More frankens (or more accurately 'Custom polishes') for you today.  Sorry if your a bit sick of them, but I just can't stop myself making them.

This one is Verdigris Gold.  It's murky and mysterious and is a green gold.

In this sun angle shot, you can see flecks of green and orange.  It's a very rich and interesting pigment.  It mixed in perfectly and was totally smooth to apply.

This one almost looks the same colour, but it is slightly different.  This is Antique Gold.

Lastly is Chamoisee.  This was actually free.  It was an off spec Antique Silver which TKB were giving away as free samples!  You can't get any better than free.

These really are the simplest polishes to make if you ever wanted to try making your own but were unsure where to start.  You literately just add about half a teaspoon of powder into clear polish (or suspension base if you can get your hands on it) and your done.

I'm pretty sure no one else but me will know that my eyeshadow and nails match :)

Here is the second installment of the TKB Moondust pigments.  Only two today, but they are both very pretty.  Both these polishes are two coats over black.  My polishes are very pigmented, made with 8 scoops of moondust in each bottle.  If I made these again, I would only use 5 scoops.

Lavender Luz shifts from blue to purple to orange, or so they tell me on the TKB site.  I don't think I captured the orange, but the blue to purple shift is nice and strong.

Luna Blue shifts from cyan to blue to red.  Again, it's that last colour shift on acute angles that I didn't get with the camera.

I ordered Models Own Beetlejuice on the day it was released, so I can't wait to compare those polishes with these frankens (when they eventually arrive from the other side of the world).  You can get a sample of all these five pigments for just $12, which is enough for about 8 polishes of each colour!

Remember when I made the glass fleck topcoats from the TKB Star Bites collection?  There was Miranda Star, Shanika Sun, Cherika Star.  Well here are three frankens made with the sister pigments, Moondust, also available from TKB Trading.  

These are a much finer powder than the Star Bites, and they all still have a beautiful and strong colour shift.  All these swatches were two coats over a black base.  I accidentally made my polishes a bit too concentrated, I should have only added about five straw scoops in my mini bottle, not eight!

First up is Aisha Gold.  Layered over black this feels a little similar to Peripera Metallic Green, and even a bit Chanel Peridot-ish.  It even has the same blue colour shift.

Super sparkly in the sun, with a strong gold green base.

Here is the blue green shift.

Next is Crescent Crimson.  The TKB Trading website says this one shifts from red to orange to yellow.  I don't really see the red, much more pink, but it does shift to orange and yellow.  Very pretty.

The last one for today is Indu Rose. This shifts from indigo to purple to red.  Totally gorgeous.

You likely? Yes?

Two more to show you tomorrow.

Here is another custom polish I made, and for once I didn't add spectraflair to it.

I make this polish using some of the flakes in the sample deck of Alsa flakes that I got from MK at Polish and Pigments. 

Damn glitters are so hard for me to photograph, I think I do an ok job photographing holo polishes, but for the life of me I can't get a glitter to look as awesome in the photos as it does on the nails.  I need some tips from Stef.

These close ups show the same nail in different lighting, but neither represent how sparkly this polish is.

It has small and medium sized teal holographic hex flakes, medium sized blue holographic hex flakes, TKB Coral Reef Blue pigment and suspension base.  I was thinking of China Glaze Atlantis while I was making it, although Atlantis is made with regular holo hexes, not coloured holo hexes.  I'm really please with the result.

A few months ago, when I was looking for other interesting pigments to franken with, I was looking through the JDSU website and came across their Chromaflair Colorshift Glitter.  I instantly recognised the effects of the glitter as what is in the Ozotic Elytra polishes.  

I thought it would be awesome to be able to get these raw ingredients to be able to franken with, and I noticed they had four glitter colours, not three like the Elytras.  Why wouldn't they make all four glitters into Elytra polishes? The Silver to Gold glitter looks so pretty.  Peter, if your reading this, please get some of the silver to gold glitter and make that into a polish!

Anyway, I sent my inquiry off to find out how much the glitter was.  To my surprise the price was very reasonable, but it was cheap for a reason.  That reason was I had to buy a minimum of 5 lbs (or 2.27kg) per colour.  What the hell would I do with that much glitter?  The reason the glitter was a good price, and I quote my email:

So when I saw that, I figured I should buy the two Ozotic Elytra polishes that I didn't have, because eventually they are not going to be able to make them anymore cause the glitter will be sold out.

So without further adieu, here are my swatches of 529 and 530.

529 - the glitter shifts from blue, through purple to orange and red.  This is two coats over black. Seche Vite top coat.

530 - Shifts from pink through orange and yellow with a green tinge.

Two coats over black, Seche vite top coat. 

I'm not saying go out and get these polishes now before they run out of glitter, because maybe they already have so much glitter it will last all of us our lifetime, but I've always liked to share the info that I find out because knowledge is power! *double punches chest and goes for the knuckle pump*

I've posted about my husband playing and coaching baseball before, specifically for the Canberra Cavalry in the Australian Baseball League.  I've done Cavalry nails before, and I'll tell you now, there are going to be several more Cavalry baseball manis over the summer, because I plan to have a different orange baseball mani for every home series.

Orange is the teams colour, which in general terms is rather bright and not really a fashion colour to me.  But in terms of a team supporter colour, it's excellent.  I wore this orange mani to the games last weekend.

Last season I only had one orange polish, Ulta3 Crazy!  This year I have added to that with Picture Polish Citrus and Nics Sticks by OPI Orange you fast, but because I got my new tints I just had to make my own orange holo.

I have another custom polish for you today.  Again I don't want to call this a franken, because it's not actually made from the parts of any other polishes, it's made from all new ingredients.  

As you can see, this is a strongly pigmented rich green holo.  I wore this for a couple of days last week and it really was rather spectacular.  Because it's not your everyday colour I got so many comments on it!  I also played a round of golf on friday at our corporate golf day and my boss even asked if I specifically put on this green polish because I was playing golf.  Because of that, I've called this one "Fairway Green"

I made this polish using the new polish tints I got with the suspension base.  It was only when I was making this polish that I actually realised how awesome these tints are.  You see I got seven tint bottles:

So what's so good about them?, well you just need to take a look at the bottom of a bottle of polish. Take this bottle of China Glaze LOL for example.

The important colour information is listed at the bottom.  The color in LOL is made using a combination of Ferric Ferrocyanide and Red 34.  I just need to keep tweaking the quantities of each one until I get the polish colour to match!!

I really wasn't planning on wearing this polish on it's own as I had already worn it as a top coat twice.  But after reading some comments from my lovely Brazilian followers who said it had the most shine and was their favourite polish in the collection, I decided to wear it as a full mani today.

Hefesto is designed to be a holotop coat, but here I have applied four coats.  I thought with four coats it would be squishy and dentable for hours, but I was able to put on Seche Vite top coat and go to bed all within 30 minutes of doing this mani (and no sheets marks).

At four coats, this is opaque, even though the photos show a slight nail line.  

This one doesn't have the same strength of metallic silver in it,  which means that on it's own this one is much more holo that the silver polish Artemis.  These first three photos were taken in full early morning sunlight.

These next three photos were taken indoors under artifical light.

I'm still wearing this and haven't had a chance to do a comparison swatch of this against Artemis and Ozotic 509, but I will this weekend.  

Thanks ladies for the recommendation to wear it on it's own, it really is one of my favourites from the collection too.  Certainly one with the strongest holo effect.  And for the record, it's an amazing holo top coat, which is what it was designed to be.