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Right! I’m ready! Hopefully this will help all of you out there wondering how to make nail polish jewelry.
I’m not gonna beat around the bush, so here’s what you need:
Cabochons. These come in various sizes and shapes and they should be flat on one side and embossed on the other. The higher the glass is, the more awesome your piece of jewelry will look.
Pendant base/mount. These also come in various sizes and shapes. Earrings, necklaces; you name it.
You have to make sure that they actually fit each other. If they don’t then, well.. that’s pretty obvious isn’t it. The ones I have in the images are 13x18mm.
You’ll also need a burnisher and a rocker bezel (I won’t talk about these, but I’m linking to a video further down in this post so you’ll see it there).
So, here’s what you do.
Chose the nail polish you’d like to use. For this example, I decided that I’d like to make a white one with a bit of zing, so I chose to use White Out and White Cap, both from China Glaze.
You start off by putting your base color, White Out for me for instance, inside your base pendant.
Etter å ha kjøpt inn det du trenger (står ovenfor), så er det bare å starte. Velge hvilken farge og stil du vil ha på ringen. I dette eksempelet vil jeg lage en hvit ring med litt ekstra “zing”, så jeg skal bruke White Out og White Cap, begge fra merket China Glaze. Du starter så ved å legge basefargen din inn i ringen; for meg så er dette White Out da dette er den opake fargen.
You want it to be even and nice, just like on your nails. So you decide if you want several thin coats or just one fat coat. Either way, you have to let that sit and dry completely.
If you have a glitter polish you want to layer with, you put that on the FLAT side of your cabochon. If you just have one color that you’re using, then you put that color on the flat side of your cabochon as well. So, for example, if I were to make a purely yellow one without any glitter, then I’d put the yellow polish inside the pendant base and on the back side of the cabochon (scroll down for an example). Both items get nail polish on them.
Du bestemmer selv om du vil lakke flere tynne lag eller om du vil ta en tjukk en, uansett så må du la den sitte og tørke helt.
Hvis du har en glitter lakk du vil bruke, så legger du den på den flate siden av glasset ditt. Hvis du kun har en farge og den er opak, så skal den likevel legges på glasset. Så både ringen og glasset får neglelakk på seg. Men siden jeg har en annen farge enn White Out som jeg også vil bruke, og den er “sheer”, så legger jeg nå den på glasset.
After both of them have dried off, you put the cabochon in and you set it like you see in this video here. You could also add a bit of jewelry glue for extra hold.
NB. Some pendants are hard metal, for those you can just use strong glue. If you have silver pendants then rocker and bezel is the way to go.
Etter at de begge har tørket, så legger du glasset inn i ringen og trykker på linken i setningen over. Det er en video til hvordan du får den til å sitte fast. Hvis ringen ikke er høyere enn glasset, så bruker du smykkelim. Jeg bruker noe som heter E6000 som jeg kjøper på Ebay. Under kan du se den ferdige ringen.
Here it is finished.
It’s crazy shiny in the sun. I love it!
Two random ones:
If you don’t wait until it’s completely dry before putting in your cabochon, you’ll have it come up on the sides, like the image below. That was one of the ways I tried to do it before I figured it out. Even tho you want to make it and use it straight away; you’ll need some patience.
Hvis du ikke venter til det er helt tørt før du setter inn glasset, så vil neglelakken komme opp på sidene sånn som det har gjort på ringen under. Ikke fint! Vær tålmodig :-)
All you have to do now is set your imagination free and come up with cool designs!
So this is a somewhat screw-you to all the bloggers out there keeping this a secret. Hope you’ll all go and make your own jewelry now – I sure will! :-)
Can you tell us where you got your supplies? Thanks for the tips. Thank you.
I got mine from a store on Etsy called happysupplies. The items were good, but it took a long time for it to come, so I might look for someone else next time. But she has a lot of different cabochons and stuff, so it’s very easy to get different items from her.
Good luck!
These rings are gorgeous!
Thanks :) Make some for yourself!
Thanks to you I’ve started to make some :)
I prefer to paint only on the cabochon, coat after coat, but both results are good, I think I’m just less patient than you :D
Oh, and thanks for mentionning Happy Supplies, I bought my findings from them and I’m so happy of them ! ^^
As long as it works; it doesn’t matter. :) And no problem, I’m sure she’ll get some work from this post now. Good for her! (.. or him? I have no idea actually.) Have fun!
Thank you so much! I’ll sure make a lot of rings =)
Good! I’m sure they’ll all turn out awesome. :-) Remember to make a few necklace pendants and earrings too; they are fun. :)
Thank you Sophie for sharing! :) I’m a huge fan of nail polish & I’m glad to have found your post! Already bought the supplies from ebay & will translate my OPI collection all into jewellery! SO EXCITED! Hehe.
No problem at all. I’m happy for you! :)
Thank you!!! This is so very cool…my daughter and I love making jewelry and were wondering what to do with my “old collection” of nail polish–now we know! And the video was great, thanks for the link!!
Glad I could help! :)
What are the cabochons made of? Are they resin? Acrylic? Thanks for the tut, I’m totally going to try this.
I’m pretty sure it’s glass.
Thank you SO much for sharing!
I will go make rings now! :)
Yay! :)
Hva slags type lim bruker du? :) Eneste jeg har liggende hjemme er superlim, limpistol og no hvitt hobbylim som stivner blankt..
E6000 heter den. Ebay! :)
Takk takk :) Kunne ikke tenkt deg å lage en video av hvordan du fester dem? Jeg sliter litt med den biten…. I videoen ser det jo simpelt ut fordi kantene er høye og metallet mykt. Noe som ikke akkurat er tilfellet med ring basene fra den selgeren du tipser om her…
Da er det lettere å kun bruke limet. :-)
Thanks for sharing! I love your designs. Do you sale them?
Thanks, Debi. No, I don’t sell them. I made this how-to so you could make it yourself and it would be a LOT cheaper than buying. :-)
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Er så moro å se at det finnes slike alternative måter å lage smykker på. Selv er jeg gullsmedlærling – og dette blir helt sikkert noe jeg kommer til å ta med meg videre. Jeg kan jo lage ringene, øredobbene eller annet selv, så alt jeg trenger å skaffe er cabochon formede glass(?) stener og negllakk. Ellers – fin blogg! :)
Dette er så SYKT kult!!!
Dritkult! Hvor kjøpte du selve ringen og “glasset”? :D
Nå har eg endelig fått kjøpt inn det eg trenger til å lage mine egne ringer og smykker :) Men lurer på om eg ikke trenger øredobber også ;) Kjøpte et slikt lim som du anbefalte her, men det var pittelite når eg fikk det i posten. Har tydeligvis ikke lest godt nok før eg bestilte… haha ;)
Hi! This idea is so great and I want to try this! I checked the Happysupplies, but I couldn’t find a burnisher or a rocker bezel from there. From where did you buy yours?
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How do you bezel-set these like the ones in the video with these having the decorative edge? Wouldn’t you ruin the texture?
Not all pendantbases are soft enough to bezelset; for those I just use superglue. E6000 or G-S Hypo Cement.
Hvor kjøper du ringene og glasset? Må prøve ut dette !:D
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I love your rings! In your picture with the 2 finished rings, what polishes did you use for the ring on the right?
it’s gorgeous!
OPI – I Lily Love You over black :-)
I’m in love with the “random ones”, they look so pretty D: can’t wait to give it a try!
Thanks for the tutorial by the way, I linked it in a series I’m writing for my blog (http://rock-n-roll-stops-the-traffic.blogspot.it/2012/05/diy-from-head-to-toe-9.html#more), hope you don’t mind :D