Frankening in the lab

Does it count as a franken if you're not really mixing nail polishes together, but creating nail polishes? I think it does...

I've been working 'in the lab' to create myself some hot new polish, on the cheap! My supplies were:

From Superdrug:
2 bottles of Make Up Academy polish in clear, £1 each (these are 6ml bottles, so basically mini size)
1 pot of Make Up Academy eye dust in brownish, £1
From Poundland:
2 pots of Collection 2000 'Dazzle Me' eye dust in Paradise and Jaffa, £1 each (obviously)
...and my polish stash.

Originally I wasn't planning on using any of my polishes in the mixture, but I decided to get creative midway through. What I did was:

-Create a funnel out of cardboard
-Add the eyeshadow to the clear polish little by little, swatching on a piece of paper until I liked it
THEN, I started adding drops of np to the polish as well, once I decided my creations were missing a little something. I added some Barry M in Wine Red to the brown polish, creating a lovely dark rose gold (I know it looks brown in the pictures, but I will swatch it on my nails later!). I also added some white Rimmel Lycra polish to both polishes, just to make them a little less sheer - I didn't add much, just a few drops.



I am so pleased with the results, and I will definitely try this again. They're very shimmery and lovely colors to boot - a real shiny yellow gold and a sort of sheer brownish raspberry shimmer. If you have any spare powder eyeshadow around, or find some for cheap, I would totally recommend you try this out. It's really fun to create nailpolish that's completely unique and your own!



Come back soon to see my first manicure with my frankenpolishes... I couldn't wait to try at least one of them out, so I added some funky french tips to the polish I was already wearing!

Nailgirl