tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25035238892453039172024-02-06T20:50:08.859-08:00So U Nails & SuchCrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-76826950665742100302013-06-30T11:38:00.001-07:002013-06-30T11:40:29.426-07:00switching over to Bloglovin'Hi Everyone,<br />
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PeaceCrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-20587369672421169362013-01-08T14:59:00.000-08:002013-01-08T14:59:43.282-08:00Diablos !!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the very moment that I saw Diablos by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AboveTheCurveNailPolish?ref=stream">Above The Curve Nail Polish</a> , I KNEW I had to make it mine. In their Etsy shop, Diablos is described as "a beautiful dark reddish brown almost mahogany holographic polish."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diablos is part of their Fallen Angel Collection, but if you want to snag one, you better get there quick because they only have a few of each of the polishes in the Collection left!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my first experience with a holo, and my word, I am in LOVE. In the shade, it's a medium to dark reddish brown, but when you get into the sunlight, HOLY WOW. The colors just explode off your nails. My photos definitely do not do this polish justice, but trust me when I tell you that you will not be able to stop staring at your nails. What an absolutely gorgeous polish!! And the application? So smooth, like silk....I was amazed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drink in the photos now. If you want to see a better swatch, check out their Etsy shop!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diablos in the shade:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diablos in sunlight, can sortof see the color shift best on the pointer finger:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another sunlight shot, I've gone blind from the awesome:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you own any polishes from Above The Curve? If so, tell me what you own in the comments below!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-74573004291145314942013-01-03T17:06:00.000-08:002013-01-03T17:06:02.010-08:00Quick Review - Sally Hansen Bamboo and Green Tea Strengthener<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I was just checking out my fingernails today after taking off my most recent mani, and I noticed that they are a bit longer, thicker, and stronger - which really pleases me, due to the fact that the work I do really does a number on my nails, making them weak and brittle and prone to splitting and peeling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little over a month ago, I decided to try something new on my nails in an effort to strengthen them and hopefully reduce the amount of splitting and peeling that I was seeing along the sides of my nails.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, while I was at WalMart one day, I decided to purchase Sally Hansen's "green tea + bamboo strengthener", I think it was around 7 dollars or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to tell you that I am rather impressed with this - I have been using it as a base coat for, like I said above, a little over a month now, and my nails are noticeably stronger, thicker, healthier and have grown quite a bit since I first started using it. I really like the results that I have seen so far, and I believe I will continue using it as my preferred base coat from now on unless and until I discover something better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-75617264585113568162012-12-24T09:30:00.001-08:002012-12-24T09:30:28.002-08:00A quick Day before Christmas mani<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided that I needed to have at least ~something~ on my nails for Christmas, so I took a bit of inspiration from the envelope of a Christmas card that a friend sent to me that had little stamped gingerbread men all over it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used Revlon's "Dreamer" as the base color, and SC Nirvana for the gingerbread man, then a white for details and the zig-zag "icing" on my other fingers. I used the smallest dotting tools I had but seeing as how I have wee nubbins, the gingerbread man and his white details are really small...so his mouth kindof morphed from a mouth into a sort of garish bowtie or something. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I notice I missed a few spots of cleaning up, oops!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-42259604346947148062012-12-16T18:33:00.000-08:002012-12-16T18:33:03.006-08:00An inspired winter mani<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now that work is winding down, I finally have a few moments to do some new nail art. I've been checking out the <a href="http://www.thenailasaurus.com/">Nailasaurus blog</a> and I happened upon one of her fantastic December manis from last year, seen <a href="http://www.thenailasaurus.com/2011/12/12-days-of-christmas-nails-day-1.html">here</a> . So I got inspired. Even tho I did not have any dark blue glitter polish, or a stamping plate with a snowflake, still I wanted to try to re-create this mani in my own way, so here it is....I used Revlon's "Dreamer" as a base color, and an un-named HK blue glitter polish for the tips, then did the "snowflake" (such as it is) using Pure Ice "silver mercedes". I think it's alright, but seriously, it doesn't even come close to the awesomeness that the nailasaurus did! I just LOVE her blog!