How To Add Scent To Nail Polish

Difficulty: Intermediate

Time: 10-20 minutes

Yields: 1 bottle per recipe

One of the things I love about making Nail Polish from scratch is the instant gratification factor. It'southward prepare as soon as it's fabricated! If I decide I'd similar a quick custom colour for appointment night tonight, nail. Done. And then much fun to experiment with dissimilar colors and colour blends. The addition of a favorite odor makes for an unexpected twist on a classic corrective.

Scented Nail Polish

Ingredients:

Moonlight Pomegranate Fragrance Oil

Chocolate Espresso Cybilla Fragrance Oil

Red Blue Mica

Coral Mica

Super Pearly White Mica

Cappuccino Mica

Sparkle Gold Mica

Mini Scoops

Mini Funnel

Mixing Chaplet

Suspending Nail Polish Base

Smash Shine Bottles

Recipes:

"Barely At that place Pink" Polish (A lighter, more than opalescent color)

Per Bottle:

i mL Moonlight Pomegranate Fragrance Oil

2 mini scoops Red Blue Mica

1 mini scoop Coral Mica

one mini scoop Super Pearly White

"Sweet Copper" Smoothen (a darker, more opaque color)

Per Bottle:

1 mL Chocolate Espresso Cybilla Fragrance Oil

2 mini scoops Cappuccino Mica

2 mini scoops Sparkle Gilded Mica

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Ane: Premix the colorant with the fragrance oil. There are two means of doing this; mix the fragrance oil and the colorant in a carve up container then add them to the bottle, or you can add together the fragrance oil and the colorant to the canteen and mix with the assistance of either the mixing chaplet or the divide-stick zipper that comes with your Bramble Berry Mini Mixer.

Two: Make sure you are in a well ventilated infinite and pour the nail polish base gently into your bottle. You will want to make sure to fill it to just below the shoulder of the bottle to allow for mixing room. If yous spill, use an old rag to wipe the cervix of the bottle and remove whatever splashes or spills. If you forget to do this, your lid may 'glue' itself to the canteen. If you lot have pre-mixed your colorant in a separate container, add together the mixture to the boom smoothen canteen at this time.

Adding Colorant

THREE:Place the brush into the bottle and spiral the lid on tightly. You should hear the brush 'click' into place.

Brush In Bottle

FOUR:Now shake the canteen like crazy! Colorants tend to clump and speckle if they're non mixed well enough.Test the polish to brand sure you like it by swiping it on a bit on paper. If you are unhappy with the result, you lot can add together more than colorant to make changes. Your scent will not show up until your polish dries on the paper. Once it's fully dry out, have a whiff! If you are unhappy, you can add a bit more, but remember that excessive fragrance oil will impede your polish'southward ability to dry and bear on the overall immovability. Add in small quantities only when you admittedly need to.

Shake Vigorously

TIPS AND TRICKS:

I tested a few fragrances and found that not all are created equal when it comes to nail polish! Sometimes, the odour just doesn't want to come through. The trouble is that adding as well much fragrance will impede the ability for your polish to dry. I tried scents in a higher increase and the polish took nearly three hours to dry. Oops! ane.v mL was the maximum rate at which fragrance oil could be added without messing with drying time too much.
The more opaque the mica you lot utilize, the more opaque the boom polish color will be. For example, micas like Heavy Metal Gold will be totally opaque with just a few layers. Nonetheless, Opalescent Turquoise on it'south own won't ever get also much by a shimmer. Endeavor blending it with something more opaque for a great event!
I discovered that while Electric Bubblegum Pigment is the but neon colorant that Bramble Berry carries that will mix into the nail polish base of operations, it does stain the fingernails (probably due to the excessive amount of colorant needed to brand information technology work).
Don't try to smell the fragrance oil in the wet nail polish base of operations. The scent won't show upwards until the polish has stale.
The boom polish base is EXTREMELY flammable. Do non use or shop the nail shine or base most any open up flames.

Scented Nail Polish

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