tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64392748721352677652024-03-13T08:03:38.435-05:00Sasha Rae- Lacquer StainedSasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-51341151340865526002012-02-24T23:09:00.000-06:002012-02-24T23:09:31.942-06:00My First Jelly SandwichIt's been a while since I've posted a manicure and I do apologize. My camera doesn't take very good pictures to begin with and by time I get around to it my nails have grown out a bit or I've already gotten tip wear. But enough excuses...<br />
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My first jelly sandwich! I've seen pictures online of this type of technique and had to try it.</div>
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This was 2 coats of Essie Jelly Apple, 1 coat of China Glaze Blonde Bombshell (Eye Candy Collection), then 1 coat of Jelly Apple. I applied Seche Vite as the top coat and let it dry for a few minutes. Then I thought it would be fun to add some stamping. This was with Konad plate m73 and Bundle Monster BM-225 for the "Love" character all with Essence Nail Art Stampy Polish in Stamp Me! Black. </div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This was without flash and the polish didn't come out true to color. It's a very cherry red in real life.</span></div>
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Jelly Apple applied really nicely, the first coat did come out really pink but the second really deepened to a nice cherry shade and juicy looking too! When I applied Blonde Bombshell, which is a multi sized gold glitter, the Jelly Apple coated it really well without making the glitter dull. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get a camera where I can take macro shots that show those details :) </div>
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I was really hoping to take photos in the sun but it always seems to be cloudy when I think about it. Please excuse the messy clean up, I didn't notice how bad it looked until I saw the pictures. </div>
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Have so much more to post so hope you will be back to visit! Thanks for stopping by!</div>
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</div>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-90985776251482908872012-01-12T22:44:00.000-06:002012-01-12T22:44:15.099-06:00Zoya IbizaI've been wanting this polish for a while and finally got my little hands on it! <br />
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Ibiza is from the fall 2009 collection, Dare. It's a very pretty inky deep blue. The application was pretty good but when I got close to my cuticles it flooded them so I had to take it extra careful. It's such a dark color that I thought some metallic stamping would look nice. Using Pure Ice Silver Mercedes, I stamped with Bundle Monster plate BM-224. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I'm really happy with how the stamping came out, I've been trying for so long to find a silver polish that stamped well without having to buy the konad silver. I'm trying to find a drugstore gold polish that stamps well, any suggestions?? </span></div>
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<br /></div>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-38518300652303968022012-01-08T19:22:00.000-06:002012-01-08T19:22:40.372-06:00NYX Las Vegas (I like Emerald City...)<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After seeing some posts on other nail blogs I had to hunt for the old NYX bottles. Mostly looking for NYX Jungle, which is a duochrome greenish blue gold polish, I stopped at one of many many beauty supply stores here in the city. This particular chain has each store with its own individual name and they mostly have hair products and lower end cosmetics. But they all have old NYX products. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So I find the display and see the old rounded bottles of NYX polishes at the bottom. No Jungle.. darn. Then I see a dark, very glittery green. I turn it over, no label. Grab the one behind it.. no label. A lot of the bottles are so old the labels fell off. After several bottles slide to the front I finally find one with a label.. haha! Las Vegas. After the last bottle slides to the front, I gasp to find it's one lonely Jungle hidden behind a slew of Las Vegas! A trip well worth the traffic!</span></div>
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Even though the entire reason I went to this place was to find Jungle, the other looked so interesting I had to try it.. all I can saw is wow. It is an emerald green JELLY with emerald and blue microglitter. LOOKIT!</div>
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Sorry about the bare tips, I used Seche Vite as a top coat and it shrank the polish. These pictures really don't show this polish at its best, it is so beautiful in real life. I don't know why they named it Las Vegas, if it's gotta be a place I think Emerald City would have been better! haha!</div>
