Bourjois So Laque! ~ Rose Lounge

Beautiful jelly sammich up ahead!!!

I found Rose Lounge on a market stall for £1.99, which is a great deal considering the shade is still in shops and costs quite a few quid more.  It's a sheer French-manicure-style pink, which might be boring to some people, but for me it's the best, non-streaky sheer pink I've ever found and I love it!  Here it is on its own, it gives a lovely healthy look to my nails (which have turned practically orange through over-polishing!):

After trying the polish on its own I wanted to experiment with it a little.  I learnt quickly that I have a long way to go to be able to do a nice French manicure... but then I thought of the jelly sammich idea!  Between 2 coats of Rose Lounge I sandwiched a coat of Saffron's multi-sized silver glitter - the one I used to make my franken - and it looked brilliant!!

So, so, delicately snowy!  I love it!  What do you think?

Hugs,

Lisa xx

I Love My Franken!

Hello!

Here is the post where I first showed off my franken to the world, and today I found the perfect base colour for it ~ No7's Violetta.  This polish has shown up a lot in my blog since I bought it, and I genuinely do use and love it that much!

Also, if HTML goes to plan, I am adding a poll at the bottom of this post to choose a name for my franken!  I'll re-post a pic of the franken on nude nails below today's mani photos; it is a clear polish base with blue hex glitter, varying smaller sizes of silver glitter with a rainbow glimmer, and a touch of very small pink-tinged silver glitter. 

Here are the pics!!

What should I name my franken?

(note that these were just my own ideas, feel free to post a comment with your own!)

Hugs,

Lisa xx

My First Franken!

Hello!

For a teeny while I've been eyeing my bottle of W7's Blue Diamonds and wanting to make a franken with it.  I mixed its large blue hex glitters with Saffron's Shade 2 - various smaller sizes of rainbow-flashing silver glitter - a smidgen of Barry M's Iridescent Pink, and a touch of clear polish.  The two main glitters were cheap market-stall buys, so I felt happy to experiment with them.  This is the result:

And a glitter close-up:

It's my first ever attempt at mixing a polish; it was quite hard to get the proportions of each glitter right, and the resulting polish is a tiny bit thick, but I am really quite happy and proud!

Here are two coats on nude nails:

And over a few colours, 1-2 coats of franken depending on how it came out :-) :

What do you think?  Have you ever attempted mixing your own polish?  And do you think I should name mine?!

Hugs,

Lisa xx