Many girls will agree that the stores do not always have exactly the shades of nail polish that are so necessary for one of the outfits. But don’t despair and paint your nails with anything, when a perfectly chosen color will make you feel perfect! It is absolutely easy to make varnishes yourself at home with minimal investment of money and time.
In order to make your own varnish, you just need to prepare the following items:
- simple clear nail polish
- shadows of your favorite shade
- blank sheet of paper
- a couple of toothpicks
- a simple teaspoon
How to make varnish with your own hands:
Step 1. Place a blank sheet of paper or a simple notebook on the table. It's not that important. The main thing is that the size is medium, not a small piece, but not whatman paper either.
Step 2. Scrape the shadows you like from the base. When all the contents are on the sheet, you need to crush it thoroughly so that there are no lumps left. This can be done with a simple teaspoon.
Step 3. Next, open the clear nail polish and set its brush aside. Make sure she doesn't dirty anything around her.
Step 4. Carefully roll the leaf with shadows into a tube. It is important that the diameter of the tip can fit freely into the neck of the bottle of varnish.
Step 5. After you pour the contents of the bag into the colorless varnish, you need to mix it thoroughly. A simple cheap toothpick is best for these purposes. It is better not to use a nail polish brush, as particles of eyeshadow that have not yet dissolved can remain on it and form unpleasant sticky lumps. You need to mix thoroughly, don’t mess around.
So, your DIY varnish is completely ready! All that remains is to paint your nails. If something becomes unclear to you, then you can watch this video and review everything in detail. This way, you can collect your favorite shades of nail polishes at home, without running around the shops and without trying to get the right color.
To make your own nail polish, you should use certain tips. You can create a unique manicure at home.
Varnish with ink
In the photo of the homemade varnish you can see the original shade of the varnish. If you don't like the color of your polish and want to change it, simply combine the polish with ink. You should also purchase ink of a specific color. You can also use a budget option. For example, for these purposes you can use gel ink or ballpoint pen. You should be careful during the work process.
Matt varnish
You can turn an ordinary glossy varnish into a matte varnish. Using cornstarch you can easily do this. Thus, the matte varnish you receive will become several tones lighter.
To achieve this effect, mix a few drops of varnish with starch. About a teaspoon is enough for the last component. Apply the mixture to the nail area. It should be noted that after complete drying you will get a pleasant shade of matte texture.
You can achieve the same shade using ordinary powder. You can also use matte texture shadows.
You need to change the varnish yourself. Simply add some loose powder to the area of the bottle. Rolling the paper using the funnel method will prevent the powder from spilling past the bottle area.
You can add a few balls to the bottle. This way you mix the bottle much better. A matte effect is obtained by combining light, loose powder with colorless varnish.
Nacre
To make glitter polish, add glitter to the bottle. Apply this mixture to your nails. Often, in order to make your manicure more beautiful and original, you should sprinkle the tips of your nails with glitter. Finally, coat the surface with clear varnish to strengthen it and further preserve its attractive appearance.
To add pearl to your nails, use the master class on how to make a manicure at home. To do this, you can simply add eye shadow.
To do this, you need to grind the shadows. To do this, you can crush them in a bowl with any hard object. After such manipulations, they should turn into a fine powder. This way the varnish coating will be uniform. The powder should be added directly to the varnish.
You can also make the polish the same color as the eyeshadow you are using. To do this you need to take a transparent varnish. To complement the look, you can get a manicure that matches your makeup color.
Using the applicator, crush the shadow and apply it to wet nails. Then blow off the excess and use clear varnish to secure the base.
Making a new varnish
Follow the instructions on how to make nail polish at home. It’s worth starting by choosing two varnishes that match each other. Then you should pour them into one jar.
Many people use one secret on how to make varnish thinner or thicker. You can also put one polish on top of another. While you go about your business, the varnish will mix naturally. After completing the procedure, mix and shake the bottle vigorously. With simple steps you will prepare a completely new varnish.
By gradually darkening you will get an attractive ombre effect. This effect is quite popular today. The positive thing is that such a varnish can be made independently.
Glowing polish
To achieve this effect, you should combine an acrylic helmet and varnish. Thus, fluorescent acrylic paint can be purchased at a regular office supply store. For these purposes, also use a helium pen.
To get the best shine, use a clear base coat. It is often applied to the top of colored varnish. Also, the fluorescent substance goes well with any color. It is best to use white. To achieve this effect, you can use a light-emitting stick. One stick is quite enough for these purposes. The main thing is to use one important condition - a combination of both colors.
To make such a varnish, you should stretch the stick well over its entire surface. This applies in particular if it is made in the form of a necklace or a special bracelet. To do this, cut off one end with scissors. Next, you should cut off the tip of the stick into the area of the bottle. Gradually squeeze the contents from the stick into the inside of the bottle. Then you need to apply nail polish.
It is worth remembering that when making varnish in this way, such an effect will only last for several hours. To prolong the desired effect, coat the varnish with a transparent base.
To prepare the varnish, you should start preparing the materials necessary for this. You need a water-based clear coat. Use the polish you already have. It is best to use a bottle purchased at a pharmacy.
Also for the process you will need a brush and eye shadow. You should use food coloring of the color that you like best.
Also prepare henna and white clay. The main advantage of making your own varnish is that all the ingredients are natural, readily available, and have a low cost. You can also add olive oil to all of the above ingredients. The use of such varnish can be considered a healing procedure for nails.
Conclusions
To create an interesting varnish at home, you should use different methods. Follow the instructions, use interesting videos to get the desired effect. Remember that the main thing is not to be afraid to experiment. Using scrap materials, old varnishes, or long-forgotten bottles, you can create a truly original and beautiful varnish. A manicure created in this way will undoubtedly set you apart from the rest.
Photo of DIY nail polish
They say men always remain children. It’s hard to say whether this is true or not, but it’s easier to believe that there is a little girl inside every woman. Just like in childhood, we love to dress up, in times of trouble we always rush to our mother and are never averse to creating something useful for our beauty with our own hands. If in childhood these were experiments with creating perfume from some fragrant plant, then in adulthood the field for imagination is much greater. What if you conjured up the creation of... say, nail polish. For the sake of economy, curiosity, the desire to decorate your nails with a unique color - it doesn’t matter...
- Transparent varnish (water-based). Can be bought at the pharmacy
- Brush
- Any eye shadow
- Food coloring of desired color
- White clay
- Olive oil
As you can see, almost all the ingredients are natural and this is already an important advantage of homemade nail polish. However, you can also use olive oil, white clay or henna here. This nail polish at home will also be therapeutic.
We conjure a “potion” - we make a healing varnish
What you need: olive oil and any of the natural dyes.
How we do it:
- Mix the dye (henna or, say, clay) until the consistency of a smooth dough.
- Apply this mixture to pre-treated and degreased nails with acetone.
- Leave for twenty minutes, allowing to dry.
- Wipe your nails with a wet cotton pad.
To ensure long-lasting nail polish at home, repeat this coloring procedure two to three times a week. This way your nails will acquire not only a healthy color, but also the same shine. And in general, health, because olive oil perfectly nourishes both the cuticle and the nail itself, and henna or, say, white clay smoothes it out.
Option 2, colored varnish with dye
What you need: food coloring of the desired color, colorless water-based varnish, metal ball.
How to make nail polish:
- Grind food coloring in a container
- Add ground food coloring to a colorless varnish (necessarily water-based).
- Place a small metal ball in the container. It is needed to thoroughly beat the contents.
- Stir the resulting mixture and use as directed.
Option 3, Colored nail polish with eye shadow
What you need: To make nail polish at home, use a good eye shadow.
How to do it: repeat all the steps with food coloring. The option with shadows is advantageous in that the latter have a richer palette of colors, which will allow you to create nail polish with an absolutely unique shade. And not just one, but a whole collection.
Option 4, Make varnish with alkane root
What you need: half a teaspoon of alkana root (a plant with medicinal properties, actively used in cosmetology, for the production of soaps, lotions and creams), three tablespoons of olive oil, a quarter of a teaspoon of beeswax and a couple of drops of vitamin E oil.
How to do:
- Heat the olive oil and alkana root in a double boiler.
