Miss L's Lovely Lacquer - A Franken.

When I was mixing together a few polishes, the children wanted to get in and make their own too. Why not? It appeals just like mixing paint colours.

Miss L chose three colours for her Lovely Lacquer. She started off with N.Y.C Color Copper Penny. This is another one of those pretty colours from N.Y.C. but too sheer for my liking. Mixed in with this was China Glaze's Gr8 gold holographic from the OMG Collection. Adding this helped in making the polish opaque enough to wear without coat after coat after coat. Gr8 gives a subtle holographic finish and what little girl doesn't like to have rainbows on her fingertips? The best thing is that Copper Penny turns Gr8 into a lovely antiqued gold.

Miss L holding the bottle of her nail polish where you can just see a little of the rainbow in the bottle.

There was a final touch she made to her elixir. We bought some Satin branded nail polishes from a local chemist and one of them was Nail Enamel 24. Satin is made in Australia and on the bottle is a website that directs to www.neoncosmetics.com. I didn't bother putting in a link as this website has a placeholder and lets you know that the domain may be for sale.

Back to the nail polish with the imaginative name. It is a purple/magenta micro-glitter that is perfect as a top coat. The base appears to be clear but it is hard to tell because the glitter seems to colour everything. Liberal amounts were added to the polish but you can barely see it as the glitter is very small. When Miss L is wearing her polish indoors you get surprise glimpses of a pretty smattering of the glitter through the gold.

Miss L wants to share this picture of her wearing her Lovely Lacquer.

This is Miss L's Lovely Lacquer in low light to show the glitter. Shown is two coats without top coat.

It was difficult to catch the elusive subtle holographic part of this polish. This picture was my best and it looks as though I have a chip in the top left. I don't but that corner of my nail pulls down as my nail gets longer and this must have photgraphed as though I did not have polish on it! Bonus! You can see some of the glitter as well.