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</div>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-12707146259888754382012-01-06T23:36:00.000-06:002012-01-06T23:36:54.149-06:00L'Oreal VIP Status & Luxeffects Set In Stones<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I am so excited to be back! I haven't so much as logged into my blog for about 5 months and now I have the motivation to get back into the swing of things! Around mid July things got pretty crazy for me and a month later I uprooted myself from a small quiet town to a very large city and am with my husband trying to get our lives on track. I start a new job in a few days and basically am ready to put 2011 behind me 'cuz believe me, you can have it.. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With all the craziness of the last few months I have hardly painted my nails at all. Considering that I would paint my nails a new color every 2-3 days, I can say I was extremely stressed and depressed and bad things were coming up one after another but things are looking up and I'm feeling a lot better. So with all that being said I feel so happy to be back in my little corner of the internet. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Here is my first manicure of the new year! L'Oreal VIP Status with one coat of Essie Luxeffects Set in Stones</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8nKK15wRC2Q/TwfQWvRTGvI/AAAAAAAAAWg/t7D1oLzv1SA/s1600/IMAG1718.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8nKK15wRC2Q/TwfQWvRTGvI/AAAAAAAAAWg/t7D1oLzv1SA/s400/IMAG1718.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">natural light</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And coincidentally this is also my first try with a new basecoat. I swear by Nailtek, their ridgefiller is the best! But it's expensive and thickens around half way through the bottle. On a whim I bought Orly Ridgefiller because it was $3. It dries smooth which I don't care for since Nailtek dries with a rough texture. When I applied VIP Status it went on patchy so I don't know if it had to do with the slick surface of the ridgefiller or the polish itself. This is only my second purchase of a L'Oreal polish so I'm not familiar with their formula. I don't ever give drugstore brands anymore than a glance over but I was at my local Wal-Mart yesterday and I saw a brand new display with about 25 polishes. For some strange reason there was only one of each color and this shade caught my eye. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's a very pretty steel greyish blue with a silver microshimmer to it. In the bottle it has a slight purple duochrome but it didn't show up on the nail. It did brush on a little goopy as well but after the second coat it levelled out just fine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The Essie top coat, Set in Stones, applied really well. I didn't have any trouble getting the glitter even on the nail and I like it a lot more than I expected to. It's full of hex shaped and very tiny silver glitter particles. Soo sparkly.. This is part of a 5 piece collection of gorgeous effects topcoats which I received from my very dear friend Natalie as part of a Christmas gift, she is beyond awesome!!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">I have several pictures of nail art I've done in the last few months so in between manicures I will be posting those. Hopefully I can stick with this since I really do enjoy it and I've learned a lot from many other nail bloggers I've come to look up to. Thanks for visiting and happy new year to you!</span> </span></div>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-70348895361066676022011-07-06T19:15:00.000-05:002011-07-06T19:15:07.025-05:00China Glaze Crackle - Metals: Cracked Medallion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwkJiNTGAcE/ThT0R8sCorI/AAAAAAAAAVo/GJWKeOuu6Aw/s1600/IMAG1148.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="190" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwkJiNTGAcE/ThT0R8sCorI/AAAAAAAAAVo/GJWKeOuu6Aw/s320/IMAG1148.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">I got these new Crackle polishes at my favorite Sally's Beauty Supply location. The ladies there are super nice and know me by name and always know exactly what I'm there for. Haha! But anyway.. I haven't had a chance to wear them all but will be trying as soon as I can. The colors I got from left to right are -</span><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="color: #274e13;">Cracked Medallion (copper)</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #274e13;">Oxidized Aqua (teal-ish light blue)</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #274e13;">Latticed Lilac (lavender)</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #274e13;">Haute Metal (pink)</span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: #274e13;">Tarnished Gold (light gold)</span></div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13;">The only color I didn't get was Platinum Pieces, the silver one. The reason I didn't was because 1) I already had the OPI version and 2) the Sally's ran out.. But I'm sure I will, in time, cave since I have this hoarding problem and hate having incomplete sets! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13;">This is the first color I've worn so far, this is over the Nubar Purple Rain Glitter I was wearing at the time: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Please excuse the tip wear. Seche Vite does have a reputation for shrinkage. All in all it came out really nice, the application was better than I expected, better than the OPI silver version I had tried recently. These really are a fun quick way to mix it up a little if you're bored of just a plain jane manicure. Very easy for those who aren't into trying their patience with nail art also. Will be posting the other colors soon because I'm excited to try a few color combinations I have in mind, thanks for visiting! I appreciate it so much! :D</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">This was a lot more difficult than I expected.. but it turned out more or less how I wanted. I used the splatter technique that I've seen a lot of other bloggers doing so I thought why not? Thanks to the burn ban and fireworks being cancelled this would be as close as I was gonna get!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This was my first try, using a regular old drinking straw and a plastic paint palette plate. Doing one hand at a time I put a couple of coats of China Glaze White on White. For the splaterring I used China Glaze China Rouge and OPI Yoga-Ta Get This Blue. I figured this would be messy... like marbling.. so I put tape on my finger around my nail to keep clean up to a minimum then I put 4 or 5 drops of of China Rouge in one of the wells on the palette. I dipped the straw into the polish and, not directly over my nail but at a bit of an angle, blew a short puff of air into the straw. After getting the effect I wanted over each finger I repeated with the other color. Sealed it all with a coat of Seche Vite. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've had this on my nails the past 2 days and luckily has not chipped at all. I'm pretty happy with this manicure over all, I hope to try other color combinations soon. Thanks for visiting! :D</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-1914716633078298362011-07-02T10:49:00.000-05:002011-07-02T10:49:23.366-05:00My week long nail polish haul!Within the past week and a half I've been finding nail polish like crazy... not good for my pockets. But most were either on sale or clearance or less than $2 a piece so I don't feel too guilty! I'm pretty sure these have put me well over the 500 bottle mark now lol.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">1. Wet n Wild: Sagreena the Teenage Witch w/ bonus top coat</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">2.Revlon: Black with Envy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">3. Maybelline: Blue Brilliance</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">4. Milani: Precious Metal</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">5. Sinful Colors: Verbena</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">6. Sinful Colors: Tapping Nails</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">7. Sinful Colors: Oh La La</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">8. Sinful Colors: Bali Mist</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">9. Sinful Colors: All About You</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">10. Sinful Colors: Pinky Glitter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">11. Sinful Colors: Gorgeous</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">12. Sinful Colors: Ciao Bella! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">13. Sinful Colors: Frenzy</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">14. China Glaze Crackle Metals: Oxidized Aqua</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">15. China Glaze Crackle Metals: Tarnished Gold</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">16. China Glaze Crackle Metals: Cracked Medallion</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">17. China Glaze Crackle Metals: Latticed Lilac</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">18. China Glaze Crackle Metals: Haute Metal</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">19. OPI Shrek Forever After: Fiercly Fiona</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">20. OPI Shrek Forever After: Who The Shrek Are You?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">21. OPI Shrek Forever After: Ogre The Top Blue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">22. OPI Shrek Forever After: Funky Dunkey</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">23. L.A. Color Craze mini: Sea Siren</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">24. L.A. Color Craze mini: Current</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">25. L.A. Color Craze mini: Phenomena</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">26. L.A. Color Craze mini: Splash</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">27. L.A. Color Craze mini: Magnetic Force</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">28. Orly mini: Otoile</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">29. Sally Hansen HD: Hi-Def</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">30. Sally Hansen HD: Lite</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">31. Sally Hansen HD: BLU</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">32. Sally Hansen HD: Hi-Res</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">33. Finger Paints: Amethyst Atelier</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">34. Revlon Scented: Orange Fizz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">35. Revlon