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.

Valentine's Day Mani - part 1

Sorry about the late start to the Valentine manicures but I have been trying to be good and get some homework done. Anyways, here is the first one I came up with. I was going for sweet and innocent with Baby Barbie (my light pink franken) and stamped it with Color Club Hot Like Lava (metallic pink) using OB18.

I thought it was cute, but probably not something I'd wear for long.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Fav or Franken Friday - Valentine's Edition

Sorry for both the late post and the late start for the Valentine's Day manicures. I decided to do something very girlie for my first one. I had yet to make any frankens for Valentine's Day so I sat down and made several. Almost all of them are basically glitter topcoats to compliment my collection of pinks and reds.

I used Color Club Sugar Sheer (light baby pink), stamped with China Glaze Emotion (metallic rosey-pink), and one of my new frankens, Sweetie, on the rest. Now as the name implies, Sugar Sheer is, well, sheer. It took three good coats to get even coverage. I used 2 coats of Sweetie on all but the accent nail. For the accent nail, I stamped using the xoxo image from the SE20 plate. SE20 is a new plate for me so I tried stamping on a 3 x 5 card about 12 times before I got a decent, clean pickup. I placed it on my nail then grabbed a topcoat and *DOH* wrong one! I grabbed the one that smears the stamps. Oh well!

Sweetie - bottle macro

I'll try to catch up on the V-day manis and post a few more over the next couple days. Bedtime for now though. Sweet dreams!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady