30+ years ago we used to play with nail polish in my grandparents bird bath and plastic tubs by dripping the polish in the water, watching it spread, and picking it up with our fingers or pencils.
you need to put them on popsicle sticks then put them in styrofoam to dry, or tie a string through the Loop to hang to dry, and Make deeper water, that way you can put it all the way in the water at the edge and pull it out up through the polish
Ran across this video after buying clear ornaments the day before. I have lots of nail polishes and had this in mind but wasn’t sure exactly how to do it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. The ornaments are beautiful. Got a new subscriber. 😊
I had some left over netting/ribbon brom making wreaths and I also had some clear ornaments so I took a long strip of that netting ribbon and fed it into a clear ornament using a chop stick. Then I just spray painted the top in gold briefly. It turned out beautiful.
Happy Thanksgiving. In case interested: I've done alcohol ink on glass ornaments before but not hydro-dipping. I put one color at a time inside the ornament and used canned air to disburse. Use the same method for each layer of color.
Whaaaaaaaat???!! You haven’t even started and my mind is already going crazy with ideas. I didn’t know. 😮 I’m so excited! I have a tub of nail polishes and a dollar tree on my list of to dos today!
Hi thanks for your lovely idea I have never seen this before and it is great i have lots of nail polish never used was going to give it away but now I am going to find something to dip have you thought about using a bit of string to hang your bobbles on to dry or maybe the naill polish . might run of. Thanks for your lovely painting from Annie Scotland UK. Happy thanks giving.
Whoever gave a thumbs down, has never tried doing a live teaching demonstration. They should just turn to another channel and move instead of being rude.
Hi my name is Claire from upstate New York and this looks like a phenomenal decoration to make never thought about nail polish in the water nice job merry Christmas!
I've watched experts dip guitar bodies and paper before-they use less paint (or nail polish) and then take a chop stick and swirl through the paint creating all kinds of neat patterns. Then they take the item they are dipping and they don't roll the item around on the surface. Simply push the item straight down through the paint and pull it straight out. It's pretty interesting. They also use bins that are much deeper than what they are dipping down into the water.
I can confirm that the nail polish leaves a very thin invisible film across the water surface. All the nail polish will do it but the worst one is the iridescent (or any color that is a "shimmer" ). As you saw how quickly it spread out, unless it is completely dried, it will spread out evenly across the water's surface even to the point where there is no more mica visible. You will just have a clear film that affects the surface tension. The more quickly and evenly it spreads is an indicator of the culprit. I have used paper towels to try and remove the film but I could still see broken pieces left behind and floating around freely. If a symmetrical spread of your colors is needed, these pieces can interfere with the new polish spreading out. I have never considered using alcohol inks before as I also believe that it will simply dissipate in clean water buttons give me an idea. You could try filling the surface of the water with with the iridescent then add the alcohol ink on top and swirl it. Or create custom colors by mixing the alcohol ink into iridescent nail polish before putting it in the water. Also one trick I used to do if previous colors were showing in new dips, instead of changing the water and cleaning the bowl, I would after cleaning up the polish, pour some clear in it to push the other colors away to the sides of my bowl. Sometimes I would clean the clear before doing my next color but if I still got interference from the previous colors I would just start my new pour on top the clear. I just realized this is a three year old post but if you should happen to see this I would love to see the alcohol ink on top the nail polish experiment.
You are a fantastic artist and i love watching every video that you make, so inspirational to me as I am just starting out with acrylic pouring and have learnt so much, so thank you very much for everything. Charlene. Queensland, AUSTRALIA.
Place the popsicle sticks inside first then dip, then you can put them on the foam board to dry. You could also put them on the strings first and dip then hang to dry.
Might be a good idea to keep track of which colors have more problems in this type of application. Different ingredients for those specific colors could cause the problem.
The alcohol ink is great on candles too. Acrylic will not stick over all that mess or it will peel off. That is the rule for oil painters.You can paint over acrylic with oil but not over oils with acrylic it will eventually peel and crack.
❤😊 If you pull the sticks out of the styrofoam and place them in the bulb as you're dipping it and then you can turn it upside down and put it back into the styrofoam and you won't have to touch it with your fingers and I won't make as much of a mess
Have you ever thought to modge podge an ornament for texture before hydro dipping? I would love to see blue, purple, black & silver. I think it would be gorgeous.
