XOXO mini post

Hello my lovelies! Glad to finally report that my pc is now 95% functional! I am still attempting to recover a few things and going through the not-so-fun process of putting "things" back where they go. I think after so long of not regularly posting I will be starting back a bit slowly at first. I am going to try to post at least once a week but of course I am shooting for more. I haven't decided if I am going to pick a certain day to post every week or go freestyle.

Here is a little mini post of my own XOXO (Hugs & Kisses) from my Etsy store Dragon Lacquer. XOXO contains metallic glitter in a translucent pink base. Shown with one coat over a white base with no top coat.

One coat over white base

Macro bottle shot

I hope you enjoyed! Since I am pretty new to the whole indie polish making crowd, I have been doing all the swatching of my polish for my store myself. I am, however, looking for some fellow bloggers to help ease my swatching "burden"....so...if you are a blogger who posts more regularly than I have been and have at least 100-200 followers and would like to do a review of my nail polish, cuticle oil, or my soon to be released hand creme & cuticle butter, please shoot me an email over at dragonlacquer@gmail dot com. Please provide me a link to your blog as well.

Much love (and more blogging soon), The Dragon Lady

Missing You All

I haven't posted in awhile for several reasons. One being the loss of my computer back in December, CPU melt down definitely affects blogging. I have finally been able to order the parts needed to rebuild my PC and even gave her some upgrades in the process. I hope to have the parts by next weekend and have her put together soon too. 

Another reason I have been lagging behind on posting is that I have been very ill off and on for the past few months. I had the flu for 7 and a half weeks, was okay for a few days then got a nasty sinus infection that then migrated into my lungs for a few weeks. I managed to fight that off and felt okay for a few days and then on the first day of class for the new Spring semester I started getting another sinus headache. Within hours I felt miserable again, I am now in the second week of this illness which is in my lungs once again and my doctor has me on a strict regime of a hardcore antibiotics for 21 days, steroids for 10, and I am awaiting the results of my x-rays. He is concerned that I am not able to get rid of the infection completely and so it just springs back up. I hope to finally be over this prolonged illness soon and be back blogging soon.

I have not given up on this blog or my love of polish and I have been buying and making polish to share with you soon. You can see some mini swatches of my custom polish here. I will be looking for some lovely bloggers who would like to do some polish reviews/swatches for me as well. I will not be adding any new polish to my etsy store until I am feeling better but I am offering free shipping on what is already listed with coupon LOVE013. I have been buying up polish for the last few months and have a huge box of new polish that I can't wait to share... just moments ago bought the new Color Club Halo Hues off amazon.com. Can't wait to play with those too. I also have a handful of lovely polishes from llarowe to play with as well. 

Hope to be blogging soon. Much Love, 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

Update

My lovely PC has died on me. I am currently working on repairing it. I have narrowed down the issues to a few possibilities. Unfortunately, one of those it that my motherboard and CPU might be toast. Anyway, on said PC are all of my pics, emails, passwords, etc so it has been extremely rough. I guess you don't fully realize how much you depend on something until it breaks. I have access to a laptop but I can't edit photos on it at the moment so I only have the small file of pics that were on a flash drive. Will keep you posted as I can. I haven't forgotten about the winners of the nail contest but don't want to announce winners without being able to show their beautiful nail art. As I mentioned before, I will be adding a little something to their prizes to make up for the delay. Miss you all!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady