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Jad Montenegro : Fixed Points & Pendulums EP
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This is a blog on personal alternative style, photography, crochet, music, and DIY. People like to ask questions about my hair, so I answer them here. More detailed description below.
Jad Montenegro is musician and all-around bag lady. She is the current host of Muzika del Sur News and previous host of rock show Durian Shake. She just released her EP called Fixed Points and Pendulums for her self-titled band, with bandmates Dave Ibao on drums and Pjoe Sabanpan on bass. She was awarded Best Pop Artist of The Year by Muzika Del Sur for 2009, and won Best Music Video for 2010. She is the vocalist of Polar Depth, an electronica/experimental band. Polar Depth was also given a special citation for Breakout Electronica Artist in 2009. To support her bad habits, like playing gigs for free and producing an indie album, she works from home as a writer. She is married to professional comic illustrator John Amor, a.k.a The Boy.
She is not a professional blogger, but this is the space she compiles current obsessions in, like
DIY/crafts
clothes
nail polish
music
dyeing her hair
crocheting stuff for her facebook shop Hats and Things
and the occasional lulz-worthy photo.
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Official Music Page at Jadmontenegro.com .
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Check out my Black Outlined Teal Nails!
Now, seeing as I have stubby guitar playing sausages instead of real fingers, I don’t always get a chance to experiment with nail designs.
Seeing as I barely have any nail real estate lol, I usually stick with simple designs that don’t take forever to do (also because I’ll probably ruin them the next day at band prax anyway).
This one seemed like an easy design to do for short nails so I took pics!
Enjoy!
You’ll need
1 bright color (some tealy color from LA Disco Brites)
1 opaque black polish (Caronia)
1 opaque black striper (Sassy)
1 clear top coat (Revlon)
Cover entire nail in black polish:
Wait for black polish to dry completely before applying 2nd color.
Don’t worry if it looks like crud, you can fix it with the next coat. The trick is to leave a black outline all around. If you mess up, you can fix it with the striper. Look, mine doesn’t look all that great either :|
2nd coat looks much better!
Of course, since I am ME, that means a bit of a mess. Fixed it with a black striper to make the outline neater.
Finish off with top coat so your kyot nails don’t get ruined!
Then go watch Community/Girls/Supernatural/Sherlock/Fringe. Do it. DO. IT.
Lates! Jad
THE BOY + WILSON + EXERCISE =
Me teaching Wilson how to sit. We’ve had him for about a week and already he’s proving himself to be a really smart little fella. He loves biscuits, so he cheats!
I posted about why we got him and why his name is Wilson here.
Looks like I’m going to have a new tag on my blog. And that’s: PETS!
This is Wilson. He’s named after the volleyball in Castaway.
The Boy and I found him while I was recording the first song of our 2nd EP at my friend Maki’s house. According to him, Wilson’s half Spitz, half mutt and nobody can be bothered to take care of him. When we found him, he was stinky, full of fleas and hadn’t eaten in about 2 days. We were still charmed, though.
This is a video of that same day. He was pretty low-energy from lack of food but still adorable. He’s about 2 months old, still too young to be away from his mom, but if we didn’t ask to adopt him, I doubt he would have lived past that week.
In contrast, Click here for a video of him after a week at our house. He’s been fed, given milk, dewormed, visited by a vet, and scoured for fleas. He’s obviously more active and a lot less timid. I’ve been teaching him to sit, and he’s so smart that he picks it up right away. He makes us so happy!
I wanted a change from my usual garage photos, so:
Doc Marten boots, vintage print skirt, top from Next, Hawaiian Hill glasses,and I bought that necklace from one of those stalls on the street that sell clay necklaces on leather cords, from a man with colorful dreadlocks.
Wore this last Saturday during a dyeing session for two of our friends. What better place to do it than inside an already paint-splattered art gallery? Blog post coming up soon! <3
Shirt | stolen from The Boy, Artwork
Magenta Tights | Closet Monster
Ear plugs | DIY
Creepers | eBay, Moderno Sense
photo taken by Aidx Paredes
Check out Aidx’ fabulous new head of blue here!
I just finished making these:
I’m so pleased with how they turned out that I’m making a DIY tutorial! :) It’s for people who are considering stretching their ears but want to see if gauges suit them first. 
All I know is, I like how they look on me! <3
Summer’s here! I had teal/sea-green nails from a photoshoot, but I wanted to spruce them up. So I did a simple tape manicure.
1. Paint nails any bright teal/turquoise color. I used Sea Green from San San. I also have a thin layer of Chunky Holo Bluebell by Kleancolor on top of the Sea Green, so there are little holographic flakes.
2. Wait for your nails to be 200% dry. In fact, tape manis work better if you do the taping part the next day! It’s because half-dry polish will come up with the tape when you rip it off. To make sure tape isn’t super sticky, stick it on and off your arm before taping it to your nail.
3. Tape over the part you don’t want any polish on. Check out Nailside, the queen of all tape manis, for instructions! I used the regular white masking tape because it isn’t too sticky, but it’s also opaque so i just winged the placement. :P
4. Paint over with 2nd layer color. I chose Goldhearted from Caronia.
5. Carefully remove tape right after painting. Don’t wait for nail polish to dry.
6. Top coat and you’re done! <3 
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If it’s anything I’m a sucker for, it’s DIY, and paper. I love paper so much I DIYed all my wedding invitations, giveaways, and programmes.
So it’s kind of inevitable that I love Printmiss.
I just ordered these beautiful modern vintage notecards from them. They haven’t arrived in the mail yet but I’ll definitely take pictures! What could be sweeter than seeing your own name on these precious cards? So pretty ♥
Their main site with all their designs is on wordpress:
http://printmiss.wordpress.com/
But they’re just as easily contacted for orders on facebook:
http://facebook.com/printmiss
Amazing classic, vintage, elegant designs. Shades of Martha Stewart’s beautiful crafts but 100% Filipina-made by Ina Amor-Mejia.
She’s such a stickler for detail that even her packaging is exquisite, something I admire and value in any shop owner or crafter.
There are absolutely gorgeous modern designs too. How genius is it to put your name inside these trendy animal-print ballerinas? Ughhh I want all the designs, plz.
These are just notecards, but Printmiss makes wedding invitations, gift tags, and a score of other paper goods. The only limit is your imagination. I love the fact that there’s a Filipina-owned shop that allows you to DIY your wedding, birthday, debut or event invites. I wish this had existed when I was planning my wedding. :(
Check out these Save The Dates:
Don’t be boxed in by boring designs by boring print shops. Check out Printmiss and unleash your creativity!
Watch out for my *official* (tan tan taaaaaan) blog post about this beautiful little shop soon. There will be a discount code given to people who find the shop through my blog and order! ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Tinks and Itty (by ♥♥ Jo ♥♥)
Kitty on the right: “But it’s Caturday.”
Kitty on the left: “DO NOT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT”
Me and my girl, jadmontenegro.
Thank you very much for this, sweetheart. <3
p.s. I see you’re trying to hone a new chibi style. Looks good. :)
p.p.s. and just so people know that we really do look like that:
