQwFc8fbnC-5LTAeDijMM31og0gR/s320/NOTD+959.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YEP!! DEY IS DEE SAME!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">DON'T BELIEVE ME? WATCH THIS!!</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhom7gyer2AFigiPzhZZZ3CIh7lAkDMd1uc_xDELd0IjUlolpjhNR22HWoRQEGybFH2TRU5dnWR0hRTAKHuuktXTW3ZdQKt4Il-PZ5IRNnweINCWUrk3WEmfwLkvoPuU7ghJ8j1u6vmKHsH/s1600/NOTD+961.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhom7gyer2AFigiPzhZZZ3CIh7lAkDMd1uc_xDELd0IjUlolpjhNR22HWoRQEGybFH2TRU5dnWR0hRTAKHuuktXTW3ZdQKt4Il-PZ5IRNnweINCWUrk3WEmfwLkvoPuU7ghJ8j1u6vmKHsH/s320/NOTD+961.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj7fIrb2CZXTyecQYRaEvATGs0IRHlSj45YBZyrjD7-mWeiu9xOwyZYRAShyAAcnFPWTBEevAvORgCrGi5DJSmqet25eSqL1kAjEgJDyAdLjKCVz_XGohy07gfM6anngK05IQOy6K6GPfU/s1600/NOTD+989.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj7fIrb2CZXTyecQYRaEvATGs0IRHlSj45YBZyrjD7-mWeiu9xOwyZYRAShyAAcnFPWTBEevAvORgCrGi5DJSmqet25eSqL1kAjEgJDyAdLjKCVz_XGohy07gfM6anngK05IQOy6K6GPfU/s320/NOTD+989.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiufm5YN5P0C6_eBZ4ehOnvgEwRqmpU4xDSaKDYD3U1Aimsa0hJcGEbX1NJ9oxhtinYjNqD9098zBaJ-etEmae_1xKzNNXwXrpyXlrnys9cL86ZeWOaTFUfpFuaQWvrvUe7Rga8b-xbAQIM/s1600/NOTD+975.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiufm5YN5P0C6_eBZ4ehOnvgEwRqmpU4xDSaKDYD3U1Aimsa0hJcGEbX1NJ9oxhtinYjNqD9098zBaJ-etEmae_1xKzNNXwXrpyXlrnys9cL86ZeWOaTFUfpFuaQWvrvUe7Rga8b-xbAQIM/s320/NOTD+975.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS THUMB PICTURE HAS BOTH POLISHES ON IT!! ONE ON ONE SIDE AND ONE ON THE OTHER! CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I DID NOT USE AN OPAQUE NUDE HERE TO SHOW HOW SHEER BOTH OF THESE POLISHES ARE.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69Jvt1KzWdRUHZVG786VCCoVTbJaphkH4l1F7VlQ0z-EpdwEtlvwegK1uLyANXkpNAqfD2pGG8iD9pPAE4iZ1JL0NMu2A57hXWvBL0bm6ueAZqEEJo53UOPE6Hh8ETmr-ruXvc8faCt-t/s1600/NOTD+976.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69Jvt1KzWdRUHZVG786VCCoVTbJaphkH4l1F7VlQ0z-EpdwEtlvwegK1uLyANXkpNAqfD2pGG8iD9pPAE4iZ1JL0NMu2A57hXWvBL0bm6ueAZqEEJo53UOPE6Hh8ETmr-ruXvc8faCt-t/s320/NOTD+976.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS PICTURE HERE DOES HAVE THE OPAQUE NUDE UNDERNEATH TO SHOW THAT IT REALLY DOES HIDE THE VNL - EVEN THROUGH THE SUN!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYxVDI54iUIHPtiyQyhdErjTTiaGdqlWkcXZAJmEwLKCzVRygyYU91_U81994EGjr19jtiRwf5BkQmHnfx4xXQVWzwutEMgkoA2oEZOgCsRb6wBCUVofNXi41vxN2rm6sNHh6r8rGoMYw/s1600/NOTD+991.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEYxVDI54iUIHPtiyQyhdErjTTiaGdqlWkcXZAJmEwLKCzVRygyYU91_U81994EGjr19jtiRwf5BkQmHnfx4xXQVWzwutEMgkoA2oEZOgCsRb6wBCUVofNXi41vxN2rm6sNHh6r8rGoMYw/s320/NOTD+991.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THIS IS INSIDE NO FLASH - SEE HOW OPAQUE IT LOOKS NOW??</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">EACH FINGER IS PAINTED WITH A DIFFERNT POLISH AND DIFFERENT COATS.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE?? *GIGGLES - CAUSE ME KNOWS*</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Okay - now for the last one and just because it's so darn pretty:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiqwcD-LVOC98-xsNCgp2gVQjB_A34GciaLHyfptPf5xMkOXGrDxAB0UBlPt1Gf0KNqX76POUMDETpW1tdDHZjusDsRHxO-2cKIa8kAOm8nvp910vAcyN-kTfaRcrHDQm_fhg_pN_3shv/s1600/NOTD+949.