Dragon Lady Nails: China Glaze

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Yesterday's Teal Mani

Here's a quick post to show you all what I used in the ovarian Cancer Awareness mani I wore yesterday. I used two coats of Sinful Colors Sweet Dreams, a pale teal with a silver shimmer. Once that was dry I stamped over it with the awareness ribbon french tip image on BM-324 using China Glaze Deviantly Daring. On my accent nail I sponged Sinful Colors Nail Junkie, then hit it all with a coat of Seche Vite.

Mani/Bottle shots:

I also did my toes in a teal glitter nail art polish, Finger Paints Art Hue Feeling Young?, I moved some of it to a small polish bottle for easier application. I topped it off with two coats of Seche Vite, then today I used one coat of Geliah Top It Off UV Topcoat for awesome glass-like shine (also adds durability and I am planning on wearing this for awhile).

Macro in sunlight

First ever toe shot!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Nina Ultra Pro Electric Slide

One of the polishes I scored from Sally Beauty the other day was Nina Ultra Pro Electric Slide. It looked like a pretty cool neon green jelly with gold and iridescent glitter in it. This is two coats of Electric Slide no base coat and no top coat.

Meh! So disappointing! It looks kind of like I have some weird nail illness that made them all gross greeny-yellow and I was trying (and failing) to hide it with glitter. Yuck! But all is not lost, that's what layers are for!

I layered two coats of Electric Slide over 2 coats of China Glaze I'm With the Lifeguard (should have done 3 as I can still see a bit of VNL). Loooove it! Very summery (it's still in the 100+ degrees where I am, so until the weather gives over to fall I am refusing to put my summer neons away).

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Nail Mail and July's Haul (So far)

So this month when pay day hit, I paid rent, bills, and of course hit the stores to find some new polish for inspiration. I recently got the stuff I ordered online so I figured I'd do a haul post. If you noticed I didn't do a June haul post because we dropped over $400 on a repair for the van on our Fort Bragg trip. Sucked big time. No spending money, not much left for polish buying either. So I kind of made up for it this month. LOL!

Each of the eight color has a different magnetic lid

MASH and Bundle Monster 2012 plates

So I guess I really only have one question for you...which one would you like to see first? LOL! ;)
I also realized tonight that I have passed 1000 followers recently...yep, you know what that means! Keep an eye out for a giveaway soon and thank you all for reading!!!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

750 Follower Appreciation Giveaway!!!

Thank you for those who voted on my two polls I have had going on for the last week. The results from the first one showed that you wanted a giveaway and not a contest to celebrate 750 followers. The second poll showed that most of you would like polish to be the prize. So here it is...a polish giveaway to celebrate my milestone of reaching 750+ followers and for me to show my appreciation for all of my lovely followers.

You MUST be a follower via GFC to enter. The giveaway starts 4/18/2012 and ends on 5/31/2012 at midnight and is open INTERNATIONALLY unless your country doesn't accept the shipping of cosmetics!!! I'm not responsible for customs charges in your country and I'm not responsible for the package once I've shipped it. Winner will be contacted by email after the giveaway ends. If you are under the age of 18 you must have your parents consent.

**All prizes/products are brand new, never used or swatched, and purchased with my own money.**

If you have any questions contact me at dragonladynails@gmail.com.

For this giveaway I have chosen to issue the following rules because of issues with my last giveaways:

Rules:

Please follow directions!
Erroneous/fraudulent entries will be removed.
More than 1 erroneous will get all of your entries removed.
Fraudulent entries will get you completely disqualified.
Fraudulent entries & disqualification from 2 different giveaways and will get you banned from future giveaways.

Grounds for disqualification:

Entering more than once (both sets will be removed)
Not being a GFC follower (this includes leaving the GFC name blank)
If you are caught entering GFC name, email, and the rest are fraudulent entries in more than one giveaway – I will forever ban you from my giveaways (dishonesty is a HUGE dislike for me, it’s not fair to the followers who actual do stuff for those entries and you just click enter, enter, enter and hope I don’t check….well, I do. Every. Last. Entry.)

These rules sound harsh I'm sure but they are there for those followers who actually do the requested activities to earn those entries. I have also changed around some of the entry options as you will notice. I also added the option to host a copy of this giveaway's Rafflecopter widget in a post for 25 bonus entries. You can combine this with the blog post bonus entry and get 30 bonus entries for one blog post. Here's the catch...it needs to be an actual blog not just one step up to make blog posts for raffle entries. Okay, enough of that onto the Rafflecopter widget!

For this week's challenge, the Easter mani, I decided to use the mani I did for my almost 12 year old daughter (her b-day is on Tuesday). She loved the little chickies but also wanted an accent nail with a bunny. Her nails are pretty small so I was worried about tried to fit a bunny with his ears on there, but hey, sometimes you just have to say, " I can always take it off and start over if I screw it up!" LOL! I think they turned out pretty cute and she absolutely LOVES them!

We painted her nails with 3 coats Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow and 2 coats China Glaze Bahamian Escape on the accent nail. For the chickies I used Wet n Wild Black creme (eyes) and Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up (toes/beaks). for the bunny I used Konad stamping polish in white (for it's opaqueness factor). I was actually able to just brush on the half circle face and ears. I then used China Glaze Dance Baby and my dotting tool for the nose and inner ears, and again used the Wet N Wild Black Creme for the eyes. I also used the dotting tool and Konad white to finish up the eyes. I then coated it all in Seche Vite - I did wait about a minute for the nail art to "dry" a bit so the Seche wouldn't smear it.

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter. I will leave you with this cute bunny pic I found the other day.

Happy Easter!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Fellow Challengers:

**Again if you are doing this challenge and aren't on my list please leave a comment below with a link to you blog home page so I can add you and check out your designs too! ;)**

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