Subtle Pink Gradient with Stamping

I decided to play with my mani from last night. I did a sponge gradient and because it's been awhile totally failed at take pics of what it looked like before the stamping. Sorry. Anyway, since I used Sinful Colors Cotton Candy for my mani yesterday, I decided to do my gradient with Cotton Candy and her sister, Sugar N Spice. It only took two rounds of sponging to achieve the look I was going for.

I said the other day (Wednesday?) that I missed stamping so I went through my stamping plate collection and found a design I liked and hadn't used before. I used the large swirly design from m51 Konad plate and stamped with Color Club Miss Bliss, an awesome pink holographic polish.

On a side note, now that school is over for the semester, I finally have some time to wade through the 2 TB of data I recovered from my destroyed PC a few months ago. I hope to be able to recover a couple of reviews I was working on, a handful of posts,  and a ton of pictures including the photos from my nail art contest. Thanks to all of you for sticking around through the random & scant posts and failed PC.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Color Club Harp On It

This is what I was wearing yesterday, I can't get over how much rainbow-tastic holo-goodness thee Color Club holos have. I bought this collection in Dec during my polish hiatus and grabbed up the newest one from Amazon as soon as they were released. I have been waiting to "play" with these for MONTHS!

These are 2 coats with one coat of Seche Vite. Enough talking...onto the holo spam.

These are definitely worth the price, easy application and gorgeous! Need I say more?

Much Love & Lacquer, The Dragon Lady

Color Club Miss Bliss

I know this post is on a Friday and not a Wednesday but I labeled it with Pink Wednesday because this was what I was wearing on Wednesday. I managed to take photos even though I was too busy with school to get them up.

This was 2 coats of Miss Bliss with one coat of Seche Vite. I wore this from Sunday to Thursday night. I didn't want to take this off but I did (I'll show what I am currently wearing tomorrow).

 

On Wednesday night I added one coat of Armageddon Barbie (Dragon Lacquer) to change it up a little.

Much Love & Lacquer, The Dragon Lady

DLN 1000+ Follower Giveaway!!!

Here it is, the DragonLadyNails 1000+ Follower Giveaway! Just my way of showing my appreciation to all my lovely readers! It will run from today 9/15 through 9/30. There will be two prizes for this giveaway:

PRIZE #1:

Color Club Polish in Cadillac Red, Sugar Sheer, In Bloom, Catwalk Queen, Overboard, Rev'd Up, and Trippie Hippie, as well as four nail art striping tape (blue, white, red, gold), and the Salon Express Nail Stamping Set (5 image plates, a scraper, and a stamper).

PRIZE #2:

Color Club Polish in Covered in Diamonds, Hot Couture, Sugar Plum Fairy, Magic Attraction, Gingerbread, Beyond the Mistletoe, as well as four nail art striping tape (blue, white, red, gold), and the Salon Express Nail Stamping Set (5 image plates, a scraper, and a stamper).

You MUST be a follower via GFC to enter. The giveaway starts 9/15/2012 and ends on 9/30/2012 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. Also, prizes will be shipped without packaging to reduce shipping costs.

**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.

Now my rant...

RULES:

• Please follow directions!
• Erroneous/fraudulent entries will be removed.
• More than 1 fraudulent 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.)

I have said this before I'm sure these rules sound harsh 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. 

Okay, enough of that onto the Rafflecopter widget!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Thanks again to my 1000+ Followers!! Much Love, The Dragon Lady

P.S. Please click here to vote for my contest entry. Thanks!

My Contest Entry - Please vote!

I just entered the BirchBox Color Club Fall themed mani contest on FB. Please help me out and vote for my mani here. Thanks bunches!

In other news, I hope to finally get my newest giveaway up later today and I am taking swatches & doing manis like no tomorrow because I will be taking part in the TNT Challenge from ASK Cosmetics (stating very soon) so I won't be able to paint my nails for 12 weeks. Craziness! I am trying to "store" up some posts basically, but you will probably also get mani pics for my mother, and daughter, and possibly some toes as well to fill in the gaps. =)

If you were wondering about what I used for he fall mani entry...generic ridge filling base coat, 2 coats of Color Club Catwalk Queen, then stamped with Mash-27 (leaf tip image) using a very old bottle of Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Emerald Amethyst, topped with Seche Vite.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady - and thanks for voting!

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