Plug Yourself Sunday and a new Franken; Welcome to the Jungle

Franken Welcome to the Jungle - 2 coats No Top Coat

AHHHHHH! This turned out exactly as planned.  A Blue/Grey polish with teal shimmer. So its Grey, but not boring because the teal shimmer is very evident. I made this with NYC East Village, and a black creme and a white creme ( or Grey - whatever) The sun is not up yet, but here are a few indoor fluorescent photos without top coat.

I plan on adding something more to this and will update.... eventually.

Meanwhile please add your nail blog to my comments, I spent so much time reading and finding new blogs last week I barley added my own posts! I know it's sappy and cheesy but I am so thankful that a medium like this exists - I spend hours and hours a week reading nail/beauty blogs....

the polish i used - NYC East Village

and a comparison of some similar colours of the first franken I wore from my 80's metal power Ballad's Collection of Franken-polish.

I love the colour of Sally Hansen Teal Take-off on my ring nail, but is is so thick and needs to be applied with lightning speed. Normally I appreciate that, but this dries so fast that it sometimes makes application difficult. My franken is close in colour but much more shimmery.


Index - 3 coats of NYC Empire State Blue
Middle - Franken Dude Looks Like a Lady 2 thick coats w/TC
Ring - Sally Hansen Teal Takeoff 2 coats
Pinky - Franken Dude Looks Like a Lady 3 coats w/TC

NYC Empire State Blue, Franken, Sally Hansen Teal Take-off

Below- L-R Teal Take-off, Franken, NYC Empire State Blue

indoor fluorescent

Thumb - 2 coats of NYC West Village with 1 coat of East Village ( I looooove this )
Index - 3 coats of NYC Empire State Blue
Middle - Franken Dude Looks Like a Lady 2 thick coats w/TC
Ring - Sally Hansen Teal Takeoff 2 coats
Pinky - Franken Dude Looks Like a Lady 3 coats w/TC

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East/ West Village Franken

NYC EAST Village and NYC WEST Village - a 50/50 ratio made this lovely franken. This is 4 thin coats, with my MIDDLE nail at 2 thick coats, which resulted in some bubbles. Wish I could get some sunshine pics of this = will do comparisons tomorrow.


Also - I think Blogger reset everyone's blog so that you have to verify you are human, and not a spam robot from the future. When I went to comment on blogs that did not previously have this the verify catchpa thing came up, including on my blog = = =booooo! those things annoying, but necessary to stop spam.

 NYC West Village & NYC East Village made this lovely franken 

 I am naming this polish 'Dude Looks Like a Lady' for the anonymous e-mailer who thinks I am a dude. I actually think that early 90's hair metal ballads will be the name of this collection of frankens (see my post from yesterday ). So i will have plenty of cool names. - its actually kinda hard to come up with names for my frankens - so 90's glam rock/hair metal it is! ( those are the same things, right? )


I will do comparison to other peacock-like colours tomorrow. This polish is just a straight up dark blue with teal shimmer, there is no purple or gold in here - it is very pretty and I actually wanted to purchase a polish just like this. it still needs 3 to 4 thin coats but dries FAST!!!!!

- the stickers come off very easy on these -

Here is the post on NYC EAST Village, it is a very sheer teal shimmer that needs 5 or more coats to opacity.

And HERE is the post on NYC WEST Village, which is a dark shimmery blue - it can be opaque in 2 coats and dries very fast - too fast, but I like my polish's like that!!!!!

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Claire's Goldmine & exciting new frankens!!!!!

above - Claire's Goldmine, 2 coats layered over Billie Gold metallic w/ 2 coats of TC

But first frankens!!!!!!!I found a few bottles of NYC East village on sale a few months ago. I knew I would  be whipping up some frankens with them eventually. I finally got around to it this evening. Before I knew it it was 10:45, my whole evening spent franken-ing! All my frankens turned out as I envisioned they would. I am so excited to wear them.

 NYC East Village5 coats w/ TC = This polish is pretty layered over other polish's and it did dry fast..

NYC East Village is a ridiculously sheer teal shimmer. HERE is a previous post I did on this polish The only polish's I used for these frankens below were NYC West Village, a Black creme, a White creme and a shimmery sparkly Icing polish. These were very simple to make. taking your time, adding drop by drop for deep pigmented colours and taking notes is they way to go when frankening.

I will be doing individual posts on these starting tomorrow. Sorry about just bottle pic's and small swatches.... I had to post this asap, because using this for frankens worked out excellent - plus the labels peeled off more easily than any polish label I have come across!

( I picked these up for 72 cents each last Autumn)

and my frankens, with the OG at the end

.... and a few more photos of Claire's Goldmine, 2 coats w/ 2 coats of TC

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2 pretty polish finish's that look good in dim lighting

I love how the light from the TV bounces of my nails when I am wearing chrome polish's. This is 2 coats of an older dis-continued Sally Hansen Chrome polish called SAPPHIRE which is a lite baby blue chrome. It is super reflective - I love these chrome polish's as 'underwear' for layering. I have amassed quite a collection and can usually match a similar chrome polish to layer over if I need to.

I applied some french tip guides and added a coat of  TURQUOISE (middle bottle) which is almost the same shade as the Pure Ice blue glitter I added over the tips, \strapless which is a dense medium blue glitter. Even though this polish is packed with glitter and could be opaque in 3 coats, I applied 2 coats over a polish with a similar colour just so there wasn't any sparse areas.

I have used these same 3 polish's for another mani HERE

From CHROME NAIL MAKE-UP SALLY HANSEN

L-R = SH Sapphire, SH Turquoise, Pure Ice Strapless

.... and a mani with Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, layered over NYC Skin Tight Denim

I started with 2 thin coats of NYC Skin Tight Denim {or STD lol} and added a thick coat of hidden Treasure, followed by a coat of  Nailene TC. I have only worn Hidden Treasure once on my nails and once on my toes..... I waited and waited for this to come to my town and I rarely ever wear it.

My previous manicure photos of this polish are the most 'used' and re-posted of all my photos. Here is a link to that post, just in case you are interested in seeing it Layered over black. I appreciate polish's with finish's that are very apparent in crappy lighting like duo-chromes, and multi- chromatic polish's, as well as basic chromes like the blue Sally Hansen chrome make-up polish in the mani above.

I think I did a great job of getting all the colours in this photo below. This is outdoors under the patio.

From SPECIAL POSTS

Also I totally have to note =   I wrote last summer I predicted that their would be a readily and widely available multi-chromatic flakey polish available in North America in stores by fall 2010 and I was wrong. I was right about the matte-madness of summer/fall 2010 though....... Does anyone else find it bizarre that there is 6 extremely close dupes of the Charla/Teal of Fortune/Jesses' Girl Glee {and the other 4} but so few good DENSE flakies out there? And also why isn't there a real linear Holographic polish in current collections from SH, Wet n Wild or other dept store brand names?


anyhoo... here is a few more photos of Hidden treasure layered over NYC STD

in low/dim lighting, the multi-chromatic flakes really do their job

w/ NYC Skin Tight Denim

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