Nouvelle Vague franken dupe

For some reason, it photoed far more grey and blue than it is. In real life, it's a dusty near-dupe to For Audrey, with just a hint of shimmer.

Half L'oreal Waters Edge, half Essie Sag Harbor.

Illamasqua, you scare me.

The base of this manicure is Illamasqua Phallic. I did add a single
coat of glitter franken to the top at some point, but I don't think
that's what gets credit for the ability to withstand heavy duty
gardening. We're talking the kind of gardening that usual shreds my
nails, not just my polish.

Alice? Absolutely! (OPI Absolutely Alice)

I swear, I wasn't planning on wearing this until the no-buy month was up, but then I violated the no-buy on something else, and Alice was sitting there, and...

Yeah. Quick and dirty pictures below. The thumb is still the franken test. The franken dries smoother, but takes longer to dry. I really only needed one coat of Diamont to make it perfectly smooth, but it dented within the hour.

Three coats Absolutely Alice, two coats Diamont.

One of these fingers is not like the other.

OPI Absolutely Alice dupe recipe notes

No pictures yet, because all I have are two thumbnails, one in the frankendupe, one in AA, that I'm about to strip off to do a real manicure, but it looks like AA is going to be one of the easier polishes to franken, should you have problems tracking it down.

It looks like about 2 parts Pure Ice Strapless to 1 part Sinful Paris will get you a dupe that's so dead on, I can't tell them apart.

This experiment will be confirmed once I'm off my no-buy and can pick up extra bottles of the ingredients.

Friday franken: Oliva's Wall Art

Name of the franken taken from the children's book Olivia, specifically her attempt to recreate a Jackson Pollack on her wall (her opinion on the piece being that she could paint that in five minutes).

See, when the Rescue Beauty Lounge glitters made their debut, that was my reaction, "$18 for a glitter polish? I could franken that in five minutes!"

 Olivia's Wall Art

To make a long story short, Olivia's Wall Art turned into one of those frankens you randomly tweak, adding glitter as you find it, until it's been a heck of a lot more than five minutes, and you can't quite remember what look you were going for in the first place, nor what all you put in the thing. I know there's some old Tony and Tina glitter in there (a fine purple microglitter), and some large copper glitter that came with a mineral makeup order over five years ago, and I recently added MAC Purple glitter to it, but as for what polishes were there, that's lost in the mists of time.

Blurry, to show the sparkle.

I get good coverage in two coats, opaque by three, and this is actually four because I spaced out and started doing another coat by accident. Any spots that look like voids are actually just silver that didn't photograph well. For the amount of glitter that's in there, it's pretty smooth, which is always a plus.

While not my favorite franken (that's a blue jelly with gold glitter called Evening in Paris), it's certainly up there. If only I could remember what the ingredients were!