NOTD: Introducing Rusty

Yes, you really are seeing this. I'm wearing my first franken polish: Rusty. Rusty is made of Max Factor clear polish and a loose mineral eyeshadow. Application was surprisingly good. It has a jelly quality to it, and it dries quite fast. I have to admit that I sort of love it. The picture is three coats.

Hideous Franken polishes - Rusty and Zombie Pearl

Gawd, I'm so bad at making franken polishes. Amanda and Brooke are good at it. I am not. I think the main reason is that I don't use "the good stuff" to franken. Instead I use crappy leftover stuff that I'm never going to use, but feel bad about throwing out.

Here is my first franken: Rusty. Rusty is made from a horrible clear Max Factor polish and a brown loose eyeshadow. I don't use loose eyeshadow, so I figured it would be cool to make it into a nail polish. The eyeshadow was really pretty. Warm brown with blue sparkles. The frankenpolish looks like rust. I didn't put any mixing ballz in there, since I'm too lazy to go buy some.

So today I decided to try my luck again. I used my awful Nivea Satan polish and a sample eyeshadow called Mesh and Ice from The She Space. Sorry about the dark pictures, but you can sort of see.
The result is infinitely better than Rusty, but almost anything would be. The blue sparkles are actually quite pretty, but the polish is still sheer and it still has the disgusting yellow undertone. I named it Zombie Pearl. I might wear it after I cut my nails a bit shorter. I don't like sheers on long nails.
swatches (note the unmixed pigment in Rusty):

NOTD: Happy New Year with Mandy's Franken Polish

Ahhh, so today is the end of 2008. I've had a really great year with a new job, we bought a house, and I finally managed to start a blog! I've meet so many great people through this blog and through the nail polish and makeup forums I post on. Thank you to everyone who has left comments and read my crazy (typo filled) ramplings. Love ya'll :)

Since today is the last day of 2008 I wanted to wear something "blingy". I recieved the perfect polish in the mail not long ago. It's a "Franken Polish" made by mixing several different polishes... sort of like:

just better looking. Since it's made from different polishes; it didn't have a name. I've named it after its creator - Mandy. Mandy is a light purple with holographic glitter. The picture doesn't really show the holographic effect on the nail, but check out the bottle!