Showing posts with label Sally Hansen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sally Hansen. Show all posts

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!

Week 16: Dotticure Mani


 For the 52 Week's challenge I am a bit behind, so I figured i'd just use the polish from my previous post for my Week 16: Dotticure Mani. If you missed my last post I used two coats of Sinful Colors Zeus over a nail treatment base coat and topped it with Barielle Ultra Speed Dry Top Coat. Since I am behind on the 52 Week Challenge manis I thought this color would provide a good base for the Dotticure mani I needed to do. Here's my inspiration for this mani from Polish Amor.

I used my dotting tools to dot on Sally Hansen hard to Tell (shimmery, pearl white) randomly half way to 2/3 the way down my nails. I kind of like it, sort of reminds me of a purple spotted egg or something. I am thinking about a dot-gradient next time.



Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Week 15: Easter Mani


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! ;)**

Easter Mani #3 - Easter Chickies


I saw this adorable Chicken mani by Kelly @ Kelly's Kolors. I just had to try it out. I admit that although yellow was once one of my favorite colors, being a redhead it really just isn't my color. I didn't want to do 5 yellow chickies, so I thought I'd give you my 5 colored chickies instead.

Kind of like these:


I used China Glaze Dance Baby, Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow, Color Club Twiggie, China Glaze Bahamian Escape, and Revlon Charming. Same base colors I used for my first Easter mani, the Easter eggs.



For the beaks and claws I used Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up (orange creme). For the eyes I used Wet n Wild Black creme.


 So here they are:


Then I added some sparkle with a coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust.




Sorry, the sun was out wanted to see some sparklies after so much rain!


So, after seeing my chickies SOMEONE else wanted chickies. Sounded close to this, "Chickies! Chickies! Please! Cherry top!" Yes, the two year old wanted chickies enough to use the magic words Please with a cherry on top or at least her version. Now I want you to stop and think a minute about how small a two year old's fingernails really are. We are talking about 2/3 the size of a small polish brush, the pinky might be less than half. Those of you with kids or younger siblings know what I'm talking about. I should have posted this on it's own with the post title, "An Exercise in Patience." LMAO! She begged for these but would NOT hold still for them. Kept trying to lean over and see what I was doing. Oy!






The oldest also wanted some chickies and she wanted a bunny as an accent nail...we'll see how that goes and maybe I'll post it tomorrow. For now, goodnighty all and a great big thank you to all my followers for well, following! ;)

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

P.S. As I am previewing this Bug-bug is in my lap pointing at the screen and yelling, "Mine chickies." She actually scratched and peeled hers off hours ago. LOL







Easter Mani #1 - Easter Eggs


So for my first Easter mani, I was trying to think of something that symbolized Easter for me. Easter eggs! My first attempt was kind of scary as I really had no plan and was just slapping stuff here and there. It wasn't exactly a fail but I felt the need to reattempt.




My second attempt actually was done with a plan. Polka dot eggs. I used China Glaze Dance Baby, Sally Hansen mellow Yellow, Color Club Twiggie, China Glaze Bahamian Escape, and Revlon Charming.



I dotted one some dots with my set of dotting tools and Milani 3d Holographic nail polish in:Digital,3D, Hi-Tech, Cyberspace, and Hi-Res. I topped it all off with a coat of Seche Vite.




Here's the finished result:




Hope you liked it. Much Love, The Dragon Lady

More St. Patrick's Day Manis - Part 3


Here's a quick and simple one. I started with two coats of Nubar Reclaim medium green with light holo-ness) added one coat of Pot O' Gold (a franken) because there just wasn't any sunlight here to bring out the holo in Reclaim. I then added one coat of Sally Hansen Set the Stage and topped off with a coat of Seche Vite.



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

Week 8 - Corset Mani



Once again this year long challenge brings me face to face with yet another manicure I haven't performed. Even though I had never done a corset mani, I knew exactly what I was going to do. I styled this mani after my favorite corset (hubby's fav too)!

Light box




I used Sally Hansen Insta-dri Petal Pusher, Milani One Coat Glitter Blue Flash, free hand nail art with brush and Wet n Wild Black Creme, and stamped with Konad special polish in black and using m3 (small bow) and m71 (full nail design). I had a blast with this mani (even htough it didn't com out quite as I wanted).



If you are trying to figure out what is on the top of my middle nail, well it was SUPPOSED to be cleavage. Yup, I said cleavage. I have an ample supply of it normally and abundant supply when corseted but nail art wise, I ain't got S%!#! LOL




This mani is uber glittery and I feel I nailed (pun intended) the pattern of my corset pretty well but I definitely want a do over and will be trying this type of mani again to see if I can't perfect my technique a bit. Hope you enjoy!


Fellow Challengers:



Much Love, The Dragon Lady

P.S. If you noticed my destroyed cuticles, that's what happens when you play with polish, remover, do yard work, and forget to properly moisturize and perform hand care because you are too tired. It will take awhile to undo what 2 days without care did. =(