Frankenpolish Contest - VOTING Open

Warning - this is a long post.

I'm very excited to say that I received 21 AWESOME frankenpolishes for my contest.  Seriously ladies, I can't believe that I got that many entries, especially as the prize was only a single lonely polish (albeit a very special one).

The winner of the people's choice (i.e. the frankenpolish that receives the most votes) will receive the bottle of Sally Hansen Turquoise Opal.  AND...because of the number of entries, and because they are all so fantastic, there is going to be an additional prize awarded by a panel of judges. The judges being my husband and my mum.  The judges choice will receive a brand new bottle of Nfu Oh #123.  I have two bottles. I haven't swatched mine on it's own yet, but you can see some great swatches on The NailPhile.

A note to all the entrants. I have re-sized and oriented all photos to be a consistent size and angle. If you submitted multiple photos, I selected the one I thought represented your polish the best.  Polishes are display in alphabetical order based on the names you gave them. This post took me AGES to prepare, so if you see an error, please let me know. Good Luck.

A note to people voting. Most of these entrants said this was only their first or second attempt at doing a frankenpolish.  You will see that they used a large variety of ingredients to create their frankens, such as other polishes, glitters, eye shadows and pigments. I think they have all done an amazing job.  We should all totally work for a nail polish company and design their next collection!

Alrighty then.











11 - Kashmir
Recipe - "roughly 3 parts Pure Ice Purple Reign + 1 part Wet n Wild Nocturnal"
From: Sarah
She says "I created Kashmir after seeing swatches of Sally Hansen Arabian Night. I don't know how close this is to the original, but I don't care anyway, because it's beautiful as is. I name all my frankens for songs/music, and between the original name and my polishes used, this Led Zeppelin song seemed a perfect fit."
Check her out at http://fluffypuppynow.blogspot.com/ 

Recipe - "1/2 essence "just rock it!" (dark blue), and then added some drops of Nfu.OH 65 and China Glaze "Sexagon" 'til I liked the holo effect"
From: Kati
She says "I created this, because i wanted the discontinued OPI DS "Glamour" and thought this would be pretty simple to create"


Recipe - "Hard Candy Beetle and spectraflair holo pigment, probably about a 1/4-1/2 tsp"
From: Samarium's Swatches.
Check her out at http://samariums-swatches.blogspot.com

Recipe - "Base was Laser Lime by China Glaze (1/2 bottle), Interference Green by PearlEX powder (1/6 teaspoon), Mink by PearlEX powder (1/8 teaspoon), He's going in circles by China Glaze (1/6 teaspoon)"
From: Polished Components
She says "I would describe this polish as a lighter cousin of DS Illuminate by OPI.  It is a light to medium brown with green shimmer duochorme, and holo micro glitter.  "
Check her out at http://polishedcomponents.wordpress.com/

Recipe - "1/2 Bottle of Ulta Sun-Sational, 3/4 Bottle of a random mini OPI red (sorry - have no idea of the name - any red colour will do!), 1/6 Bottle of Color Club Turn The Other Chic, A couple drops of China Glaze White Cap, A couple drops of China Glaze White Out"
From: Delaynee
She says "The sparkle on the polish alone does not photograph too well.. It is more noticeable in person.. Orange is a summer colour and, in my opinion, the colour of this particular summer. I think it is very fun and easy to make.. Especially if you're not one to own a full bottle of orange polish (as it can be.. scary?) you can just mix some up when needed!"
Check her out at http://deesstuffs.blogspot.com/

Recipe - "unnamed Sally Girl pink glitter, Wet n Wild Tickled Pink, and Cover Girl City Lights"
From: rebecca
She says "I've named it pink-182, after my favorite band, blink-182 The holo glitter was an afterthought - and I'm happy that I thought of it!"
Check her out at rebeccalikesnails.blogspot.com