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-22153365718733705502012-12-02T10:13:00.000-08:002012-12-02T10:13:05.320-08:00A Samurai Princess goes On A Trip and says I Need A Refresh-Mint...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ok, so not the most clever of titles, but that's alright.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm excited! I ordered my VERY FIRST Indie polish, Sonnetarium's "Samurai Princess" from <a href="http://www.beautypopshop.com/">Beauty Pop Shop</a> , and it arrived in the mail yesterday, nicely packaged. When I opened the box, here's what I found:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wrapped up like a Christmas present! YAY! I wasted no time in unwrapping it. Here's the bottle shot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My word, look at all that glitter! Black and white micro, small and medium hex, and black and white bars make up this polish, in a clear base! Horray!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Application was really smooth, didn't really have to do any fishing to get the glitters I wanted. The brush is black so I was never sure with each dip how many black glitters I was getting, or what kind, but that's alright! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I polished my fingers with WnW's On A Trip (you all know purple is my favorite) and did a ring finger accent with WnW's I Need A Refresh-Mint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I did one coat of SP on each nail. I am kindof digging the randomness of the glitters on each nail. I probably could have done two coats of SP, but I didn't want to overdo it. I like the way this looks! What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-91731564113658222912012-11-28T16:33:00.000-08:002012-11-28T16:33:25.581-08:00Guess I got carried away...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just a quick post to express my disappointment, yes, disappointment, with China Glaze and their most recent release of the Cirque Du Soleil collection. Most notably, the glitter bomb that is "Get Carried Away". I went to Sally's a few days ago with a christmas gift card my folks had given me and picked up a few polishes, "Get Carried Away" was one of them. It was to be my first actual "glitter polish", so I was pretty excited. Plus the fact that it had red, silver and black hexes as well as black bar glitter...oh yeah, a true glitter bomb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then came the disappointment. I carefully polished my nails with two coats of Nina Ultra Pro "burst my bubble" (a very light pink), then brushed a coat of "get carried away" over the top. grey/black tinted base. That was my first sad face. Streaky. Second sad face. Totally covered up the fact that I had light pink undies. Third sad face. I WANTED to like "get carried away", I really did. But I did not. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I thought to myself, you know, if you brush the "get carried away" onto a sponge, then dab it onto your nails, maybe the sponge will absorb that icky tinted base and just transfer the glitter smorgasbord, letting the base color show thru. Sounded good in theory.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, the black and silver micro glitters in this polish totally dominate the bars and larger hex glitters, so it's really just a hot mess on my nails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I give this particular polish a 1 out of 5 Crimson Stars, because....while the concept was awesome, the tinted base was a total bomb, and the micro glitters vs. larger hex and bar glitters weren't balanced out enough for me to actually enjoy this polish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have "get carried away" ? If so, what do you think of it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-59843359724619933382012-11-24T19:49:00.001-08:002012-11-26T06:42:19.225-08:00T-Day Weekend Mini Sally Haul<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So on the 22nd of November me and the folks drove up North a bit to celebrate a combined Thanksgiving and Christmas celebration with the rest of the family and some extended family. My folks had my name for Christmas this year, and they got me a Sally Beauty Supply gift card, along with a couple of other things. Today my sister and I went to Sally Beauty Supply and I picked up a few polishes using my gift card, so here's my mini-haul!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From left to right we have Orly - Ingenue, Nina Ultra Pro - Burst My Bubble and China Glaze - Get Carried Away.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get Carried Away is my first "real" multi-glitter bomb polish... it contains black and silver micro glitters, red, silver and black hex glitters and black bar glitters in a grey/black tinted base. The brush is a bit wonky, but since it was the only one there, I decided to get it anyway, figuring I could trim the brush a bit later on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've already put it on my nails, and I regretfully have to say that I'm a little disappointed in it. The hex glitters don't come out very easily so a lot of fishing is required and I also had to do a bit of strategic placing of said glitters. I also noticed that the bar glitters had a tendancy to curl. Maybe it was just this bottle. Does anyone else have this polish, and if so what did you think of it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried it over two coats of the Burst My Bubble, thinking it would be a good combo, but...it wasn't. Because of the tinted base of Get Carried Away, you can't even tell there are really light pink undies there. I think maybe Get Carried Away would look good with light grey undies, or else all on it's own.