{"id":16489,"date":"2012-08-03T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=16489"},"modified":"2012-08-03T17:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T21:59:16","slug":"rings-and-nails-worthy-of-a-queen-cobra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/rings-and-nails-worthy-of-a-queen-cobra\/","title":{"rendered":"Rings and Nails Worthy of a Queen Cobra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited that my pal, celebrity manicurist <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/theres-something-about-my-pinkie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracylee Percival<\/a>, has been named the official &#8220;nail ambassador&#8221; for beauty-product company <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyhansen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Hansen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16490\" style=\"width: 497px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16490\" class=\" wp-image-16490 \" title=\"tracylee\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tracylee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tracylee.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tracylee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tracylee-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tracylee.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tracylee has been doing my nails since <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/minx-manicure-7-sorta-matte-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">November 2010<\/a>, shortly after I made a <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/winter-solstice-manicure-by-tracylee-percival\/\" target=\"_blank\">non-New Year&#8217;s resolution to make sure my fingers looked good enough to represent my ring designs<\/a>. Lately, I&#8217;ve been addicted to <a href=\"http:\/\/sallyhansen.com\/products\/nails\/nail-color\/salon-effects-real-nail-polish-strips\" target=\"_blank\">Sally Hansen Salon Effects nail polish strips<\/a> because they have no drying time, <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/sally-hansen-manicures-by-tracylee-percival\/\" target=\"_blank\">come in great patterns and last about 10 days<\/a>. (A few applications have lasted over two weeks for me.) Today, Tracylee used Sally Hansen&#8217;s &#8220;Queen Cobra&#8221; pattern on me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16491\" title=\"nailsnorings\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nailsnorings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nailsnorings.jpg 697w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nailsnorings-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It reminds me of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/snakes-on-my-fingers-snakes-on-my-lobes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brattlesnake<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; a netural color with an interesting pattern &#8212; and it complements my 18K-gold-and-diamond poison ring designs. From left: my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Agrippina-Poison-Ring\" target=\"_blank\">Agrippina ring<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Borgia-Poison-Ring\" target=\"_blank\">Borgia ring<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Medici-Poison-Ring\" target=\"_blank\">Medici ring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16493\" title=\"nailsrings\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nailsrings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nailsrings.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/nailsrings-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sally Hansen is coming out with Insta Gel strips in November. Gel polish is longer-lasting than regular nail polish, so I&#8217;ll definitely be using\u00a0 that product. Can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can follow Tracylee on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LuxebyTracylee\" target=\"_blank\">@LuxebyTracylee<\/a> and Sally Hansen at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SallyHansen\" target=\"_blank\">@SallyHansen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited that my pal, celebrity manicurist Tracylee Percival, has been named the official &#8220;nail ambassador&#8221; for beauty-product company Sally Hansen. Tracylee has been doing my nails since November 2010, shortly after I made a non-New Year&#8217;s resolution to make sure my fingers looked good enough to represent my ring designs. Lately, I&#8217;ve been addicted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/rings-and-nails-worthy-of-a-queen-cobra\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16490,"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":[43,348,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-my-designs","8":"category-nail-polish","9":"category-poison-rings","10":"category-rings","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489","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=16489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16495,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16489\/revisions\/16495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}