Missing you all!!!

Hello my lovely readers, oh how I miss you! Life is crazy for me at the moment. I wish I could say it's crazy good but not all of it is. My sweet kitty, Spaz has gone missing since I last posted and I miss him terribly. I was holding out hope that he would return but it has been over a week and I fear I must now face the fact that something has happened to him. Because of this I am keeping my other two cats close to prevent anything from happening to them. It is terrible not knowing if he's alive and lost or if he's dead. I keep torturing myself with the what if's. I live in a rural area just outside of a small mountain town on 20 acres. So, basically, I don't know if he picked on a rattlesnake and it got the best of him, or a fox or mountain lion got him, or one of my few neighbors hit him with a car, or what. I can only hope that if he's dead, his death was quick and as painless as possible. Mostly I hope he'll just show back up, healthy and happy.

Spaz

So on top of one of my fur babies going missing, I am still trying to catch up on school work, get ready for finals (just 2 weeks away), I put in a garden (and destroyed my nails and cuticles some more), I am getting an internship setup doing web programming for the summer, trying to get childcare worked out for finals and summer, my car is in the shop, my camera is malfunctioning (won't let me upload my photos to my PC), and on top of all this...I am experiencing a decided lack of inspiration to paint my nails. I hope to find away to get some pictures of my April haul up tomorrow and maybe a mani as well. It feels pretty weird to be running around with just clear polish (Barielle Growth Accelerator and Nail Aid Extreme Steel Hardener) on.

Did I also mention I am designing a professional website for my web design and programming teacher? Yep, custom icons, menu dock, and all. So basically I am just tapped out lately. I hope to be back posting more regularly here soon so please bear with me.

Much Love, 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

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