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Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spring. Show all posts

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Red Dog Designs Berry Friends Collection - Swatches and Review




Berry Friends Collection for 2013!

*Available starting on Friday, April 26, 2013 at approximately 4 pm Central time in the US.*

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Red Dog Designs Berry Friends Collection


Of course I had to do a skittles mani when I first got them. Who could resist?



Red Dog Designs Berry Friends Collection

Red Dog Designs Berry Friends Collection

Red Dog Designs Berry Friends Collection


Strawberry Shortcake: pink base with pink shimmer and a mix of red, hot pink, green, white and black hex and square glitters

Lemon Meringue: yellow base with gold shimmer and a mix of yellow, gold, white, copper and green hex and circle glitters

Blueberry Muffin: blue base with a turquoise shimmer and a mix of various shades of blue, periwinkle, white and purple hex and square glitters

Raspberry Tart: lavender base with a violet shimmer and a mix of various shades of purple, berry, fuchsia, white and green hex, square, micro-slice and circle glitters

Purple Pieman: purple jelly base with a blue shimmer and a mix of microfine holo, berry, blue and a rainbow hex and square glitters


The formula and application were great on all five of these. Each one had plenty of glitter and it spread nicely on the nail. Mine are mini bottles, which are a little trickier as far as getting the glitter pieces out, so I use a toothpick to do the "scrape and drag" (down the sides and across the bottom) on each mini bottle I have with glitter, no matter the brand. I did that on these before starting and had no issues at all. I used three coats of each of them and one coat of top coat for the photos.


Strawberry Shortcake



Red Dog Designs Strawberry Shortcake

Red Dog Designs Strawberry Shortcake

Red Dog Designs Strawberry Shortcake

Red Dog Designs Strawberry Shortcake


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Lemon Meringue



Red Dog Designs Lemon Meringue

Red Dog Designs Lemon Meringue

Red Dog Designs Lemon Meringue

Red Dog Designs Lemon Meringue


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Blueberry Muffin



Red Dog Designs Blueberry Muffin

Red Dog Designs Blueberry Muffin

Red Dog Designs Blueberry Muffin

Red Dog Designs Blueberry Muffin


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Raspberry Tart



Red Dog Designs Raspberry Tart

Red Dog Designs Raspberry Tart

Red Dog Designs Raspberry Tart

Red Dog Designs Raspberry Tart


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Purple Pieman



Red Dog Designs Purple Pieman

Red Dog Designs Purple Pieman

Red Dog Designs Purple Pieman

Red Dog Designs Purple Pieman

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What do you think of this collection? Personally I loved them and especially the color-saturation and coordinating shimmer in them. I think this sets them apart from other spring lines I've seen. My favoriteis Raspberry Tart - and Strawberry Shortcake and Purple Pieman are tied for 2nd. It's really hard to choose! Which are your favorites? Will you be picking up any (or all) of them up Friday?


These polishes will be available starting Friday, April 26, 2013 at the Red Dog Designs Shop and they will retail for $8.75. Also be sure to check out Red Dog Designs on Facebook,for swatches, news and updates!






*PR Samples provided for my honest review

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Easter Nail Art - Deranged Bunny and Runny Eggs?



Since I missed Copy-Caturday last Saturday and I'll likely miss it this Saturday as I'll be going out of town, I thought I'd drop a little Easter Nail Art on you that I came up with this morning.

And it shows a semi-success and a fail. LOL!

First, the semi-success...



Easter Nail Art - Flowers bunny and Easter egg


I used Dior Lilac Colorvision as the base on all but the middle nail which is The Nail Junkie Matte Daffodil and layered on Different Dimension Wide Awake (holo) on 3 nails. I used Illamasqua Smash as the green and the following: Zoya Blu, The Nail Junkie Matte Rose, AquaDaisy Shazaam, Cult Nails Time Traveler, Pure Ice Superstar and Zoya Neely.


Sort of a deranged bunny and a rather crooked Easter egg, but I'm okay with it. LOL! It was the top coating that did me in. I top coated all nails except the middle nail with Poshe and decided to go matte on the middle nail.

Wrong choice. Even though I was SURE it was 100% dry, THIS is what happened...



