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

More St. Patrick's Day Manis - Part 2

For this St. Patrick's Day mani, I used two coats of Wet 'n Wild Black Creme on all nails. On accent nail, I used two coats of Sally Hansen HD Resolution. On the remaining nails, I used two coats of Finger Paints Flecked (green flakie).

I decided to see how this looked with a matte top coat, I used China Glaze Matte Magic.

I stamped on the accent nail using Konad special polish in white and BM-03. I added white glitter in the form of Sinful Colors Smoking Hot using a dotting tool.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Untried Tuesday: Neeka & Motley

For today's Untried Tuesday I figured I play with one of the two Zoyas I recently got. These are very my first 2 Zoyas! I have to admit that when I ordered Neeka I was expecting a lighter polish, kind of a lighter dusty purple with gold flecks. Although she turned out a bit darker than I expected I still like her, especially as a matte (*Facepalm* I forgot to take a picture of Neeka with Matte top coat). Neeka went on smooth, and was almost a one coater! I went ahead and did two coats. There was no dragging and the formula was perfect! However, she just didn't do it for me in my current mood. I wanted something more sparklie so I contemplated my glitter polish collection, then came across the flakie polishes in my drawer.

Zoya Neeka - two coats (lightbox)

I thought that the blue & green flakes in Motley would compliment Neeka's dusty purple quite well. I wasn't wrong although in some of these pictures Neeka appears almost black.Please excuse the crappy clean up job it was 1:30 in the morning.

Neeka 2 coats (lightbox)

Neeka + 1 coat of Motley (lightbox)

Neeka + 2 coats of Motley (lightbox)

Neeka + Motley + Matte (lightbox)

Lightbox

Lightbox

I really like Neeka with Motley mattified! Technically Motley is an almost untried for me - I swatched it on one nail in an earlier post, but this is the first time I have really used it. I wanted to show you how this looks in the sun, unfortunately my chunk of "sunny" California isn't sunny at the moment. It's overcast and raining! If the sun comes out I'll be sure to snap some pics and upload them!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Finger Paints Special Effects Flakies

Like I was saying earlier I picked up four of the five flakie polishes in this collection and since I am giving away another two (Flecked & Flashy) I figured I'd swatch them. All these picture are taken with a base color of 2 coats of Wet n Wild Ink Well and have no top coat.

From left to right: Motley, Asylum, Flecked, Flashy

sunlight

sunlight

light box

Motley - sunlight

Asylum - sunlight (shows red, blue, purple)

Flecked - sunlight

Flashy - sunlight (shows red to copper)

Asylum - light box macro (shows a full rainbow effect)

Asylum - light box macro (is that pink? I think it is.)

 

Flashy - light box macro (shows more of the yellow/gold to red)

Don't forget to enter my For the Love of Flakie Giveaway here to win Flecked and Flashy!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

For the Love of Flakies Giveaway!!!

So I decided to do a giveaway for the heck of it and traveled down to the nearest Sally's (one town over) and managed to scoop the last two Finger Paints Special Effects Flakies they had. My store didn't get all five only four (no Twisted). I scored all four earlier this month but I have been seeing how had it has been for others to get them. So if you've been having trouble finding them here's your chance to score Flecked and Flashy! Since there really isn't a reason for this giveaway except for flakiness I figured I'd end it on 2/29 to celebrate this year being a Leap Year too.

Giveaway ends 2/29/12 at midnight (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) and is open INTERNATIONALLY unless your country doesn't accept the shipping of cosmetics!!! (I HAVE NEVER SHIPPED INTERNATIONALLY BEFORE BUT I’LL GIVE IT A SHOT!) You must be a public follower via Google Friend Connect, all entries will be checked! I have given multiple entry options including 2 more daily entry options. The more entries, the better your chance of winning is! New followers are welcome, and for those of you already following at the time of this post, I will add another bonus entry for you already having been a follower before this giveaway. (I wrote everyone down so I'll know who to add!)

The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my email. If no response in 48 hours, win will be forfeited and new winners will be drawn.

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

If you are under the age of 18 you must have your parents consent. I'm not responsible for customs charges in your country and please do not enter if you know your country won’t accept the shipping of cosmetics. If returned by customs, I will choose another winner. I am not liable or responsible for any loss or damage of giveaway prizes during the shipping and I will package them as well as I can. Any duplicate or erroneous entries will be removed.  If you have any questions or believe that you have a faulty entry, please contact me at dragonladynails@gmail.com. All entries must be via the Rafflecopter widget below. Comment entries will NOT be counted.

You are all awesome! Thank you for all your support so far, and all of your comments which I love reading. Good luck!!!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady