Ah-Ha Designs: Amy's Laboratory

It's officially summer! Happy summer! I've been experimenting with making nail polishes in my apartment. So far, I've concocted two colors with flakie glitters. The first polish is a pale green with green flakies which I've named 'Jade Jello'. The second color is a periwinkle base coat with purple and magenta flakies, Berry Bash.

How did I make my own shades of polish? Start off with a empty nail polish bottle with 2 of the mixing balls, add clear suspension base, mix in primary colors to make your base color (in the case of the Jade Jello I mixed green, white, and yellow, and blue, white and red for the periwinkle base polish), create a funnel to add the flakie glitters, and lastly shake the bottles to mix throughly. You can also add thinner to improve the consistency.

What are my thoughts? This is a extremely messy process and I recommend you do this outdoors. I mixed everything in my balcony but the lacquer and glitter will get everywhere regardless of how careful you are. Initially, I wasn't impressed the the outcome but after wearing each shade for a week, it grew on me!! I started to enjoy the colors and texture, and have received many compliments; so much so I had to make a blog entry. Since I'm still in a experimental phase, I wasn't planning to post about my first trial but have received such positive feedback that I decided it was beneficial to share. So here it is :) Enjoy!