Missed the live so watching replay from Sunshine Coast Australia 🇦🇺 If you dip bottom of a cup when they are finished can you spray a finish on top to seal for dishwasher or washing up?
I hope you will always be given good health and hopefully you will always make beautiful karia. try to make something that has never been made by anyone else. except for me ... try to make karia like mixing epoxy resin with various colors, then diApply it to the door so chances are that it will change and look like a marble stone or an expensive stone like a sapphire ... or a five colored stone ... success awaits
You didn't dip quick enough. Once you put the polish in the water, you have to work quickly. That eliminates the blobs of color that you're getting. Love your channel btw!!!
If you were to put the ornament under the water, not through the paint initially, and then pull it UP through the paint, would that cover the bulb differently or more/less fully? ALSO, are you using glass or plastic ornaments?
I am thinking that if you pushed a stick into a piece of clay or maybe little pieces of styrofoam and then inserted that into the open end of the ball then you would not have to touch them to push the stick into the foam block.
I attempted this yesterday for a friend that wanted white, red and silver ornaments. I bought 3 different shades of red but they all look pink 😞. I am wondering if coating the inside with something... Glifter? Silver or red paint? ...would darken them or if they wouldn't look as good because it would take away the translucency? Suggestions anyone?
Want you can do is take styrofoam take a then stick or small popsicles sticks and stick in the styrofoam wide enough that the bulbs don’t touch,I have done this before it works ,just a little advice
30+ years ago we used to play with nail polish in my grandparents bird bath and plastic tubs by dripping the polish in the water, watching it spread, and picking it up with our fingers or pencils.
you need to put them on popsicle sticks then put them in styrofoam to dry, or tie a string through the Loop to hang to dry, and Make deeper water, that way you can put it all the way in the water at the edge and pull it out up through the polish
Hanging to dry will cause a puddle in the bottom. Draining on a stick let's any extra run out.
The white needs to go in first. It gets covered up by the stronger colors.
Purple silver green or just lighter colors of purples
Or pencils are awesome to use. Tape the opening of the ball to a pencil that is fit inside. Then roll them and stick in styrofoam.
Wow, Dee… You have so much advice. It looks like she is doing fine.
I used to do my nails this way, cover skin around with liquid latex and dip nails in! Looks amazing
I did that too until I developed an allergy to latex.
Sooo much better turn out then when my daughter & I tried hydro dipping our fingernails using nail polish & water
Ran across this video after buying clear ornaments the day before. I have lots of nail polishes and had this in mind but wasn’t sure exactly how to do it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. The ornaments are beautiful. Got a new subscriber. 😊
Glad it was helpful!
Beautiful! Just a little tip,...clean the ornaments with rubbing alcohol to get rid of any kind of residue. It will help adhesion of the polish.
I had some left over netting/ribbon brom making wreaths and I also had some clear ornaments so I took a long strip of that netting ribbon and fed it into a clear ornament using a chop stick. Then I just spray painted the top in gold briefly. It turned out beautiful.
Im a nail tech and i use Nail polish from the Dollar Store !! And yes it works some are very nice.I mix gel polish with it sometimes..Very nice ❤❤
The ornaments are as lovely as you. Thank you for sharing this technique!
How fun! And I have a box full of ornaments just waiting for me! ♥♥♥
Happy Thanksgiving. In case interested: I've done alcohol ink on glass ornaments before but not hydro-dipping. I put one color at a time inside the ornament and used canned air to disburse. Use the same method for each layer of color.
Awesome technique. Thank you for sharing! I love your insouciant willingness to try anything. 💗🤗
Hi I am from South Africa. Thank you for making your videos such fun. Always enjoy your show
Great project for kids too. Thanks for your creativity
Whaaaaaaaat???!! You haven’t even started and my mind is already going crazy with ideas. I didn’t know. 😮 I’m so excited! I have a tub of nail polishes and a dollar tree on my list of to dos today!
Dollar tree doesn’t open for a couple of hours. I’m now searching the house for boring things to dip. New sub!❤
So cool hydro dipping with nail polish awesome 👍🏼😊💜 hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving Marcy and Family 🦃
The nail polish ones look fantastic
Hi thanks for your lovely idea I have never seen this before and it is great i have lots of nail polish never used was going to give it away but now I am going to find something to dip have you thought about using a bit of string to hang your bobbles on to dry or maybe the naill polish . might run of. Thanks for your lovely painting from Annie Scotland UK. Happy thanks giving.