- Remove from heat and leave for five to seven minutes.
- Strain the mixture through a fine sieve and return to the steam bath.
- Add beeswax to it.
- When the wax melts, add vitamin E oil and mix everything thoroughly.
- Remove the mixture from the heat.
- When it cools down, you can apply it to your nails.
The nail polish created in this way at home is applied with a brush or drawing so that it does not get on the skin of the hands.
Alcona, like blue and white clay, as well as oil with vitamin E, can be bought at the pharmacy.
How to make gel nail polish shiny or glowing
Those who like shiny or glowing marigolds will find glow-in-the-dark sticks or the same resin powder useful (the latter is preferable, but will cost more). For shine, dry sparkles are used, which are simply added to a home-made or purchased varnish.
To make your polish glow, add six caps of glowing resin (resin jar caps) to it. Resins are sold in different colors, so there will be plenty to choose from to suit your taste. Don't forget also.
Today it is easy to buy ready-made medicated nail polishes: with calcium, various oils and protein complexes. But no matter what useful additives the purchased varnish is endowed with, it is still a chemical product, i.e. synthetic origin, because in addition to them, it usually contains toluene, formaldehyde, aspartame... And it has long been proven that these substances can cause serious harm not only to nails, but also to health in general, if purchased varnishes are used frequently. This is exactly what most working women do - beautiful nails are the “final touch to the perfect look.” Now imagine that you also often paint your nails with healthy homemade varnishes made from natural ingredients. Agree, this is a good reason to work some magic on your own masterpiece J).
To make a manicure with regular varnish at home, you need to master the correct technique for applying the material and familiarize yourself with some important life hacks that will help you create a neat manicure.
What you need for a home manicure
You can create a simple and beautiful manicure with regular varnish if you have a number of tools and materials:
- nail polish remover;
- brushes;
- one or more varnishes;
- greasy hand cream, oil or wax;
- cotton pads.
Every girl can create a beautiful manicure with her own hands; for this there is no need to resort to the services of salon specialists.
Preparatory stage
To do even the simplest manicure, you need to prepare your nails for painting:
Tip for beginners: apply a base first. This step is optional, but it helps to level the plate and prevent it from yellowing and preventing paint pigment from penetrating into it. Also, in order for the polish to always lie flat on the plate, it is necessary to moisten it regularly with wax, oils and special moisturizing nail pencils.
Step by step instructions
Before you begin the process of applying varnish, you should consider that the girl has 40 minutes of free time, eliminate or minimize distractions, and also think through the design. In addition, you need to check the shape of the brush; it should not be narrow and dense. Instructions for creating the perfect manicure:
- Apply wax or oil to the periungual area without touching the plate. This will help you subsequently easily remove excess material from the cuticle and rollers.
- It is recommended to apply a coat of base to facilitate subsequent application of colored varnish.
- Take a brush of colored varnish and wipe it on the edge of the bottle so that very little varnish remains on it, literally on the tip. This way it won't bleed onto the skin.
- We paint our nails with regular polish, starting with the little finger. You should place a drop in the center of the plate, then carefully “adjust” the varnish with a brush to the base.
- Then, with slow movements, holding the brush confidently, you need to apply the varnish to the side surfaces of the plate. Thus, the varnish does not flow onto the cuticle.
- You need to complete the manipulations with a brush at the end of the nail. Thanks to this, the varnish will last longer.
- Apply another coat of varnish to deepen the color.
- When performing movements, the elbow should rest on the table and the hand on which we apply the varnish should also lie on the table; you should not apply the varnish while holding your hand suspended.
- Apply a quick-drying top coat. This item is optional, but it will extend the wear time of the coating and make the manicure perfectly glossy.
On the left is a top coat applied to the nail, on the right is a nail without a top coat.
Ready-made manicure with regular polish
What to do if varnish gets on the cuticle
It often happens that varnish gets on the cuticle and ruins the entire manicure, but don’t be upset, now we will show you how to fix such a manicure.
To do this we need a lint-free cloth, a flat brush and nail polish remover or acetone.
