Friday, March 5, 2010

Friday Franken - The Deranged Milliner

Alice in Wonderland comes out today and I am very excited, I love Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, and Helena Bonham Carter.  I had planned all along to pick up OPI Absolutely Alice and Mad as a Hatter for the weekend of the release but I am an epic procrastinator.  So when I went to Ulta last week to grab some and found that they were all sold out I was a bit annoyed.  My week was too busy to get down to the nail supply stores in the metroplex so I decided to use my shopping failure as a topic for my Friday Franken.

My goal here was to dupe Mad as a Hatter and I think I did pretty well though there are some differences.    From the pictures I saw there is a royal blue and more gold in Mad as a Hatter and I didn't have the right blue available.  I compensated with a little aquamarine.  Mine is darker it seems, I had a really hard time finding good close ups of Mad as a Hatter.
Deranged Milliner (3 coats) with top
Deranged Milliner close up
Materials:
  • Various Martha Stewart Glitters (list is at the bottom)
  • Wet n  Wild Clear
  • Pinch Dash Smidgen Measuring Spoons
  • Funnel
  • Ballz 
  1. Measure out 1 smidgen of each glitter, mix them well in a container while dry.
  2. Add clear and ballz.  Shake.
 
The mixed glitter before polish

I used a bunch of Martha Stewart Glitter in this, at least one color dissolved  but I'm not sure which it was, I suspect orange and green but I need to test them.   I grabbed these at Michaels in packs.

Does anyone know which glitters do/do not dissolve?

Mega list of glitter....
Garnet, Orange Sorbet, Yellow Barite, Charoite
 
Sour Apple, Aquamarine Crystal, Turquoise, Lapis Lazuli

Blueberry Slush, Watermelon, Feldspar, Sugar Plum
Sterling, Onyx, Hematite
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  1. Dainty Darling DigitsMarch 5, 2010 at 7:49 PM

    Ooh, you did pretty fabulous on this! It is so hard to dupe. If it helps I tried to get a good close up of it when I got my bottle:
    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UDN2AIpFioc/S3onD-QZkII/AAAAAAAAAJY/MssxfYewI9U/s1600-h/036.jpg

    I think it has more purple maybe? And I wish I could find those glitters, they are awesome.

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  2. Pigments and PotionsMarch 5, 2010 at 8:47 PM

    You're right there is definitely more purple. I will try to doctor that up, I have purple glitter. I need to get a little green in there too I think. Thank you SOOO much for the link!

    I was pretty excited to find them. I actually used this franked as an excuse to buy the packs. I think I am officially done buying glitter though.

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