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What We're Into: Black Lips, 'X-Men' and fast-drying nail polish

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Black Lips, "Arabia Mountain." The Georgia "flower punk" garage rockers have finally made a great record. This one's produced by Mark Ronson and echoes rock past while feeling fully up-to-date. And, of course, it's funny. Streaming at AOL Spinner and for sale on Tuesday, it's the garage record of 2011. Turn it up.

-- L. Kent Wolgamott

"The States" on Netflix. When the History Channel isn't trying to cause mass panic with its 2012 apocalyptic programs, it can make a pretty good history series. All 12 episodes of this U.S. history series have been loaded onto Netflix. It covers major moments including the founding of Jamestown and the Civil War and it goes right up to the new millennium.

-- Katie Nieland

"X-Men: First Class." I'm writing this before I've seen it, but it's pretty much guaranteed that I'll love the bejesus out of it because I like awesome things. Reasons I'll love it: 1. Mutants. 2. Director Matthew Vaughn (who made "Kick-Ass"). 3. Michael Fassbender. 4. Jennifer Lawrence. 5. Submarines!

-- Micah Mertes

"Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside the World of ESPN" by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales. I've spent way too much time watching ESPN over the past 30 years, so I'm finding this oral history of the now uber-powerful sports cable TV network compelling and highly informative. It starts with its origin as an off-the-wall idea by a Connecticut father and son who were smart enough to buy satellite transponder space before it came into high demand and goes through its chaotic early days to more recent upheavals and innovations.

-- L. Kent Wolgamott

Insta-Dri nail polish. I never used to wear nail polish because I'd always smudge it while waiting for it to dry. The Insta-Dri series is amazing, though, because it dries in 60 seconds. I found mine at Walgreens and Target. And it has great colors; my favorites are Slick Slate and Brisk Blue. Remember, brights are popular for spring and summer.

-- Katie Nieland

"The Hunger Games" trilogy. Yes, I may be a little behind the times, but the office talk about the upcoming movie and the ravings of many friends led me to jump into the young-adult series that's clearly entertaining millions of readers beyond that age group. I'm clipping through "Mockingjay," the last book of the trilogy, and can't wait to see how Katniss and her world are portrayed on the big screen when the movie debuts in March.

Essie Nail Polish – A Brief History « OPI Nail Polish Sale Blog

Today the Essie manicure is akin with superior and appearance all over the world, but did you apperceive the history abaft this acclaimed adorableness brand? Believe it or not, this apple acclaimed attach brightness ambit began activity in Las Vegas as a accumulating of just 12 shades. Find out about the eyes of the woman who created it; how the cast grew to over 200 fashionable shades today.

All the attach brightness is the conception of Essie Weingarten, who had a acknowledged career as a appearance client but dreamt of afterward her affection for adorableness and in particular, alluring nails. In the aboriginal 1980s, attach salons offered actual few choices as far as alive women were concerned. If accepting admirable easily mattered, there artlessly weren’t the advanced ambit of fashionable shades we all adore today. Weingarten created 12 new chip-resistant colours and began affairs them to Las Vegas auberge attach salons. The Essie manicure was an burning hit.

Her buzz was campanology in the next few canicule with OPI Nail Polish salons afflicted by her adeptness to actualize fashionable and ‘classic’ shades to accommodated the needs of alluring alive women. The yield up was so abundant that from twelve colours, the ambit grew to today’s’ palette of able-bodied over 200 attach brightness shades. Along the way, Weingarten gave anniversary adumbration a arbitrary name to accomplish it added memorable, such as the band colours ‘Ballet Slippers’, ‘Mademoiselle’, and ‘Wicked’. Weingarten has close behavior about what makes a acceptable accumulating which has advance to her constant success.

The key to success was Weingarten’s acceptance that women accept two needs if it comes to attach colours – there are times in every woman’s activity for elegance, and times for added daring, fun colours. The antecedent 12 attach brightness shades were created with the needs of Las Vegas women in apperception – alive in a actual angel acquainted city-limits area a top accepted of claimed admonishment was appropriate in their circadian able life. Manicured easily were just as abundant a appearance accent as hairstyling, handbags and acceptable shoes. It follows logically again that over the years, Weingarten anxiously follows appearance aerodrome shows to actualize shades that accompaniment the season’s new colours.

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