Nails, Nails, and Bonus Pics!

Hellooo! I assure you that today's post is much better than the last, or at least I hope so lol. I will not bore you with too many words, so onto the pics! ^.^

China Glaze - Fortune Teller


Never thought I'd find this beauty, but thanks to a friend who indulged my nail polish addiction by stopping into Sally's with me, here she is... oOoOoo... Hehe. I couldn't have found her without you LL ;) LL is actually a big reason I'm posting again. She's been telling me to blog, so I told her I'd try to this weekend, and here we are! ^.^

I won this next one from one of the many awesome giveaways at Body and Soul. One word. AWESOME!

Del Sol - Trick or Treat, indoors

Del Sol - Trick or Treat, out in the sunlight


If you did not know, Del Sol nail polishes change color when they're in the sun! What a beautiful contrast! I did not want to take this baby off.

Oh right, less words, more pics!

Revlon - Perplex


Orly - Space Cadet


Sally Hansen - Mystic Lilac


Base: OPI - Play Til Midnight
Stamp color: Orly - Dazzle
Image Plate: XL-A


I don't know why, but I think this looks a lot better in real life... I've been wearing this since Tuesday night and I'm still loving it ^.^

Now for bonus pics!

Meet Bacon! The only girl and oldest of 8 pups. This was around the time we got her in mid-November. She was almost 9 weeks old here.


Our little girl is almost 5 months old now... My, they grow so fast! Here she is at 4 1/2 months! You can't tell from the pics, but she's doubled, maybe even tripled in size!


Her baby brother, who is the youngest of the 8 pups, lives with my BF's family. They're crazy together! Here I am with them at 14 weeks old. Bacon on the right, her brother on the left.


You can't tell from the pic before, but Bacon is double the size of her brother! Here they are on a vet visit together at 15 weeks old. Bacon on the right, her brother on the left.


And there you have it. I hope you've enjoyed this post! Thanks for stopping by! ^.^

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jeninjafer

Holy Moly!

< Update >

I went to check up on CashBaq's website and this is the message they have up now:

"Like so many other companies, Cashbaq was hit by the worst recession of our lifetime.
We regret that Cashbaq is unable to continue operations and has shut down.

You can earn cash back at other sites including iGive, uPromise, Mr. Rebates, FatWallet, and Ebates.
You can also compare cash back rebates at Evreward."

It's about time! Who knows how many people got ripped off in the extra 3 months they kept their website up. I think I read somewhere that someone was waiting on a check for hundreds of dollars... Talk about ridiculous. Sometimes it can be so hard to trust. At least they're finally shut down though!

< /Update >

I have been gone so long! So much has happened, from friends getting married and having babies to midterms and finals! After finals, I just hid away in bed for so long that I ended up getting too lazy to do anything - EEK! Well, I'm not here to write about anything nail related, but I was so outraged with this online rebate site that I had to share this with anyone who can help spread the word.

BEWARE of CashBaq. http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/cashbaq-c401911.html -Happened to me :(

Basically, they were a trusted company for a while... Lucky me, within a month or so of joining, I was told that a check was on its way to me some time in November. I never received the check so I searched for a phone number, but couldn't find one. I ended up messaging customer service by opening a "ticket" on their site asking about the check and never got a response. I checked back every once in a while and saw that the ticket was gone. So I opened another ticket that's still sitting there, probably waiting to be deleted too. Their site is still up and running with an updated copyright at the bottom for 2002-2011. Just thought I'd try to warn whoever I can so that this won't happen to more people.

Thanks to anyone who is still following my blog after all this time! I hope that my next post will be more positive, but until then, that is all for now. Thanks for stopping by!

jeninjafer
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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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Body and Soul Giveaway!

Hi again! ^.^

I was looking through my feeds and Mary over at Body and Soul is having a giveaway that ends on the 31st. Followers have a chance to win a whole set of the OPI Swiss collection! Wowza! And if you haven't already, check out her blog - she's awesome!

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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