I love my nails right now.

So I've always liked the idea of "making" a new polish with my already existing polishes. It's called frankening when you do this! As in Frankenstein, putting bits and parts together to create him. Well last night and tonight I've been researching the heck out of this. I just found a polish on Friday night that I really liked from an Indie nail polish company. Here's the polish I fell in love with Friday night http://www.polishaddictnailcolor.com/product/popples-exclusive-color I love the white sheer base and the neon glitters and I love that it's called Popples because I FREAKING LOVED Popples as a kid. I still have my Popples stuffed toys, a plastic cup, a book and... I think that's all. I used to also have a large plastic Popples tricycle. It was white and pink and purple I think. And in the middle of the handlebars (like where a horn would be on a car's steering wheel?) was a Popple that would go up and down while you were riding. Which is the whole idea of the Popples, they were critters that you could turn into a ball by putting them inside of a pocket? I'm horrible at explaining this. But yes, I love that nail polish. Only I don't have $8 right now to buy it. I would rather buy a few at a time and use a coupon code. 

So what did I do? I set about trying to recreate it myself. I've noticed that I've been liking/loving a LOT of white based polishes with glitter. So I figured I could try to recreate the look.

I used a really old Loreal polish that was(is) a white creme polish and was meant for french tips. I had 1 empty bottle plus several bottles of clear top coat I knew I could use. So I started mixing clear and white to get the clear look that these polishes had. I also had to start collecting glitter polishes I wanted to use. I ended up with about 5 of them and was just pouring and mixing and shaking. I ended up with this the first time I liked it enough to stop.

The glitters in that are mostly Milani glitters that were discontinued last year. I saw them at Dollar Tree last year and bought a few extras of my favorite. I'm really glad I did because they came through for me. I liked how it looked on my nails but I wasn't completely satisfied and felt that I could do better.

So tonight I played around some more. Loreal white, various brands of clear AND the glitter is Sinful Pride. I was going through my polishes trying to find glitters I could use. I saw the Sinful one and was like oh my god why didn't I figure this out sooner. 

Sinful Pride is perfect for me to start out with for recreating the look I wanted.

So there's the final look of my franken polish on my nails. I'm pretty happy with it too. It has metallic glitters whereas the ones I've liked have been mostly matte glitters( I think) but this completely will work. For now, til there's extra money! 

Okay, must sleep.

Santa suit nails.

The lighting outside is really good right now so I took Kreasy outside and thought I would try to take some actual decent looking photos of my nails. The photos are decent looking but my nails are not that great. But here hey are none the less. 

I painted the base red and then drew on the white, black and the copper/gold on top. I should have done a white base then used tape and painted the red on. I think it would have looked better. The white is giving me problems at the tips. I think it's shrinking because of all the coats of top coat I used. The white is an old jet dry French tip white from loreal and is about 8 years old and when you use seche vite on dry nail polish, it shrinks. So I think that's what is happening on my tips. Insert sad face. I don't have a gold polish, just some glitter ones but they have other colors in them or the Sinful 24 karat one would be too pale. So I went with a copper color and it doesn't look that coppery like I thought. I really like the red for this and I like that it's sparkly like the belt buckle is and that the white and black are cremes. Over all I'm happy about how they look for my first attempt at Santa suit nail art.

Colors used: Sinful Red Eye, Sinful Black on Black, Loreal French tip white and Sally Hansen Chop Chop Chopper (I think ?)

Time to go check the mail.

Insert lots of frustrating screams here.

This week has been frustrating at work. It's finally all over and I don't go back to work until Sunday morning. 

I,need,to do some online shopping tomorrow. I need to do lots of cleaning this weekend. I also have two big empty boxes that I can pack stuff in. I wonder if there is any packing tape in the house. 

I'm driving tomorrow to my doctors appointments and it's next door to a Walgreens so maybe I'll buy packing tape then. 

I need to sleep. 

65 (*plus one) bottles of Sinful nail polish. 

*The pink in the front is an old bottle with another brand of polish in it. I only included it because it's in a really super old sinful bottle.