Time to make the magnetic polishes (vettsy pigments)

Okay I'm here with my vettsy pigments, let's do this.

Me: I'm going to make three polishes

Also me: made six. Plus a glitter polish since i had everything out. 😆

I ordered the "set" of "glass" cat eye pigments, those should be the fine particle ones, plus two colors of the regular ones so I could compare plus the holo one because I HAD to see what that's about.

First: they come with eyeshadow applicator things so you can also use them rubbed on like chrome powder but I'm not gonna do that.

I included a picture of the TINY jar next to a small baggie of pigment from glitter unique just to show the amount. I'm so bad at translating number amounts to what that looks like in real life. Most of my GU pigments are 2g or "1 teaspoon" and I've never run out of any. The vettsy jars are 0.3g so they are definitely small. Halfway through the video i show the jar tilted plus the amount in putting in the "chaos" polish – i would estimate i could make maybe 3-4 polishes from that jar. ? It depends on your base color and how much powder you need to get a good magnetic effect on a darker or lighter color. I did find i needed more of the regular/ sparkly kind vs the very fine silver "glass" pigment went much further (in fact I probably added too much to the gold polish).

I don't have a fine enough scale to weigh this stuff so it's by eye. I did make my two "dupe style" polishes as 15mL as I figure more people probably want to make full size polishes though I usually make minis for myself.

First the fine particle magnetics: these look as fine and smooth to me as the Fancy Highly Coveted dudes I see around. Maybe I'm not picky enough but idk, I say it works.

I think a lot of the colors are really "delicate" and unless you're only using them in very light colors or on a white background you may as well just get the silver. I haven't tested them all yet. The exception is obviously "red coral" which is pretty bright, that's the first polish. But see the second polish, technically that's a light blue but in a dark polish it pretty much looks silver. Shrug emoji? I guess there's no harm in getting multiple colors vs ordering like 3 jars of the silver, just as long as you know what to expect.

The six colors are glass(silver), spring(light blue), rouge(pinky red? Faint), red coral (bright red), lilac(pale purplish), olive (silver green). Tried 3 so far.

The "regular" pigments have that sparkly look vs the fine ones but the colors are more vibrant (on the website they do also have some more muted colors in the larger pigment ones.) The holo is very cool but I hope you can tell from this, it did not magnetize as much as the purple that's in the same polish so that was interesting. It's kind of like the whole nail has light sparkle but the holo is more concentrated where the glass bead is. It didn't "disappear" into the background the way the other did.

The colors I got are sapphire (a darker blue than spring), holo, and amethyst (a pinky purple).

Polishes:

1. dupe of scorchy, "ish." So basically red fine particle in clear base nothing else. I'm not sure if it's a dupe but it's cool. Shown on both black and white swatch sticks, on my nail it's over OPI Chopstix and Stones.
2. dupe of blade of the frontier. Spring in dark blue. I ended up making my background too dark I think maybe, and in some pictures BoF looks more turquoise fine particle which i don't have so it's not really a dupe but I really like my polish.
3. trying sapphire to compare particle size to the fine. I put it in purple.
4. just a crazy polish for fun. Dark teal with both amethyst and holo magnetic.
5. wanted to try magnetic in something not really a jelly background so I made a mica based gold polish and added glass magnetic. It works and looks pretty cool.
6. not in the video but I'll put it in the comments, I got a random pigment off Amazon so I made a similar BoF- dark blue and this one IS turquoise. The particle size is the same as the vettsy non glass so depending on the price difference and what colors you can find you may be able to get other magnetic pigments elsewhere and just get the "glass" from vettsy if you're really wanting fine particle.

I hope this video works… stills of each explained, swatch sticks with velvet and cat eye. 5/6 on my nails at the end, glass bead with a lab fish stirrer. I’ll add a couple extra pictures in the comments.