Make Your Own Perfect Polish :)

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After scouring the shelves of Boots and Superdrug for a perfect green and a perfect Autumnal purple-brown-gold, I gave up and opted to make my own! I bought two bottles of clear Superdrug MUA nail polish at £1 each for my experiments.

[[ Pre-shaking ]]

I've never made a polish colour before so my 'method' was a bit muddled. I just flung a heap of loose eyeshadows into a metal paint palette and kept mixing and tweaking until I got my desired shade. I then made a funnel (out of a Superdrug receipt - how very technical) and taped it to the bottle to stop it moving about. Then I scraped the eyeshadow mix in, screwed the lid on tight and shook it like crazy. First from the mixing storm...

[[ Look at all of that gold goodness! ]]
[[ Dries with multi-coloured shimmer! ]]

A true 'WHAT ARE YOU?!' shade. In the bottle it looks like a dirty deep brown-purple with golden shimmer. On the nails, we have a coppery-brown-purple with strong golden shimmer and multi-coloured glitter. In some lights it looks gunmetal grey, in some it looks almost lilac! I used three different duochromes in this, so when I turn my nails you see a pink-purple gleam. So pretty and unique! I know I'll be wearing this A LOT nearer Christmas!

[[ Reminds me of insect shells...]]

Deep, metallic green with green, gold and coppery glitter. Not quite dark enough to be my perfect green, I'd also prefer a jelly texture - but hey, it's nice enough! I might buy a turquoise duochrome to add to this, it's just too...simple for me at the moment. I also made the rookie mistake of adding lots of glitter, which just makes it grainy. Ah well!

Overall I'm really pleased with the outcome of these polishes, especially the first - the photographs do it NO justice to how complex it is. I don't have a clue as to the exact 'recipes' for these colours, but I'm sure you can create similar ones with just some purple, gold and green shades. You have to use quite a bit of pigment, both of these are three coaters. I've tagged brands I know went into these at the bottom.

This was so much fun, I'll certainly be making more! Anyone care to name these two colours?

11 comments:

  1. love these colours! the green one is beautiful! also loving your blog x x x

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  2. ooooh I want to try this! Will have to buy a couple of bottles of clear polish. Great post! :) xxx

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  3. If u have, put a metal ball in those - the pigment will go to bottom soon and u need to shake it back up before each use. Ball makes it easier :)

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  4. Wow that's such a great idea. Why did I forget that MUA did clear polish for £1 haha? I'm definitely going to try this, I've got a tonne of pigments that need using up :D xx

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  5. Are you actually joking!? That works? What a simple yet amazing idea, how come I've never heard of it before. You genius!
    I know what's on my agenda this weekend!! Lol!!

    Love J.
    http://bon-vivant-clique.blogspot.com/

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  6. i'm loving the brown gold nail polish! its sooo fall! you're sooo creative!

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  7. I have been meaning to try this, but have never gotten around to it. I may have to get some unloved pigments out and have a go at it. That brown is so pretty!

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  8. Not much for browns, but bee-yoo-ti-ful.

    =)

    xo

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  9. Wow! Genius!!! Great way to recycle unwise eyeshadow choices!

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