{"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&#8217;s Toes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold! My latest <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/minx-manicure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Minx manicure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4707\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4707  \" title=\"Wendy Nails(2)\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Wendy-Nails21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Wendy-Nails21.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Wendy-Nails21-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nail photos by GeorgeB. Rings by WendyB.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a close-up.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i44.tinypic.com\/24l76dy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image and video hosting by TinyPic\" width=\"307\" height=\"461\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Little skulls!<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Normally, I go for metallic Minx but <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/minx-manicure-4-silver-and-gold\/\" target=\"_blank\">Janice the Minx lady<\/a> sent me this design to try out.* It would be perfect for celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Day_of_the_Dead\" target=\"_blank\">the Day of the Dead<\/a>, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of course, today&#8217;s holiday is St. Patrick&#8217;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<div style=\"width: 356px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nailpolishdiva.com\/nlh45-opi-nail-polish-jade-is-the-new-black.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/i40.tinypic.com\/34rtyy0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Image and video hosting by TinyPic\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jade Is the New Black by OPI<\/p><\/div>\n<p>People have been noticing the green all day and asking me if I&#8217;m Irish. I feel like saying, &#8220;No, just my toes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minxnails.com\/salonlocator\/\" target=\"_blank\">try Minx<\/a>, please remove it with care. You can&#8217;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, &#8220;trash [your] nails.&#8221; Use a hair dryer to heat the Minx one by one and peel them off in a side-to-side motion. I&#8217;ve done that with no damage whatsoever. That&#8217;s the Minx-approved removal technique. But Janice recently told me that Lisa Logan, the manicurist who has been doing Beyonce&#8217;s nails, says traditional nail polish remover works too, so I will try that and report back.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Minx sent me three designs to try but I still paid full price for the manicure at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifinailsalon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fifi Nail Salon<\/a>, the same way you pay when you bring your own polish to a manicure. It&#8217;s hard to believe considering the number of posts I&#8217;ve done on Minx, but I&#8217;m not employed by the company.\u00a0 I just like the way the product looks and the fact that it doesn&#8217;t chip in a day like regular polish. For a description of how Minx works, read my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/minx-manicures-not-for-the-antisocial\/\" target=\"_blank\">first post<\/a> on it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: Hot damn! I forgot <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/holiday-confusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Coco&#8217;s Day<\/a> AGAIN! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold! My latest Minx manicure. Here&#8217;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&#8217;t it? Of course, today&#8217;s holiday is St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, which totally slipped my mind when I went&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/minx-manicure-5-and-st-patricks-toes\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[303],"tags":[445],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-minx-manicure","tag-st-patricks-day","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","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=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4714,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/4714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}