Nail polish remixes

Nail polish junkies know that all-too-well feeling of walking into the store and hearing the latest shade calling their name. Here’s a fun experiment: Mix your own using a few colors you already own!

Use colors you already own and create a nail polish mixing palette with a piece of tin foil and a medium soft paint brush.

Colors:

• Sephora by OPI’s Traffic Stopper Copper
• Deborah Lippmann’s Shake Your Money Maker
• Essie’s Borrowed and Blue
• Square Hue’s Ocean Drive

Light blue and bright teal are mixed together with copper, gold and teal glitter, resulting in a subtle glitter hidden like buried treasure in the ocean.

Colors:

• Zoya’s Julieanne
• Essie’s Bikini So Teeny

An upbeat blue and a dramatic purple come together to make a beautiful shade reminiscent of an evening sky. The shimmer in the purple mingles well with the opacity of the blue.

Colors:

• Orly’s La Vida Loca
• Zoya’s Sarah

Shocking fuchsia and festive red unite to form a cheery berry magenta with shimmer galore. It’s a shade that’s suitable for summer soirees as well as fall festivities.

Colors:

• Ciate’s Oil Slick
• Essie’s Wicked

Duotone metallic polish plays nicely with an opaque oxblood. The deep red is lightened just enough to reveal shimmery undertones in a shade that’s wickedly fall.

Colors:

• Square Hue’s Lincoln Road
• Zoya’s Kara

A bright pink-red and a soft gray mixed together to create a beautifully subdued mauve that’s oh-so elegant and refined.

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