We wet the brush in nail polish remover and move it over the area where the nail polish needs to be removed. We wiped off the polish, wiped the brush on a napkin, soaked the brush in nail polish remover, repeated, and so on until it was clean.
Result of work: before the varnish flows and after
Tips to help you paint your nails perfectly
The following tips on how to paint your nails correctly and beautifully will help you achieve a flawless manicure:
- Before you start applying colored varnish, you can practice using transparent varnish. Daily coating of the plates with treatment bases will help you get used to proper brush work.
- To ensure a dense and beautiful coating, the varnish should be applied in two layers.
- If the coating is damaged during drying, you can smooth it out with a damp fingertip. It is necessary to smooth the coating carefully in a circular motion.
- It is better to apply “loose” varnish on a layer of white. Thanks to this, the coating will be more saturated.
- To ensure a perfectly even coating, the varnish should be applied to the base.
- To make a hole on the plate, you can use strips cut from regular tape.
- If you only have clear varnish left at home, you can make it colored by adding blush particles and two beads that will help the materials mix.
- PVA glue will help prevent the area around the plate from getting varnished; it should first be applied with a cotton swab to the rollers and skin at the base of the nail, without touching the plate itself. When the glue dries and the nails are already painted, the film must be removed.
- If the product does not dry for a long time, then you can resort to using ice water and putting your hands in it; the coating will dry much faster.
- To wipe off the polish from one nail and not ruin the manicure on other nails, by taking a cotton pad soaked in acetone, you can use the following life hack: you need to place the sponge in a glass jar, pour acetone into it and immerse one finger in it. Thus, the manicure on other nails will remain the same. The jar should be tightly closed.
- A thick layer of cream will help prevent streaks in the area around the plate after erasing the varnish.
- If you bring your nails painted with glossy varnish to a pan of boiling water, the coating will become matte.
Nail care after coloring
Caring for your nails after painting involves following several important rules:
- Wear rubber gloves when working with household chemicals.
- Apply moisturizer to your hands twice a day.
- In the cold season, wear gloves made from natural materials.
- Renew your manicure at the first sign of chipping.
Interesting ideas for manicure with regular polish
Newspaper manicure
When performing such a manicure, first you need to apply a transparent varnish to the plates, then white, after which you can also distribute holographic varnish, it will add shine to the nails. When the layers have dried, apply small newspaper clippings soaked in alcohol (10 seconds) to the nail. The paper must be pressed tightly, and then apply a clear varnish or topcoat to the nail.
Lace manicure
For this you will need an orange stick, a brush, nail polish remover and varnishes. Apply two layers of the product to the plates and wait 7-10 minutes. Then use an orange stick to create drawings; this is especially easy to do with glitter. You need to draw designs on glossy varnish with a regular brush dipped in nail polish remover and an orange stick. Then the nails are covered with top. This way you get a beautiful nail design with regular polish.
Manicure with a pattern
It will require a thin needle and varnishes of different colors.
The first option: you need to apply three red vertical stripes on a layer of white varnish, after which you need to make a pattern with a needle using gentle movements, moving it from one side roller to the other, gradually moving towards the free edge of the nail.
Second option: on a nail covered with dark varnish, you need to apply three white drops so that they are located on the same line, then draw a needle along this line from the edge of the plate to the base.
Third option: place a few drops of pink on a white polish, and a smaller drop of white on them, then use a needle to connect the circles in a chaotic manner.
Volume manicure
Manicure for short nails can be voluminous. After waiting for the varnish layer to dry completely, you can begin creating a knitted manicure. It is necessary to mix white varnish and the one that was already used to cover the plate, and use a brush to create a pattern as in the image.
Manicure with dots
To create an unusual manicure you will need a toothpick and two polishes. After waiting for the layer of one varnish to dry, you should use a toothpick to create several dots on the nail, moving from the free edge of the nail to the base, there should be fewer and fewer of them.
Ombre
To create it you will need a sponge and three varnishes. You need to apply white varnish to the plate, and a strip of white, blue, for example, and blue to the sponge. Then you should cover the area around the nail with PVA glue. Then, using patting movements, transfer the material from the sponge to the nail, cover it with topcoat and remove the glue film.
