Jul 152011
Need a fun summer activity? Try tie dying your nails!
Materials: glass bowl, room temperature water, toothpick, nail polish, tape, nail polish remover
First paint nails a base coat. Then, tape around your nails the best you can. Annie used clear tape so it is hard to see!
This process needs to be done quickly to avoid letting the nail polish dry. Fill your bowl up 3/4 of the way with water and drop your nail polish in a bulls eye pattern.
Continue until you have 6- 12 circles in your bulls eye. 
Quickly (you don’t want the nail polish to dry) place your hand palm up and dip it into the center of the bulls eye.
You have to repeat the above steps (yes, a new nail polish bulls eye!) for EACH nail.
Use nail polish remover to clean up around your nails…or take a hot shower and peel the paint off with your fingers!
and if you still need help check out this you tube video:
p.s. These are Annie’s pictures and pretty nails 
p.p.s. Do you have a favorite summer nail color? I had a big nail polish dilemma not to long ago…maybe I just need to swirl all of the colors together every time
29 Responses to “C.R.A.F.T. # 82: Tie Dye Nails”
Comments (29)
ooh that looks fun!
This summer I've been loving all of the cool colors, blues, greens, purples. Really I love them all!
How neat is that! I can't wait to try that! Thanks for the great info!
That looks so cool!!!!
I will have to give it a try sometime! http://runwithglitter.blogspot.com/
I love it! I can't wear colour on my fingers, though, because I can't take it off! Polish remover irritates my skin. I colour my toe nails, since I can just stack the colours and let it chip; I'd love to do this but I am sure it would be very akward dipping the toes in the water!
That is so cool! I can't wait to try.
I haven't actually tried it yet… hopefully, this weekend Annie will give me a manicure
{fingers crossed!} I'll let you all know how it goes via facebook!
There's so much I apparently don't know about the girlier things in life! So stinking cool!
Oh man, I tried this and failed super miserably. I only got one nail to look decent but that one nail actually looks super awesome. Maybe I'll try it again.
Okay, that's totally awesome!! I have to attempt it now!
Dumb question of the day – when you say repeat for each nail, do you mean the entire process with the polish drops, etc., or just dip each nail separately?
My 12 year old will LOVE this!! How fun, thanks!
I get so excited when I see something new! I always have my toes painted and this is fun for the summer! I'd love it if you shared this with WorkShop Wednesday this coming wednesday. It would be a nice addition to the party!
These look awesome! I can't wait to try this! We would love for you to come share this at our "Strut Your Stuff Saturday" link party! http://sixsistersstuff.blogspot.com/2011/07/strut-your-stuff-saturday-week-2.html
Love,
The Sisters @ sixsistersstuff.blogspot.com
This is such a perfect/fun sumer activity. I may just have to have a girl's night with my roommates and make our own nails tie-dye
I love the colors! Thank you for this great tutorial!
I have been told that if you put vasoline around your nails (instead of the tape, the polish won't stain your fingers and wipes right off.
Wow!!! Great tutorial!
These turned out so CUTE!! Love the colors you chose. Thanks for the tips…I also enjoyed the video!
Adorable!
You can also put Chapstick around your nails and it wipes right off. I would suggest having lots of Qtips and toothpicks available because this can get messy and having all the tools ready helps a lot.
Thank you for the vasaoline and chapstick tips!
Just found this via pinterest and tried tonight. How in the heck did you get it to work? When I put my fingers in the polish blurred all together. Any hints?
This is so very cool! Can't believe how good it looks! I actually saw this as a Youtube vid before I saw this but was linked by a friend as they know I adore this sort of thing!
xx
Looks awesome, will give it a try soon
It is a lot harder than it looks. My daughter and her friend tried this and it never really worked, so they gave up. Maybe there is an easier way.
umm why not just put the polish on the nail and use a toothpick or something to marble them?? Does it create a different effect or something?
Thanks so much for posting this! I decided to try it myself. If you're interested in seeing my process/results check out http://festobsessed.com/2012/04/tie-dye-nails/
Seriously thank you for this guide. I never thought I'd be able to make my nails so cool, so easily.
-Lindsey
You're welcome! Thanks for letting me know… Your nails turned out great
What if your nail polish doesn't spread out like oil? We weren't able to make a bulls eye pattern….
Just after Easter I had my toenails and fingernails painted in Easter Egg colors. I did have the right one match the left but I have pink sparkle, lime green, bright yellow, orange and blue (robin egg blue). I went to the salon to have them done. After I bought some cheap nail polish at the store and took it to CA with me to see my granddaughter (she was being baptised at
and we painted her nails and I left the polish there so she could do it again. My toenails still look great but i lost the color on my fingernails long ago. It never lasts on my fingernails. I got a compliment on the nails just after got it down when I went to a fast food place to grab something before I headed to another place. the tie dye look is neat, but sure looked sloppy to get the stuff off. So that is acrylic paint rather than nail polish?