Land of Silk and Candy

  • Blog
  • About
  • Hat Gallery
  • Art Gallery

Dupe for Cookies & Cream/Connect the Dots/Sticks and Stones/Putting on the Ritzzz/whatever you call it (with open-sourced recipe)

8/19/2012

0 Comments

 
Picture
It all started with Lynnderella. If you haven't heard about it already,  read all about it here. Some of her nail polish was sold on eBay for hundreds of dollars (sources say one went up for well over $800). I mean come on, you shouldn't pay $800 for a bottle of nail polish on eBay unless the glitters grouped themselves into a portrait of Virgin Mary.

I used Sally Girl clear nail polish as a base, since it's cheap and the bottle is tiny and I don't want to waste a big bottle of expensive top coat for an experiment.

For the glitter I used Black Hex 0.062, Black Hex 0.040, Black Fiber, Black Square 0.062, White Hex 0.062, White Hex 0.040, and White Fiber. I got all the glitters from TKB Trading.

First cover your work surface with a plastic bag, the glitters are very hard to clean up if you spill any. Make a funnel to pour your glitters by rolling a 4''x4'' (about 10cmx10cm) piece of paper into a cone (leave a hole small enough to fit the opening of the nail polish bottle but big enough to let the glitters to flow at a good rate) and tape the edge. You will also need a bamboo skewer or other thin stick to push the glitter into the bottle.

First combine all the glitters in a sturdy ziploc bag. Pour a tiny bit of nail polish out if the bottle is full to make room for all the glitter. fit the funnel into the opening of the bottle and very carefully pour glitters in. You will need to push the glitters in with a stick. To ensure even coverage you will need to put a lot of glitters in (I used about 1 teaspoons of glitter for a tiny .18oz/15ml bottle). After pouring the glitters in you might want to wait a bit for all the glitters to settle and see how much more you will need to pour in. The end result should have enough glitter in it that you don't need to shake the bottle for the brush to reach the glitters.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Loading
    Picture

    Archives

    January 2016
    September 2013
    August 2013
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    February 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009
    November 2009
    October 2009

    RSS Feed

    plastic nameplates
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.