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiqwcD-LVOC98-xsNCgp2gVQjB_A34GciaLHyfptPf5xMkOXGrDxAB0UBlPt1Gf0KNqX76POUMDETpW1tdDHZjusDsRHxO-2cKIa8kAOm8nvp910vAcyN-kTfaRcrHDQm_fhg_pN_3shv/s320/NOTD+949.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwGhzQHB_201vNiO9hAl7ltkEWlvWL1xGPe8KO6ez_GUC54wxueWR87d3C2o80T20QYw3Yj0JL7cbLfv-19hT3_3ohc3JbBPEEJTd0GRV3T5DL4GoA-WsozfP8z5_cS1OlvtPfXGAjSy4/s1600/NOTD+947.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPwGhzQHB_201vNiO9hAl7ltkEWlvWL1xGPe8KO6ez_GUC54wxueWR87d3C2o80T20QYw3Yj0JL7cbLfv-19hT3_3ohc3JbBPEEJTd0GRV3T5DL4GoA-WsozfP8z5_cS1OlvtPfXGAjSy4/s320/NOTD+947.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I CANNOT TAKE THE CREDIT FOR THESE NEXT FEW PICTURES - THEY ARE THE WORK OF OUR GARDNER AND I TOOK THE PICTURES AT THE SUGGESTION OF MY DEAR HUSBAND WHEN HE SAW MY NAIILS!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskaH-REM3RlqGZgpDKx0HqdGqCcBJrZ1CP7tP2y5DH5r7n9NF_0PiVtPDYatM5Na2QajhR8bwBDYrNzRh30QnLCI3DntrfLxqz4MBUHLarDZKt8auiUhVyc4EZVUwnYWtZhVUzDD_5xUr/s1600/NOTD+951.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskaH-REM3RlqGZgpDKx0HqdGqCcBJrZ1CP7tP2y5DH5r7n9NF_0PiVtPDYatM5Na2QajhR8bwBDYrNzRh30QnLCI3DntrfLxqz4MBUHLarDZKt8auiUhVyc4EZVUwnYWtZhVUzDD_5xUr/s320/NOTD+951.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE ONLY GREEN THUMB I HAVE IS WHEN I WEAR IT ON MY THUMB NAIL!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEqbDE_p8JN9fL8Dv-etpZiyxaG1yr_JT7waCq0nOT2GPZlRQsydOYx3lfCNyOQCqFoJjv5ePlsqsJsQJ1ouhJEq4AK-UG_AlB-0LF5rXTeNAETfGIAj9sJJ1AxFSLGsyp5qQ1sklu4mbk/s1600/NOTD+952.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEqbDE_p8JN9fL8Dv-etpZiyxaG1yr_JT7waCq0nOT2GPZlRQsydOYx3lfCNyOQCqFoJjv5ePlsqsJsQJ1ouhJEq4AK-UG_AlB-0LF5rXTeNAETfGIAj9sJJ1AxFSLGsyp5qQ1sklu4mbk/s320/NOTD+952.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE HUBBS IS SO PROUD OF OUR GARDEN (AS IF HE TENDS TO IT HIMSELF - THE MOST HE DOES IS PRAY FOR RAIN!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIn35WzvR95Wb7OJCE8gJ6ZR5d7ncTpPUsKs7XtfeirXCyh2nBMnCR3Kajl3eUhrKtGjlGodZQcjomCWY3W1ZV0762oSUQD390ZND9C_UESM17ymzMgDgj78l98o04ikYuNyAf9ML8qJ0F/s1600/NOTD+953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIn35WzvR95Wb7OJCE8gJ6ZR5d7ncTpPUsKs7XtfeirXCyh2nBMnCR3Kajl3eUhrKtGjlGodZQcjomCWY3W1ZV0762oSUQD390ZND9C_UESM17ymzMgDgj78l98o04ikYuNyAf9ML8qJ0F/s320/NOTD+953.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE COLOR TO ME WAS AS DEEP AS FLORIDA NAVAL ORANGES, BUT THE APPLICATION WAS AS THIN AS TROPICANA ORANGE JUICE!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">THIS BABY TOOK 4 COATS TO GET TO OPACITY!! 4 COATS</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyigP2t-oEQSjqsFdCVuYft5kPbYUVFWHeHbheyiWXdGvg6r9cQ05bBoqWFmjcOJLg2Zhzab5XIJ9XR3jwyTNgDMhnTSxPvz0LGIEjIq6C-gNlOhO-1DXwc6ZdxEez4liGL_aP3GvOdf1B/s1600/NOTD+958.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyigP2t-oEQSjqsFdCVuYft5kPbYUVFWHeHbheyiWXdGvg6r9cQ05bBoqWFmjcOJLg2Zhzab5XIJ9XR3jwyTNgDMhnTSxPvz0LGIEjIq6C-gNlOhO-1DXwc6ZdxEez4liGL_aP3GvOdf1B/s320/NOTD+958.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SHE WAS JUST AS PRETTY AS THE FLOWERS AND BESIDES BEING SO RUNNY APPLICATION WASN'T TOO BAD EITHER. I DID APPLY AN OPAQUE WHITE (WET N WIILD) TO SHOW THE BOLDNESS OF THE COLOR!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-53088607083799921722010-06-10T14:25:00.001-04:002010-06-10T14:31:41.966-04:00The Flitter, the flutter and the flatterer!