My First Frankenpolish

Ok, so I wasn't overly enthused with my Claire's Accessories green nail varnish. But I though it would be a bit of a waste to leave it languish in my box of polishes, whats a girl to do? I have recently become very taken with a number of nail blogs, one of which is Dr Frankenpolish. So I took inspiration from that creative blogger and decided to Franken my Claire!

I used to do this quite a bit when I was younger, adding crushed eyeshadow and glitter and I ruined many a nail varnish in the process! I knew what I wanted to achieve, make this a deeper, maybe a tealy green. I decided that if I added a deep blue it might turn out they way I wanted... It didn't! But, what I got was much nicer and very unexpected, making it possibly even better.



I added this E.L.F. polish in Dark Navy to the Claire's to get the colour I was hoping to achieve... But here's what i actually ended up with!





This was the most unusual colour, a kind of inky, creamy, greyed out blue-green with a tiny hint of shimmer. (How many more adjectives can I use to describe it I wonder!)This picture doesn't actually do this colour justice... In different lights this flashed green, slate, even grey at some points. Success, albeit unexpected!

Dupe for Audrey??

Having been doing little else other than staring at my nails as I was typing up my Masters Thesis over the past few months, recently I have become a huge fan of all things nail related! So I thought what better way to re-introduce myself to the world of blogging than to pop up a post on my latest aquisition. A potential dupe of China Glaze For Audrey. The original is a gorgeous Tiffany Blue duck egg colour and was inspired by the iconic store and named after the gorgeous Audrey Hepburn. Its not the exact colour of those famous blue boxes, but it is quite close. (Image from China Glaze website.)

I was searching for a suitable dupe and today I cam across something which just might work. Claire's Accessories nameless duck egg green is a very pretty colour. Its not blue enough at all to be a perfect match for the China Glaze offering, but its not a million miles away. In its own right this is a very sweet colour. It's a shimmer-less cream, and there's a hint of matte in this. The colour is nice and summery and would look gorgeous with a tan, unfortunately this did not quite work on my very pale skin... Bit of a lobster hands situation, oh well!



Second pic is best representation of the colour.

Application was pretty good, nice consistency, and a decent brush. No real problems there then. Three coats were needed to achieve bottle colour but this dried in no time.

Being very lazy, I trialed this without base or top coat and it actually stayed chip free for 2 days. There was minimal and entirely unnoticeable tip wear after the second day, but only extreme inspection would show this to the naked eye. Since I generally get sick of a nail polish after 2 days anyway, I wasn't bothered. On to the next one please!