So if you're on my Twitter, you've seen it blow up over the HBO True Blood Ultimate Fan Experience in the past week. Here's the low down - on June 1st, HBO is hosting a Live Q&A session with Alan Ball (creator) and some of the cast members, following is a showing of the Season 2 Season Finale (previously aired) and finally a sneak preview of Season 3 (rumors are swirling that we'll actually see the first episode of Season 3, unconfirmed). To win, people had to log on to True Blood's Facebook page in the 6 minute window that your theater city was announced, and click to see if you were a VIP winner. There are only 50 theater cities in the USA, and a minimum of 50 people were chosen per theater. Each winner received 2 tickets... so we're talking a minimum of 100 people per theater but they were also giving away General Admission tickets at some theaters, so .... I have no idea how many people will truly be there.
Now, HBO is pulling out the stops for this one. Each theater city will have a red carpet entrance complete with photographers and whatnot. The event starts at the same time in each theater, 11:00 p.m. for us Central Truebies (as they are called). So it's going to be a late night.
IN ADDITION, HBO asked for "sheriffs" to call out from each theater city. No one knows fully what they do, or what they will be asked to do, despite at least one leaked document online that may or may not have been genuine... anywho, I "applied" and well, I won! There is only 1 sheriff per theater city, so 50 sheriffs throughout the entire event. ^_^
I haven't completely figured out what I'm going to wear. Some people are seriously going all out - fangs, capes, the whole nine yards. I originally signed up on the site as a Fangbanger which is the character that willingly allows a vampire to feed on them (awesome, huh?). Typically in the show, fangbangers are kind of the equivalent of a groupie. (Sorry Mom.)
While I'm still assembling my outfit, now I'm stuck on nail polish. I originally was thinking of a vampy red or maybe even a hooker red, but I forgot how boring cremes are for me. I want something that pops, so I went through about 10 polishes and finally settled between two.
China Glaze Ruby Pumps is a red glitter in a red base and it sure does shine. I'm wondering if it's too much shine for this event. China Glaze Stroll (from the Retro Diva collection) is a reddish gold glitter in a dark fuchsia base. I used Seche Natural for my base, three coats of each polish, and a layer of Seche Vite to top it off.
Now I just need to pick one! Please vote for me in the poll below ^_^
China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy
Flip Flop Fantasy is the "neon coral" from the Poolside collection. As you can see, I had to do a ridiculous amount of color correction on this one, and it's still not absolutely perfect to the color that FFF is. China Glaze's own polish swatch shows this a little more like a salmon pink
Yeah, not the same. Hah. I've worn this color on my toes twice now, but not on my hands for a day. I used a base coat of Seche Natural, a white coat of CND Brilliant White (it was on my desk), and then 2 coats of Flip Flop Fantasy. On my pointer and ring finger, I added a layer of Seche Vite, but let it matte on my middle and pinkie fingers.
This is a little more accurate to "real life" - a nice coral pink. You can't tell too much of a different between matte and shiny in my sun pictures.
Yeah, not the same. Hah. I've worn this color on my toes twice now, but not on my hands for a day. I used a base coat of Seche Natural, a white coat of CND Brilliant White (it was on my desk), and then 2 coats of Flip Flop Fantasy. On my pointer and ring finger, I added a layer of Seche Vite, but let it matte on my middle and pinkie fingers.
This is a little more accurate to "real life" - a nice coral pink. You can't tell too much of a different between matte and shiny in my sun pictures.
Pretty good application on this one - just a slight pooling into my cuticles on my pinkie finger.
This shade picture is awesome - you can literally see the bottle glowing to the left of my hand. You can also really tell the difference in the matte vs shiny here. Oh neons - I heart thee.
China Glaze [official website] can be found online through several etailers, including my favorite Head2Toe Beauty [official website], Sally's Beauty Supply [official website] as well asTransDesign [official website].
Disclosure: The product[s] in this post was [were] provided to me by the company for consideration. For more information, please read this post.
ManGlaze Hot Mess
5.27.2010
I have to admit, I love the artwork on these babies. Reminds me of the local band here "The Reely Rotnz" that I would jam out to as a teenager. Two of the band members were family friends, so I felt like a VIP since I had their CDs and stuff. Anyway.
Hot Mess is the obnoxiously awesome silver microglitter top coat in a clear base from ManGlaze. I think "Hot Mess" is one of my favorite things to say, as well as its an awesome song by Cobra Starship.
