Neon Gradient

I have been feeling the neon colors lately because it's officially Summer and all. I did this neon gradient a few days ago and wore it for about 4 days. I started off with two coats of Orly Dayglow, a pretty white with a hint of blue shimmer, from their Summer 2012 collection. I then used the two coats of neon yellow I got in my neon 3-pk Color Zone polishes at TJ Maxx. I did the gradient itself with both the neon yellow and and neon pink from the Color Zone set. These two polishes have this beautiful white/silver shimmer to them. I love it! Unfortunately the green that came with them doesn't share it's sisters' shimmer. You can see the shimmer in the pink bottle in the bottle shot picture below.

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sunlight

I used a piece of foil and a make-up sponge to do my gradient. I put the yellow and the pink right next to each other on the foil then dabbed the sponge in it in an up & down motion, creating a nice blended gradient on the foil and my sponge. I then sponged it onto the nail in the same way. I did this twice for each nail, then topped it off with one coat of Seche Vite.

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lightbox

lightbox

After wearing this mani for a day, I decided it needed just a little something. A stamp. I decided to just do an accent nail stamp and because of the "summery" feel of this mani I went with a cute palm tree/beach stamp from SH19.

Hope you all enjoyed this one, I know I did! Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Week 12 - Skittles Mani

I was having trouble deciding what type of skittle mani to do today. The choices were metallic skittles, neon skittles, or glitter skittles. The hubs didn't have a favorite but my oldest and youngest daughter both picked neon so here we go...

For this mani I used 3 coats of the following: Color Club Warhol, Color Club Wham! Pow!, China Glaze Celtic Sun (Neon), Cosmetic Arts neon green, and Cosmetic Arts neon blue.

I then decided it still needed something but I was too lazy to stamp anything (still in a shamrock stamp coma) so I decided I would add some of that unnamed glitter franken (made with multi-sized silver holo & white iridescent glitter).

 

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

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Another St. Patty's Day Mani

I liked the pink and green St. Patty's stamping mani I did for Pink Wednesday and as I was looking at it, it hit me! Neon! It would look awesome in neon. Now I didn't want to completely copy my previous mani so I opted to paint the Irish flag on my thumb and ring finger and then used to color for that on the other three fingers. Green on pinky, white  on middle, and orange on index. First I painted all my nails with two coats of my base coats franken (does any one else fraknen their nail treatments?), then two coats of Orly Au Champagne.

Here's what I used for the orange on my index finger and in the flags I used one coat of Color Club Wham! Pow! toppped with one coat of Fantasy Makers Creepy Pumpkin then one coat of Seche Vite.
For the green on my pinky and in the flags I used one coat of Cosmetic Arts unnamed neon green (might be the same as Color Club The Lime Starts Here but not sure since I don't own that one). Topped with one coat of Jesse's Girl Firefly (I know it looks white in the bottle but over this green you really only see the green flash of the glitter) and topped again with one coat of Seche Vite.For the white on my middle finger and in the flag I used one coat of Sinful Colors Smoking Hot over the already there 2 coats of Orly Au Champagne. Topped with one coat of Seche Vite.

Obviously before clean-up. LOL!

I then proceeded to stamp over this once dry with Color Club Wham! Pow! and Cosmetic Arts neon green using the plaid design from m60. The rest of the stamps are using Konad special polish in black using RA-116, SH12, and BM-03. I wish that the plaid had come out a bit brighter but I still love this mani. I think I will sport this one for the day and try to post some more tonight.

Hope you enjoyed this one! Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Week 10 - Polka Dot Mani

Still trying to play catch up on this year long challenge. Here's last week's challenge of a Polka Dot Mani. This didn't turn out quite how I wanted it or how I pictured it in my head but I still liked it and the longer I wore it the more it grew on me.
 


For this mani I used 2 coats of Orly Au Champagne then began dotting on Color Club In Bloom (pink), China Glaze Peachy Keen (peach/orange), some unknown Sinful Colors (yellow), Color Club Twiggie (green), China Glaze For Audrey (blue), and Revlon Charming (purple).

I then proceeded to repeat the process on the next 4 rows but moved the first color to the back after each one.

I thought it still needed something so I topped it off with one coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust, my favorite ultra fine holographic glitter top coat.
 

 Hope you enjoyed this one! Much Love, The Dragon Lady

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Day 9: RAINBOW nails

I love this mani, makes me really not want to do tomorrows challenge. I went for a sort-of double rainbow, I did a rainbow sponge with Color Club Peppermint Twist (pink),China Glaze Peachy Keen (orange-peach), Lemon Fizz (yellow), Re-fresh Mint (green), & Bahamian Escape (blue), and Sally Hansen No Hard Feelings (purple). Then to make it EXTRA rainbow-y I topped it off with China Glaze Fairy Dust (holographic micro glitter in clear base).

I think that I will definitely be doing this mani again, every time I look at my nails it makes me smile. I just might re-do this for finals week.

**UPDATE** Fixed missing pics and part of post from Day 8: METALLIC nails and Day 7: BLACK & WHITE nails. =)

Sunlight

Sunlight

Inside with flash

Macro

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Day 2: Orange Nails

For my orange nail day, I chose Color Club Wham! Pow! and Wet n Wild 9.0.2.1.Orange. I was actually shocked to discover that I own 6 orange polishes. Seems like a lot for a color I usually only wear around Halloween or in rainbow themes. LOL

I actually really like this combo of the bright neon orange and the shimmery orange micro glitter. Unfortunately, I didn't get shots of this mani before the sun went down here. I'm kinda bummed about it but after looking at the weird occurrence of this mani inside with the flash on, may be it's for the better.

 

Macro

Okay, now for the unexpected weird occurrence....

Taken with flash

 Yes, is a picture of the same mani. Weird, right? Apparently, the orange micro-glitter really reflects the light and I guess each nail was set at a different angle. Looks kind of cool, but weird. Anyway, that's it for now...

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

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Thought occurred to me...wondered how this would look with a matte top coat...here it is with one coat of China Glaze Matte Magic. I think I like it.

Happy Halloween!!

Thought I'd better throw my Halloween mani on here before the day is over. I used Wet n Wild's Ink Well (black), Color Club's Wham! Pow! (neon orange), Fantasy Maker's Creepy Pumpkin (orange glitter jelly), China Glaze's Fairy Dust, and Konad special polish in black and white, stamp plates BM-211, BM-224, and XL plate K- special design.

Had so much fun with these!!

Outside in the sun

Shade

Blurry close-up to show the awesome holo-sparkle of the coat of Fairy Dust.

I did two coats of Ink Well and two coats of Wham! Pow! followed by one coat of Seche Vite, then stamped, then one coated the orange with Creeping Pumpkin. When dry I hit all fingers with Fairy Dust for that uber blingtasticness and then Seche Vite-d so I could head to be as it was around 2 am yesterday morning when I did these. Oh and thumb is like the pinkie but with 2 different types of skulls, just in case anyone was wondering.

Happy Halloween! Much love, The Dragon Lady