Scented: Apple-tini Fizz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">36. Revlon Scented: Grape Fizz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">37. Revlon Scented: Watermelon Fizz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">38. Revlon Scented: Pineapple Fizz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">39. Revlon Scented: Mint Fizz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">40. Revlon Scented: Colada Fizz</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">41. Orly-French Manicure: Sky Blue-Pink</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">42. Wet n Wild fastdry: Hannah Pinktana</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">43. L.A. Colors- Color Craze: Morning Glory</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">44. L.A. Colors- Color Craze: Black Pearl</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">45. L.A. Colors- Color Craze: Twilight</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">46. L.A. Colors- Color Craze: Cactus</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">These three I bought yesterday, the first completes the revlon scented fizz collection :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JqfSZd3HOk8/Tg87r8yrHBI/AAAAAAAAAVU/VrhLkrr2oh8/s1600/IMAG1109.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="191" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JqfSZd3HOk8/Tg87r8yrHBI/AAAAAAAAAVU/VrhLkrr2oh8/s320/IMAG1109.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
47. Revlon Scented: Grapefruit Fizz<br />
48. L.A. Colors- Color Craze: Merlot<br />
49. L.A. Colors- Color Craze: Dark Denim<br />
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<div align="center">Hopefully someday I can wear all of these colors, I know I have enough polish to last a couple of lifetimes. I would love to post a picture of every polish I own just to get an idea of how much I really have, haha! Tomorrow will find me a few more since OPI is releasing a few polishes that are exclusive to ULTA. I will be there bright and early with my $3.50 off coupon in hand and take advantage of their buy 2 get 1 free on top of that so, again, I don't feel <strong>too</strong> guilty. Thanks for visiting! :D</div><br />
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</div>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-83381286506882499332011-06-26T22:29:00.000-05:002011-06-26T22:29:13.277-05:00Nubar Purple Rain Glitter<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is what I'm wearing today, and my first nail posting..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is Nubar Purple Rain Glitter, it is, I would say, a dark purple jelly filled with tiny pink, purple and holographic glitter. The jelly really shows off the layers of glitter and gave it a lot of depth. The formula was really nice and it was pretty opaque by the 2nd coat. This was 3 coats with 2 thin layers of Seche Vite on top. </span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In full sun:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xLHlVwEL9e4/TgfzUopnhmI/AAAAAAAAAUs/1e4C_d0Hx0g/s1600/IMAG1055.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="379" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xLHlVwEL9e4/TgfzUopnhmI/AAAAAAAAAUs/1e4C_d0Hx0g/s640/IMAG1055.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This one I blurred to show the sparkle...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2bebcXJoEbM/Tgf0swfShSI/AAAAAAAAAU0/dhD4JOe4fQQ/s1600/IMAG1073.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2bebcXJoEbM/Tgf0swfShSI/AAAAAAAAAU0/dhD4JOe4fQQ/s640/IMAG1073.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I really am becoming a fan of Nubar but I hate that it's not something I can easily go out and browse for. For some reason I will happily drive a half hour for polish I saw online but am reluctant to buy it while I'm sitting on my fanny in pajamas... I'm not sure when this color was released or what collection it's from but it's one of the prettiest I now own in my collection of purples, it's a very unique color! It's very hard to capture the sparkle and depth of the violet that glows when the light hits it. I definitely recommend this one and this brand hasn't disappointed me so far :D </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for visiting!!</div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439274872135267765.post-83813592519940907702011-06-16T01:10:00.000-05:002011-06-16T01:10:13.450-05:00I'm Here!<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia;">I've finally started my own blog! I'm so excited to start posting about all my little 'nail adventures' and share the information I've learned along the way! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia;">Want to dedicate this to my husband, Jorge. Thanks for putting up with my polish addiction, I appreciate all the encouragement ,interest, and attention he gives me when I go on about nail polish. He makes it that much more fun and enjoyable for me. :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia;">Thanks to my dear friend Natalie for her support and help getting me started! </span>Sasha Raehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11843032487433095253noreply@blogger.com3