Easter Nail Art - Flowers bunny and Easter egg
The matte top coat on the middle nail was very poor decision!


EWWWWWWW!!!! Runny eggs!


EDITED TO ADD: This is how I "fixed" it - I removed the runny egg and layered Dior Lilac Colorvision and Lynnderella LavenDear, Forget You Not and Ice the Snowcake.







There you have it! I enjoyed creating it even if I did promptly ruin it! Please feel free to share any Easter or Spring nail art on my Facebook page and HAPPY EASTER!






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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Beach Time!

Hi errbody!  It's Twinkie again.  I'm a happy dawg! Mommy took us to the beach today and we had a really good time!

We smelled all sorts of new smells and some were really awesome! I could tell Mommy thought so too because she made weird faces when it was really good. I did a good job and I know 'cause Mommy told me so a bunch of times. I was in charge of Murphy. I love Murphy but he's not very smart.  I'm really smart so I hafta make sure he does what Mommy says. She tells him but he doesn't listen.  She's trying something new called a clicker, but I don't think he understands her. So I show him where to go. That's my job 'cause I'm a herder and I'm really good at it!

Mommy took pictures and I'm gonna show you what we did (but I'm not showing you the ones of her thumb 'cause she'd be mad.)

This is Murphy on the way to our adventure.  He looks happy but I think it's 'cause he farted.

The first thing we did was run and jump in the water!  It was so much fun! I swam all over, but Murphy only stood up to his belly. But that's okay. I'll teach him to swim next time.














And then it was time to go home. Herding Murphy wasn't too hard because I'm such a gooddog. He was going the wrong way, but Mommy told me to go get him, so I did and then I raced him back. I'm a lot faster than he is.  I'm faster than anything! See how big we're smiling???



Mommy said we made a big mess in the car and she wishes she hadn't sold the Navigator, but I don't think she minded too bad. And we smell so GOOD now! But I bet she gives us a bath and takes all the good smells away. I think Mommy's smeller is broken.

I love Spring!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Spring!

Dog Days of Summer can't be far behind!

Murphy, the golden-mix, couldn't care less what season it is.  He's a lump.  A big, goofy, lovable doofus of a lump. Cold, hot - it's all the same to him. As long as no one makes him chase anything silly like a tennis ball or a frisbee, he's happy. IQ normal, activity level -2.  He's my "brother."






My name is Twinkie and I'm an Australian Cattle Dog. I'm very VERY smart!  Mommy tells me so all the time.  She tells me that I might have escaped from a Dean Koontz research lab?  I don't know who that is and I don't remember it, but I think Mommy's convinced. I'm THRILLED to see Spring!  Not because I couldn't have just as much fun in winter as in any other season.  No, it's because that's when Mommy stops being such a lump.

All winter I've been dreaming chasing the frisbee or a tennis ball, biting at and frolicking in the water, going to the beach or for a ride on the boat, playing with any dog that will run or wrestle. I really love to play.  I could play and play all day.

Mommy takes pictures of Murphy, too, but they're all the same.  He's ALWAYS taking a nap in them.  That's all he does! He's still a lot younger and kind of a teenager sometimes, but I love him.  Even if he doesn't do all the fun stuff like I do. Mommy takes LOTS of photos of me, but half the time, she gets her thumb.  She says she's going to take some photography classes or at the least, read the manual that came with her "fool-proof" camera.  So far, she only uses the auto setting.

Here are some fun pictures of me doing fun stuff!

Attack of the Dihydrogen Monoxide Monster!

At the ranch...

I see another doggie!!

I love summer.

I wanna go swim with the dolphins!

Fine.  I'll just play by myself.


Quit throwin' it in the TREE, Mommy!

Can't. Quite. Reachhhhhhhh.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeee!



Don't worry, I got this one.

Oops, the sun was in my eyes.


Beach!!!!

Finally sacked out.  

Mommy notes:  The Twinkster sacked out, as you can see, so I'll finish up for her.

Spring is the only time in South Texas being outside is even remotely tolerable.  Can hardly WAIT to move somewhere we can actually enjoy going outside.  It'll be nice to take walks with the dogs and just DO something other than stay indoors being a couch potato - or being glued to a computer monitor.

FREEEEEEEEEEEDOM!