Recipe - "Roughly equal parts Zoya Charisma, Sinful Colors Pinky Glitter and Morph Sheer, Rimmel London Torrid"
From: Jenn
She says "We pick berries in late summer to turn into jam and the color of this reminded me of the raspberry jam we make. This raspberry is glammed up rather that jammed up though ;)"
Check her out at http://paintedpixies.blogspot.com/


Recipe - "About the same amount of each of - China Glaze - Gold Digger, China Glaze - Strawberry Fields, Orly - Galaxy Girl, OPI - Last Friday Night, H&M - Blue Wave, Essence - Choose Me!, Deborah Milano - 838, Paris Memories - 253, Paris Memories - 254, Diamond Cosmetics - Turquoise Glitter and LA Girl - Overdose"
From: Jane
She says "The polish is a blend of many different glitter and shimmer polishes. The result is a blue-toned purple base filled with silver, gold, blue, purple and iridescent glitter/shimmer in different sizes. My franken is called Smells Like Teen Spirit, which is named after the song from one of my all-time favorite bands Nirvana, as a tribute"
Check her out at http://nailside.blogspot.com/


Recipe - "1/4 clear, 1/4 white, 3 drops of black, 1/2 California (no name), gold and purple glitter"
From: Ari
She says "I made this on whim because I didn't like the California that much and it was super cheap so I played around and the color started to remind me of space so I added gold glitter for stars and purple because I thought it would look cool. So the name came about because I made this while spaced out and it looks like space :D"
Check her out at ari-sweetdelight.blogspot.com


Recipe - "Clear pink glitter nail polish and eyeshadow sample"
From: Tink 1
She says "The eyeshadow sample I used in this nail polish is a lovely peachy/coral colour with a bit of gold tinge.I dont normally wear anything red in colour on my face so i thought this would be a great coral colour for my nail polish collection. The bottle of pink glitter polish i have used with this eyeshadow colour is a transparent glitter polish. (fairly colourless) It has turned out great with the jelly coral sunburnt colour with a bit of glitter"
Check her out at icameisawibought.blogspot.com


Recipe - "Approximately 1/20 A green unknown glitter, 1/20 Orly Royal Navy, 1/20 H&M Envy Me, 1/20 Gosh Effect Powder (no label with name), 2/20 L.A. Colors Color Craze Treasure Island, 2/20 Gosh Vanilla Ice, 2/20 Gosh Snow, 4/20 Gosh Yellow Doll, 6/20 H&M U Must Have This"
From: Swååfie
She says "The franken is called: Vandhund. Directly translated it's 'Water Dog' but it's a danish expression that describes a person who loves to swim and play in water - kind of like a dog for water :) And that was my inspiration for this franken. I wanted to do a summer-y franken and I thought about beaches right away and how I love swimming and playing in water - I AM a 'vandhund'! It's not the most complex polish, but I love it :)"
Check her out at swaafie.blogspot.com

So there you have it, all 21 entries. Now time to VOTE.

• Only one vote per follower 
• Of course you can vote for yourself.  
• Follower names will be checked to make sure they are real.
• Please complete the form to cast your vote. 
• Voting will be be open until Saturday 11 June 11:59pm anywhere in the world, unless the minimum has not been reached
• Minimum total votes 50. If I don't get 50 total votes by the closing date, voting will remain open until we get 50 votes (total, not for one polish).

Here is a quick reminder of everything you have seen.




One final note on prizes.  I would seriously love to give away numerous bottles in a prize, however, shipping nail polish internationally is rather a PITA for Australians.  Because of Australia Posts' Dangerous goods regulations we are not suppose to ship polish unless you secure a dangerous goods contract with Australia Post. We have to provide photo ID, which is recorded, when sending parcels overseas. I know a fellow Aussie blogger who was fined by Australia Post for shipping polish overseas!! I have found that if I just ship one or two bottles I've been ok.  So fingers crossed and please don't dob me in to the authorities, or there will be no more international contests.

Damn that was a long post - it's gonna take me a while to recover from this one!