{"id":11072,"date":"2011-05-26T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T04:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2011-12-15T23:39:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:39:30","slug":"a-manicure-that-screams-take-me-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-manicure-that-screams-take-me-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"A Manicure That Screams &#8220;Take Me Seriously!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity manicurist <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/theres-something-about-my-pinkie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracylee Percival<\/a> has named my latest nail look &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dippindots.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dippin&#8217; Dots<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11073\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11073\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11073\" title=\"Dippin' Dots Wendy Brandes\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dippin-Dots-Wendy-Brandes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dippin-Dots-Wendy-Brandes.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Dippin-Dots-Wendy-Brandes-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All those rings are my own designs, of course!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tracylee used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nailharmony.com\/products\/gelish-gel-polish\/gelish-gel-polish.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gelish<\/a> colors Passion (pink), Sleek White, Princess Tiara (lavender), Allure (gold), Seafoam (light green) and Ocean Wave (blue). Doesn&#8217;t this manicure just scream, &#8220;Take me seriously!&#8221;? I was thinking I wouldn&#8217;t have worn anything like this at my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/in-news-lehman-brothers\/\" target=\"_blank\">old job at Lehman Brothers<\/a>. Then I thought that maybe I would have dared to do it, just once, to say &#8220;Fuck you!&#8221; to the place. I was already running around there wearing a <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/what-wendy-will-wear-alexander-mcqueen-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\">too-sexy suit<\/a> with no pantyhose (dress code violation!). Would the nails have been so much worse?<\/p>\n<p>The cute manicure didn&#8217;t stop me from expressing myself in a not-cute way today. I visited a jewelry manufacturer who takes forever to get things done and never remembers my name or what work he is doing for me when I get to his place to pick my pieces up. He does solid work and is less expensive than some of my other U.S. manufacturers, so I&#8217;ve been tolerating his behavior. But today, he asked me to pay him in cash. I politely replied, &#8220;Are you fucking kidding me?! What the fuck!&#8221; and paid him by check. Swearing at someone I work with really brought me back to the good old days of my corporate life. What?! Did you think I only became <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/thanks-from-the-two-time-swearing-champ\/\" target=\"_blank\">a champion swearer<\/a> after I started the blog? Bitches, I&#8217;ve had many years of practice. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrity manicurist Tracylee Percival has named my latest nail look &#8220;Dippin&#8217; Dots.&#8221; Tracylee used Gelish colors Passion (pink), Sleek White, Princess Tiara (lavender), Allure (gold), Seafoam (light green) and Ocean Wave (blue). Doesn&#8217;t this manicure just scream, &#8220;Take me seriously!&#8221;? I was thinking I wouldn&#8217;t have worn anything like this at my old job at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/a-manicure-that-screams-take-me-seriously\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[348,130],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nail-polish","8":"category-swearing","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13763,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/13763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}