Marbling Eggs With Nail Polish

Add a metallic to make the eggs really shine.

Marbling eggs with nail polish.

Swirl around with a cocktail stick to combine the colours a little. The nail polish will be stuck on the face of the box. Nail polish in all kinds of fun shades. They looked complicated but were actually really easy.

Tip the first colour you use will spread out the furthest and be the dominant colour. I used this nail polish marbling technique on glass jars metal bowls wooden gift tags and papier maché boxes. For marbling subsequent eggs use a toothpick to clear off all remaining nail polish from the water s surface before adding new nail polish for another egg. My favorite way was water marbling with nail polish.

As i thought of some different ways to decorate easter eggs i realized i could use that same concept to decorate easter eggs with nail polish. Using only nail polish a bucket of water paper towels and a wooden skewer you can turn a dozen ceramic eggs into gorgeous works of art. The options are endless. Please don t eat these eggs if you are using nail polish.

Marble to your heart s content and set your eggs out on display. Use the stirring stick to collect the rest of the nail polish and to clean up the water for the next color. Wait 10 mins for the nail polish to try and then pat the water droplets with a paper towel. My essie polishes worked fine this time i think because i wasn t trying to make a specific design.

When i sat down to brainstorm ideas to decorate my upcoming easter table i thought about how the vivid shades of some of my favorite spring nail polish colors would be the perfect medium for marbling easter eggs. In this video i have shown you guys how to make marbled eggs using nail polish. Remove the tape and voilà it s that easy. Quickly dip the egg in and watch the nail polish adhere to the egg.

Because once you start you ll want keep dipping. A lot of them. But be warned making this craft is rather addictive. Until i had babies i pretty much always had pretty fingernails.

Some egg belu april 4 2013 at 9 34 pm reply. Drawing inspiration from design mom s marbling with nail polish 5. Add your varnish to the water use at least two colours. And silver polish was amazing.

To marble some eggs with nail polish here s what you need. I couldn t stop playing around with different color combinations and dipping just about everything in sight into the swirly waters.