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, these three polishes were my "in advance" Christmas gift from my folks, so thank you! :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-49972393490780016532012-11-10T11:16:00.000-08:002012-11-10T11:16:21.678-08:00Galaxy Revisited<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know it's been a loooong time since I made a nail art post, and all I can say in my defense is that I have been so busy with work that I haven't had the time to play with my polishes. That changed today, tho, since I finally have a day off! So, I decided to revisit some nail art I've done once before - Galaxy (or Nebula) Nails! While I was at Walmart yesterday trying to find a nail nourisher/strengthener, I wandered over to the Pure Ice display and say a funky looking polish I hadn't seen before called "Electric!" - It's a black polish with a super-fine silvery shimmer. I thought "Hey, that would make a nice base for a galaxy mani!", so I brought it home with me. Of course, with all the other stuff going on with this mani, plus the strategic application of CG's Fairy Dust, you can't really make out the base color. For the "galaxies", I used Finger Paints Paper Mache, CG's Lemon Fizz, WnW's Tickled Pink, and some unnamed dark blue. I don't think it looks too bad (aside from my super nubby nails, that is...). What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-23911396387659073262012-10-24T06:13:00.000-07:002012-10-24T06:13:02.612-07:00Nail Art from the past <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know I have not posted anything on the blog since the beginning of October, and the reason for that is because I have been so very busy with work that I haven't had any time to play with my polishes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today I am going to at LEAST make a post of some nail art I did a very long time ago that's just perfect for Autumn and in particular Halloween. Maybe it will give you some ideas of your own! Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-90864466283197012272012-10-03T17:40:00.000-07:002012-10-04T10:08:05.737-07:00Go Pink Wednesday for Breast Cancer Awareness<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, the month of October is breast cancer awareness month, and this is something close to my heart, due to the fact that several years ago, my mom called me on the phone and told me that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. It took my breath away. My main outlet for my feelings at the time were sculpting things using fimo and also making things using paper. I sculpted a lapel pin for my mom using fimo in support of her fight with breast cancer and sent it to her. Luckily, for four years now, she has been cancer free. My manicure today, while simple, reflects the love for my mother and her fight that she won while battling breast cancer. I love you, mom :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-26064398180245207462012-09-27T10:13:00.000-07:002012-09-27T10:13:03.768-07:00It's Autumn!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am so happy that Autumn has finally arrived! It's my favorite time of year - the turning of the leaves, the wonderful scents in the air and around the house, the wonderful dark polish colors.....ahhhhh!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On my nails today is one of those polishes...a wonderful deep plummy color by WnW called "Disturbia". This is one of my favorites. I love dark colors, and I love the color purple. Please excuse my terrible short nubs, work is forever taking it's toll on them, the poor things. On my ring fingers and thumbs I have put a thin coat of "Cheatin' " from Pure Ice. The subtle purple and teal sparkle isn't in your face, but it definitely catches your eye.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you as excited as I am now that Autumn is here? Do you have any favorite polishes you plan on wearing during the season?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-75447044493391920842012-09-23T17:26:00.002-07:002012-09-23T17:26:47.533-07:00My Sunday Dotticure<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you all have had a nice weekend....it's back to the grind tomorrow morning. boooooo. I cheered myself up by doing a quick and easy dotticure today using Sally Hansen's "No Hard Feelings" as a base color, and my dotting tools and China Glaze "For Audrey" to make various sized dots on just my ring fingers. I love a purple and teal/turquoise combo, don't you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enjoy what's left of your weekend, and I hope you all have a great week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-12572771198259732962012-09-18T20:01:00.000-07:002012-09-18T20:02:14.224-07:00A sort of "TIOT", Orly "Royal Velvet"Hi everyone!<br />
