All but one of the dogs my family has had the privilege of sharing our lives with have come from shelters or were rescues, so this is a cause dear to my heart. My current dog, Chi, was abandoned as a young dog in the rural countryside near Saxapahaw, NC. A farmer living nearby picked her up but already had five dogs of his own. Through an intermediate home and mutual friends she eventually crossed my path and has been my darling comfort pup for the past ten years. She's a beagle/boxer mix, sweet as pie, a spooner and a total goofball. We adore her! More about her later, let's take a look at this awesome polish....
Puppy Love is a medium-toned vibrant blue-green shimmer polish, sort of a green leaning teal or a minty deep turquoise. It's laced with beautiful microflake shimmers in iridescent pink and gold along with a handful of holographic particles that give it a dusting of rainbow sparks in the sun. The beautiful shimmers are especially apparent in bright indirect light, and complement the blue-green creme/jelly hybrid base perfectly. It's a graceful, happy composition, easy to wear and pleasing to the eye.
Application was delicious. The consistency of Puppy Love is fluid, smooth, creamy and dense, with an easy flow over the nail and excellent self-leveling properties. It has an ideal balance of fluidity and viscosity for painting and is easily manipulated with Aliquid's round flexible brush. Being a crelly, there is a bit of translucence to this polish and opacity must be built with multiple coats. I used three for this manicure. Cleanup is easy too. The microflakes do like to hang around and I wish I had taken a little more care with my cleanup but overall the polish applies so effortlessly that I imagine most folks will have very little cleanup afterwards. Puppy Love dries naturally in good time to a smooth shiny finish. Topcoat enhances the presence of the shimmers.
Photos show three coats of Puppy Love over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of HK Girl.
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| Aliquid Lacquer Puppy Love |
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So pretty! A wonderful, very special polish for an important cause, I'm proud to have Puppy Love in my collection and grateful to Alison for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the ASPCA in this way.
Of course I couldn't finish this post without including some photos of Chi!
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| Chi, my beloved beagle/boxer rescue modeling her new "no-smell" collar from Dublin Dog -- her stubby tail is natural... she also has a boxer's climbing ability and affinity for small children. |
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| Sweet pup! |
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| Chi quickly learned to jump up on any platform at the command "table" -- she's very smart, highly treat motivated and was easy to train. |
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| Queen of all she surveys, here she is in her pen... she's a good watchdog (no need for a doorbell on this house), but once introduced doesn't know a stranger, is a graceful hostess and never jumps up or puts her paws on anyone -- but she will poke her nose under your hand or elbow for some attention. |
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| Chi demonstrates her ability to "Wait!" -- note the dog biscuit on the corner of the red bench... she also adores playing "Find it," a game where we have her sit and stay, then hide treats in another room for her to sniff out. |
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| Me and Chi having fun with Apple's Photo Booth in my messy office.... |
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| Chi out in her first snow, one of my favorite photos of her.... |
That's my honey pup! Thanks for reading!
love,
Liz
This polish is so pretty but it's what it was created for that makes me love it even more. Your dog is beautiful! It's nice that she lets you take pictures of her. Carter hates the camera! He's also protective like Chi. He always lets me know when someone's at the door and he's not too fond of strangers at first. The more I look at your pictures, I think Carter and Chi have a lot of similar features. They're both cuties.
ReplyDeleteMelissa, Chi doesn't like the camera either! She acts like it's some big eye that's staring her down and shies away almost all the time. I usually can only get photos of her actually looking at the camera from a distance, then enlarge. One of the few exceptions is the second photo, above, and that time she was looking at me because she wanted me to take her out NOW. I think it makes sense that some dogs don't like cameras if you think of it as an eye, since when dogs stare at each other it's often an aggressive sign.
DeleteWhat breed/breeds is Carter? Is he a rescue too?
I'm not totally sure what Carter is, since he was a rescue that I adopted from a no kill shelter, but from pictures that I have googled, he looks like he is part Rhodesian Ridgeback possibly mixed with German Shepherd.
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