Nail polish frankens

Lately I’ve been having fun playing with nail polish – first, I experimented with making a jelly nail polish out of a clear plus a creme, then I started mixing commercial nail polishes to come up with my own colors.

Last week, I decided to jump in the rest of way – I ordered supplies to franken nail polish “from scratch” – mini bottles, glitter, suspension base, and more.  The glitter arrived earlier this week, and the rest arrived today.  I spent several hours this afternoon playing around! There was a lot of trial and error (note: suspension base goes in the bottle BEFORE the glitter), but it was a lot of fun.   All the nail polishes on the nail wheel in the photo above are my frankens – some are made from suspension base and glitter; some from mixtures of commercial nail polish; and some are combinations of both. Here are close-ups of some of my favorites.

The glitters:

The black jellies:

And my surprise favorites – these are combinations of Wet n Wild’s scattered holos (Blue Wants to be a Millionaire & Hannah Pinktana) with other polishes.

If you want to play too, there are lots of e-tailers selling supplies to franken with. I recommend tkbtrading.com for most supplies – everything arrived packed very well, and in the stated amount of time.  They don’t have very many types of glitter, so I ordered some from them, and more from glitterunique.com.