Day 11- Polka Dots

I wasn't quite ready to take off my franken yet, so I just added my polka dots, for this I didn't really plan anything just grabbed some neon colors and started dotting. 

Please forgive the huge black smudge on my thumb, Lol I had no idea it was there till after taking my photos. I was recreating my Black & White Nails on my mother's nails, and well I must of got the black polish on me, oh well not much to do about it now. 

Used: 

Base coat of Elmer's Glue

3 thick coats of my polish

Used a Dotting tool and 

Color Club- 

Wham! Pow!

Warhol

Chelsea Girl 

and Nina Ultra Pro- 

Lime Light

This was quick and easy I used a small dotting tool, and just kind of stippled them on, starting from the cuticle up. 

Frankening a Dupe

I had wanted to try to make a dupe for Butter London's The Black Knight for awhile now. Now I would of loved to just go out and buy the set last year. When I first saw swatches I knew I wanted it but of course I also knew it wasn't going to happen. I simply couldn't afford it. I figured I could franken a dupe like many others it didn't look too difficult, But I soon forgot all about that idea until yesterday. I remembered this post from Chalkboard Nails with two different recipes.

I did this a little different then those two. Actually I kind of combined the recipes.
What I used:
Sinful Colors Frenzy (poured out about 1/3 of the bottle)
Wet N Wild Sparked (only filling the bottle of frenzy until it was 3/4 full
Then added Pure Ice Black (sorry don't know the name the label fell off of my bottle a long time ago)
And the just shake it up until your arms just about fall off. Thats is your done.

I'm really happy with how it turned out. I have found another recipe to dupe The Black Knight, using Sally Hansen's Rockstar Pink, since it actually has all the same colored glitter in it as TBK. I have a bottle of this and actually a Wet N Wild one that is the same glitter Sorry not near it but its from the old Craze line they had. Just the glitter and add some black and thats it your done. I'll be trying this one soon.  Here is the post I found mentioning using this glitter.

Ok enough talk on to the pictures:

Used: 

Base Coat of Elmer's Glue (no way was I going to try removing this normal)

My Fanken- 3 thick coats ( I haven't named this yet hmm I'll come up with something) 

Gealous- 1 coat

and Topped with Seche Vite 

Day 8- Metallic Nails

So I'm sure most of you have heard of the new Essence Peel Off Base Coat, seeing as I'm in the US and most Essence polishes aren't available here I figured it wouldn't happen anytime soon or if ever. But then I saw people talking about how the Peel off Base Coat is just PVA glue, which is good ol' Elmers Glue or white glue. I'm not going to show you how it works that can be seen here or here, there are more but I'm just going to link to two. I tried this under this mani and actually am peeling it off now, worked like a charm for me, I can't wait to try it under some glitter. Anyway enough talk onto the pictures...

Used: 

Base of Elmers Glue

Pure Ice- Bite Me 2 coats

Models Own- Golden Green 2 coats

Topped with Seche Vite 

Yay for my first Models Own, I found it at an Urban Outfitters on Clearance, it was actually my first time at an Urban Outfitters too so I grabbed a couple of their polishes as well. I'm a little sad that this was the only Models Own they had left I assume they had the whole Beetle Juice Collection at one point but I don't actually know. Either way I'm happy to have found this one. 

I love the shine on this one, but seriously have no idea why my skin is so Red.