My Franken Swatches!

This post will be a bit different. Nothing I'm going to show you is for sale, nor will it be. I'm showing you some of my frankens to demonstrate that it can be easy and fun to "create" custom colors! A few poeple have asked to see some of them so I'm humoring them. (Mainly YOU, Michelle!)

Now when I say franken, that's what I mean...to me that means taking already existing polishes and additives and combining them to "tweak" them to a color you're after. This is not to be confused with creating your own polish line by using raw supplies, suspension bases, matte bases, pigments, glitters, etc. The Indie polish-makers like Aleta at The Nail Junkie (that I reviewed earlier today) or Lynn at Lynnderella are what I call artists and mere frankening is not what they do. Unfortunately I don't do what THEY do.

Okay, now that all of that is out of the way...

Here are some quick swatches with no cleanup...

1. Spectraflair Linear Holographic Top Coat. See my previous post here for details and swatches over various colors.  Here I've layered it over a base of black creme with Girly Bits Cosmic Ocean and then the Spectraflair top coat.

2. Purple with blue, fuchsia and purple shimmer

3. Swampy green with golden shimmer

4. Topper with red, blue and purple glass fleck

5. Brick red crelly

6.  Pale spring green shimmer

7. Deep blue sparkle

8. Blue with silver (and other) micro-glitter

9. Top coat over black and alone - blue/green/grey duochrome

Have you tried frankening? How do YOU do it?  If you haven't tried it, why not?




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