Best "Blood" special effect?

Hi all, I have some spells on my map using blood effects as buffs or triggers which add blood on units. What is the best effect to use? I mean, what effect should I use, I want a "neutral" effect (it can be ok for any unit, so for example red and not violet ecc...) and I normally use the ElfSpellThief's one, what do you suggest? Thanks.

The human and high/blood elven special effects looks most neutral, I think. Which one of those you want to use, if you agree, depends on how big you want it.

Well, I just want a normal effect that could fit any units to which the buff is related. I normally use the ElvenSpellThief's one because it seems to adapt quite well, but it's not very beautiful, any suggestion? Thanks.

Hmm, you want a gore, blood swirling, blood bath to be beautiful

Well, what about something which is VERY visible and, most important, that could last on a unit the time for a buff, let's say 6-7 seconds?

I'd use the Human Cenimatic blood effect, and the hydralisk attack effect for the intial hit.

stampede target is the best blood effect ever.

the bloodmage's bloodeffect lasts long... dunnow if this is helpfull to you

Any blood effect can be made to last for the duration of the buff spell, however long it is, by .mdl editing the model and adding the repeat attribute. I can post such a file here if you wish.

EDIT: Uploaded such a file, used in a map of mine for a passive continual bleeding attack based off of the Envenomed Spears ability.

I don't like Stampede's blood effect cause it has a sort of "shockwave" effect, thanks anyway. Hydralisk's one is quite good, thanks. I don't Bloodmage's one cause it has "blood drops" delay (it's supposed to be played while BM's dying), but thanks. Nice idea Panto!