A while back I purchased some color-morphing powders from an Australian blog that I follow - More Nail Polish It's a great blog, and anyone interested in holographic nail polishes and frankening polishes should go visit there! Another great one for pigments, glitters and more is Polish and Pigments. While I don't do much with regular nail polish, although I own plenty of it, Pretty much all of the frankening and mixing can be done with gel polish as well.
I never mix up whole bottles of anything. I merely mix small batches to do manicures and what I need on a square of tin foil. If it doesn't come out to be what I wanted, I've not wasted much. The downside is if you have to redo a single nail or just fix a small chip, it's a pain in the arse.
Anyway, back to the stuff I bought! :)
I ordered some coarse grade (35 micron) spectraflair from her, as well as 3 color-morphing pigments. She has MUCH better pictures than anything I captured on her blog. She also just over the past couple days did swatches of some color shifting powders from TKB Trading, which I ordered a couple weeks ago but haven't swatched yet. I'm even more excited to get working with them now that I've seen them on her blog!
The manicure I just did and am sporting now is Spectraflair. I mixed a small amount of the Spectraflair with Orly Gel FX Ruby on a piece of tin foil. I find that most of the time my mixtures that I'm applying with a separate brush apply a little bit thinner than if I'm using the brush from the bottle, so this is 4 coats. The pictures really do not do it justice. It's a beautiful dark red with that amazing multi-colored holo shimmer you get from Spectraflair. I'm absolutely loving this color...... way more than I liked Orly Ruby by itself, and I actually did like that color! LOL. It's actually a darker, deeper red than it appears in this picture. I had a hard time really capturing the color, but you can see the sparkle!
The color morphing powders are equally amazing. There are 3 - Blue to teal green shift, Green to gold shift, and red to green shift. The red-green has the most distinct, obvious color shift IMO. I love it! For these swatches, I did 2 coats of Gelez Pitch Black as a base. I mixed each of the color morphing powders with a little clear, and applied 2 coats of that mix over the black base.
In order to try to show the color shift even better, I made a little video. It doesn't do them justice though!
My previous manicure I had on was also a color-shifting pigment that I got on Evil-Bay. It was from Sik Custom Paint, and it was a green-blue-purple shift. I had a REALLY hard time capturing the color shift in that one, as it was really dependent on the lighting. In some light it was very teal green, in others very purple. In the sun the green was the most obvious, while indoors it was the purple, and in dim lighting it was the blue. Very pretty color. Again, it was done over black for a base.
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