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Need a fun summer activity? Try tie dying your nails!
Materials:
- glass bowl
- room temperature water
- toothpick
- a few nail polish colors
- tape
- nail polish remover
First, paint your 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 nail, 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:
ps These are Annie’s pictures and pretty nails, not mine.
pps 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!
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ooh that looks fun!
This summer I've been loving all of the cool colors, blues, greens, purples. Really I love them all!
Please don’t try this.. I tried it myself and got fingernail polish stuck on my fingernails and skin..
Did you remember to tape your nails? Also if you dip a Q tip in nail polish remover you can clean around the nail without ruining the design.
While I myself have never tried it ( because I wasnt sure how to do it til now,lol ) several ladies around my area have done it and loved it!
don’t use tape ,take a Q tip and vasoline and put it all around your nail and finger ,the polish can’t stick on it. Use a good amount making sure you don’t get it on the nail.
Does that actually work? Tape seems difficult and I wanted to know if vasoline really worked be for I did it.
Hi!! Just wondering whats a Q tip?? Thx
Sweety,it says it will get messy….
Everyone,i would advise trying it,besides,life wouldn’t be fun if we couldn’t make a mess!
thats why they said use nail polish remover duah girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can you read are you stupid or something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This wouldn’t work for me. It all got stuck to the tape instead of my nail..
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?
the entire process including the polish drops its long and tedious but but it looks really cool in the end
It’s a fun process!
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?
The same thing happen to me before I read this and I only got one nail to look good! Also the colors didn’t spread in the plastic cup I used. But this tutorial made me want to try again! Tips??
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….
Try using distiller water
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 8) 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?
Here are a few tips and modifications to make life a little easier with this:
1) Use lukewarm, aka room temperature water.
2) Use dixie cups so you don’t damage your dishes.
3) Instead of using tape, use a makeup brush to “paint” vaseline around your nails and as far down your finger as it will be submerged in the water. This way, you can simply wipe it off on a paper towel and then use a toothpick to remove the nail polish that is close to the nail so you don’t damage what you want to remain.
Thanks for the tips
also, when you use your nail polish it needs to be a great brand…a.k.a not cheap nail polish. when the polish hits the water it needs to spread apart as soon as you drop it in the water. when you dip your nail in make sure you line your nail facing down in the water and when you do this keep your nail under the water for about ten seconds. take a toothpick and swirl around your finger in the water to pick up the excess polish off the water….this makes it so much easier
great tips! the good nail polish is a MUST!
You can also dip two nails at once. Major time saver. You don’t have to drop the nail in the center. I find the design I like the best and dip there. Where ever u dip is the design that will b transferred. This is super cool designs and gets many compliments! I’ve been doing this for about a year. I love it! I also use the vaseline. I use bottled water, as I find tap water doesn’t work well, causing the polish to sink or dry too fast. I bough me a small Tupperware container that I use for this purpose alone. I use it over and over. White base coat brings the brightest nail color design… Another tip, if your polish is thick and hard to drip, use a straw and drop a few drops (2 or 3) of polish remover into the bottle and shake it up. This really helps to thin it out to make it more manageable.
Use chap stick around your fingers instead of tape works extremely well and you can just wipe right off! easy to get right close to your fingernail just make sure there is none on your nail or the paint wont stick!
I was really excited to try and do this to my nails, but I couldn’t get the polish to drop fast enough before the previous one started to form a skin. I tried shaking the polish brush and tapping it and that didn’t really work either. And even when I did get a few drops in quickly and tried to do the design, it just clung to the toothpick. Any tips on how to get the polish in more quickly?
I finally tried this! It was fun and kind of worked… I didn’t have white for a base coat, so my colors aren’t as pronounced. I will also try the vasaline/chapstick suggestions next time.
I had some trouble with getting tiny bubbles of water under the tiedye coat. Did anyone else? Does anyone have suggestions for color or drawn patterns that really look good?
i like this alot. what colors did you use?
I really love this, but when I tried it the polish was drying faster than I could drop another drop. Will have to try it with better nail polish.
i think this is rreally cool. I want to try this!!!
This doesn’t work worth shit.
This worked really well! Everyone loved my nails
awesome idea
How long does it last
As long as the nail polish typically would last.
why does my nail polish keep sinking to the bottom of the cup no matter what brand I use? My daughter got it to float on top one time but it hardened before we could add all the drops and swirl them with a tooth pick. Help please
Nail polish quality is very important… Maybe try OPI?
Ive been trying this all day. I keep changing the water and when I drop the nail polish in the water the nail polish instantly turns into the film lining. What am I doing wrong? Please respond asap. Thank you
That is most likely it is because of the quality of nail polish you are using. Also, are you using purified water… I’ve heard that helps!
Ta main est moche je trouve…
Me and my friend tried to do this but the bullseye pattern didnt work! It wouldnt spread out! what do we do?
Try again! 3rd times a charm!
I used carmax around my fingers it has a vaseliney and chap stick texture togher. I t was easier then tape. But use a good nail polish like opi or sally hanson work the best.