Q&A for How to Mix Nail Polish

Use dark blue, light blue, and purple as well as any glitter polish.

Depends how much of each color you use, but it could make a metallic black or dark gray.

Light pink and a bit of red - worked really well for me!

Mix white nail polish with a hot pink polish or a red polish. Make sure both nail polishes are very pigmented so that the mixture of polish will be as well.

Mix red and green.

Unfortunately, yellow is a primary color. While you can mix the three primary colors to get any color, you can't make any of the three primary colors (red, yellow, blue). Color theory is very helpful when it comes to beauty.

White and red cannot be made with other colors. White is base color which can only made darker, not the other way around. Red is a primary color and therefore cannot be created from other colors. If you want to make your own nail polish, you can add pigments to clear nail polish, for example titanium dioxide and micas (sold in craft supply stores) but the more cost-effective way is to just buy a regular nail polish in the color you want.

You will get dark purple. Be really careful with the black color though, you need a very small amount and if you mix something like 50/50, you're just going to get black. Start with purple and add only small drops of black until you have the shade you want.

No, mixing two types of nail polish will not cause an explosion.

Mix yellow with a pink or red polish for an orange.

Unfortunately, you cannot use other colors to make white nail polish, but you can mix a clear top coat and with white eye shadow to make something similar.

Scrape off some black eye shadow into a container. Then add a very small amount of corn flour, and finally mix with clear nail polish. Pour it into an empty, washed out nail polish container. Wait until it's dry, then apply!

Blue and white. You can't make blue, as it is a primary color.

All three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) mixed make brown. Because you want a gray-beige, use a bit more yellow to lighten the other two and a bit more blue to make it more cool toned.

Buy both a brown-ish nail polish and a red nail polish and mix the two together. That should create a burgundy with a bit of trial and error.

You can make silver nail polish simply by mixing a shiny white with a shiny black color.

Try blue, black, and gray.

Try mixing the three primary colors (blue, red, and yellow).

You can make orange by mixing red and yellow. You could also trying mixing yellow polish with red nail polish or eye shadow.

Yes, which will make glitter nail polish.

Mix red nail polish with black. The more black you add, the darker it will be.

Mix blue and red to make purple. Add white to make it lighter. This will give you a lavender color.

Use a metallic silver and mix with a darker green. If you don't have the metallic, you could just use a lighter green and try to mix it with a darker black and finish off with a top coat to have the same effect.

Mix red and yellow together. There should be a lot more red than yellow to make it darker.

You could top dark gray with yellow, red, pink, purple, or dark blue. You could also try French tips with one of those colors or just white on top. Maybe even try water marbling.

You can mix pink with a lot of white. If it’s just pale pink, try adding a tiny bit of orange.

Yes. As long as both bottles are also relatively the same consistency, it should be okay to do this. Don't spill the contents of the bottles - work over a surface that can be disposed of when doing this, such as layers of newspaper or old plastic bags.

Black + red = burgundy black. Black + blue = bluish black. Black + silver = metallic black.

No, just do not take too long to apply the nail polish once mixed, or the nail polish will dry on the mixing surface.

Probably not anything great and if it's a lot of black, all you're getting black. But if you put just a little in there you'll get a muted, dingy pink.