a scandalous original

my darlingly scandalous, and sometimes, shocking, friend Ange-Marie made a pretty orange holo polish just for me! she mixes up her own polishes a.k.a "frankens", as i've mentioned before, and is the queen of franken-holographic polishes! we were chatting one day on twitter and i was saying how i wanted an orange holo and she was like OK! i bought a polish from her on a blog sale and she sent this guy to me as an extra special prize, cuz she's just that awesome!

unfortunately... this story has a tragic plot twist. my dear postal service decided to be royal buttheads and somehow the polish bottle ended up breaking in transit!

it was apparent the second i got within a few feet of the package that something had gone terribly wrong.  i smelled that all too familiar smell of polish and i PRAYED that what i had thought happened, hadn't.  turns out it did.  Ange remarked that it looked like they had played kick-ball with the package!  for real, that's a shatter, not just a break!  but miracuously, the polish was still wet enough to quickly paint with, so i set out at record speed to salvage a mani with this fallen soldier.  here is the result.

because of the inability to mix the polish a bit before i painted, and having to take "dips" from different sections of the pool, the color differs from one finger to the next, but OH WELL, it's still awesome!  this is an light orange holo, the likes of which i've never seen before.  very pretty and i mourn the loss.  i've named my late hero orange-a-tan, cos when i was little i thought you pronounced the word "orangutan" like orange-y-tan for some reason (i was special huh).  and orangutans are so damn cute!  case in point:

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a side note, you may notice that i've stopped watermarking my photos.  i realize that my time is better spent than by adding ugly watermarks to every photo.  they look nicer w/o them anyway.  anyone who has manners knows not to steal photos, but i'll say it here just in case.  please do not steal photos, even though it happens and if it does, i'll probably live =)

xoxo,
kelliegonzo

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so scandalous

in the last month, i've kind of binged a bit on polish. partially from e-tailers, brick and mortar stores, and partially from blog sales! i think blog sales are a great way to find polishes that i might be particularly interested in but probably won't find in stores or anywhere else anytime soon. also i can usually get them for pretty good bargains and in turn help out the seller/blogger in clearing out their unused/unwanted polish to make room for more and to earn extra money for themselves.

when i purchased a few polishes from the awesome miss Ange-Marie from scandalously polished, she slipped in a little extra something with my purchases. at first i was at a loss for identifying the extra bottle in the package she sent me, it was in an icing bottle with a silver china glaze handle, it was reddish pinky berry colored holo and to my knowledge i'd never seen anything like it. then i remembered that Ange is a franken queen! frankening is basically when someone takes a polish and adds other polishes, pigments, glitter, etc. to it to make a new color. so i knew that this polish had to be one of her awesome creations. she later told me on twitter it was her very first franken*strike that, her very first HOLO franken*, so i feel very special to have received it.  my bestie mickelle helped me name it, after that song by mis-teeq, so scandalous :)

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do you "franken" any polishes yourself?  i have only frankened one so far, but hopefully i will be doing more in the future.  oh i wanted to mention, some of us nail bloggers had a discussion on twitter yesterday and were thinking, who would love to see a holo polish collection co-designed by miss Ange-Marie herself?  uhhh *waves hand in the air frantically* me, me, me!!  so listen up polish companies--MAKE IT HAPPEN mmkay!