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay so I had nothing real original to call this post so I thought I'd use the play on words with the new OPI Summer Collection Flutter!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pPi8zEzOL_Avy9k3prA1WxE1UNQT8EZxWaJJc2-1za-P736iOx_M7QAcUFRSUIvX2LI7KnRqH6Mh_6PdwHQftpazPgwDP6djw6OZqlPByLBOyM35JNFPXxIfsABoiK2aSmlEHgR-AoYK/s1600/NOTD+899.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pPi8zEzOL_Avy9k3prA1WxE1UNQT8EZxWaJJc2-1za-P736iOx_M7QAcUFRSUIvX2LI7KnRqH6Mh_6PdwHQftpazPgwDP6djw6OZqlPByLBOyM35JNFPXxIfsABoiK2aSmlEHgR-AoYK/s320/NOTD+899.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I almost couldn't believe this was all there was to the entire set since there was no Red and no color named Suzi!! The Shrek Collection (which i have yet to swactch) also does not have a Red or a Suzi - me wonders whats going on - an OPI collection with no Red or Suzi seems a little odd to me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Anywho---</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">(For swatching purposes: 1 coat t2b by Orly, Cafe' au Lait, 3 coats of np, 1 coat 2tb by Orly)<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yep - I know, I'm late again - but just a lazy day for me - I was up way too late watching black and white movies and eating trail mix!! :-) I know, I should have been swatching then - but I was too into the movie and my trail mix to want to stop and swatch np!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So here we have two of the four today:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(I had to drag it out for suspense purposes)</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTNWRePyPwEAHfKQObnnX8XFFtOfjxE0UsrOwVvB-j3h1phVhUmWa-cQv3oNptIJiKh3_GivHXJJwPuYM5gOx0D5O915oOy-_Zs-oRRewrpP40Dn7Dz3T-570NriLF0GVmu7lx4wYjseqq/s1600/NOTD+853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTNWRePyPwEAHfKQObnnX8XFFtOfjxE0UsrOwVvB-j3h1phVhUmWa-cQv3oNptIJiKh3_GivHXJJwPuYM5gOx0D5O915oOy-_Zs-oRRewrpP40Dn7Dz3T-570NriLF0GVmu7lx4wYjseqq/s320/NOTD+853.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, of course this is not part of the collection - but I wanted to showcase the opaque nude that I wear under sheers so that I dont have VNL. You can use any taupe or nude that fits your taste - but this one here seems to work best for me right now - but I have quite a few I can pick from (needs to do a comp)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiITSJSDRypn6YaaqXrjOch4zo68JiL7K9q9avwvuxbZzWr634iR3Hu4OMlSusN9xvBtvUHnKox7WNGNxp8ODDq73zhpAsbjk1xYqTdK8c6vv22niE8Ld6k_6VX-AyV1Fd-KOOoHmFPF69s/s1600/NOTD+856.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiITSJSDRypn6YaaqXrjOch4zo68JiL7K9q9avwvuxbZzWr634iR3Hu4OMlSusN9xvBtvUHnKox7WNGNxp8ODDq73zhpAsbjk1xYqTdK8c6vv22niE8Ld6k_6VX-AyV1Fd-KOOoHmFPF69s/s320/NOTD+856.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJFZHVMymu2hTt0w_CaysKrmND30hZKmjg9d3VCEHkoxWFprcXcGoO7SeshRKGJ97Tu_Z4xSwVK1xwtHdVqDSZsXWgxCRTP2O3VM7ubPzjen2IQZC1M_HtyldBp0IUFRPSZOQ8WeZ37tFy/s1600/NOTD+854.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJFZHVMymu2hTt0w_CaysKrmND30hZKmjg9d3VCEHkoxWFprcXcGoO7SeshRKGJ97Tu_Z4xSwVK1xwtHdVqDSZsXWgxCRTP2O3VM7ubPzjen2IQZC1M_HtyldBp0IUFRPSZOQ8WeZ37tFy/s320/NOTD+854.