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Kat Stays Polished | Beauty Blog with a Dash of Life: December 2012
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Product Review: Red Carpet Manicure

Monday, December 31, 2012
Here's another gel polish for you! This one is NOT a one-step gel polish system. Some of you may be familiar with this brand. It's called Red Carpet Manicure and can be found at stores like Ulta and Target for about $10 a bottle. The people at Red Carpet Manicure sent me a complete starter kit. Below is the box I received and...

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Product Review: Haute Polish Removal

Thursday, December 27, 2012
Okay! It's been one week [cue the song!] since I have applied the Haute Polish. This time around, it was pretty bearable because I had beautiful colors that I loved! Very quickly, here is a visual of the process. Haute Polish Gel Removal So, in the kit, they give you a TON of these remover packets. It's enough to be able to remover...

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Product Review: Pure Ice & Contest Entries

Friday, December 21, 2012
Hi!!! Today I have for you three Pure Ice Holiday 2012 colors and my three swatches/reviews of the polish Pure Ice sent to me. I am participating in The Great PURE ICE Nail Basel Challenge and received three polishes from them to get my creative juices flowing. Let me begin by sharing with you the polishes I received. Five-Some is a wonderful black polish...

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Product Review: Haute Polish One-Step Gel System

Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Hello polish folks! I have another review for you today! The awesome people over at Haute Polish sent me a complete starter kit for their one-step gel polish. Gel polish has been booming lately, especially these new one-step systems. In addition to this blog review, I did a "first application" video. The video is chock full of things to look out for and...

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Product Review: Tip Top Nails

Sunday, December 16, 2012
Hello nail lovers! Today, I have the pleasure of bringing you Tip Top Nails Nail Chic polish. The lovely Joan over at Tip Top Nails South Africa was kind enough to send me some products to review. I received 5 colors from the Nail Chic line and their I Luv Denim 2-in-1 suede finish polish. WARNING: VERY PICTURE HEAVY Let me first start off...

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1Q32 Instant Gellish Removal

Sunday, December 16, 2012
Hello everyone! As you may recall, I did a review for 1Q32 on their gel nail polish. I also did a Week 1 update on it with some stamping work. After 9 whole days with the gel polish on, I was ACHING to do another manicure. I had also seen some chipping on the tips of my nails and decided it was time...

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Friday Fan Pick: Lo - Teal/White Dot Gradient

Friday, December 14, 2012
Happy Friday, once again! Today's Friday fan is LO!!!!!!!!! I actually want to begin by thanking her and all of you for giving me ideas for manis. I would never have the courage to try all these different things if you didn't show your support the way you do. I had been thinking about this mani for a while and I started practicing...

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