As some of you may know one of the biggest problems for a frankener is finding glitter that doesn't bleed or melt. And just to rub salt in the wound, some glitters take a long time to bleed or melt. That may not sound like a bad thing to a non-frankener, but it is! Let me explain. Imagine you're happily sitting in your frankening lab whipping up some cute glitter frankens. See, you tested the glitters a few days ago by putting them in some clear polish and nothing happened which leads you to think your frankens will be a success. After you make your perfect frankens, you put them away for use on another day. A few weeks go by and you think, "Oh! I'm in the mood to wear that pink & green glitter franken I made.". As you lift the bottle, you see that your beautiful green and pink glitter franken now looks like silver glitter sitting in swamp water. The horror! For that reason I decided I'm going to attempt an experiment. I'm going to place some glitter in clear glass vials filled with clear polish and let them sit for couple of weeks. At the end of the week I will give you the results along with a link to where you can order the glitters for your own frankens. From experience I'm guessing most of the glitters won't pass the test, but I'm hopeful a few will. In the mean time I'm shopping for more glitter from different distributors. I really hope this helps someone. Now for some pics of the glitters I'm testing out!
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| Glitter |
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| Medium Square Glitter |
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| Bar Glitter |
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| Large Square Glitter |
These are the glass vials I purchased off of Ebay from
snidebeadman . The shipping was very fast and everything was packaged carefully. All 12 vials arrived in one piece. In retrospect I wish I would have searched for something smaller but these will do just fine.
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| Glass vials |
