Frankening adventures

Can you explain exactly how you made your own polishes using the No7 topcoat please Jasmina? Thanks!

Babafette wrote:Can you explain exactly how you made your own polishes using the No7 topcoat please Jasmina? Thanks!

Empty bottle
Half fill with fumed silica
Add 3 scoops of holo glitter (this was a heavy pigment eye shadow)
Stir with tool to blend
Add some Clear nail polish slowly, occassionally stirring with tool.
Add more clear nail polish
Add 2 mixing balls
Continue to shake like crazy.
Take picture
Leave overnight to test separation levels
Compare pic to morning bottle of polish
Add more fumed silica if necessary.


I made this today so I still need to test separation but fairly confident of mixture as its the same quantity I used for a different polish yesterday.

Woah, thanks Jasmina. That sounds rather complicated! I was hoping it would just be as simple as shoving some glitter and fumed silica in a fairly full bottle of top coat.

Babafette wrote:Woah, thanks Jasmina. That sounds rather complicated! I was hoping it would just be as simple as shoving some glitter and fumed silica in a fairly full bottle of top coat.

You can do but I found it took longer to add powder to an existing polish than to start from scratch. Fumed silica is really fluffy and light.

I love those duochromes! So gorgeous. I have a weakness for duo/multichromes. <3
And that star glitter is amazing.

Thankyou Lain. I really enjoy doing it and I get to keep them unlike my baking hobby lol.

I'm very taken with the star glitter as well! gorgeous work

ninjajane wrote:I'm very taken with the star glitter as well! gorgeous work

Thanks Ninjajane. I have to thank BarryM for that one making yellow topaz so beautiful. Just glad the glitters were solvent proof as per the listing else I would have cried. I have made another with gold holo glitter, golden stars and a deep yellow gold hex glitter- I think it's amazing. When I feel better I want to take piccies of my whole franken stash.

Changed the title of the thread (It would have been a lie as I made these this evening lol)

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My St Patrick's day themed polish - might be adding some green pigment to it, picture doesn't show the green shred well. I would have swatched but enjoying my current mani too much.

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Multi moons

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Night sky

I want the moons!

I booked marked this the other day and forgot to post, might be of interest if anyone still wants franken base

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Nice website, liking the price for the Red mica to get red at the moment I have to use red polish. I had an idea to make the orange monster from Monsters inc with the yellow barry M texture (I don't actually want the yellow version for keeps) I just don't know how it will react with another polish, it was easy to make my purple one as I used pigments.

I use Fumed Silica for my suspension base - I don't have any fancy tools or equipment but I only make for personal use so I am happy with it.

Ooooh, Jasmina, show us a mani with the moons, please?!!! I love the stars and Paddy too, but those moons rock!

Will post a piccie when I have, thinking what will be a gorgeous base colour.

Your Frankens look great I look forward to seeing some swatches! Especially the moons and the black/ silver glitter/stars. I tried to get some spectraflair last year and gave up in the end as noone seemed to do it any more. I got a couple of bottles of Hits holo top coat instead lol xx

Swatches as promised:

Holo moons
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Preferred this one over the silver- needs more suspension as it was a bit of a fishing expedition.

St Patrick's day
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One coat middle finger
Two coats ring finger
Think I like it best over white polish and on its own with 2 coats
Can really see how stained my natural nail is right now

Starry night
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The black diamonds are totally lost over the black polish, might make another one with just silver holo glitter and stars.
One coat ring finger
Two coats little finger

Today's newbies

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Close ups
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You have been having fun Very pretty. I love the moons - when I tried making polish with 'big' glitter, i came to the conclusion it would probably be easier to use loose ones and place them where you want over wet polish lol. They just don't seem to want to come to the brush! xx

I love them all, so pretty!

Today's beauties including bad swatches (my natural nails are awful at the moment - think a pampering session is in order asap)

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I wish I had your nails!! They look so strong! xx

carter0268 wrote:I wish I had your nails!! They look so strong! xx

Thankyou, they are not too bad, tend to break at the corner rather than a large split. Just a pain when it means a large file down. The peeling has really improved which I accredit to using a glass nail file.

Today's beauties:
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Glitter sample pic in the latest purchase thread.

Ooh they look fab! X

mrsmoore2b wrote:Ooh they look fab! X

Thankyou

Made some new beauties, if I can't buy new ones until May 1st I might as well create some new ones:
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Just need to think what to name then now.
Just update my catalog and I have 77 Frankens! I am impressed, if I added that to my actual collection I have over 600 bottles now whoops (luckily it doesn't count "in my eyes").