Blue's Clues!

Hi!

I'm finally getting to post this mani! I know it's nothing new or extraodinary, but it feels so good to post something after all this time!

Here is the oldie, but goodie, Misa - Right Here Now, No More Later (boy, that's a mouthful!)



For anyone who's around kids a lot, you might know the show "Blue's Clues" - doesn't this stamp in this color combo totally remind you of it? (Stamp is DRK-A with Konad special polish in Blue)



And I don't know why, but this picture makes me LOL. I love my big little Bacon! I say big little because she's a big girl, but she's always going to be my little Bacon! Hehe!



Look at her crazy smile! LOL



Here she is with the other two crazy dogs!



And that concludes this post! Thanks for stopping by!

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Mystery Nails

Hi!

I'm so late with posting! Just started a temp job earlier this week and it's been crazy here! I have a little time, so I wanted to make a quick post.



When I first put this on, it reminded me of a giraffe. FH said it looked like a turtle shell. My friend said it looked like broken eggshells. What do you see?

Base colors are OPI "Did You 'Ear About Van Gogh?" and Color Club "Blue-ming". Stamp is from DRK-A plate using Konad Special Polish in White.

Also, there's a DRK-A contest! I didn't check all the details yet, but there will be 42 winners, 1 winner per image on the plate. Winners will get 50% off the DRK-B plate that's coming out soon! You can check the details of the contest at this site Esmaltaradas. Right now, the contest is running until 11 pm (Brasília official time) of April 4th 2012. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with! Hope I have time to join in on the fun too!

Thanks for stopping by!

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**UPDATE**
The contest is running until 11 pm (Brasília official time) of April 15th 2012.

DRK-A Stamping Plate!

Hi!

About a week or two ago I bought a big stamping plate! I resisted buying it, but ultimately, the cute designs won me over. After getting it in the mail, I was so glad I gave in! The images are HUGE! It feels SO good to be able to stamp and not have to worry about placing it just right on my nail so that the whole image fits - no worry here at all! And did I mention how cute the designs are?!



I took a picture of it next to a Konad, the new Bundle Monster, and an XL stamping plate.



Here is the XL-A plate on top of the DRK-A plate.



There's going to be a DRK-B plate coming out next month. No images yet, but if they're anything like DRK-A, I'm going to be all over it! I can't wait to see!

Are there any images you'd like to see stamped? Any specific color combinations? Let me know and I'll do my best with what I have on hand. Thanks for stopping by!

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**Update with links!**

I purchased the plate using this form:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDZ0djlrUnJsTnhQcVRTNFJoME1zYkE6MQ

You can check out more stamped images on their facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.189879904438492.42985.100002494516033&type=1

Edgy Leaves

Hi!

For this post, I bring you Essie in 'Pretty Edgy'. I caught this picture as the sun was setting behind some houses. I'm not sure if you can tell, but it's reflected on my nails, which I think is pretty cool.



I thought a nice leafy print would work well with this color so I got out my Bundle Monster plate (BM19) and stamped my ring finger using Konad special polish in white.



Let me tell you if you don't know already - the original Bundle Monster full nail images are quite small. Even after I cut my nails down, the image didn't cover my nail - almost, but not entirely. I just stamped wherever I thought looked unfinished and voila! I was happy with how it came out.

If you're curious about the size of these full nail images, check out this AWESOME post by the Nailasaurus. She compares the sizes of full nail images from Konad, original Bundle Monster, new Bundle Monster, and Red Angel - very, very awesome. She is a must follow, especially if you love stamping! Love. That. Blog.

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by!

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China Glaze Re-Fresh Mint Konadicure

Helloo ^.^

Ding dong the flies are gone! Yippeeeee ^.^ Hehe, okay so I have a little something for you today. It's a bit odd, but I think I like it :)



For the base, I used 3 coats of China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint. The gold stamp was done with image plate m21 and China Glaze - 2030. The splotches were done with image plate m70 and Konad special polish in black.

I wanted to get a shot of what it looked like before I put the black splotches on, but I didn't get a color accurate pic. Ah, what the hey, I'll post it up anyway ^.^



And here's Re-Fresh Mint on its own.



That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by! ^.^

jeninjafer
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Rainbow Nails Tutorial

Helloo ^.^

I haven't been online much to post anything new, but for my last post, Tara asked me to do a tut so here it is. Please forgive my total noobness.

4 coats of China Glaze - Rain Storm on pinky and ring fingers. 3 coats of Icing - True Blue on middle and index fingers.


At this point, I smudged my pinky, so I added another coat (or two?) of Rain Storm to try to smooth it. To start my rainbow, I took a green striper (Absolute! Nail Art in Pine Green) and painted the middle and ring fingers like so. Don't worry about being a little messy as you can clean it up when you're done.


Here I took a blue striper (Art Club in Midnight Blue) and painted along the green on my middle finger.


At this point I was afraid of my camera battery dying, so I took less pics of the process, but I think you get the point. I took a yellow striper (Art Club in Rio de Oro) and painted along the green on my ring finger. Then I followed the blue on my middle finger with an indigo (Absolute! Nail Art in Royal Bleue).


I followed the yellow with an orange (Art Club in Dijon). I painted over the yellow a little bit 'cause I realized I didn't leave enough room for the red. On my middle finger, I followed the indigo with a violet (unnamed Q-Art Nail Paint).


Here I painted the red (Art Club in Red on Red), overlapping the orange a little. If you look closely, you might notice I added green glitter (Art Club in Green Glitter) to the green.


I decided to jump ahead and bling up the rest of the rainbow.

