{"id":4704,"date":"2010-03-17T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=4704"},"modified":"2010-03-18T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T06:27:17","slug":"minx-manicure-5-and-st-patricks-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/minx-manicure-5-and-st-patricks-toes\/","title":{"rendered":"Minx Manicure #5 and Happy St. Patrick’s Toes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behold! My latest Minx manicure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nail photos by GeorgeB. Rings by WendyB.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s a close-up.<\/p>\n

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Little skulls!<\/p><\/div>\n

Normally, I go for metallic Minx but Janice the Minx lady<\/a> sent me this design to try out.* It would be perfect for celebrating the Day of the Dead<\/a>, wouldn’t it?<\/p>\n

Of course, today’s holiday is St. Patrick’s Day, which totally slipped my mind when I went to get a pedicure. I tried to pick a polish to complement one of the colors in my Minx.<\/p>\n

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Jade Is the New Black by OPI<\/p><\/div>\n

People have been noticing the green all day and asking me if I’m Irish. I feel like saying, “No, just my toes.”<\/p>\n

If you do try Minx<\/a>, please remove it with care. You can’t yank it off whenever the urge strikes you, as it once did me during the two-minute walk from the nearest drugstore to my house. I can testify that such behavior will, as a friend put it, “trash [your] nails.” Use a hair dryer to heat the Minx one by one and peel them off in a side-to-side motion. I’ve done that with no damage whatsoever. That’s the Minx-approved removal technique. But Janice recently told me that Lisa Logan, the manicurist who has been doing Beyonce’s nails, says traditional nail polish remover works too, so I will try that and report back.<\/p>\n

*Minx sent me three designs to try but I still paid full price for the manicure at Fifi Nail Salon<\/a>, the same way you pay when you bring your own polish to a manicure. It’s hard to believe considering the number of posts I’ve done on Minx, but I’m not employed by the company.\u00a0 I just like the way the product looks and the fact that it doesn’t chip in a day like regular polish. For a description of how Minx works, read my first post<\/a> on it.<\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATED TO ADD: Hot damn! I forgot St. Coco’s Day<\/a> AGAIN! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behold! My latest Minx manicure. Here’s a close-up. Normally, I go for metallic Minx but Janice the Minx lady sent me this design to try out.* It would be perfect for celebrating the Day of the Dead, wouldn’t it? Of course, today’s holiday is St. Patrick’s Day, which totally slipped my mind when I went…<\/p>\n

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