Leather Effects Dupe in progress

Good afternoon all! This is a quick post to show you what I was wearing yesterday. First off, I have to say that earlier this year I saw some awesome swatches of Nails Inc. Leather Effect Nail Polish in Noho over at Lacquered Lover. The down side? $25 a bottle and you can't buy it alone. Bummer. So I decided to attempt a dupe since I have the polish making supplies. Here's how it came out... "Leather-ish" is opaque in 2 coats. Shown below with 2 coats no top coat, no undies.

What do you think? Did I come close? I was afraid it would end up super-textured but it ended up with a subtle texture and way shinier than I expected. Now I am kicking myself for not mattifying this before I removed it. Maybe next time. 

Much Love & Lacquer, The Dragon Lady

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

Week 13 - Ruffian Mani

This will be a quick post. This is my first Ruffian mani and I decided to use some of the new polish I got in a recent haul (haul post next). For this I used 3 coats of Jesse's Girl Midori (so not impressed with the formula on this one - thin & streaky, even after plenty of dry time between layers). Then I free-handed one coat Wet n Wild Black Creme over it in Ruffian fashion. Once this was dry I added Forever Beauty Green. Such a plain name for such a pretty glitter.

Since I am in the process of reorganizing and moving my polish and nail supplies I couldn't remember where I put my french tip guides so I could use those for the ruffian but free-hand didn't turn out too bad. I'll have to try this with different polish and those guides once I find them. Oh and if you couldn't tell...I managed to rip off almost all my nails down to the quick this weekend.  =(

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

More St. Patrick's Day Manis - Part 8 - THE FAILS

Ok, now the FAIL St. Patty's Day manis. There are two. The first one is a semi-fail...ok in theory, fail in execution.

I used 2 coats of Wet 'n Wild Black Creme, Emerald Isle (franken, 1 coat on accent), and a plain green glitter franken (no name) on the tips.

 

 

 

Fail #2: Totally FAIL. It looked good in my head but apparently got demented in the translation? ROFL. Not sure what I was thinking but this is definitely NOT it. Uggh.

Ok, I also need to say 2 things....
One, look at the polish, see the name, see the color...How is that Lime Green? Just saying!
Two, my nails are stained green from this polish, it goes on smooth, kind of on the runny side, but my biggest issue is stainage. Dragon Lady says GRRR! at stainage! Ok, thanks for listening to my mini-rant. ;)


Much Love, The Dragon Lady

More St. Patrick's Day Manis - Part 4

Alrighty, onto the next St. Patty's mani! This one is 2 coats of Wet 'n Wild black Creme topped with 2 coats of Black Irish, another of my St. Patty's Day themed frankens! Black Irish is a translucent black base with green holo shred, small green hex glitter, and green micro glitter.

And for those wondering what Black Irish means, it is a term used to describe the "other" Irish (as opposed to the classic stereotyped pale-skinned, freckled, red-head *cough* me *cough* ). The dark-haired, fair-skinned, green (or blue) eyed Irish person. It can also mean dark-hair, brown eyes, and dark complexion but I have only heard it in reference to the black hair/ green eye combo.

If you can't tell it was really hard to capture the fire in this mani, I think this last picture is the best attempted but still falls short. Much Love, The Dragon Lady