Franken Friday: Halloween Edition

The last Friday of every month is Franken Friday on the blog!  Today, I'm going to show you what I came up with for Halloween!  As a child, my sisters and I LOVED to watch Hocus Pocus.  Hell, I still love to watch it.  In fact, we loved it so much that we actually went as the Sanderson Sisters for Halloween three years ago!

I'm Mary. This is well before I started my weight loss journey.

I took colors that reminded me of the main characters and put them into polishes!  Without further ado, here they are!

Black Flame Candle, Fur Black as Black, Hollywood, Shish-ka-Baby, Circle of Salt, Je veux mon livre, Just Lucky I Guess, I Smell Children!, Mother!

Black Flame candle is pretty obvious.  It is a black based polish with gold/red duochrome, gold squares, and red, yellow, and orange hexes.

Fur Black as Black is a  mix of black and blue glitter in a clear base.  You know how sometimes black can be so deep that it looks blue?  That's what I thought of when I made this guy.  It builds into pretty full coverage but only with five coats or something ridiculous like that.  I have one coat on my pointer finger.

Hollywood is a blue linear holographic polish with blue shimmer, white, black, and gunmetal hexes.  I chose these colors because they are the colors of Max's shoes that were stolen by Jay and Ice.

Shish-ka-Baby is based off of Danny's Halloween costume.  It's a black jelly based polish with orange shimmer and green and orange hexes.  Unfortunately, the large green hexes are curling.  Well, more like tacoing.  I just ordered a matte replacement, but it's not as large, which is sad.

A Circle of Salt will protect you from zombies, witches, and old boyfriends.  Allison used this handy trick to protect the gang from the sisters.  It's a clear based polish with silver shimmer and three different sizes of white hexes.  My ring finger is a jelly sandwich with Circle of Salt and Elevation Sarychev.

Je veux mon livre is a sage green based polish with gold and green shimmer and purple hexes, squares, and shreds.  This is based on the baddest bad witch of them all, Winifred Sanderson!

Just Lucky I Guess is a fuchsia polish with pink and blue shimmer and light pink hearts, hexes, and shreds.  Sarah was always the heart breaker who lured the men and children in to their doom.

I Smell Children! is a ruby based polish with red shimmer, black, fuchsia, and purple hexes and purple squares.  This polish comes from sister Mary's flannel dress.  She sniffs out the children so the sisters can live and stay young forever.

Mother!  Sadly, this particular polish is chock full of tacoing glitter.  I have replacements for the green and purple, but I haven't found a replacement for the fuchsia yet.  Mother! is a clear based polish with fine black hexes, medium orange hexes, and large green, red, purple, and fuchsia hexes.  I took the colors that I identified most with each sister and combined them all into this polish.  I hope I can find replacements soon because it looks pretty cool.

And there they are!  What do you think?

Franken Friday!

I think I'm going to start a new series on the blog called Franken Friday, which will take place on the last Friday of every month.  I just got into frankening a few months ago by mixing pre-made polishes, which is why I have so many Wet 'n Wilds on my sales page (buy them, please!!!!).  Then, I got some solvent resistant glitters and added those to the pre-made polishes.  Finally, I got my own base, pigments, and glitters and started frankening up a storm!  Today, I'm going to show you one of the polishes I made and tweeted about earlier this week.  I call it First Frost.

It's a white based polish packed with fine navy blue glitters, small silver, blue holo, and gunmetal hexes, and large periwinkle, gunmetal, and navy blue hexes.  It's a flat creme without any shimmer, but I did toy with the idea of adding some sparkle.  I think it looks pretty good without it, though.

Here's a close-up of First Frost.  I was so surprised with this franken because I was able to wear it for four days without any chips or tip wear!  It was astonishing!  I only took it off because I got bored.  I think thinning out my Seche Vite has helped with the shrinkage and chipping.  I know you always need to thin SV out halfway through the bottle, but it wasn't really thick yet.  I'll make sure to thin it out often from now on, though, because I'm so tired of SV shrinkage!  I'm actually going to be trying out the Sally Hansen Diamond Strength Diamond Flash top coat to see how it compares.  I'll definitely make sure to keep you guys posted!

This is actually on day 3 of this mani!  It still looks great!

I am trying to decide if I want to include this in a swap I'm doing with a few other frankeners.  What do you think?  Would you be happy if this polish showed up in a swap?  Be honest!

Sadly, no game-day nails tomorrow.  I have a client meeting on Sunday, and I don't want to have to do my nails Sunday morning before my meeting.  I'm putting on China Glaze Innocence and topping it off with KBShimmer Pixie Tears.  I'll definitely take good pics of it tomorrow in the daylight.  I've got two game-day manis that I haven't shown you guys yet, so I'll definitely post them next week as well.  I tried out a new nail art technique that I'm excited to show you guys!  Plus another franken that didn't really come out very well.

What's your most work-appropriate polish?