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So tomorrow I am back to work, so needed to cover my nails with something. I was rummaging thru my polishes and I happened upon Orly's "Royal Velvet", a lovely blue-purple duochrome with a shimmery finish that caught my eye. Since I just finished two coats and a topcoat about an hour ago, the sun has long since gone down, so I cannot show this beauty in the sunlight, but I did try to take a couple of pics that would show the shift between colors. The pics shown, as I mentioned, are two coats and a clear topcoat, but I really think that three coats would have been better, I was just impatient.<br />
Here are the two pics trying to capture the shift difference between the purple and the blue:<br />
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I really like this polish, I've never worn it before, but I like the shift and the shimmer of it. Tho I think I really need to look into getting (making) myself a light box to try to get my pictures to turn out better.<br />
Do you have this Orly polish? What do you think of it?CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-59288388274333528422012-09-14T16:17:00.002-07:002012-09-15T15:01:49.513-07:00New swatch and an apology<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First off, I want to apologize for not making a blog post for so long - I've been super busy with work lately and have had no time to do any new swatches or manis for a little while. But I'm back now with a gorgeous color that I think is just wonderful for the autumn months....it's Sinful Colors "Rich in Heart". This is a very dark, vampy color, it really looks almost black unless you view it in sunlight - and when you see it in the sun, you realize that it's a very dark burgundy color with a lovely reddish shimmer to it. The photo I took of it does NOT do it justice....the color that is seen on my pinkie finger is the closest I could get to showing the true "in the sun" picture of this beauty.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you think of this color? Is this something you would wear this autumn? Would you jazz it up somehow, and if so, what would you do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Add on - My mom said to me that she'd like to see a little something extra with this color - so I did one coat of Colorama's "color girl", which is a sort of holo flakies (shards? not sure of all the terminology out there just yet) glitter in a slightly yellowish base. The flakies turn from orange to green to yellow. I quite like it. What do you think?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-73948787139878968322012-09-05T16:50:00.000-07:002012-09-05T17:03:49.120-07:00Jessica - Chilled Chambord Swatch<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This afternoon I was trying to think of a good polish color to put on my nails for the book fair I will be doing at one of my schools tomorrow afternoon. I grabbed the shirt I plan on wearing and was holding bottles up against it for some inspiration, and when I grabbed Jessica's "Chilled Chambord", I knew it was the one. I won this polish and several others in a giveaway from <a href="http://enchantednailsandfluffydogtails.blogspot.com/">Enchanted Nails and Fluffy Dog Tails</a> not too long ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This polish is absolutely stunning. A deep red wine color with a red shimmer, opaque in two coats and the perfect compliment to what I will be wearing tomorrow afternoon. I love this color! My only problem now is deciding whether I will leave it as is, or do some stamping or use some water decals as accents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-12265188687595079302012-09-01T17:48:00.000-07:002012-09-02T07:49:39.449-07:00Pepe's Purple Passion!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted to share with you a swatch of this A-MAZ-ING OPI I just got from my friend on FB for my Birthday Do-Over...this color is awesome!!! Dark, dark plum with what appears to be a fairly reddish shimmer - oh my word it's gorgeous!! It's called Pepe's Purple Passion.... and I LOVE IT!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is awesome all by itself, needs nothing over it. AWESOME for Autumn!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-78692658355858172972012-08-31T14:30:00.000-07:002012-08-31T14:30:40.100-07:00My awesome Birthday Do-Over Nail Mail!!!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am SO excited over today's post because I got a wonderful, wonderful box filled with goodies from a friend of mine on FB. In the cute little cupcake card she sent with everything she said "...since you were sick on your birthday, we can pretend this is a do over." I'm all for that!! (for those who didn't know, I had a massive tooth/lower jaw infection on my birthday and I had to go to the doctor and get antibiotics and was absolutely miserable. Everything's ok now, tho!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look, just LOOK at all the awesome stuff she sent me!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, the list of polishes:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Megan Miller - Lemon Ice (I know, right?? Megan Miller!! :O ) I love the peacock feather on the bottle, and the bottle and cap are so cool looking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WnW Magnetic - A Force To Be Reckoned With (my first magnetic!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WnW Wild Shine - Sparked (pink glittery goodness!