Untried Tuesday: Sinful Colors Zeus

 Wow, just wow. The color on this is just beautiful. A dusty purple with a pink shimmer. This is two coats over a nail treatment base coat and one coat of Barielle Ultra Speed Dry. The formula was a little on the thick side but still applied extremely easily and left no brush strokes or any other issues. I was shocked as to how opaque this was with just one coat. If I had done a thick first coat I don't think I would have needed a second. This just got bumped up the the fav list! Now I am kicking myself for not buying more of these, I do think I have one more from this collection floating around....Neptune, I believe. I might just have to use that one next. And yes, I managed to bang my ring finger on the light box as I was getting ready to take pictures. So much for thinking it was dry!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Untried Tuesday - China Glaze Full Spectrum

Quick post today...
So for today's Untried Tuesday, I grabbed one from my new haul. China Glaze Full Spectrum - kind of a purple holography metallic polish. I truly don't have anything like this. I tried two coats of Full Spectrum over two coats of Bonita Chrome My Nail (not a typo on my part - that's what the bottle says).

I had a real problem catching the purple shine to this polish on the nail. It looks more like the bottle shot in real life.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Untried Tuesday: Nubar Star Sparkle

For this week's Untried Tuesday I chose Nubar Star Sparkle. I have been wanting to swatch this since I got it a few months ago but for some reason kept passing it over for something else. I'm not sure why. This is 2 coats over my frankened nail treatments. Probably would have been completely opaque in 3 or 4 coats. This had so much sparkle I was wishing the was sunlight here. The formula on this was very smooth, I wish more glitters went on this easy.

Light box

Light box

Artificial Light

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

Untried Tuesday - China Glaze Ruby Pumps

I cannot believe I have not worn this one yet. OMG! I love this polish. I think it is now my new favorite red or at the very least one of the top two. This is 3 coats with Seche Vite to quick dry it as it really didn't need any smoothing out.

Light box

Macro - light box

You had best believe I am taking some pictures in the sun if weather permits because WOW! It is uber sparkly just indoors with crappy lighting I can only imagine how awesome this is in sunlight. I will add them if I can.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady