Pink Wednesday - Orly Beach Cruiser with glitter topper

For today's Pink Wednesday post, I've got Orly Beach Cruiser topped with DL Matter of Perspective. I used two coats of Beach cruiser, one coat of M.o.P. and one coat of Seche Vite.

I love the look of black and white glitter over neons! Much love & lacquer, The Dragon Lady

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

Pink Wednesday: Wet n Wild Tickled Pink and Sinful Colors Glass Pink

I decided to go with a pastel look for today's Pink Wednesday being how it's Spring and all. I Just picked up Wet n Wild Tickled Pink for $0.69 at my local Walgreen's this morning. I used three coats of Tickled Pink over one coat of Barielle Growth Activator. The formula was on the thickish side and left horrible streaks and drag marks, hence the 3 coats. It all took forever to dry even after I topped it with a coat of Seche Vite. It probably also didn't help that the brush was all wonky too.

I decided it was ok but kind of bland so I added one coat of Sinful Colors Glass Pink which gave this mani a lovely glass fleck finish.

Still though it needed something so I added a glitter gradient using some loose, iridescent, light pink, bar glitter. I topped this with two more coats of Seche Vite to help smooth it out. Notice I skipped doing this on my accent nail...I had other plans for that nail.

I realized it has been a while since I stamped skulls on a mani, figured it was overdue. I used plate OB5 and Konad Special Polish in white. Then added one of my newly acquired rhinestone bows in light pink to match. Then topped it with another coat of Seche Vite. I really like the effect of a creme stamp over the glass fleck finish. I think I will have to repeat this with other colors that aren't so close.

Accent nail macro

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

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

Happy Friday the 13th!

Anyone out there a Paraskevidekatriaphobic? Or perhaps a Friggatriskaidekaphobic? Basically they mean the same thing: "people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th." See when I think of Friday the 13th I think of the horror movies with Jason Voorhees. You might not know it but I LOVE horror flicks. I used to watch too many old USA Up All Night horror marathons on Friday the 13th! Jason is one of my fav psycho killers...So for today I have made a mani in honor of Jason and Friday the 13th.

I started with 2 coats Wet n Wild White Creme (probably could have used a 3rd coat). Stamped on some blood and that machete on the pinky from m13 (13, LOL I missed that while stamping) using Konad Stamping polish in red. I made Jason's hockey mask out of 2 black gems, 4 red tear drops, and some dotted on black spots using Wet n Wild Black Creme. It didn't turn out quite as well as I'd hoped...he kind of looks like an evil chicken. LMAO! But I had fun with it! There's always the next Friday the 13th, you know we have 3 this year...today is the 2nd. All three are 13 weeks apart...

Awww...poor Jason.

Hope everyone had a safe Friday the 13th and no one is currently running from you-know-who! Don't forget to vote on the two polls for the upcoming 750 Follower giveaway (In the first sidebar to the right on top)! Much Love, The Dragon Lady

P.S. Please excuse the sporadic posts and crappy cuticles. I have had some rough homework/classwork the last few weeks and I am catching up on more coding, labs, projects, etc so not doing proper hand/nail care or posts. I hope this changes soon! ;)