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sinful Colors - Snow Me White (SO glad I didn't buy this a couple days ago like I was planning on - finally a decent white!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sinful Colors - Rich In Heart</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OPI - Pepes Purple Passion</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicole by OPI - Just Busta Mauve</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also 2 little boxes of minis, 8 that are color polishes and 8 that are glitter polishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if all those awesome polishes weren't enough, she also sent me:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All seasons and all episodes of True Blood!! (you know what I will be doing tonight!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ROLOS!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little box of Russell Stover assorted chocolates</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello Kitty boxes of candy!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A cool palette of 12 different eyeshadows!! Gorgeous colors!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A small spiral notebook with cupcakes on the front and back cover. So cute!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Memory card game that has cupcakes on the cards</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A 5 pack of mini gel pens</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">two sheets of little rainbow stickers, one with hearts and one with holographic-y stars!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love, love, love everything in my birthday do-over box, thank you SO much!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can't wait to wear these polishes! ~pops a Hello Kitty candy in her mouth and smiles~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-3064184518992415232012-08-30T18:19:00.000-07:002012-08-30T18:19:19.428-07:00Wet Cement :)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tonight I decided to break out a polish that a FB friend of mine gave to me, that I have yet to try. It is WnW's Wet Cement. Looking at it in the bottle, I was all "meh"...was not very impressed with it. But once I got it on my tips I loved it! It's a very lovely medium taupe, sortof a brownish taupe with a purplish undertone to it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looks great on my nails!! I did two coats of it to reach opaque. Then I decided i'd look thru my decals, since I have tons of decals that I hardly ever use. I found these white floral decals that looked lovely on it, so here it is:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I probably could have done with more decals on the thumb, but I love how the decal on the ring finger looks with this polish. I am glad I finally decided to try out this polish, I am loving it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier today a friend posted on my FB page suggesting that I do a saran wrap mani. I've seen this mani around before and have always wanted to try it. Some people call it a plastic wrap mani, or a cling film mani.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've also seen two different ways to do it. The first way is to lay down your base color and let it dry, then choose the color you want over the top of it and do one layer of that on your nails (do this technique one nail at a time so the polish doesn't dry before you get to it with the saran wrap!). Before it's dry, wad up a small piece of saran wrap and dab-dab-dab around over the still wet coat of polish. The wet polish will stick to the plastic wrap and be lifted off your nails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other way I've seen it done is to put a little puddle of the top color of polish onto a plate, lid, CD, whatever, and wadding up the saran wrap and dabbing it into the puddle of polish, then dabbing it onto your nails here and there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to put the layer of polish onto my nails then dab the saran wrap to remove the polish in places. This is two coats of China Glaze Lemon Fizz and one coat of China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-Le.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It looks pretty cool, and it's SO easy to do. (Hey look, it's my right hand! ~gasp~ )</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you ever tried this technique? What colors did you use?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-40665778176040872402012-08-28T14:09:00.000-07:002012-08-28T14:09:08.577-07:00G is for.......<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">G is for Gage...er... I mean Giraffe!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I did this manicure for the son of a dear friend of mine who likes giraffes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First I did two coats of China Glaze Lemon Fizz. Then I stamped using Sinful Colors Nirvana.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall, I am a bit disappointed with the end result of this, as the image on the plate (MASH 20) was too small to cover my entire nail, so on all but the pinkie (don't look at the pinkie!), I had to double stamp, then go back over a few areas with my brush and remover to try and separate some of the spots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, I mattified it, because hey, giraffes aren't shiny. Not entirely sure what happened on the pinkie, but I think it's a result of overzealous clean up, and that's what happens when remover hits the matte top coat. Let's just pretend that a bird flew over the giraffe....