Purple Rain

Happy Hump Day everyone! I'm home sick and just woke up from a 12 hour nap...I'm trying to sleep this cold off...so far so good :) I've been meaning to post this since Monday, but with this cold I haven't had the energy to do much. Remember a while back when I posted my franken, Black Rainbow? Well, if you remember the recipe, I used up 3/4 of a bottle of DS Sapphire. I had an unused fourth of Sapphire and it just sat there for a while.  I was looking for my A-England Lady of the Lake one day and for the life of me, couldn't find it. I have literally looked EVERYWHERE for it...still NOTHING :( While I find it, I decided to make my own, so I used the 1/4 of Sapphire and mixed it with maybe about 1/3 of Zoya Pinta and I came up with Purple Rain (ha! Cheesy, I know)

The holo on this is alot more noticeable than the one in Black Rainbow, I wonder why? Maybe because there was no black added to this (as the WnW Black that I added to BR). I love everything about this color. The base is nice and rich and the application was great, just two coats and it was opaque.

I really need to pick up a few more bottles of Sapphire to see what else I can cook up. What colors do you think would look great with a little holo added??

Black Rainbow (My First Franken)

So I'm sure you've heard about the whole OPI My Private Jet drama and it's 4892665 versions. If you haven't, here is the Cliffnotes of it:
OPI originally released MPJ in 2007. From what I hear (because I don't have the original version), it was seriously awesome. (A black holo, what's not to love?) It looked like this:

Well, something happened and it was quickly discontinued and a bunch of other versions were released including this one (which is the one I have)

Obviously it's not the same color. This is NOT black and it's NOT holo. So, I was on MUA the other day and I saw someone (click here to see Moxie's Franken)  Franken (when you mix polishes to make an even awesome one) OPI DS Original and Black Onyx to make their own MPJ version. Now, I don't have Original...but I do have Sapphire, so I read this works just as well. Off I went....I even had the perfect name for it! Introducing....Black Rainbow (how unoriginal, I know)

With Flash

Super direct eye blinding flash



No flash...look at that bottle holo!

 


















Following her recipe, it took about 3/4 Sapphire to 1/4 Black Onyx and about 4 drops of WnW Black Creme (to make it more black). This is 3 thin coats layered over Black Creme (I will post pics of it alone when I wear it). I don't have the original MPJ, but now that I have this..I don't I even want to bother and look for it anymore. My wallet is grateful!

Thanks for looking :D