I wanted to see how this would work over a variety of nails, so in the sun we have Hot Mess 2 coats on the pointer finger by itself. Almost opaque but still has a bit of VNL. Middle finger has 2 coats of Hot Mess over 2 coats of #Matte is Murder. Ring fingers has 2 coats of Hot Mess over 2 coats of Fuggen Ugly. Finally my pinkie has 3 coats of Hot Mess over 2 coats of Fuggen Ugly. Which do you like best?
Shade picture:
My hands are having issues right now. I'm working on that. I also have a HUGE bruise on the top of my polish hand where my nurse completely mangled me with my IV last week. Thankfully it doesn't hurt, but between that, and the other nurse who bruised my inner elbow drawing blood, I look like some kind of junkie. Awesome.
Now, this is a glitter so I had to take my felt and scrub a bit. I am just not patient enough to remember to PLACE the felt around my finger (and I never use foil, but I should, and will, I promise), but overall it ALL came off on the felt, no crazed microglitter on my hands for hours. Yay!
You can purchase ManGlaze on their website [official website].
Hot Mess is the obnoxiously awesome silver microglitter top coat in a clear base from ManGlaze. I think "Hot Mess" is one of my favorite things to say, as well as its an awesome song by Cobra Starship.
Shade picture:
My hands are having issues right now. I'm working on that. I also have a HUGE bruise on the top of my polish hand where my nurse completely mangled me with my IV last week. Thankfully it doesn't hurt, but between that, and the other nurse who bruised my inner elbow drawing blood, I look like some kind of junkie. Awesome.
Now, this is a glitter so I had to take my felt and scrub a bit. I am just not patient enough to remember to PLACE the felt around my finger (and I never use foil, but I should, and will, I promise), but overall it ALL came off on the felt, no crazed microglitter on my hands for hours. Yay!
You can purchase ManGlaze on their website [official website].
Essie "Color Your Prom Night"
5.26.2010
Please click on the image to see it larger.
Oh Prom - remember that night? Yeah, I had a horrible prom too. I actually got fake acrylics for the first time for my senior prom. Yeah, dumb of me.
Essie can be purchased on their website [official website] or etailers like Head2ToeBeauty [official website] or TransDesign [official website].
ManGlaze #Matte is Murder
Also in my package of ManGlaze (snickers) was the #Matte is Murder, which is the black matte of the group. Not sure why there is a number sign before the word matte. It's that way with #Matte Astrophe as well. Insight? I've always been a bit shy with black polish but a black matte reminds me of a chalkboard, and I've seen some awesome black on black nail art lately, with matte and shiny coats being intermixed.
I used a base coat of Seche Natural and 2 coats of #Matte is Murder for this - again this polish was nicely mixed, good consistency and great dry time. It's a great black matte, but I really think I like Fuggen Ugly better. Sun picture!
Shade picture!
My hands have looked increasingly red lately. I'm working on it. New meds and stuff.
And of course, a layer of Seche Vite to make things shiny!
WHOA. This one has even MORE rainbow goodness to it - check it out! Seriously, click the picture and make it larger. I was in LOVE.
You can see more of the green sparkle in this one - thanks green grass that is taller than me in some places (tomorrow is "mow the lawn day"). Rain + insane heat = tons of grass. And mosquitoes. :[
Again, another winner in my book by ManGlaze. I like that you have two very different looks - a matte or a rainbow shine. Always fun to get more than one look out of a polish.
You can purchase ManGlaze on their website [official website].
I used a base coat of Seche Natural and 2 coats of #Matte is Murder for this - again this polish was nicely mixed, good consistency and great dry time. It's a great black matte, but I really think I like Fuggen Ugly better. Sun picture!
Shade picture!
My hands have looked increasingly red lately. I'm working on it. New meds and stuff.
And of course, a layer of Seche Vite to make things shiny!
WHOA. This one has even MORE rainbow goodness to it - check it out! Seriously, click the picture and make it larger. I was in LOVE.
You can see more of the green sparkle in this one - thanks green grass that is taller than me in some places (tomorrow is "mow the lawn day"). Rain + insane heat = tons of grass. And mosquitoes. :[
Again, another winner in my book by ManGlaze. I like that you have two very different looks - a matte or a rainbow shine. Always fun to get more than one look out of a polish.
You can purchase ManGlaze on their website [official website].
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