My Private Jet Franken

I have made many, many attempts at frankening this beast. Its not terribly easy, but it IS easy to screw it up.

I made a tester in a bottle cap like I usually do when I'm going for something very specific.



Freaking gorgeous, right? All I had to do was mix about 10 drops black, 5 drops clear, 2 drops SH Purple Diamond and this is what it made. It was beautiful, a true black holo... Not grey, not brown, not charcoal, but actually black.

When I went to make it in a bottle, things went awry.



The holo was now extremely dull. So I added a ton more holo... and it was still extremely dull.

I added more clear, which made it too grey. I added more black which made it too dull again.

My current end result is this:


Mine is the one on the left (the black one) and the original MPJ is on the right (the brown one). In real life it reads very purple, but its finally holo. I just don't really know how to tweak it without starting the process again. So much polish has been exchanged that I now have THREE franken bottles of this stuff, all different degrees of awesome from not so much to pretty awesome. I've added Purple Diamond, Diamond, Ruby Diamond, Blush Diamond, Pink Rose Diamond, DS Original, DS Glamour, and I don't even know what else.

What do you think of the current end result, though? I am curious lol

OPI DS Original and Sally Hansen Purple Diamond Dupe Comp

Since OPI DS Original was in my untrieds and its so sunny out, I pulled it out to take it for a spin, even though I know its a dead on dupe for Sally Hansen Purple Diamond. Purple Diamond happens to be one of my favorite polishes of all time, so this is OK. But I paid a lot for the bottle of OPI to find out I had three full bottles of its dupe in my stash.

Ah well, they make amazing MPJ frankens! Better than the brownish holo by far!



Here is the OPI on its own. I think my camera is a homophobe because it HATES rainbows lol

Now here it is alternating with Sally Hansen Purple Diamond



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To be honest, I actually prefer the Sally Hansen. It goes on less sheer and the holo particles are ever so slightly larger so they refract ever so slightly more.

You may think its cruel to show you two long discontinued polishes like this, but neither of these is by any means impossible to find. Just keep your eyes open :)

Chameleon Calypso....Update!

Ah, Calypso, we've had this date with each other for a long time...

So Calypso. I saw you and your sister Blue Skies in Rite Aid and you actually stopped me dead in my tracks. Your duochrome fabulosity was visible to me in my peripheral vision from 10 feet away. DF looked at me like I was insane when I suddenly bolted down your aisle and grabbed you. The colors you flashed... Green, purple, blue, silver! Amazing! I had to have you! I purchased you and Blue Skies, the last two in the display, it felt like fate!

I wore Blue Skies first and she chipped. Horrifically. After 8 hours. Not cool, Blue Skies. Not cool. Now made wary of your charms, I avoided you for so long. Long enough that it began to feel silly... So last night, I decided to finally take you out on the town.

Now I wish we had never met.

I layered you over Kleancolor Metallic Black, since you looked to sheer to wear on your own. After THREE coats, you continued to streak and frost and wrinkle! By the incandescent light, all I could see was your frosty mauveness and I was sick at the thought.

Calypso, this is what you could have been:



Don't be fooled by this whore in lady's clothing. It will let you down hard.

It didn't even last on my nails long enough to dry. It wrinkled and dented and was just an ungodly mess. But doesn't it look so pretty in the bottle? *rolls eyes*

As I'm writing this post while Gizmotron World Destroyer 3000 attempts to groom my head by ripping my hair out with his teeth. Aww, he loves me.

****UPDATED****

I saw this in Rite Aid again and somehow its even more shit than before.
There is NO visible duochrome in this version AT ALL. Seriously, its now just flat, nasty mauve.



What the heck are you doing, Scherer?

Orly Happy Go Lucky - Frisky. It kills my camera.

Alright. Frisky is one of those camera-freaking-out colors that are so much fun to wear and a pain in the ass to try to show you. In reality, Frisky is a very pretty, bright, Tiffany blue. It looks more Tiffany than China Glaze's For Audrey could ever hope to be. (I know that my disdain of For Audrey makes some people angry, but I'm sorry, For Audrey is not nearly green enough.)

The day I took these pictures was extremely overcast and my camera couldn't handle the pressure to accurately capture this color... Except on my pinkie.


Closeup


I don't understand it, but there it is.

This wreaked havoc on my cuticle beds, running into them, getting all thick and weird, and chunky/crusty, but the color was amazing. I had been dying to get Frisky forever and I never saw the display in Ulta, and the one I did see in Sally's only had one bottle of Fresh left. Well, apparently, Ulta moved this (and the entire Fowl Play collection) into the permanent display! Well fine then, I'll accept that lol.

Now I just need to get the other three and I shall be happy.

Kleancolor Chunky Holo Bottle Shots - Bluebell, Black, Purple

Anyone else think Kleancolor tends to cop out on naming things? Look at the Metallic Collection: Red, Orange, -Mango-, Yellow, Green, Aqua, -Sapphire-, Purple, Fuchsia, Pink, Black, and White. Why even bother with the mango and sapphire when the rest are just color names? Chunky holos are similarly lackluster with a few random fancies thrown in: Black, -Bluebell-, Purple, -Clover-, Scarlet, -Poppy-, and Fuchsia. Idunno.

