Can You Use Car Pigments On Your Nails

I browse the latest and greatest looks from the Beautylish commonage daily, and while I'm e'er impressed, I recently came across a nail design that stopped me in my eye-gazing tracks. A manicure gone magical. Light-reflective, prismatic, multidimensional, and utterly captivating. Was information technology duo-chrome interference? Light reflection? Fourth dimensional digits? The unclassifiable tips vest to blast blogger extraordinaire and Beautylish member Francine B., whose experimental techniques have become fan favorites on the site. In line with her innovative notwithstanding unorthodox techniques, I soon discovered she used a pigment ofttimes applied as car paint to achieve the await.

With the right paycheck, gas-guzzlers pocket-size and large tin can have just about whatsoever wait in the book painted onto their hoods. It'south ofttimes that the technology invested in automotive pigments sets the trend for other applications. In this case, Francine showcased Chromaflair, a paint made of 20 micron-thick particles coated in magnesium fluoride, which reflects and refracts light from different angles much similar a glassy beetle's wing.

Francine stealthily managed to get her easily on the pigment online (the legality in all of this is fuzzy, but all in the name of nail art?), so mixed it with a suspension base and layered the color, dubbed "The Dark Side of the Rainbow," over black polish. Her photos—especially the underwater shots—practise justice, showing just how multifaceted a boom colour can get. While Chromaflair manufacturers JDSU declined to annotate on the cosmetic applications of the pigment (used strictly for paints, coatings, plastics, textiles, and packaging at the moment), nosotros can't deny that maybe Francine has uncovered a potentially revolutionary application for the nail industry. But of course, curious as ever, nosotros wanted to know more. Francine was kind enough to answer a few more called-for questions on her custom-car paint polish below.

B: Your nails look amazing. Chromaflair isn't readily sold in paint form—how did you obtain information technology?

I swapped for a tiny corporeality of Chromaflair pigment. The redditor I swapped with has a boyfriend that works in a chemistry lab and he was running tests on Chromaflair and she was able to get a pocket-sized sample of what he was testing.

B: What'southward the recipe for this color?

I mixed peradventure an one/eight of a teaspoon (or less) of Chromaflair pigment with suspension base of operations. Unlike regular articulate base, suspension base is very thick and then information technology keeps the pigments suspended rather than having them sink to the bottom of the bottle. I used two coats of it over black polish.

B: Why shoot underwater?

I've seen other bloggers utilize underwater pics to more than accurately show difficult-to-photograph colors but never put much thought into it until I saw this post by the amazing blogger at nailXchange. I figured I'd requite it a endeavour but I never imagined I would capture the completely gorgeous pictures I did. When I was reviewing my pictures I was blown away by the rainbows and color shifts. The underwater pictures impressed me and so much I now take underwater pics for all my manicures in hopes of capturing some other stunning shot, still not every polish gives me that shot.

B: How did you decide on the "The Night Side of the Rainbow" moniker?

When I was looking at the pictures all I could recall was "Look at that rainbow!" and since I layered it over blackness, The Night Side of the Rainbow just seemed to describe it perfectly.

B: Do y'all run across yourself or indie nail companies creating more lacquers with the Chromaflair pigment?

I would love to create a drove using Chromaflair, unfortunately I've learned that Chromaflair is used in counterfeiting so it'due south non sold to the public. The authorities is besides doing a crackdown on the auction of Spectraflair [a like, light-diffractive pigment]. It will no longer be bachelor in pulverization form, so the only way for someone to purchase it is already mixed with base of operations. I see this being a huge trouble for indie polish makers who mix information technology with other pigments to create different colored holographic polishes.