If you could create your own nail polish right now, what would you create? What color? Finish? Type? Share!
A warm, mint green with iridescent, blue-to-violet pearl with more of a cream-jelly finish that was opaque.
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I’d take Technopagan by OOC and give it the metallic finish of Zoya’s Imperial Russia to give it the kind of brilliance that I’d been expecting out of the shade based on the lip color!
Yes! I was going to say something similar.
Murky green with pink-to-purple shift and a smattering of red and gold sparkles.
A light, neutral pink with a little bit of gold shimmer in it that would be perfectly opaque in 2 coats and would last for an entire week before showing tip-wear.
A warm coral pink with pink and gold pearl and a gel finish! Don’t think its very unique but I don’t have anything of that sort.
A trio of Chanel Taboo, Tom Ford Viper, and NARS Gold Viper dupes that costs $5. 😛
Something with a creamy finish… In maybe like a soft taupe shade?
Hm…maybe the perfect medium periwinkle blurple colour, with ethereal pale gold shimmer. Mostly, i’d create one that was readily available and reasonably priced in NZ! 😀
I totally want the one you described Christine! Otherwise, I’d like a strong purple/cool green duochrome with minimal visible brushstrokes. Rimmel has something like it called Royal Blue, and while the duochrome effect is pretty strong and good, the formula could be lot better.
I actually have a lot of ideas for nail polish, but shipping to Germany for a suspension base is often expensive and many shops don’t ship overseas.
Anyway for the question (what I’d do right now), I like neon, matte glitter, so I’d make a top coat with a clear base and different kinds of neon glitter, a mixture of small bars and different sizes of hexagons. Something like Connect the Dots with colorful neon glitter and without a shimmering base.
Or something with circle glitter (maybe an underwater color scheme, blue and a little bit of green) since I don’t have a polish with that yet.
a pale pastel pink for fairest skintone, no glitter, no shimmer, not ot heavy. Super glossy!
Similar to Christine’s actually, it would be an frozen aqua/arctic ice color, creamy or jelly with pink and blue iridescence, like an ice sculpture.
Try Maybelline’s Frozen. Very similar.
sounds like Rescue Beauty Lounge Revellion.
Hmm… It’s gray and rainy today so I’m thinking a wildly neon coral polish that doesn’t chip easily and has a slight pink shimmer all the way through.
White nail polish that applies smooth and evenly that required only 2 coats.
Seafaom green with purple/blue sifting mirco shimer with Semi opaque finish (so that the shimer will layer in 2 ayer to create depth). And Sand texture with red based and with gold/orange shimmer.
For a really nice mint, try Pahlish Prainha Beach ($9). It’s a warmer mint with gold flakes, which are visible at arm’s length. It’s available until the end of June on the Pahlish Big Cartel store.
The original Chanel Vamp in a cream-jelly hybrid.
Can I just get something that actually lasts a week, while withstanding daily dishwashing, frequent laundry, and other household chores…? I don’t care about the color, provided it’s not oramge/coral, or neon/bright, but a nice nude or vampy shade would be nice!
I’d create a brown/black base with bright orange glitters so that it would be appropriate to wear from the first of September till December. Trying to find this combo to wear for the fall holidays! Because Fall is my favorite season to dress up,decorate, and smell like a pumpkin! I love the colors for fall, the makeup, and Pumkin scents are my favorite scents of the year, I love Christmas, but I feel like I’m limited to my color and my scent choices.
A hot, hot, HAWT pink shimmer or intense holo. I mean, burn your retina’s out hot pink. Lol.
Creamy teal with just a hint of shimmer grey
Wow, the one you described sounds gorgeous, Christine! I want that one too!
Otherwise, a Louboutin red creme/satin with a burgundy/black duochrome and a gold flash.
hmm… interesting, I would create a delicious blackened plum with holographic flakies.
An opaque white with duochrome shifts like Urban Decay’s Road Stripe eyeshadow.
coral-y red with rainbow microglitter, jelly type finish.
Metallic minx but in nail polish form that actually lasts at least a week without chipping
A luminous, jelly finish medium inky cobalt blue with really fine copper, red, pink and purple micro glitter.
I’d call it Smashing Comets, just because I could.
I so want to create my own makeup line…
I have some on mind, like a yellow-gold-orange duochrome… or any glitter that is opaque in one coat. Also an almost white but still not kind of blue, that is not grey-toned.
Taupe (think ORLY “Prince Charming”) with the pink-green duochrome of ORLY “Space Cadet” and silver glitter.
The one you described sounds exactly like Blue Eyed Girl Lacquer’s Lady Slipper from the Spring Collection. I’ve got it (plus a back-up!) and you’re right – mint green crelly with purple to blue shift really is gorgeous, especially as a pedi!
A satin brownish pewter nail polish. Very hard to find one.
I would make a nail polish practically identical to Fiver by Butter London (that perfect icy mint that reminds you of mint chocolate chip ice cream) but more jelly like and waaaay more opaque
A creamy nude-pink that applies evenly, is opaque in two coats, not too runy, not too thick.
A sheer, pure clean white glow with a blue-violet subtle duochrome that sort of glints at the sides.
Oh! And a darker, vampier version of MAC Rain of Flowers in a nicer formula with a nicer brush.
Or Chanel Rouge Noir but with a nicer formula + Nicer brush.
A blink your eye and it’s done as imagined polish.
A deep cobalt blue with a glowy orange or peach shimmer. I have a frankened one out of some old polishes, but I think with the newer formulas & pigments available, the color combo could be amazing.