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See how this virtually takes my fingers to a manniquin hand - that's the secret to no VNL!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyhdChUYrx1wf-mgVqNIhKkFcEQFvw_VVKlyxiJqvggtolAMuZxNgmhjvElK-QqN8qBOCsQyrxyPoJh2LBZAjIn1eN1yWTfvWORMuKy92z4QI4gkbKoK9Ys6ypfRbZtYVbWFycujY-mdZ/s1600/NOTD+875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlyhdChUYrx1wf-mgVqNIhKkFcEQFvw_VVKlyxiJqvggtolAMuZxNgmhjvElK-QqN8qBOCsQyrxyPoJh2LBZAjIn1eN1yWTfvWORMuKy92z4QI4gkbKoK9Ys6ypfRbZtYVbWFycujY-mdZ/s320/NOTD+875.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uHzyboov4GM7t30uu2TNi54XSX1Y9lzIHSjpYU63d2xAcdqv7y_aiOfxMzwKeY6ylRKGTsFIdS3dpaLpXJMzKZzCf5CUX_0PcNoOd1PqHpPG3xKMXBH8zTs0eNkiPzL1b3Mz90x9J9Nl/s1600/NOTD+890.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_uHzyboov4GM7t30uu2TNi54XSX1Y9lzIHSjpYU63d2xAcdqv7y_aiOfxMzwKeY6ylRKGTsFIdS3dpaLpXJMzKZzCf5CUX_0PcNoOd1PqHpPG3xKMXBH8zTs0eNkiPzL1b3Mz90x9J9Nl/s320/NOTD+890.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She was a very nice sheer - and even with the opaque nude under it, I still needed to use three coats - but it covered completely and it shown well. This Coral was very unique to me, but then I thought I may have had something similar (which I'm sure many of you may have)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, I went to my stash - which by the way I have cleared 400 and am so close to 500 I scare myself!! :-O</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmQZPCOVV8rjJJ67pYS5pCDBQ9QcynoR6FUTIgO5OMK3Hui3CKIUgL2Iy8CggyvEUTKqIfZK48XgmaM9gyVTyHD2v9tK93J0yWL31jX4J8U6P6h4HjwbnYjsPq1fx6DnjhBHAQEreaA0p5/s1600/NOTD+894.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmQZPCOVV8rjJJ67pYS5pCDBQ9QcynoR6FUTIgO5OMK3Hui3CKIUgL2Iy8CggyvEUTKqIfZK48XgmaM9gyVTyHD2v9tK93J0yWL31jX4J8U6P6h4HjwbnYjsPq1fx6DnjhBHAQEreaA0p5/s320/NOTD+894.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As close as I thought these two were (in my mind i thought they were) upon further review - NOT!! Gilda is definitely more pink and Wing It is a coral.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">NEXT:</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJXgmFOU6dD6Vs7UlMuHd2k1pbv8PaF6w8WH6HTUOoKGmpCFqp11lUl0V_BAZSDXCB2Wv_YCdrnZY80jC2rcqRWWDE_Yd6zx4VLXFDZVPwq8e2_LntTrHl7sgGJdIICyK-ScOEUcyzJE6/s1600/NOTD+901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpJXgmFOU6dD6Vs7UlMuHd2k1pbv8PaF6w8WH6HTUOoKGmpCFqp11lUl0V_BAZSDXCB2Wv_YCdrnZY80jC2rcqRWWDE_Yd6zx4VLXFDZVPwq8e2_LntTrHl7sgGJdIICyK-ScOEUcyzJE6/s320/NOTD+901.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I could not get a better picture of this for the life of me - I may have had too much coffee by the time I was taking this picture!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUodzYWgcOTUhAmoHKcsIYfUXSnjyCvzpHvzB4UV0GGH00NXVCZk-nWglisAnUxHUbwhzqOIWzDnJ54gw39VsEEgKQ5IcyruYcKOuYionqXx9eJ5IqSiMtYIJTTByUU02q9o93iuR3Uboh/s1600/NOTD+932.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUodzYWgcOTUhAmoHKcsIYfUXSnjyCvzpHvzB4UV0GGH00NXVCZk-nWglisAnUxHUbwhzqOIWzDnJ54gw39VsEEgKQ5IcyruYcKOuYionqXx9eJ5IqSiMtYIJTTByUU02q9o93iuR3Uboh/s320/NOTD+932.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This picture may the truest of the color irl of all the pics I took.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2g6XUoyGpcXbRJeSoc0HuAbX-_5ARyuiwexRyMzdsHorL6IYaORUzFU3EwDL8ORzVELldPbdm4omE9hIR9SlmVp7F1Y5E5FfONL-Hj34IswZetchnS1RxABHOTL7koPXyEl3ZeACWXncS/s1600/NOTD+934.