Thus, to create the perfect manicure at home, you will need a little time and skill.
If you are making your own furniture or want to somewhat restore old furniture, at some point you will need to coat it with a good varnish.
The market today is full of different varnishes. However, this remedy can be created with your own efforts and at home. You can create different varnishes at home. The following are recipes for the most popular types.
1. Five minutes. Designed for wood. Acetone is poured into a container (preferably 100 ml) (approximately 30% of the container volume). Then foam is added to it. It is better to take it from the electronics packaging. It should be finely chopped before adding. Its approximate proportion is 0.3 cubic dm. The end result will be a jelly-like mixture. It needs to sit for a while. Its color is transparent. After 2-3 hours you get a good moisture-resistant varnish. It is also characterized by decent ability to withstand impacts.
2. Oil types. In production, they are prepared from drying oils and expensive resins. Turpentine is also added to them. Typically, these types dry quickly, but are weak in terms of strength and service life. You can create a copal oil look at home. Take high-quality flaxseed oil (100 doses by weight) and cook it in a saucepan or kettle. Heating should be gradual. The task is to wait for bubbles to appear and maintain an even flame. The oil should simmer slightly. At the same time, it is necessary to melt the East Indian copal (15 doses by weight) in a water bath and also bring this element to a boil until bubbles appear. At this moment, you need to immediately add hot linseed oil to it (it is also boiled in a saucepan at this time). You need to pour it in doses and constantly stir this mixture. Then pour this mixture into the oil that is being cooked.
The next element needed here is manganese borate (1 weight proportion). It also goes into this large container. The required cooking time is approximately 2 hours. If foam appears during this process, it must be eliminated. The varnish should be thick and smoothly come out as transparent threads with a golden tint. The fire can then be reduced. The created composition should slowly cool down to +60 C. This is not the end of the matter. Turpentine (70 doses by weight) is introduced into the mixture. It is poured in parts. After the next addition, you need to check whether the cooled drop has the required viscosity. If it is weak, then no more turpentine is needed. The varnish is ready. Signs of high-quality varnish: golden tone, smooth placement on the work surface, drying after 6-8 hours.
3. Dammar look. It is great for light-colored furniture. Components to create it:
– dammar resin (4 doses),
– turpentine (5 doses),
– white linseed oil (1/4 part)
This composition should be boiled until completely dissolved, then filtered. For straining, it is better to use a thin sieve made of metal. After which the mixture settles for 2-3 hours. After this time, the varnish can be used.
4. Copal species. Required ingredients:
– soft, light-colored copal (1 dose),
– turpentine (2 doses),
– camphor (3%)
The third element is needed to give the varnish good elasticity. This composition is placed in three quarters of the bottle. The bottle is thoroughly corked and kept in a warm place, for example, near a radiator. The bottle needs to be shaken periodically. You should get a high-quality solution from all components. It settles and filters. Cotton wool serves as a filter here. If the resulting varnish is not transparent enough, concentrate the bottle in a water bath for 10-20 minutes.
5. Mastic look. Required elements:
– pure mastic (12 parts),
– Venetian turpentine (1.5 doses),
– powdered camphor (0.5 doses),
– carefully crushed glass (5 doses),
– thoroughly purified turpentine (30 doses).
The composition is placed in a water bath. Afterwards it settles. After a day, it is drained and filtered. Cotton wool is used for the filter.
6. Castro species. If castor oil is distilled dry, a residue similar to rubber is formed. If you dissolve it in gasoline or alcohol, you get a varnish with excellent resistance to moisture and ultraviolet radiation.
7. Asphalt look. Required components:
– asphalt (1 part),
– turpentine (2 parts).
The first element is melted, cooled and crushed. A second element is added to it.
8. Japanese look. Elements:
– turpentine (45 doses),
dehydrated lavender oil (60 doses),
The first two components are mixed. The liquid part is separated from the sediment and then heated. While this process is going on, you need to add camphor (1 part) and copal resin (15 parts) to the mixture. After 20-30 minutes, the composition can be filtered.
These are the basic recipes for homemade varnishes. Surely every master has a dozen more interesting recipes.
