Nail polish ornaments
November 25, 2013
So following the directions from HERE, I made some ornaments and used up some of my much neglected fingernail polish.
It was rather fun…and a bit messy. Some pointers (in random order) if you try this.
- Use a bowl out of the recycling bin, because it will be trashed by the time you are done. I used a cleaned plastic fresh mushroom package.
- The nail polish dries on the water rather fast. So be quick but don’t panic.
- If an ornament doesn’t look great the first time, don’t be afraid to re-dip it once it dries a little. I had to re-dip several of mine.
- Add the lighter colored polish first, then the darker. Otherwise you may not see much of the light colored polish.
- Toothpicks are useful for lightly mixing the colors.
- Don’t use more than 3 colors or it may get muddy looking.
- Between ornaments, there is no need to empty the water every time. Use a section of a paper towel to adsorb the remaining polish from the previous dipping.
- You WILL get polish on your hands.
- an egg carton would be really handy for drying the ornaments upon. I don’t have any on hand so they had to go back into the ornament plastic carton which caused some minor issues with appearance.
- glitter polish does not seem to work as well as those without glitter
- Most instructions I found use clear glass ornaments. It seemed to have worked just fine with the gold ones (found in a clearance bin for $1/each).
- If you are picky about having a level/even line/symetrical stop point on the ornament, I suggest you take the time to put painter’s tape around the ornament. This will give you a nice clean finish line.
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