Just-Legal
Goth Flufflet
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My favourite nail varnish has gone totally gloopy. Any idea how to thin it down? Mark's taking me out to dinner and I want to look extra special... just cause 
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A drop of nail polish remover may work.Just-Legal said:My favourite nail varnish has gone totally gloopy. Any idea how to thin it down? Mark's taking me out to dinner and I want to look extra special... just cause![]()
Now I know why you got fired from the cosmetic's department.scheherazade_79 said:I dunnow... Call it quits with the nail varnish and use felt tip pen instead?![]()
ABSTRUSE said:A drop of nail polish remover may work.
He's making a shampoo mohawk.Just-Legal said:I'm trying that and it seems to have worked. He's still in the shower... He takes longer in there than I do!
scheherazade_79 said:I dunnow... Call it quits with the nail varnish and use felt tip pen instead?![]()
ABSTRUSE said:Now I know why you got fired from the cosmetic's department.
You're such a whore.scheherazade_79 said:Actually, it was because I got busted drawing a great big target sign in lipstick on a certain part of my anatomy... and an arrow... drawn in black mascara and labelled "This way to heaven"
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Just-Legal said:Mum only ever let me have clear nail varnish when I was younger and that was to try and stop me biting my nails. So of course I coloured them in with black marker and then put the clear over the top - she went nuts looking for my black nail varnish for hours until I hold her, at which point she made me wash it off![]()
scheherazade_79 said:You devilWere you a goth?
ABSTRUSE said:A drop of nail polish remover may work.
Just-Legal said:I still am, have you not seen the photos?
You need to get out more.scheherazade_79 said:Noooo!!!!!!!! I don't think I've ever seen a real live one before!
ABSTRUSE said:You need to get out more.
Deoderant helps.scheherazade_79 said:I do get out sometimes. It's just that the goths and the punks and the really interesting people always hide whenever I'm around![]()
Misty_Morning said:I agree. The main solvents used in Nail polish tend to be acetates, thus having a chemical structure of RCOCOR'. While acetone (the main component in nail polish remover) is a ketone (RCOR'), it has a carbonyl functional group, which is also a part of the acetate functional group. And as the old saying goes, like dissolves like.
These compounds are said to be miscible.
3113 said:Show off!
Tell us about chocolate now.Misty_Morning said:Sorry...but if you ask a chemist a question regarding chemistry, what do you expect?![]()
ABSTRUSE said:Tell us about chocolate now.
What chemically makes for good chocolate? is it the cacao? the additives?Misty_Morning said:Oddly enough, I had my first piece of chocolate in more than two years just last night.....highly addictive and I have an addictive personality, that's why I stay away from it...![]()
Still, what do you want to know?
ABSTRUSE said:What chemically makes for good chocolate? is it the cacao? the additives?
seratonins are the happy thingys, right?Misty_Morning said:There are hundreds of chemicals found in chocolate, depending on where it is grown (the bean), the chemistry of the soil, the stresses that the plant endures during the growth cycle, etc...
Of those compounds many have been identified and have similar structures to such compounds as opiates, cannabinoids, amphetamines and serotonins.
Why do you think chocolate makes you feel so good?
p.s. I my dissertation focused on natural products chemistry. Please don't get me started.