First franken nail polishes!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a great week end...sadly almost over though...
I spent my saturday evening watching movies and doing some franken nail polishes. They are my first ones so don't be too hard on me ;-)

For those of you who don't it, franken nailpolishes are custom made polishes. You take different colors and/or pigments and/or glitters and you mix them to create your personnal color.

Before I show you the nail polishes, I want to tell you that I was totally inspired by Amanda from Dr. Frankenpolish. Please have a look at her blog, she's got real talent and explains absolutely everything!

Here are what I did to begin with copying exactly what Amanda did on her blog, except the fact that hers are 10 times more pretty...:

I used ELF clear nail polish and the pigment travel to earth from TKB Trading. You can't real tell in this pic but there are some yellow reflects to it so it gives a really pretty white pearl nail polish with yellow reflects.



For this one, I used ELF clear nail polish with the pigment Travel to Mercury from TKB Trading. This gives a gorgeous bronzy, kind of baked bread color. I really adore it!

The only problem with pigments is that you have to shake the bottle very well because the pigments tend to go down. I don't know if it's because of the ELF nail polish or if it does it with every brand. But as long as you shake the bottle well before you use it, it's fine.

Another pigment based franken:

I used ELF white polish with the pigment Grape Pop from TKB Trading. By the way, this pigment is gorgeous!! I have to find some ideas to create an eyeshadow out of it! The color of this franken is a very nice purple! It could really look like an OPI nailpolish for less than half the price ;-)


The two next nail polishes are made of nail polishes only, no pigments:


I used clear nail polish from NYC, white nail polish from ELF, and Barry M in Cyan. It gives a nice shinny vibrant blue color.



For this one, I followed the same pattern as above but with some pink nail polish from NYC. It gives a shinny vibrant pink color. Very lovely!

My first impression on doing Franken nail polishes: It's great fun and very easy.!! It can be a bit messy at times but you really have to give it a go. What you need is empty nail polishe bottles and some cheap nail polishes that you can mix together. To start with, I would recommend using inexpensive brands like ELF, NYC or Barry M so if you mess up, it's fine. I started with pretty basic colors, but you can add some glitters to make them less boring!

I can't wait to do some more!!

Enjoy the end of the week end!