Nail Polish Frankens

I spent a couple hours a few afternoons ago playing mad scientist and mixing up some of my storebought nail polishes into frankens. Some people create franken nail polishes using glitters and suspension base; while I’m potentially interested in that idea, thus far I’ve just been mixing store-bought nail polishes to make up new creations.

Instead of buying empty nail polish bottles, I’ve been using Sally Girl nail polish bottles; they’re frequently on sale, which brings the price down to about 60 cents a bottle, and since I don’t use very many, that’s affordable for me. I also like the small size.  I buy the clear ones, pour out the nail polish, then mix up my frankens in the empty bottles

My most successful frankens to date have been my jelly nail polishes – see my first one here! – and my jelly glitters.   In my most recent frankening session, I mixed Milani Jewel FX Gold, a Forever 21 polish with red microglitter and red hexagons, and a black creme to create the below black jelly polish with gold & red glitter: it’s now one of my favorite polishes ever!

my new favorite franken

Do you ever mix nail polishes to come up with new ones?