1. First, I bought clear nail polishes. I was planning on giving two to Bekki so I bought 3 so I could use one for experimenting and as a general back up in case anything went horrendously wrong. As an extra I made sure I liked the shape of the bottle (in case I wanted to put custom labels on, which was the original plan).
2. I literally ransacked my house for all the glitter and loose eye shadows I could find (which took a while since everything is in boxes due prepping the house for moving). I found a nice variety of chunky glitter as well as some squared shaped glitter and my collection of Dazzle Me pigments.
3. I then made a funnel out of paper and tape and also wrote a vague plan for the colour schemes I wanted for both nail varnishes and thought up names - which helped with deciding on colours. Having done that I sorted through my glitters and pigments picking out ones that would work for my themes. After that it was just a case of adding different glitters bit by bit (and thank god I had a spare because the first time I put WAY too much in to start with). I tried the varnish out on my nail after each step and once I was happy with how it looked I stopped - which was hard, because I love glitter.
Here's the stuff I used for "Duke Jnr" (which is the name of her character from our recent play): dark grey chunky glitter, black, lilac, purple, light purple/green duochrome glitter as well as Models Own loose sparkle eye shadow in black green.
Whilst I was mixing the varnishes I got the boyfriend (who is useful for both photos and handy little jobs) to make boxes for both of them and I decorated them:
This is such an awesome idea, I hope she loves them x
ReplyDelete:) thank you. I think she did, well I hope she did.
DeleteThis is such a great gift! I definitely want to try making my own glitter polish after reading this =)
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If you do try it let me know! I'd love to see them.
DeleteThese look SO good! I love the second one! I'm definitly going to have a go at this a the weekend :) xx
ReplyDelete:) thank you! I'd love to see how yours turn out!
DeleteBrilliant idea! the picture with the spoon made me think this is what a glitter crazed meth heads 'lab' would look like! I am not a meth head, just to point out... I merely have imagery from books/films.
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing friend you are to give her something so unique!
Awh thank you! That's really kind of you!
DeleteHaha! Yeah, it does look a bit mad scientist :P I like your description the most.
Ehehe yay!
ReplyDeleteThey really are amazing. I love them so much. Thank you!!!
I shall most definitely be wearing them at some point this week. Yaaay! =DD
But seriously, awesome. Best. Gift. Ever. =] xxx
:D heh heh, cool! Take a photo so I can see what they look like!
Deletethats so clever! such a good idea
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:) thank you!
DeleteThis is a good idea!
ReplyDeleteChelle x
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Cheers! :)
DeleteHow did you stop the glitter sinking to the bottom? I tried it and it all sunk!
ReplyDeleteI didn't. I just had to shake it whenever I wanted to use it.
DeleteI found it wasn't too much of an issue because the brush touches the glitter at the bottom so it gets picked up anyway.
Oh okay thank you :) my brush doesn't quite reach the glitter at the bottom
DeleteThis is actually really cool. I wanted to know though, if the glitter had "run down" and bled into the nail polish afterwards? I'm thinking about doing this, but with a tight budget, I don't want to spend on nail polish and glitter if they don't really work....
ReplyDeleteDo you mean if the colour of the glitter bled out?
DeleteIf so, I've found it happened with some and not with others. Most of the glitters I used were fine, but it's difficult to tell which ones will do it or not. I wish I could help more.
Let me know how it goes if you decide to do it.