Dusty Purple Grey Franken

It's been such a long time since I've posted a franken.

I mixed Color Club Get A Clue with a little bit of Sinful Black on Black (about seven parts GAC to one part black), two coats. It's mauve grey, neutral grey and purple grey at different angles. Not duochrome but still neat.

 

Sorry to be so vague on the recipe. This was a single manicure batch. What happened was I accidentally glopped 3 drops of black into my palette, and I just ended stirring in more and more of Get A Clue in until I was satisfied with the color. But the notes with my test mix indicate that this was 7 parts to 1.

Thoughts: Get A Clue is a light pink creme that leans a bit blue. Any standard light pink would work by adding a little blue creme or jelly. Sinful Black on Black is a very neutral (and highly pigmented!) black. Sometimes black polishes have a blue base. In which case I would have had to use a standard light pink. I really should do a swatch and comparison of Get A Clue to show what I mean. On it!

Anyway, I was trying to dupe Sally Hansen Concrete which is already hard to find and it was released less then a year ago. SH should really rethink their distribution method/business strategy!  I've never seen it in person so I don't know how close I got, but I am satisfied with my franken. I patted myself on the back and ordered a bottle of Nubar. :D

Teal Chrome Holo Franken 004

I mixed this one mid-March but it's been pretty persistently cloudy so I didn't try it until this week.

This is one base coat + two coats franken + one top coat

Teal:
Chrome:


Holo:



Full sunlight washes out the color a lot:



What I love about this one is its duo-finish quality.

Recipe:

1/2 bottle New York Color East Village
1/2 bottle Sally Hansen Nail Prisms Diamond
10 drops New York Color West Village

Hey, this is my first time posting a recipe. Let me know if you have any tips or suggestions to do it a different way.

Also, name change. I kept trying to log into the wrong gmail account so I changed my blogger ID so it matches my email. But now I'm regretting using blogger at all. The interface is so clunky and unintuitive. Every time I sit down to write a post, I end up wanting to punch a dwarf in the nose! Umm, yeah /rant