Playing With The Queen of Hearts
 It’s time for another frankenpolish inspired by the OPI Alice In Wonderland collection. I was so happy with how my Cheshire Cat franken turned out that I just had to try to make my idea of a white polish with red glitter come to life.
With the Queen of Hearts as my muse, I mixed up what I’m calling “Playing With The Queen of Hearts”. The song was running through my head while I was mixing/applying it so it seemed a perfect fit. Though I’m not sure I’m entirely in love with the color so I’d love your thoughts. Check it out after the jump! |
After realizing how much polish I used to mix up my last franken I hunted down some baby polish bottles to make the process less wasteful. I can’t be dumping half a bottle of my fave polishes out just for a mix, especially discontinued ones. I purchased my bottles from The Supply Source for $5/dozen.
I had hoped to find a red glitter polish with a clear base in my stash but my bottle of Color Club Art of Seduction has found a new home. So while I was ordering polish bottles, I picked up some red glitter from The Supply Source as well. I mixed their Red Micro Glitter with Orly Gogo, a sparkly white.
I wanted a shimmery/glittery white because I thought it would suspend the glitter better and I was right. Even after sitting a few days, the glitter is still pretty well dispersed.
This is my first attempt which I didn’t feel was glittery enough. I can’t really say how much I used because I don’t have a measuring tool that will fit in such a little opening.
After adding some more glitter, the red is definitely more apparent though I’m still not sure I love it. It reminds me of this white chocolate bar I had years back. It had red speckles throughout the chocolate that looked a lot like this.
In sunlight and artificial light, the glow of the glitter makes it a bit better but I’m still not thrilled.
What do you think? I’m wondering if chunkier glitter would have been better. Maybe I should hunt down some actual heart shaped glitter, like those Maybellines. What would you suggest to make this a better mix?
Several have said this already, but I’ll add my two cents… I liked the first try the best, the one with the least glitter. It had the perfect amount of glitter, not too little and not too much. Adding more glitter killed the look for me. And I would absolutely name it Peppermint Bark! Now I want to go out and buy more bark before it’s gone from Trader Joe’s
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I love the look of the first glitter-wise. How about using a sheerer white that shimmers gold, adding red glitter and then layering that to build opacity.I think maybe this polish should be a jelly!!
I think this is better. It also reminds me of peppermint white choc bark. Yum.
I don’t know if you’ve looked into it but Nyx Girls line has clear with red glitter and clear with red hearts if you want to try again
how about opi’s you’re a doll with nubar fire sparkles for example?
thanks for your great swatches!
I love this<3
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the first attempt. Just the right amount of red with the white! I also love the idea of adding metallic hearts to the first attempt as well. Good job! OPI would do themselves a HUGE service to get you involved with promotions like this one. I didn’t buy EITHER of the reds. They are just TOO SIMILAR to reds I already have. The glitters on the other hand… SOOOOO DIFFERENT!!