Milkyway - Spectraflair franken

Today's Spectraflair franken was made with a cream polish, well diluted with clear.  I wanted to make a nice dark navy holo, and this worked out rather nicely.

I've called this one "Milkyway", in reference to the starry sky at night, not the chocolate.

I thought this next picture was cute, with one of our cats, Ricky, sitting on the top perch of their cat run.  He's all blurry, but he was busily watching me.

Here is the recipe, using a 5ml bottle (so multiple for a bigger bottle)

• 15 drops of Ulta3 Midnight - a really dark, almost black one coat cream polish
• fill the remainder of the bottle with clear.
• 3 incy wincy straw spoonfuls of Spectraflair coarse grade

Today I'm also sharing some other info I found out about spectraflair.  When I ordered it, JDSU wanted to make sure I was aware that the product contained MgF2.  Which after Googling, I found out is Magnesium Fluoride.  In fact Spectraflair is metal-coated Magnesium Fluoride, which is what creates the rainbow prism refractions.

So next I did some more Googling about Magnesium Fluoride and nail polish and discovered this link.  Which basically says that Magnesium Fluoride was used in the Sally Hansen Nail Prisms.  Note that it also says this ingredient has been banned for use in cosmetics in Japan?!

I also found this PDF document, which is a MSDS for a "Cellulose acetate solution".  It details in this document, that the product may contain "metal-coated Magnesium Fluoride Mixture" - ie Spectraflair.  It also says under other names for the product "Nail enamel, ozotic nail polish/lacquer, light reflecting multi-colour nail polish/lacquer."  The document is from 2008, so I don't know if Ozotic polish still contains this, but it appears that it certainly used to.

And a final note, please make sure you use your mask when handling the spectraflair and also please note that JDSU advised dosage should not be over 1% loading by weight in polish, which confirms that it is ok to put in nail polish.  So now to just do a little math.  A regular sized 15ml bottle is 0.5 fl oz.  Which converts to 14.17 grams.  Therefore you shouldn't be adding more than 0.14 grams of spectraflair to a bottle that size. Or slightly more than 1/10th of the jar I provide you with.

Because not many people will have ultra fine scales like me, if you aim to create at least 8 regular sized bottles out of your gram of spectraflair, then you will be well within the 1% loading.

I know this bit got a bit techo, but I wanted to make sure you all had the same info I did.