Tutorial Tuesday: Nail Polish Jewelry

I’ve done nail polish magnets in the past, but have yet to make my own polish jewelry. Thanks to an anonymous jewelry benefactor, I received some awesome findings and I couldn’t wait to get started! Here’s how you can make your own!

Supplies You’ll Need: Your polishes of choice… I used three of the Pahlish Doctor Who polishes and one from The Lady Varnishes. You’ll also need backing color if you’re using a sheer color and black to cover up the backs.

As far as findings, you’ll need a variety (or whatever you want) of findings. You can find them at Hobby Lobby, Michaels and even Walmart. I know you can get some online as well. You’ll also need some glue or epoxy.

One easy way to do this is to use poster putty and toothpicks. Take a small amount of putty and affix it to your toothpick. Gently press the glass bead or blank or whatever you want to call it on top of the putty and kind of draw it up around the blank.

You wouldn’t think it would stick to it, but it really does and it works wonders!

Step two: Apply one or two coats of your desired polish to begin with. When you’re done and it’s dried a bit, add another color as your background. For some reason I didn’t take pictures of this step. Because I’m special.

Here’s the earring blanks. I added two coats of this polish.

I added a really awesome teal color for the background of this one.

Step Three: Apply a coat or two of black to make sure that no light leaks into the design to mess it up. Let all your pieces dry for at least 12 hours to make sure they’re completely dry.

Step Four: Taking a SMALL amount of epoxy, place a bead in the middle of the ring or necklace back and firmly press the blank into it. Repeat as many times as necessary on your other pieces. Let these pieces dry for at least 24 hours to make sure they’re completely dry before wearing.

This one was made with Pahlish’s Eleven’s Hour is Now Over and The is Striking Twelve’s.

This ring I made with The Lady Varnishes’ Fantastic! with a background of a nameless Bellatrix teal.

These earrings I made with Pahlish’s Mad Man with a Box.

I think they all turned out fabulous! And I have to say a special thank you to the gal that sent these to me to make! She is truly fabulous and she knows who she is!!! <3

Polish Review: Pahlish’s Doctor Who All of Time and Space Collection (partial) Review

I couldn’t justify spending an insane amount of money all at once for nail polish. So… What would any respecting Whoovian girl do when Pahlish was releasing their first installment of their All of Time and Space collection? Why she buys a few at a time, duh!

I started off with Mad Man with a Box:

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I have to say that when I started watching Doctor Who, I only had Netflix to go on. So I got attached (and attracted to) Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor. And then I liked David Tennant’s Doctor, but I had a hard time getting used to him because of the whole Harry Potter/Barty Crouch Jr/tongue flicking thing. Then Matt Smith came along with his bumbling, highly hyperactive and insanely sweet Doctor and I fell again.

And he was certainly a mad man with a box.

Pahlish lists MMWAB as “a smoky navy blue jelly loaded with metallic gold flakes and blue glass-fleck shimmer”.

What they don’t say is that you’ll squee as soon as you open it.

And then squee some more when you look at your swatch pictures of it.

Or die of pure excitement when you put it on (three coats with three coats of HK Girl and it STILL sucked up the TC, so be sure to use something like Glitterfood or Gelous!).

Or that it stained your skin blue like you finger-punched a Smurf when you took it off… But that’s a small price to pay for such a gorgeous polish.

Here it is paired with The Ghost Shift.

Some more gratuitous close up shots.

I can’t help it! I couldn’t put my camera down!

Photo Credit to the BBC

The polish I paired with MMWAB is The Ghost Shift, a polish that Pahlish states mimics the gunmetal color of the Cybermen’s armor.

It’s a dark greyish silver holographic with a purple shift to it.

You can’t see the holo in this picture cause it was taken indoors…

But ehrmergerd look at this!!!

And this!

And BOOM!

OH MY GOD IT’S SO SPARKLY!!! I’M GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK… Phew… Ok… I think I’m better now.

The next half of the polishes came from last week or the week before that’s restock… I put family game night on hold for 15 minutes while I relentlessly stalked the shops website until it loaded.

The next is So Not Married!, dedicated to Donna’s frustration with being considered as the Doctor’s romantic companion instead of just regular companion.

Pahlish lists it as a “Deep black jelly base packed with intense red shimmer and rich gold flake” polish.

Again, they fail to mention it’s a heart attack in a bottle.

This one doesn’t seem to have the same top coat sucking capacity as MMWAB.

And when outside it just sparkles like mad.

I also purchased Bad Wolf, but that’s a friends’ birthday present, so I didn’t feel right swatching it… Although I really wanted to… So she better know how much I love her LOL.

The other two polished I purchased were the two in Pahlish’s January One Last Bow Duo…

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Eleven’s Hour is Over Now is listed as a “dark charcoal grey jelly packed with iridescent flakes in a rainbow of colors accented by soft silvery shimmer” polish.

It is a sleeper-stunner.

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The Clock is Striking Twelve’s is next…

Pahlish lists it as a “clear topcoat with a mix of gunmetal and holographic gunmetal glitters accented by small black hex and small matte gray squares with a dose of iridescent rainbow flakes”.

I paired it with Eleven’s…

And it is sooo beautiful.

But it was a heavy heart that I put this polish on. I have a hard time coming to terms with the Matt Smith’s Doctor’s demise and I have an even harder time dealing with the new Doctor. Peter Capaldi has some mighty large shoes to fill.

I totally look forward to seeing the next installment of Pahlish’s All of Time and Space collection. I can only imagine how wonderful they will be!

You can purchase these and other polishes (when they’re in stock) at Pahlish’s website.