Nail polish is an extremely popular cosmetic. But often nail polish is very expensive — and you can’t find exactly the right color you wish. There is one alternative: This step-by-step guide shows how to make DIY nail polish yourself.
Make DIY nail polish: ingredients
For the production of own nail polish you need basically only four ingredients …
- ethanol
- benzoin
- pigments
- silica
These substances are usually available only in larger quantities, so thatgives you enough to experiment with that even a failure or two does not hurt. Since these ingredients are used only in very small quantities, you also need an extremely fine kitchen scale that goes down to grams and even fractions of grams. In addition, a mortar and pestle is often needed to pulverize the ingredients.
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Make DIY nail polish: recipe
If you want to make nail polish yourself, the basic proportions are 25 grams of ethanol, 5 grams of benzoin, 2 grams of pigments and 1 gram of silica.
The pigments should give the nail polish the desired color, so that it is not just gray or the colors of the other blended ingredients. The pigments can create dozens of different shades when handled properly. Have fun experimenting!
The substance benzoin ensures the later consistency of the self-made nail polish. The silica contained in the nail polish cares for the nails later when applying and using the paint. In addition, the color is evenly distributed in the paint by the ethanol.
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The steps
Heat the Ethanol
To do this, pour the ethanol (better known as alcohol) into a bowl and place it in a pot with water. If you then heated the water on the stove, the ethanol is heated evenly with. It is particularly important that in the heated alcohol during heating no water gets into this. If it does, the whole procedure has to be repeated.
Add the Benzoin
What many people do not know is that benzoin is a natural resin. Before this can be used, it must be pulverized. If this is not already pulverized when you buy it, then this must be done with the mortar and pestle. After this happens, the benzoin is added to the warm ethanol with a stick while stirring.
Creating the color of the varnish
This is done by mixing the different pigments together in different variations. So you can create a wide variety of colors with the pigments and thus create the very personal nail polish. The pigments are then added to the existing mixture. However, you should still take a few pigments at the beginning, because too many make the nail polish thick.
Adding the silica
Now the last thing you need to do is add the silica to nourish the nails. Now the nail polish can be used immediately.
Special effects
Of course, there is the scope to add special effects. Try fine glitter, flat ballet glitter, or even pearlising powder or metallic powder from craft shops! We even had great result by adding some metallic signwriting powder.
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