Varnish made w/ Pigments

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Yesterday I made my first MAC Pigment nail varnish and absolutely love the results!

I found a clear nail lacquer lying that I no longer use but didn't want to throw it out as it seemed like such a waste. I mixed MAC Teal pigment - about 1 teaspoon - with about 1/8th teaspoon of Golden Olive pigment. It looks gorgeous, it actually looks like a nice festive shade, I think I'll probably wear it to my work's Christmas party

However, it does chip really easily (perhaps something to do with the pigments?) so next time I'll have to put a clear top coat on, too.

I'm thinking about buying some cheap clear nail varnish and making quite a few of these - I'd love to experiment with pink and silver pigments, or even pink and blue pigments (so it looks like one of those two-toned, pink-lilac shades!)

Just thought I'd share my experience, anyone else tried making these?

 

[Jessica]

very cool!!!! I want to try

 

[emily_3383]

I like doing this too! I also added some pigments to my black nail polish to make it all sparkly. Yeah I usually get the $1 bottles to experiment.

 

[bella1342]

I love doing this too! I made an exact dupe for chanel's black satin by using milani's black magic with MAC platinum pigment. now I have my dupe, and I bought chanel's black satin... i think i love my dupe even more.

I need to start making more nail polishes.

 

[luxotika]

I made one with some green mood color changing nailpolish and I mixed in Teal pigment and I could not for the life of me get that off my damn fingernails! Maybe I will try it with just clear nailpolish next time so I don't look like the incredible hulk!

 

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It comes off my nails easily - I painted my nails with my mixture at 4pm yesterday before work and by 9pm, half of my nails had big scratches and chips down the middle lol. However, I DO find that it takes absolutely forever to come off my skin (I always do a crappy job of my left hand and have to remove the varnish from the skin/cuticle area...took me about 20 minutes to get it off, argh!)

 

[emily_3383]

This should be in a nail forum and i think there is a thread like this already. But anyways I think all nail polishes are good as long as you have a good base and top coat. My faves are Orly Bonder and for top coat im using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri.

 

[arguelloam]

Cool....gonna have to try this.