The weekend is finally here! I bet everyone is really excited for that. Not only am I excited about the weekend, I'm excited for today's "DIY" blog post! Let me start by saying that in yesterday's post I accidentally wrote I was 250 views away from 2,000 in stead of 3,000, which I didn't notice until 5 hours after the blog was posted and it bummed me out. However, I reached over 3,000 views last night which definitely improved my mood! Anyway, today we are going to make our own nail polish! The only thing I love more than nail polish is DIYs, so being able to combine my love for the two started my day off on the right foot. It was one of the easiest projects I have done and it was very inexpensive! Let's get started!
What you'll need for this DIY:
In no specific order:
1) 1-2 bottles of clear nail polish - 99 cents each.
2) Eyeshadow pallet of your choice (you could also use an old one of yours) - $4.99
3) Q-Tips - $1.50
4) A piece of paper!
I got all of the items I needed from
CVS (besides the piece of paper) and spent around
$10.00 in total; however you may have these items laying around your house and you can do this project without spending any money! The
brands of nail polish and make up I used are
NYC.
Time to start!
Open your eyeshadow and begin scraping at (using a butter knife or some sort of sharp object) the color of your choice. Don't scrape all of the color out at once because it will be harder to pour onto the sheet of paper.
Pour what you've scraped onto the paper.
And this is what your eyeshadow should look like:
Keep on scraping until you've emptied out the entire eyeshadow section of your choice and pour the excess eyeshadow onto the paper!
Once the eye shadow container is completely empty, make sure you crush the eyeshadow color down into powder because big chunks will not fit into the nail polish bottle.
Next, open up one of your clear nail polish bottles and pour a little of the nail polish into your trash can to make room for the powder. DO NOT pour the nail polish into your sink, it will clog your drain.
Time to start pouring! With the lid off of the nail polish remover, fold the paper in half (with the eye shadow in it) to make the pour 10x easier.
If you get a little eyeshadow on the table it's perfectly fine because it's easy to wipe up and you could always brush it right back onto the paper to pour back into the bottle!
This is what your nail polish should look like after the pour.
Pretty cool, right? Take your Q-Tips and pull the cotton off one of the ends to use as a mixing tool to mix the eye shadow and clear nail polish.
Once the cotton is ripped off either side, begin mixing!
Mix it for about two minutes and you will see your final product!
To ensure you're happy with the color, grab a piece of paper and test it out!
The color was definitely too light for my liking, so I followed the same steps as above and added some black eye shadow to darken it.
And here was my final product (in comparison to the first shade)! I was very very happy with it.
The most perfect purple color I could've asked for!
I also bought a second bottle of clear nail polish that could be used as a top coat or to make another color! You could always be bold and mix colors or choose very funky greens or blues. Adding darker colors will darken the shade as adding lighter ones will lighten it and possibly make it more transparent looking. This particular DIY only took me about 20 minutes and didn't require any heat or craft tools. Like I mentioned above, you could save yourself $10.00 and use eyeshadows and nail polishes you already have at home!
I really hope you enjoyed this weeks FRI"DIY" blog and I'm already looking forward to next weeks!
Links to the places/products mentioned above:
CVS: http://www.cvs.com
NYC Beauty: http://newyorkcolor.com
What do you think of this DIY? What colors are you planning on trying? If you do try this out, please send pictures!