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2g6XUoyGpcXbRJeSoc0HuAbX-_5ARyuiwexRyMzdsHorL6IYaORUzFU3EwDL8ORzVELldPbdm4omE9hIR9SlmVp7F1Y5E5FfONL-Hj34IswZetchnS1RxABHOTL7koPXyEl3ZeACWXncS/s320/NOTD+934.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She really is not a barbie colored pink and not even dusty. Closer to maybe a bubble gum pink but not as neon. She also has the slightest shiimmer to make it just a little interesting. The shimmer seemed to shimmy silver to me (say THAT five times fast!!) - but then again that's just my opinion.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0nmT7pIj42d3o2PPfrVDu1NruX8MGE3BpChzRKq5889-m86l-HE8YKAJuDrRsQYVqVe4S2wpdn1A3VPDKnA8VvCnlg5cTv8KG96MYa_jaL5bES4badEJvKJXhLEbkJ8jzdvEiDnLhc2qJ/s1600/NOTD+933.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0nmT7pIj42d3o2PPfrVDu1NruX8MGE3BpChzRKq5889-m86l-HE8YKAJuDrRsQYVqVe4S2wpdn1A3VPDKnA8VvCnlg5cTv8KG96MYa_jaL5bES4badEJvKJXhLEbkJ8jzdvEiDnLhc2qJ/s320/NOTD+933.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As hard as I tried I could not get the shimmer to show. Application was a dream to apply and the clean up process was flawless, unlike the Wing It that seemed to pull during clean up because of the fine glitter in it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBa5DXwWVI58OFLxMJcgotw84tXwAuWF5T8TzW9zdX8_0KNYeZbvoFsyJnjf1BF9nQU_wy0i1zRgqqiTLtISnxbp3UlL8LiisKuwKXuxd_i1fhrtmgsyIwUjA2DMW_usGDj37LGG-7B5MG/s1600/NOTD+936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBa5DXwWVI58OFLxMJcgotw84tXwAuWF5T8TzW9zdX8_0KNYeZbvoFsyJnjf1BF9nQU_wy0i1zRgqqiTLtISnxbp3UlL8LiisKuwKXuxd_i1fhrtmgsyIwUjA2DMW_usGDj37LGG-7B5MG/s320/NOTD+936.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She really is a pretty pink and not a baby pink as it seems to show here - but I kept this picture in because I like my hand position!! Anal, I know!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, that does it for me today - tomorrow I will bring you the other two in this set. Since I have been hearing the grumblings on the <a href="http://www.makeupalley.com/">nailboard</a> that Charla and Catch Me in your Net are very similar, if not dupes - I will be bringing you that comp pic on my nail as well - I'll let you be the judge on if they're dupes or not, (me no tink so).</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Until Next Time...Happy Polishing</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">P.S. I'm still not finished purging, but as of last night I had 20 polishes to add to a giveaway - I'm 'donating' my doubles to a lucky follower - so....</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>DON'T BE A GHOST - LEAVE ME A POST!</strong></span></div>Audreyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11909212876874793460noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1451426234408714875.post-6564797883073955672010-06-09T16:24:00.000-04:002010-06-09T16:24:28.746-04:00Funky French and Dots!!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HELLO FELLOW FOLLOWERS!!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(I got a little long winded today - so bare with me)</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry about the delay in my posting today - but for any of you who have heard of the 6 P's (Piss Poor Planning Prevents Poor Performance), that has been me today!! Murphy's Law has truly been in effect!! ARRRG!