Well, I only bought three of the Chunky Holos (I'd like to complete the set eventually). I got Bluebell and Purple because, boy, in the bottle do these look WAY different.



(Black, Bluebell, Purple in that order)

But on the nail, Bluebell and Purple, especially if you layer them over a dark color, look identical. I'll add a picture of that later, I don't seem to know where my comparison shot went. For some odd reason, Black is the only one with hex glitter. If you could only get ONE of these, I would say go for black, but the rest are all pretty nice, too.

I apologize for having so few pictures, and for perhaps posting this one already. Now I can't remember lol.

Good thing I have two more posts coming up for you today!

Color Club Foiled Swatches

Nothing new or impressive here as far as my post is concerned. I just wanted to show you my nail wheel swatches of Color Club's Foiled collection, just in case you're on the fence.



Perfect Mol-Ten: Green foil. Its totally unique to my stash! I'm not sure of it yet... Its like a jade green, and it is very pretty, but i don't know how to take it XD

Antiquated: Normally I'm all over metal colors, but this one is a little [i]too[/i] champagney for me, i think. It disappears on my nail a little too much

Cold Metal: Yes. This is the big winner for me. Rich, royal blue foil? Again, yes. Shadewise, it can't even compare to Kleancolor's Metallic Sapphire, but foilwise its the clear winner. Its closer on par to KC's Metallic Aqua as far as foilyness goes.

Hot Like Lava: Fuchsiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Its so much fun to look at, but I don't know how it won't clash with my skin somehow D: Oh well, like that ever stops me!

Foil Me Once: Baby pink foil. Very cute, girly, pretty, and somewhat futuristic :D

Lumen-Icent: Other than hating on the name, its great. Its very silvery, but it truly is an icy blue. Love it!

If you see this collection, grab it! The polishes are great for stamping and who doesn't love a nice, shiny foil? :3

Color Club Nouveau Vintage

Well, as soon as I laid eyes on this polish, I had to have it. Sadly, I was on a no-buy, so I had to wait and hope that it would still be available when November rolled around.

Luckily, my Ross is a little bit slower than others, and tends to have Color Club collections around a bit longer than others :D



Nouveau vintage is described as antique gold foil. Well. Its not. Bronze, I will accept. Gold? No. Not to mention that many people have claimed that their bottle of NV is green and that it dries a bronzey brown foil. I see green, red, and a lot of tawny goodness in this one!



Here it is in the shade

And since it bugs me that they don't come labeled from Ross...



I made my own!

The first thought I had dupe-wise was that NV looked like my Skin Food Cappuccino Gold on the pictures, and maybe a little like Owl's Night?



As you can see, not so much lol The one polish I do have that I completely forgot was similar was Cover Girl Bronze Beauty. Not nearly exact, BB is actually more glittery than foily and a little more silvery, but similar in a way.
No pics, though, sorry, I forgot I had BB :P

Ma.Nish.Ma. Holographic Nail Color - Beyond Opal

Today I'm going to share something beautiful with you!



Ma.Nish.Ma.'s Holographic Nail Color in Beyond Opal!



and in shade



It was impossible for me to capture the beauty of this polish. If you've ever seen Sally Hansen's South Sea Pearl, it has the same colors, just broken into glass fleck form, like a fractured rainbow. Its definitely prismatic and holographic, with a pastel rainbow effect. I know people have been wanting a white holo, but find that spectraflair makes it greyish. Well, here's your answer!

I have seen this polish compared to Jesse's Girl Firefly and it also somewhat resembles China Glaze White Cap, but neither have the pink and blue tones that this one flashes. Both Firefly and White Cap are very strong in the golds and greens, but Beyond Opal litteraly looks like the flashes you see in an opal.

Its a little pricey, though, which I don't like, $4.99 for 0.22 fl oz is a steep price (consider, that would be about $12.50 for an OPI-sized bottle, but I have to say its worth it.

You can find her and her sisters at Rite Aid, but they weren't anything to write home about. There was a silver with holo glitter (like Milani HD except less prismatic), a lavender that looked exactly like Sally Hansen DVD, and a pink (Way Out Fuscia [sic]) that is a dupe to Sally Hansen Byte.

I can't really swallow that creative spelling of "fuchsia".........

Sinful Colors - Envy

Today's featured polish is Sinful Colors Envy



(I apologize for the unusually messy nails and less than awesome picture, I was totally out of it that day)

Envy is the cheap version of OPI's Jade is the New Black. Some people have expressed difficulty in locating JITNB, but I recently saw about 10 in my Ulta's core shelf, so I don't really know.

Its an interesting shade... Dark green creme, slightly darker than imperial jade, the traditional jade green we are used to, but its still something I would classify as jade.

Its a great color, I don't have JITNB to compare it to, but I've seen pictures and they look really close to me :)