Fingernail Polish Craft Failure!

Nail Polish craft failure

I’ve been wanting to try crafting with finger nail polish for months, and after picking up some bottles at the dollar store, we were all set to go at long last. Unfortunately however, things didn’t go quite as we had expected them to go……which also happens to every crafter, and is certainly a possibility any time one tries something new!

I had shown my daughter a really great little fingernail polish marbelizing DIY on You Tube, and it looked so simple! So when we dropped drops of the polish into a cup filled with filtered water we were quite surprised that the polish didn’t spread as it did in the video and seemed to dry too quickly to create the marbled effects with a toothpick. Oh dear. Now what?

I really don’t use fingernail polish, so I didn’t know whether we could add acetone to the bottles to make the polish a little runnier, in any case, I just used up my acetone to clean some contact paper residue off my tile walls outside, sigh. 

Finger nail polish craft with rocks failure

We dipped a few rocks into the cups to catch the polish designs, and also realized that it only works on very smooth rocks, not on anything with rough texture. So much for this little project, that also happens to be very toxic, and maybe not worth it for health reasons! Do people really breathe all those fumes every time they paint their nails? Worse than airplane glue!

There is however a happy end to the story, which is that I did come up with a little craft project using nail polish, with great results, and I’ll be sharing that with you soon! 

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5 responses to “Fingernail Polish Craft Failure!”

  1. Maryall Avatar
    Maryall

    I’ve also admired those tutorials, and never made myself the courage to try them. But I’ve read that it doesn’t work with ALL nail polishes, and you have to try several in order to find the right ones. And maybe your water wasn’t room temperature (it mustn’t be cold, otherwise it dries the nail polish – as in the trick to dip your freshly polished nails into cold water to help them dry faster 😉 ). I’m not a great user of nail polishes myself, only those rare times I have time to spare or I have to go to some party, or in summer when open-toes or sandals require me more attention 🙂

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    Maryall

    I’ve also admired those tutorials, and never made myself the courage to try them. But I’ve read that it doesn’t work with ALL nail polishes, and you have to try several in order to find the right ones. And maybe your water wasn’t room temperature (it mustn’t be cold, otherwise it dries the nail polish – as in the trick to dip your freshly polished nails into cold water to help them dry faster 😉 ). I’m not a great user of nail polishes myself, only those rare times I have time to spare or I have to go to some party, or in summer when open-toes or sandals require me more attention 🙂

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    Sara Rivka

    Thanks so much, the water was room temp, so I guess its as you mentioned that it doesnt work with all nailpolishes. Not to worry, in the meantime Ive come up with two cute little projects using the nail polish that Ill share today and tomorrow!

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  4. Brady Avatar
    Brady

    fast dry polishes, and ones that are super-thick don’t really work. Make sure the water and the polish are room temp or a little warmer. and filtered water, or water that’s sat out overnight or a few hours seems to work best for me.

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  5. N Avatar
    N

    Shalom Sara Rivka,
    You share so many things with us, so now I would like to share with you.
    (I wrote you a mail, earlier).
    The reason you couldn’t manage with the nail polish is becouse nail polish gets dry in water!
    Nail polish is Atceton based!
    The marbelling technik is based on :
    OIL PAINTS!
    Those are tiny bottles with oil based colors!! !
    Oil dosen’t mix with water and dosen’t get dry when it touchs water!! !
    I hope you get it now.
    Bracha v’hatzlacha!

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