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See T? Giraffe nails aren't that hard to do, and I KNOW you have the MASH20 plate ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-46965415680579277172012-08-27T15:59:00.000-07:002012-08-27T15:59:15.683-07:00Versatile Blogger Award X2 !<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone, guess what? Crystal over at <a href="http://cdesigns92.blogspot.com/2012/08/we-got-another-blog-award-versatile.html">CDesigns92</a> nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award. Thanks Crystal!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know, you are thinking, hey didn't you already get that award? Well, yes, I did. But no one ever said I couldn't accept it more than once!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only problem is, I do not have any more relatively new blogs to nominate, so I really hope it's alright if I just do the 7 more random facts about myself. Besides, what better way to get to know me than to have me share things about myself?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, here we go!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. I work for my parents, for a company called <a href="http://www.booksarefun.com/">Books Are Fun</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. I don't consider myself to be very "girly-girl", but I do like girly things like butterflies, hummingbirds and of course, nail polish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. I love the AMC TV Series The Walking Dead</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. I have dabbled in many different crafty things, from decoupage, to scrapbooking, to card making, to altered books, to carving my own rubber stamps, to beadwork (rosaries, jewelry, phone dangles...) I have so much random craft stuff it's unreal.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. My favorite colors are colors in the red family (ie. burgundy, crimson, candy apple red) and the purple family (ie. lilac, amethyst, violet)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. I have never been stung by a bee, hornet or wasp (and I hope I never get stung!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7. I LOVE EATING CRAB LEGS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-9179734646313822852012-08-26T15:16:00.001-07:002012-08-26T15:16:20.786-07:00OPI at Target?Hi everyone!<br />
Thought I'd share with you something a FB friend of mine just told me - OPI and Nicole OPI polishes are at Target! I haven't been to a Target in years and years, so this is news to me. If you already knew this, then treat this as a reminder that there's more than one place to buy your OPI polishes!<br />
Look at the yummy displayyyyyyy .....<br />
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OPI is $8.50 and the Nicoles are $7.00 . Some of the colors, between the two labels, are nearly identical.<br />
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Peace.CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-61274008498375895222012-08-25T11:41:00.003-07:002012-08-25T11:42:53.353-07:00My frickin' franken<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi everyone! I thought I'd make a quick post to show you the frankenpolish I just finished. It's in a tiny bon-bon's bottle. I actually used the color that was originally in there, called "copper", I guess...there's no name on it. It's a very sheer brown base with what looks like silver shimmer. It was mostly full, so I just added a couple drops of Petites "Mango", and some shiny orange glitter and some shiny gold glitter. Shake, shake, shake, here's a bottle shot:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I put some on my nails. Pinkie is one coat, ring finger is two coats, middle finger is one coat over Sinful Colors Nirvana, and pointer finger is one coat over WnW black creme. I'm not sure I like it over black.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've already decided to name this one "Autumn Sunrise". Can you tell I'm ready for summer to be over already? What do you think of my franken? What undies would you wear with this? (by undies I am of course referring to a base color, not the undies on your body!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace.</span>CrimsonSoulFirehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03809502889872314042noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2503523889245303917.post-52878398126679113272012-08-24T18:54:00.000-07:002012-08-24T18:54:46.364-07:00Posts from the Past<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hi everyone!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So ever since my last blog got deleted, I've been crying a little bit inside over the past manicures I had posted on there, so I've decided to do re-posts of past manicures every once in awhile just to show everyone what I've been up to the past couple of months. This post features a couple of manicures I did in July, one that I did when I first got my MASH stamping plates, and my totally awesome galaxy manicure. Enjoy!</span><br />
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