When not having a little too much fun painting my nails I am a chef. I don't wear polish in the kitchen so I have a lot of opportunities to paint my nails. My nails can get a little crazy but isn't that what nail art is about?
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Friday, October 5, 2012
ufo in space
I made a nail polish! Well, I added stuff to clear polish to create a color. I bought a bunch of glitter a while ago at the craft store. Some of it bleeds (aka the color leaks from the polish and flows around the clear top coat). I went through all my glitters and put the bleeding glitters aside. But then I thought of jelly polishes. To me a jelly polish is one that has some color but is also somewhat transparent. I took a half empty bottle of clear polish and added some of the bleeding glitters (hex, fine, rough and the long skinny kind, is that called confetti?). I mixed and mixed and the final color is this great grape purple with A LOT of glitter. Some of the glitter has lost the purple/blue color and is just now silver. But with the jelly effect of the polish it still works. I layered this polish (I have named it Grape Jelly) over a deep purple. It had this space/night sky quality to it so I added some silver stars from a plate. But then, when flipping through my plates to find the mini stars I found a UFO!! So I added the UFO to the thumb.
The next day I was wondering what some of my other glitter jelly polishes look like so I added a coat to my nails...
One simple blue jelly glitter to the left and this awesome green/blue glitter to the right. To be honest, I only bought the green/blue glitter for marking my kitchen tools. I have a bright sparkly pink to mark my knives. Why mark your tools like this? It makes it very very clear what tools/knives are yours so people are less likely to steal them.
I'm not a fan of the way the blue jelly polish turned out with all the other stuff under. I do however love the green/blue glitter. I think it would look awesome on top of just a black polish.
Sinful Colors - Mesmerize, Green Ocean, Nail Junkie
mine - Grape Jelly
Plate - Cheeky CH4
Has anyone made their own polish before? Do you use jelly polishes?
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