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I started my day by waking up way too late - even for me!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I didn't hear my alarm go off, so I missed my water aerobics class!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It's raining here so my body is revolting against me - which is probably why I over slept and didn't hear my alarm clock.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">My battery died on my camera while trying to download my pics for the blog - so while waiting I decided to straighten out my stash!!! WHY?!?!?!? Who knows, but I can't be the only one who buys np faster than they can put it away and then you look up one day and you have np all over your dresser!! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, while waiting for my battery to recharge - I began a serious purging and cleaning and straightening out of my stash and equipment - and 3 hours later - Im still not finished!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am one of those people that once I get a notion in my head and I commence the execution of that notion - there are no holds barred!! You may say - that's a good thing - NO!! Because I'm not organized enough to reel it all in and realize enough is enough and you can stop now. Thank goodness I'm not a hairdresser - I'd never know when to stop cutting and dying one's hair!! :-O</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Okay - enough on my day -</span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">ON WITH THE SHOW!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Yesterday I brought you Sally Hansen's Extreme Plum Power - well, I wasn't ready to change it (or should I say I didn't feel like changing it yet) so I decided to try a konad with it since I needed the practice. I love the concept of konading/fauxnading - but boy oh boy do I have the hardest time with it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well I thought Pink and Plumb would look pretty together </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">(The 5th grader in me must have been wanting to come out!)</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqdRWW2GfDzNrwlcnK-rsTky6oOmXHpeZYfn0xfCkawzotfU5noAgIRV0-6cvE39XkgiDJTa_81og5pyBTLOKRtTlUwbNjOzDKfDVWpGZtZOYWhKqLcEKZ5QaFIMS-NKHXyzueJfPha4m/s1600/Old+Pic%27s+086.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPqdRWW2GfDzNrwlcnK-rsTky6oOmXHpeZYfn0xfCkawzotfU5noAgIRV0-6cvE39XkgiDJTa_81og5pyBTLOKRtTlUwbNjOzDKfDVWpGZtZOYWhKqLcEKZ5QaFIMS-NKHXyzueJfPha4m/s320/Old+Pic%27s+086.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is from the BBC Hands of Hope Haiti fundraising collection that they did exclusively during the initial earthquake. I purchased the entire collection that was a LE collection and was made solely for the purpose of fundraising, of which 25% of all sales went to the American Red Cross. </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">YEAH KIM AND CINDY!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprOD8FWk9R0ISGIlpQhkh5HILEkDv_hJ10k_keYrEwtZHhVwl7KxlmL_4zWBIjhtZXiK_72GQZlSEFysxRX21SuMGaShZ3zC0iR_daCvlTk3iPjso0WKJY0hTw5dbmz2OEzTtVnWYVO2p/s1600/Old+Pic%27s+089.