My First Franken!

Hello gorgeous! I felt like a mad scientist today, I found myself searching through pictures of my #1 most coveted polish Essie "Starry Starry Night", if you don't know this is a VHTF (very hard to find) polish as it is a discontinued color. It can be found on ebay for $67- click here if you can afford that!

I can't so I decided to franken my first polish, if you don't know what that means... in nail polish addict language it means to create your own custom polish. This was pretty fun and very satisfying to see my new polish transform before my eyes. Below are the different polishes I used to try to recreate Essie SSN (starry starry night). Honestly it's not an exact dupe at all, my franken is much more opaque than SSN which is a blue jelly base. However I am totally impressed with my first franken attempt and love how it came out. I played around a lot to get it to the color I wanted. Also what isn't shown here is I added a royal blue eye shadow and added a nail polish thinner.

 

from left to right:

China Glaze- Dorothy Who?

Out The Door Top Coat

Orly- Liquid Vinyl

Essie- Bobbing for baubles

Spoiled- Silver Glitter

Jesse's Girl- Girl's Night Out

Not shown here: 

Seche Vite (I used this as well as I didn't have enough Out The Door)

Blue Pigment (I used Calypso Minerals which is no longer available) 

check out this site for a bunch of fab. color pigments!

 

My first test of the color... it's much more grey than I wanted, if I were to recreate this polish again I would skip using Essie Bobbing for Baubles... the color is a slate blue so it has a lot of grey tones. This was when I decided to add my royal blue pigment, this really changed the consistency a lot and the color totally popped. (To add the pigment I made a funnel out of paper and poured the color in. I added a nail polish thinner as it thickened up pretty quickly with the powder.

 

I am in lust with this color! Do you love? I am pretty impressed with my first franken!

This picture was taken with the flash on... 

You want more pictures?! Well sure!

These pictures were done with no flash.

 

So what do ya'll think? It's not an exact dupe of Essie Starry Starry Night but it's pretty close. Click here to check out some swatches of SSN. 

I've decided to name this polish "preguntale a las estrellas" which means "ask the stars".

I highly suggest doing some franken polish! It is super fun!

Check out this site for more info on creating your own custom nail polishes!