List of glitters used...
Red: Art Club in Red Glitter
Orange: ZN Nail Art (unnamed orange glitter)
Yellow: Art Club in Gold Glitter
Green: Art Club in Green Glitter
Blue: Art Club in Blue Glitter
Indigo: ZN Nail Art (unnamed charcoal glitter)
Violet: Hurricane Nail Art (unnamed magenta glitter)

As you can see, I didn't have indigo or violet glitter, so I just used what I had and I think it came out fine.


For my pinky, I took out Color Club in Sexy Siren, wiped a lot of excess glitter off the brush and swiped it across the nail. For my index, I used Wet n Wild French White Creme to dab on clouds. If you want them more uniform looking, Konad has a great cloud stamp on image plate m79. The ladies over at Polish or Perish are having a great giveaway for followers that includes this image plate and tons of other goodies, so check it out! ^.^ Or if you don't want to wait for the contest to end on the 31st, OCNailArt has a coupon out - get a free image plate of your choice with every $25+ order (add the image plate to your order and use the code "freedisk" - offer ends August 20th).


And finally I got out my Revlon Street Wear in Hologram, wiped off excess glitter and randomly applied them one/two at a time on the nail for a rain effect. I cleaned off my cuticles with a q-tip and some remover. Then I added top coat to all my nails and voila! ^.^

I'm still wearing this, by the way - I need all the bright and pretty rainbows and glitters right now. If you're sensitive about bug/insect (and death of) talk, you may want to stop reading now. My living room has been overtaken by a sudden infestation of house flies and I don't know where they're coming from! We've had rat problems in the building for a while now. And this past month, we've had a few flies, but not like this... This is disgusting and depressing. Thank goodness they seem to be gathering around the windows though, which also kinda sucks since it's my best light source for pictures - DOH! I managed to break the only fly swatter we had earlier today, so as I'm typing this up, my mom is on the hunt for some swatters and fly tape. I hope I haven't turned anyone away by this fly talk. Just thought I'd let you know what I've been dealing with these past couple of days. I'm itching to do some more designs though, so if worse comes to worst, then I'll just have to take pictures in the bathroom, my second best light source lol.

That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by! ^.^

jeninjafer
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Color Accent Challenge Nails!

Good evening! ^.^

I told you that I'd try to bring it up a few notches today, right? I sure hope this doesn't disappoint! This week we were given the instructions to do a grayscale manicure - we could use white, black, and gray with one color to give it some oomph! Haha okay, maybe not exactly in those words, but I like that word - OOMPH! Even my BF is laughing and going "Oomph! Oomph!" with me. Yes, we're weird like that lol. ^.^ So this manicure almost didn't survive, but I'm really happy with the end result and I hope you like it too. ^.^ I bring to you my entry for Polish Hoarder Disorder's color accent challenge.



Base colors:
Brucci - Alexandra's Gray
Icing - Ice Queen
Precision - U Rock & I Roll
Wet n Wild - Black Creme

Stamp:
Konad - M60 (plaid and flowers)

For the plaid, I used Konad Special Polish in White. For the flowers, I used Konad Special Polish in Pink and colored over them with Art Club nail art striper in Light Purple, which looks more like a hot pink to me... Maybe magenta? Then I used Mattese nail art striper in White to fill in the centers of all the flowers.

So there you have it! I hope you've enjoyed :) Thanks for stopping by! :D

jeninjafer
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Scrangie a la Konad

Helloo ^.^ I tried to get more pics of Scrangie today, but it was a fail. I also feel kinda tired and shaky, so I apologize in advance for the turdtastic pics I bring you today. >.<

Last night, my friend asked me to do a stamp for my next post, so I thought long and hard about what I could put over Scrangie. I was really afraid to mess up the awesomeness! Since OCNailArt has a coupon out, I knew I wanted to show you a konad image. Finally, after much deliberation, I went with image plate S6 and China Glaze DV8 (from the OMG! collection) as the stamp color.




That's all for now. Thanks for stopping by! ^.^

jeninjafer
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Fashion Inspiration Challenge Nails!

This is going to be a long post, so feel free to skip ahead to pics!

Okay, so I've been thinking a lot about what my first post back should be and I figured what better than my entry for one of Polish Hoarder Disorder's theme weeks? Not only are her challenges inspiring, but her pictures are seriously TDF. I began following her around Valentine's Day this year and when she started these theme weeks, I was hooked. So if you haven't already heard of her, you really need to check out her blog. Click, click! ^.^ This is the first one I've actually submitted to her, and silly me, I was super nervous sending it! I know it's not as great as her pictures or other entries submitted by super creative ladies, but I wanted to join in so bad! It's all in good fun, right? So here's the picture I submitted ^.^



Base: OPI Alpine Snow (Matte)
This can still be found at Transdesign.

Fauxnad: H23
The nails are stamped with fauxnad image plate H23 which I purchased from Chez Delaney. Sadly, they are out of stock of this particular plate, but they still have other great plates for you to check out. Shipping was super fast from France!

Konad Special Polishes: Green and Pink
You can purchase Konad products from many online sites. The two that I have ordered from and wholeheartedly recommend are WowSoCool and OCNailArt.

I have some other random pictures as well.

Here's what happened practically every time I was studying!



That's my kitty btw. I didn't fall asleep every time ;) He's so silly lol.

Here's my BF and I at his friend's wedding ♥



I just noticed I misspelled my name in the pic ~ FAIL! lol I was going to redo the pic, but then I thought it was funny and decided to leave it up for everyone to see my dopey-ness.

Oh and while I'm at it, I might as well show you the mani I was sporting that day. Orly Luxe ^.^



You rock if you made it through all that lol. Hope you enjoyed my welcome back post! ^.^ Thanks for stopping by!

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jeninjafer