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhprOD8FWk9R0ISGIlpQhkh5HILEkDv_hJ10k_keYrEwtZHhVwl7KxlmL_4zWBIjhtZXiK_72GQZlSEFysxRX21SuMGaShZ3zC0iR_daCvlTk3iPjso0WKJY0hTw5dbmz2OEzTtVnWYVO2p/s320/Old+Pic%27s+089.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my head as I was contemplating this little venture I was excited - but as my the fruits of my labor came to fruition - it wasn't as cute as I thought it would be....</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9z5oHkb1kHp2fS3DEteE1VEiHQ7dYgTO7LJqVvQo3KtXZpq-ttsbvpc0ZOgC6U2Y3SUhiqLGPXfdbrAjSDKzvLiF7nARuApYi6mkcxdgsnzcKr4whVy-Hb2wyTmYtaKPC77gbIgEXWx1/s1600/Old+Pic%27s+093.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk9z5oHkb1kHp2fS3DEteE1VEiHQ7dYgTO7LJqVvQo3KtXZpq-ttsbvpc0ZOgC6U2Y3SUhiqLGPXfdbrAjSDKzvLiF7nARuApYi6mkcxdgsnzcKr4whVy-Hb2wyTmYtaKPC77gbIgEXWx1/s320/Old+Pic%27s+093.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used Konad plate #M79</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrAstCY_j7GfF23f7GQzNFoFsRKYx8Qd8Y6lFD-MLlGpkq-gnIwf5Wkk2WZFXPUQTSdoFzM0uc0HzE240Z2R4JRTXPVAwRvSi5OpL5tYUJpQkWSuBXgWYCcQuPHLADIpsEf7pIlKK8ZWM/s1600/Old+Pic%27s+094.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjrAstCY_j7GfF23f7GQzNFoFsRKYx8Qd8Y6lFD-MLlGpkq-gnIwf5Wkk2WZFXPUQTSdoFzM0uc0HzE240Z2R4JRTXPVAwRvSi5OpL5tYUJpQkWSuBXgWYCcQuPHLADIpsEf7pIlKK8ZWM/s320/Old+Pic%27s+094.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and nail guides.</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVu5-O4e6I8iBmeBhc8dMy37LlBHU3BW8k1-xdmIwhVQkYOH8r63ky_ecBuYrI8Kn30aXO23VJKmEPKrB667NIOSglsDgN2WVEs3iJ5WaobkQ628SdKYl9iFWqMim2u1aSRYeK34dA5FSN/s1600/Old+Pic%27s+096.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVu5-O4e6I8iBmeBhc8dMy37LlBHU3BW8k1-xdmIwhVQkYOH8r63ky_ecBuYrI8Kn30aXO23VJKmEPKrB667NIOSglsDgN2WVEs3iJ5WaobkQ628SdKYl9iFWqMim2u1aSRYeK34dA5FSN/s320/Old+Pic%27s+096.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will say that this was the first time that I did a konad design that didn't take me 30 minutes of stopping and redoing. It was actually a flawless process and I used the same np for stamping as I did for the tips, so all and all I thought it was pretty cool - but I kept looking at my fingers and picturing myself with a blow pop in one hand and school books in the other!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Then since I had done a little clean up of my nail area I thought I'd share with you how I kept my plates and konading supplies...</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15ZTG70TCNSGLQHcbD2H2RUmKzAoSb_I7OQ5paeMpytRY54l8JaGWS-D86AxMB9oKD5IfVPVnYJ0aBpHf67ySiXwKTNbPbPH0w7BU46VNUEMTac3n-J6eEGxWmdioRtYEQOELOLZGM103/s1600/NOTD+673.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15ZTG70TCNSGLQHcbD2H2RUmKzAoSb_I7OQ5paeMpytRY54l8JaGWS-D86AxMB9oKD5IfVPVnYJ0aBpHf67ySiXwKTNbPbPH0w7BU46VNUEMTac3n-J6eEGxWmdioRtYEQOELOLZGM103/s320/NOTD+673.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I bought this folder for a $1.79 at Staples. The inserts I think cost me about $2 or $3 for 10 sheets of which the plates fit perfectly!!</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2_YWRNu7SsN1D8C3_Kuglx1wUWyxYqZdeI6u6LNutyHdRyi2acQLViHEnbzJP38wIp4TEUWyWNHMUqe7BLlyaKbY2cZhj72FGrBuWls9966YGWK9VaT4TrAhK9Ta61VJ8ISOdTL13RVF8/s1600/NOTD+680.