♥ Franken 'Spoiled Rotten' ♥

 I wanted to call this 'Black Cinnamon' but I think 'Spoiled Rotten' is better considering I get impatient when a page on the internet does not load in less that 3 seconds! I friggen despise flash ads!!!!!!


Here is a pretty franken I made with those old, ooooooold Bonne Belle body shimmer powders I found at an awesome store in my town for $.50 cents each last summer. I filled up an empty mini bottle with approx 3 ml of Black polish, and added a little clear. I threw in some balls and added approximately 1 teaspoon of the Cinnamon body shimmer. This franken is very granular and textured - however I applied a coat of CLEAR polish over all my frankens before I proceed with top coat, just in case my top coat picks up any of the pigments. I applied 2 coats of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat and it smoothed out perfectly. Much smoother than the old skool maybelline 'Bronze Beam' =  that was a granular glitter polish.

This actually applied pretty easily, I layered it over a dark brown polish - Sally Hansen New Lengths in 'Ominous'. I caught my middle nail in between two bi-fold doors and it cracked and lifted from my natural nail..... I hate posting broken nails, but I really wanted to show this franken. I was taking these off shortly, anyway for my next big 'Project Post' on safely removing false nails.

 I picked up Claire's Matte Top Coat..... Its pretty good, I haven't really seen it modeled on blogs. Odly enough, I think matte glitters and heavy duty shimmers are my favirote matte look.

Has anyone else noticed the new FULL SIZE three packs of polish at Icing..... they are very pretty.

The last month or so I have gotten a disproportionate amount of boo-boos on my middle finger, as well as the nail. I promise to never, ever give anyone the middle finger ever again!

 Anyhoo- here is a few photos of my broken middle finger mani, as well as a few photos of the matte top coat from Claire's. I also included an update from my middle nail injury, and an award winning medical diagram of my nail. The Cinnamon body shimmer is the one at the far right, below

 Bonne Belle sparkly body shimmers

Shade with Flash

2 coats of Sally Hansen Ominous

Sunshine.... yes this is very granular, but it is very, very pretty

Left, on my broken nail - 2 coats of Regular Top Coat = Right - 2 coats of Claire's Matte Top Coat

 

L to R - 1 coat - no Matte, 2 coats of matte T.C.

L to R - 1 coat - no Matte, 2 coats of matte T.C.

I barely ever gave any one the finger in my younger days.... 

so I don't know why I keep getting these in injuries

The black part is where my FREE EDGE used to begin, while the blue line is my nail bed and should be covered with nail..... it is very sensitive still..... The star is close to where the impact point was.

.... and after all that horror; here is a cute photo of my parents cat with her tongue sticking out.

Marbles, below

 ♥

♥Bargain Haul - Remember these? ♥

~ Above Shade ~

Left to Right

= Cotton Candy -( smells more like marshmellows)
= Strawberry Kiss ( smells like cheap gum)
= Latte Fun ( again marshmellows)
= Golden Honey ( time has not been kind to this scent but it looks great frankend)
= Cinnamon Sugar (YUM- still smells like cinnimon { i had this a long, long time ago })


Yippee- more materials for frankens found locally! Hope these pretty girl-ey colors hold up well when I mix them up. I found these at a local discount store in my town for $0.50 cents each Canadian, and will incorporate them into some frankeing in the near future.


I am not too concerned with their scent and more interested in their franken-ability....... however how come their is no cinnamon scented nail polish yet? I think that would be a nice one. I bought two of the "Cinnamon" scented pigments, I need to jazz up some really ridiculously dark polish I have and think this will do the trick..


Onto the bargains......Seriously I should just become a professional bargain make-up/nail polish hunter already..... I am beyond pleased at all my 'luck' at finding cheap-cheap-cheap goodies. The Bonne Bell " SWEET SCENTED POWDERS' say they are for face and body. The GLIMMER LIGHTS ILLUMINATING SHIMMER POWDER is a shimmery body powder, the purple-ey one, 'Lilac Dream' has flecks of, flecks of...... flecks of something similar in shape to the glass flecked polish of C.G., while the 'Iridescence Innocence is just a plain shimmery body powder, both are lightly scented.

I have included some swatches, just for funz and a neat video of the shimmery-ness. I love all the videos on Polish or Perish posted by "Flinty" of the glitter polish being modeled. So while I don't want to be a total copy cat, I do hope to make my own glittery nail polish video the next time I wear glittery nail polish. I think that those mini-videos of glittery goodness on Polish or Perish is posting are sooo neat!


Any hoo- I also must mention that there were price stickers on the backs of some of these from a drug store in the U.S.A. for a store called "Meijers" for $3.99... I am not sure how these ended up in Canada.... but hey - for fifty cents I shouldn't ask those questions and just enjoy my super-duper cheap franken polish materials..... I hope to get posts up of whatever I make as soon as possible.

~ Below - In the shade with Flash ~

Iridescent Innocence

Lilac Dream

Cotton Candy

Strawberry Kiss

Latte Fun

Golden Honey

Cinnamon Sugar

~ Yeaaaaaah =====Fiddy cents each!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

Whaaaaat 4 fifty? ( these were 'expensive' in Canada in the olden days...... and they were really grainy/ rough) I wonder how they ended all the way up here......

Also - I have to add...... that I excel more at nails & nail polish modeling than swatching pigments & make-up..... but I wanted to try and get a video of this... I think it looks pretty cool! There is some setting on my camera that takes better video = but I am not sure yet what that is.... I have just recently gotten the hang of different photo taking techniques, and hopefully this video comes across okay.♥