So excited to see you took my idea & ran with it!!
You can get hydro dip inks to use instead of nail polish or spray paint and it has no odor makes it good for indoor use
Whoever gave a thumbs down, has never tried doing a live teaching demonstration. They should just turn to another channel and move instead of being rude.
Exactly!! And those same people are never seen on CZcams or anywhere else doing instructional videos or sharing their obvious wealth of knowledge 😂
Thank you for sharing this technique! Quebec Canada
Hi my name is Claire from upstate New York and this looks like a phenomenal decoration to make never thought about nail polish in the water nice job merry Christmas!
Thanks so much for sharing.... it's beautiful
These are very pretty ❤ fun projects to do with My Grandson ❤
Thank you :)
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.
I've watched experts dip guitar bodies and paper before-they use less paint (or nail polish) and then take a chop stick and swirl through the paint creating all kinds of neat patterns. Then they take the item they are dipping and they don't roll the item around on the surface. Simply push the item straight down through the paint and pull it straight out. It's pretty interesting. They also use bins that are much deeper than what they are dipping down into the water.
I can confirm that the nail polish leaves a very thin invisible film across the water surface. All the nail polish will do it but the worst one is the iridescent (or any color that is a "shimmer" ). As you saw how quickly it spread out, unless it is completely dried, it will spread out evenly across the water's surface even to the point where there is no more mica visible. You will just have a clear film that affects the surface tension. The more quickly and evenly it spreads is an indicator of the culprit. I have used paper towels to try and remove the film but I could still see broken pieces left behind and floating around freely. If a symmetrical spread of your colors is needed, these pieces can interfere with the new polish spreading out.
I have never considered using alcohol inks before as I also believe that it will simply dissipate in clean water buttons give me an idea. You could try filling the surface of the water with with the iridescent then add the alcohol ink on top and swirl it. Or create custom colors by mixing the alcohol ink into iridescent nail polish before putting it in the water.
Also one trick I used to do if previous colors were showing in new dips, instead of changing the water and cleaning the bowl, I would after cleaning up the polish, pour some clear in it to push the other colors away to the sides of my bowl. Sometimes I would clean the clear before doing my next color but if I still got interference from the previous colors I would just start my new pour on top the clear.
I just realized this is a three year old post but if you should happen to see this I would love to see the alcohol ink on top the nail polish experiment.
You are a fantastic artist and i love watching every video that you make, so inspirational to me as I am just starting out with acrylic pouring and have learnt so much, so thank you very much for everything. Charlene.
Queensland, AUSTRALIA.
Awesome idea! 💖💖💖👏
Those dollar tree nail polish hydro dipped ornaments are amazing!! 🙀🙀❤💚 Happy turkey day!! 🦃🦃
Place the popsicle sticks inside first then dip, then you can put them on the foam board to dry. You could also put them on the strings first and dip then hang to dry.
I am so excited to see😊
They are so pretty 😁
Watching from TN now.
Might be a good idea to keep track of which colors have more problems in this type of application. Different ingredients for those specific colors could cause the problem.
I can’t wait to see this
I’m watching from California
Sacramento California
Love to see blue and purple
Perfect Seahawks colors!
Love it❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
That is so pretty I want to try that,
I’m watching from the UK. Hi 👋🏻
My daughter did that with three ornaments over the summer for Xmas this year :)
I do this on the lids of jars. I like to reuse jars rather than just throwing them away.
Divino ! 😊 Gracias
It looks like ribbon candy
Hello from North Georgia
Use skewers sticks
take off hanger top
Dip ornament in paint then stick skewer in hole flip over then stick into styrofoam, drying upside down.
Watch a nail dip video and see the amazing designs they do. I do my nails this way. You could do all kinds of designs on these. 😘
How do you do your nails like this? How do you avoid it getting on your fingers? I would love to try it! Thanks
@@jeangrandy8672use liquid latex on your skin.
This is pretty cool
To eliminate muddy neutrals, dip one color at a time when using complementary colors.
