Awarded: Versatile Blogger Style

Hey polished prisoners,

I won an award! In the words of one of my favorite fairies "Shut the barn door!" Who'd a thunk it?  I was nominated by Jennifer of Little J's Nail Corner.  Thank you very much sweetness! TBH I'm just doing my little thing here and it's nice to have my followers think I'm creating something they enjoy :) So let's get into the rules and answer some questions.

Z Rules:
1. Thank the person who gave you this award.
2. Include a link to their blog.
3. Select 15 blogs/bloggers who you've recently discovered or follow regularly.
4. Nominate those 15 bloggers for the Versatile Blogger Award, you could also link to them.
5. Finally tell the person who nominated you 7 things about yourself.

7 Fun Factoids about Lady T:
1.  I summited Mt. Ruapehu otherwise known as Mt. Doom from the Lord of the Rings (yes I'm badass!).
2. I was once chased by a dingo (yeah I kid you not totally harsh)
3.  I once went deep diving to monitor lobster larvae (please don't ask) and was almost crushed by a whale that surfaced directly by the boat.  Are you sensing a theme here like maybe animals don't like me lol or I'm particularly clumsy?
4.  I broke a toe on my right foot running to give my brother a hug when I was 13 (yes there is a theme)
5. I can speak Japenese enough to get by and I'm working on fluency.
6.  On my 2nd birthday when I went to blow out the candle my mom pushed my face into the birthday cake.  I cried (the pictures attest to this travesty), but was later rewarded a red tricycle of my dreams in compensation.  Thus began my affair with the color red...ah the exquisite pain and pleasure!
7.  No matter whether I'm happy or sad there is only one thing to be done - Disney movie marathon while wearing Louboutins! Of course nail polish is also involved in this equation ;)

 The Hot 7 (I know pathetic right, but TBH a lot of the blogs I read regularly or just discovered have already won the award so I'm only going to list those that haven't)

1. Gold Speck Nails 
2. Noelie's Nails
3. Labmuffin
4. Polish Insomniac
5. xoxoJen
6. NailsIT
7. Pandora's Nails


Ok and there we have it.  I hope everyone enjoyed getting to know a little bit more about the lady behind the lacquer.  Honestly I'm having so much fun blogging and getting back into nail art and polishes. My wallet has recently told me a little too much fun lol ;) Thanks for reading and I'll see you next post! Toodles...

Amazon Strikes Again: Good Customer Service

 Hey polished prisoners,

I wanted to give a quick little shout-out to the customer service peeps over at Amazon.com particularly Zander.  I was sitting down this afternoon flipping through my Shany 2012 plates when I realized one of my plates was missing. 

My missing plate!

Image Source: The Stamping Plate Project

Cue tragic music... I was totally bummed since I placed that order at the end of May and the return date just passed on the 6th of this month.  Why was I contemplating returns you ask? I wasn't but Amazon can be persnickety about windows of contact when the returns policy is closed. I just wanted to get the 25th plate and get the heck out of dodge.  

I will admit going through my old orders and not being able to get a contact link was horrible.  I searched the Shany website that had a number listed that was no longer in service (nice), but was eventually able to backtrack in some insane way to live chat via amazon to address the missing part of my order.  Enter Zander.  I'm embarrassed to say I had to explain to him in detail what nail stamping plates are via live chat.  AWKWARD.  Lol - I can picture this man's face just being like women and shaking his head.  Nevertheless after a bit of finagling the replacement plate is on it's way to me with no need to return a darn thing.  Get down!

Usually in the blog-a-sphere we write reviews about customer service gone wrong.  Wrong orders, long waits, bad attitudes, etc, but this was by far one of the best experiences I had so I had to give Amazon their due.  Something similar happened to me last year as well with my old Bundle Monster plates.  That time it was Bundle Monster that stepped up 2 years out from an order and replaced my defective plate no questions asked.  With service like this I can't help but thinking that we lacqueristas have been very blessed!  Anyone else have any experiences like this?

UPDATE: Amazon went ahead and sent me the entire set again via 2 day mail! I already have my replacements!  See what I mean - flawless customer service.  Thanks so much Zander :)