Cosmic Kitchen Sink: one of my glitter mixes!

I've been wanting a gluttony of moon and star glitters in a clear base.  Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of solvent resistant metallic moon and star glitters available so this isn't what I imagined in my head BUT it turned out sooo pretty that I am probably gonna have to make it for some of my polish and non-polish friends.  Here we have Cosmic Kitchen Sink.

Below I have two coats of Essence I Love Bad Boys and two coats of Cosmic Kitchen Sink.

Next, I topped the mani off with butter London's matte topcoat.  I love how mattefying tones down the glitter so that you can really see the detail of the polish!   Probably why I mattefy everything!

 No, its not for sale...mainly because I have no ambitions to sell polish and I'm too busy to start a side business with moving and grad school and life, really ;)  But frankening and polish mixing is a lot of fun so you'll be seeing a lot more frankens and hand-mixed glitter polishes from me.

What do you think about Cosmic Kitchen Sink?  I'm diggin' it!

Franken: Starry Kind of Love

I think frankening is a natural progression for any serious nail addict.  I recently set out to dupe Essie's discontinued Starry Starry Night and below is my result, named Starry Kind of Love.   I think its a little too dark a jelly to be considered a close dupe but it turned out so nice I thought I should post it.  

I used suspension base,  Sinful Colors Queen of Beauty, TKB blue jelly pigment, and a couple drops of WnW Black Creme.

I love to buy cheap sets of Color Clubs at Ross, Burlington Coat Factory, and TJ Maxx just for frankening:)

This is two coats plus 1 coat of seche vite.

This is the above manicure matted with butter London's matte topcoat.

If you haven't tried frankening, I think you should!  You may be surprised at what you can mix up for yourself from your stash. 

Franken #3

I just can't stop the franken-makin'!   My franken polishes have taken on a forensic feel with their names and thus Forensic Frankens has emerged.  I'm excited to use my forensic science interest and apply it to nail polish:)

The polish below was born of my love of pepto pink, multi-color/ multi-shaped glitters, and "Dr. G., Medical Examiner."

Love the glitters in this...including copper glitter!  Pennies!

What worse than a polish addiction?

A franken polish addiction!

Another Franken!!

So this time, I wanted a pretty blue glitter franken.  I mixed and mixed and mixed and finally came up with this beautiful concoction.

I call this bundle of glitter fabulousness ANTIFREEZE POISONING!  I remember watching a show talking about Antifreeze poisoning and the crystals that form in the urine .   This polish reminds me of the crystals.  I found the picture below on wikipedia which shows the calcium oxylate crystals.

The top nail is without a base color and the bottom nail is with Wet N Wild's Bijou Blue as the base.   Sexy!

My First Franken!

As I announced on my Facebook page today, I asked for and got some glitter polish advice from Amanda at Nerd Lacquer a few months ago.  She gave me some tips on where to get supplies and what kind of glitter to use!  I am in the process of ordering mini bottles, glitter,  and base (if I can get my hands on it)!   I don't plan to sell polish though.  For now I just plan to make small batches for me, my friends, and my blog followers to win in giveaways.

Still, I couldn't wait to try out mixing polishes tonight after finding that Walgreens is selling Wet N Wild polishes for .69.  I bought two bottles of clear topcoat and poured 1/3 of each into empty polish bottle I had already cleaned out.  Thus my FIRST FRANKEN was born!  She's a total, gorey mess of glitter goodness that I like to call Dragonfly Autopsy.  This what I imagine the guts of dragonflies look like.  What can I say...I am morbid like that ;0)  Check it out and lemme know what you think!

The swatch base is Sinful Colors Innocent with Dragonfly Autopsy topcoat on top!