The alcohol ink is great on candles too. Acrylic will not stick over all that mess or it will peel off. That is the rule for oil painters.You can paint over acrylic with oil but not over oils with acrylic it will eventually peel and crack.
How do you seal these? They are amazeballs!
Red, silver and gold!
Live from Illinois 😂 I remember you dipping shoes in the past.
Beautiful
Seahawks colors!! ❤
What if you put clear polish in the water and ink on top of that then dip ? This looks addicting and fun!
❤😊 If you pull the sticks out of the styrofoam and place them in the bulb as you're dipping it and then you can turn it upside down and put it back into the styrofoam and you won't have to touch it with your fingers and I won't make as much of a mess
Have you ever thought to modge podge an ornament for texture before hydro dipping? I would love to see blue, purple, black & silver. I think it would be gorgeous.
Looks like fun
Agree, it's not always cheaper at Dollar Tree or Big Lots etc.
Have you tried dipping, or pouring on solid color ornaments, like red, blue, green etc.?
Missed the live so watching replay from Sunshine Coast Australia 🇦🇺 If you dip bottom of a cup when they are finished can you spray a finish on top to seal for dishwasher or washing up?
There isn't a food safe spray that can be used for it as far as I am aware (in the USA)
I have not researched it though...
Purple pink and silver
Have a lovely day tomorrow. 🦃
I hope you will always be given good health and hopefully you will always make beautiful karia. try to make something that has never been made by anyone else. except for me ... try to make karia like mixing epoxy resin with various colors, then diApply it to the door so chances are that it will change and look like a marble stone or an expensive stone like a sapphire ... or a five colored stone ... success awaits
Have you considered putting white acrylic paint on the inside of the bulb when you’re finished? I wonder how that would change the appearance?
That would be cool :)
Green and red silver
Can you use plastic bubbles for the resin pour. Charlene, Queensland, Australia.
You didn't dip quick enough. Once you put the polish in the water, you have to work quickly. That eliminates the blobs of color that you're getting. Love your channel btw!!!
P.S you gotta learn to work and talk at the same time lol 😂
I'm good thanks
She did it very fine and people should be grateful she is sharing any knowledge as some people charge high fees just to teach crafts.
Purple blue n silver
If you were to put the ornament under the water, not through the paint initially, and then pull it UP through the paint, would that cover the bulb differently or more/less fully? ALSO, are you using glass or plastic ornaments?
You can yourself give it a try. I don't think it will cover all surfaces though. The ornaments were made of plastic.
I don't think the bottom would be fully covered...
Can you hydrodip with acrylic paints?
I am thinking that if you pushed a stick into a piece of clay or maybe little pieces of styrofoam and then inserted that into the open end of the ball then you would not have to touch them to push the stick into the foam block.
From California
what spray do you seal it with?
I attempted this yesterday for a friend that wanted white, red and silver ornaments. I bought 3 different shades of red but they all look pink 😞. I am wondering if coating the inside with something... Glifter? Silver or red paint? ...would darken them or if they wouldn't look as good because it would take away the translucency? Suggestions anyone?
What is the link where you get your molds?
They look great! Just incase you dont know you can also do this with spray paint.
By just using spray paint in water like she Is doing?
Yes, you can use spray paint in the same way :) I have a few videos on this
How would you seal the ornament with clear nail polish exactly?
Want you can do is take styrofoam take a then stick or small popsicles sticks and stick in the styrofoam wide enough that the bulbs don’t touch,I have done this before it works ,just a little advice
Even take the top off empty polish, or such and put a pencil inane set over
Make another styrofoam piece and stand it up so you can hang the ones with tops from 😉
HAPPY THANKGIVING! 😘
Columbia South Carolina
what do you seal these with?
Do you need the bag inside the bowl?
My son did a spray paint one..
Oklahoma. Do you use warm water?
Can you seal it with hairspray?
3 years later me: oooh just iridescent & navy would be awesome…… **tumbleweed enters stage left**
I'm in New Mexico
Harrisburg, AR
Is the sale still on?
Did old nail polish work?
I think they make a crackle alcohol ink for that maybe.😊
Pennsylvania
Are you going to do the purple?
Tennessee
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
My dollar store has gell nailpolish. Would that work also 🤔
These are really pretty, but, I thought that you could have dipped one more ornament of each color combo