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New Dragon Lady Lacquer

*****UPDATE*****
I decided that Dragon Lady Lacquer was just too much of a mouthful and have shortened it to Dragon Lacquer.

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If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook you may have already heard the news...

There are 7 different polishes in this collection:

1. Resolutionary - multi-size silver holographic glitter in a clear base for layering. Pics are shown with one coat and no top coat over red, green, white, and black. Since this polish is so glitter dense it is fully buildable. Full of sparkle like the coming New Year!

2. Go Scrooge Yourself! - multiple size/shape black glitter (bars, squares, hex) with metallic green and red hex in different sizes and red/green micro glitter in a clear base for layering. Pics are shown with two coats and no top coat over red, green, white, and black.

3. Angel Wings - Four sizes of iridescent hex glitter , white bars and squares, small gold hex, and gold micro and gold uber-micro/shimmer glitter for layering. The pictures just don't do this one justice. Pics are shown with two thin coats and no top coat over red, green, white, and black.

4. Rockin' Around the Xmas Tree - metallic green bar glitter with red, blue, purple, holo gold, holo silver hex and holographic micro glitter in a clear base for layering. Everything a glittery tree should be! Pics are shown with one coat and no top coat over red, green, white, and black.

5. You're A Mean One... - In honor of my favorite holiday movie from my childhood. He's mean and green but he has a heart. Small and medium size matte neon green hex with matte red hearts in a matte clear base.

6. Melted Snowmen - Multiple sized white hex (snowman bodies), tiny black hex (coal eyes and mouth), metallic orange flakies (carrot noses), and iridescent micro glitter in a matte clear base. Poor snowmen.

7. White Christmas - matte red, white, green squares, small satin green and white hex in milky white base.

These are currently on sale in my Etsy Store Dragon Lady Lacquer. Use coupon code WINTER2012 to get 15% off your purchase.

Much Love and Happy Holidays, The Dragon Lady

Valentine's Mani - part 5

Second to last Valentine's Day themed mani and so far my favorite! This one is an anti-valentine's mani! For this one I used Orly Au Champagne, Nubar Fire Sparkle (ring finger), Queen of Hearts (a franken - on thumb), and Konad Special Polish in black and red. I also used the following plates: SE18, BM-02, BM-03, BM-11, RA100, OB5, m13.

I will post the mani I am officially wearing for Valentine's Day later this afternoon.

Happy Valentine's Day all! Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Valentine's Mani - part 3

For this mani, I choose red and black. I used Color Club Cadillac Red, Wet n Wild Black Creme for the base colors. Then I stamped with Konad Special Polish in red, white, and black using BM02, SH09, and SH01. I used Wet n Wild Behind Closed Doors (black based red hex glitter) on my thumb. I used my franken, Bloodsucker (red jelly based red micro and black hex glitter) on my pinky.

I thought it needed something else so I added another one of my frankens, A Holo ♥ (a red and holo micro glitter with red hearts in clear base),to the middle three nails. When I went to stamp the red lips onto the black, I actually expected the red to show up...well it didn't! So I stamped the design on white, then attempted to stamp over it again in red. I got close but not right on top, however I kind of like the way it turned out.

Again I liked it but the colors were a bit too harsh for my nubbins I think.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Valentine's Day Mani - part 2 (FAIL)

Ok I wasn't going to post this one but figured "Eh, why not!" It "looked" so much cooler in my head. I started off with Orly Au Champagne (2 coats), one coat of Seche Vite, then stamped with Konad Special Polish in red and green using m65. Excuse the crappy lighting, I didn't like it enough to haul out the lightbbox.

I am calling it a FAIL because even though it turned out okay, it reminds me of Christmas rather than Valentine's Day. So, I may try this again later using different colors and maybe it will work better for V-Day.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

P.S. If you noticed the band-aid, I got a pretty nasty cut from a fauxnad plate as I was removing the protective plastic cover. I'll be doing a review of those plates soon and will go into detail then.

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

Yesterday's Christmas mani + konad

I wasn't ready to give up my mani from yesterday (Orly Meet Me Under the Mistletoe & Orly Rock-It) with all of it's sparkly goodness so I decided to add some Christmas konad stamps to it. I used konad special white stamping polish and plates m12, XL Special Holiday K, and BM222. It didn't come out quite as good as I hoped so I won't be keeping it past tomorrow.