Showing posts with label you mix cosmetics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label you mix cosmetics. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Silver holo franken love

I'm loving all the glitter options from you mix cosmetics.  I felt it was necessary to make an awesome franken with silver and black glitter. Below is a photo of the glitter used.  All of them are from YMC except luminosity (left) and the black micro which are from TKB.  The remainder of the glitter used included silver holo square, black holo hex, black shredded, black hex, 2 sizes of gunmetal hex, small silver hex and 2 sizes of silver holo hex.




It's so pretty in the sun.




The base is one coat of a silver steel franken followed by 2 coats of the glitter polish.  There was a bit of shrinkage near the tips of the nails following application of seche vite.  For some reason it always looks worse in photos than in person.






*On a side note, I've been experimenting with the use of xanthan gum in glitter suspension. It seems like people have had mixed results with it.  The polish was only made last night, but so far it has remained suspended. *fingers crossed*  I will post photos after the weekend with an update.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

periwinkle magnetic polish

A few weeks ago I purchased the magnetic polish grab bag from you mix cosmetics.  They include 12 polishes and a magnet for 34.95.  This is the cheapest option I've seen for magnetic polishes.  The only downside is that you don't get to choose which colors you get.  Since most of their colors looked pretty, I figured I'd take a chance.  I'm glad I did.  The colors are so nice!

The individual polishes aren't labeled so I don't know the actual name for each color.  I've decided to call this one periwinkle because its a delicate silvery/purple.  This is 2 coats with the line magnet provided by YMC.




You can get a better feel for the color of the polish in this photo.



I'd recommend purchasing these polishes for anyone who is on a budget and looking to expand their magnetic collection.