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My second foray into nail polish making. On a nail forum I use, we were talking about WoW polish and I took up the challenge to make an Alliance themed polish. Because although I play Alliance, I don't really get into the spirit of it compared to when I played Horde. Finally, a tribute to them. :P
This nail polish is being modelled ever so kindly by my boyfriend, Simon. I didn't want to change my manicure just for the photos, and he agreed to sacrifice a nail for 10 minutes.
The polish is an Alliance blue shimmery base, with various sizes of gold glitters, including loads of gold microglitter. There's also a very tiny amount of red microglitter in there too, which you might just be able to make out in the photos.
Photos are 1 coat of blue drug store polish, 2 coats of "For The Alliance", 1 coat of Seche Vite fast dry topcoat.
This nail polish is being modelled ever so kindly by my boyfriend, Simon. I didn't want to change my manicure just for the photos, and he agreed to sacrifice a nail for 10 minutes.
The polish is an Alliance blue shimmery base, with various sizes of gold glitters, including loads of gold microglitter. There's also a very tiny amount of red microglitter in there too, which you might just be able to make out in the photos.
Photos are 1 coat of blue drug store polish, 2 coats of "For The Alliance", 1 coat of Seche Vite fast dry topcoat.
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 644 x 775px
File Size 179.1 kB
I do test any glitters I use which either aren't stated to be solvent resistant. But for this one I didn't make any test formulas and choose the one I liked best, I just added in small amounts till I came to the right point. It's quite easy to do that when just making a single bottle of polish, but not so much if you wanted to make a batch of them. I already know what I use as a basic formula though for my preferred opacity/style - first times round are harder.
As for getting the glitter, typing "solvent resistant glitter" into Google should net you a lot of hits. The downside is that most of it's in the US and requires to be shipped here, and most of them charge an outrageous rate. You CAN use any polyester glitter in a nail polish base, but you run the risk of "bleeding", "flecking" and "curling" - colours bleeding out (leaving you with silver or much paler glitter and a different coloured base, this is the most common result), bits breaking off or in the case of larger glitter, it all curls up to a taco effect which won't sit on a nail. The only way to find out if they work is to buy them and put them in a little bit of cheap clear nail polish and see what happens - leaving them for a couple of weeks if possible. Mostly, they will bleed. In the worst case, they will melt, leaving you with an awful gooey mess. A gamble! :S Nail art glitters aren't safe either btw - they aren't intended to be submerged in polish, just placed on the nail, so always test those too.
http://polishandpigments.blogspot.n.....Glitter%20List Here's a list of some bleeding/safe glitters, but it's far from exhaustive.
Hope that helps!
As for getting the glitter, typing "solvent resistant glitter" into Google should net you a lot of hits. The downside is that most of it's in the US and requires to be shipped here, and most of them charge an outrageous rate. You CAN use any polyester glitter in a nail polish base, but you run the risk of "bleeding", "flecking" and "curling" - colours bleeding out (leaving you with silver or much paler glitter and a different coloured base, this is the most common result), bits breaking off or in the case of larger glitter, it all curls up to a taco effect which won't sit on a nail. The only way to find out if they work is to buy them and put them in a little bit of cheap clear nail polish and see what happens - leaving them for a couple of weeks if possible. Mostly, they will bleed. In the worst case, they will melt, leaving you with an awful gooey mess. A gamble! :S Nail art glitters aren't safe either btw - they aren't intended to be submerged in polish, just placed on the nail, so always test those too.
http://polishandpigments.blogspot.n.....Glitter%20List Here's a list of some bleeding/safe glitters, but it's far from exhaustive.
Hope that helps!
I'm not allowed painted nails at my work otherwise I'd be buying far too many of these! It's really interesting how themes/likes are produced. Sadly looking at the types of glitter available I don't think the ones I was hoping existed... exist! Oh well! Hope you add more of your creations as I think they're pretty.
I did see that you can get bone shaped confetti which seems to be made of the right material. Assuming you could get one in a useful size, you could test that and see if it'd work - even if it bleeds all the colour out, it would still be okay if you wanted silver (or got silver confetti - silver is usually safe!).
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