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2_YWRNu7SsN1D8C3_Kuglx1wUWyxYqZdeI6u6LNutyHdRyi2acQLViHEnbzJP38wIp4TEUWyWNHMUqe7BLlyaKbY2cZhj72FGrBuWls9966YGWK9VaT4TrAhK9Ta61VJ8ISOdTL13RVF8/s320/NOTD+680.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My book isn't completely full - but it's very close to it, I also have all the Bundle Master 21 Plate set in this book!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpPRhPoXey4BIPG-nnuknTPc5kFvcFwhJojvEi2oO-KXqbLEQdRywoJNx1G50VxzRZX91OOSER46W_vevBWnnxNdDS6aJkul0uC2Zj5sj6mWzBHzYAHU8IFg6xPp5OSKwwe8HvWoe-ea2/s1600/NOTD+684.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXpPRhPoXey4BIPG-nnuknTPc5kFvcFwhJojvEi2oO-KXqbLEQdRywoJNx1G50VxzRZX91OOSER46W_vevBWnnxNdDS6aJkul0uC2Zj5sj6mWzBHzYAHU8IFg6xPp5OSKwwe8HvWoe-ea2/s320/NOTD+684.jpg" /></a>\</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It fits perfectly in-between my dresser and my np cabinet (it's a rubber maid standing tower - that IS full!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">And here is where I keep my konading tools...</span> </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz6GhJa0PKx9YzGeq5DI6Ob0mOjLkXUJ0rX4srck54VumFcE_X8fzVZUdE0MhWe6d4B8zuumfZHqn8myOm33aRxBhEoHnOuM72kWYfQdFLyEBJw0F6nbJBOx0Ke6JVyldTBWUAlQybtH72/s1600/NOTD+850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" qu="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz6GhJa0PKx9YzGeq5DI6Ob0mOjLkXUJ0rX4srck54VumFcE_X8fzVZUdE0MhWe6d4B8zuumfZHqn8myOm33aRxBhEoHnOuM72kWYfQdFLyEBJw0F6nbJBOx0Ke6JVyldTBWUAlQybtH72/s400/NOTD+850.jpg" width="267" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this box I keep pure acetone, black and white konading np (more colors are on the way) double sided q-tips for easy cleaning of the stamp plate and the stamper, both types of stampers, an old hotel card cut in half and alcohol pads (that I can use when using the konading polishes - the alcohol pads allows for easy removal of the stamp if necessary)</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, there you have it - a small peak into my little world of some of my brains and tools. I swore I'd never be one of those type of bloggers - but I just couldn't resist showing you that at times - I can be organized and be proud of it!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Well, that does it for me today - back to cleaning out my stash!! :-(</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Oh - I forgot - I found some duplicates in my stash - so guess what???</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to do another giveaway with all my extra's!!</span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So, keep following, bring a friend or two with you to follow me, keep commenting and now you can tweet about it and follow me</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">@levernischocola (there wasn't enough room for me to add the 't')</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Who knows - this may even be a silent auction so there may not even be an announcement of when the giveaway starts - just when it finishes - </span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>SO, DON'T BE A GHOST - ALWAYS LEAVE A POST!!!</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Until Next Time ...Happy Polishing!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">XOXOXOXO</span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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