Monday, July 16, 2012

Swatchicles

Hi all! I recently took up a little project which involves icecream sticks, fake nails, nail polish and a glue gun. The result? Swatchicles!


Swatches on a stick. Popiscle stick. Swatchicles YAY. I saw this idea on Very Emily. Hers looked so pretty, I just had to make my own!

It's super easy, a little time consuming if you have a lot of polishes, but it's all good in the end. All you need are some fake nails - I got mine from Bornprettystore but they're all different sizes so you can probably find some same size ones on ebay. You also need a hot glue gun and some icecream sticks!
Glue the edges of the top of the stick and hold your nail into place. That's it! So easy.



And then you label the sticks, I like to label them first and then paint it, just because it's easier for me that way, and I won't get mixed up with the dupes.

Now I clearly see the dupes I have in my collection which I didn't know I had. And it's a lot easier to see how the colour looks against your nail rather than holding the bottle along your fingers haha. I realised I have a lot of reddish pink colours haha. But they're the prettiest shade on your fingers, don't you agree? :)



It's also easier to make ombre nails! Check out this cute pastel nail combination I found.





And now they're just sitting pretty in my tin on my desk, ready for the next time I decide to paint my nails :)

27 comments:

  1. SO pretty! I love the pastel combination! It'd be cute with white polkadots!!!

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  2. such a good idea! love the pastel nail combo :)

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  3. Really like the swatches for the purple and dark colours. They remind me of galaxy prints. The pastel combination is also really cute!

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  4. so cute and creative! :) love this. they look so pretty, like a rainbow!

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  5. Oh cool idea !!! So cute :D

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  6. Great idea! Ima spend hours and hours on this now. :3

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  7. this is quite useful =O Im loving your darker polishes and those pastel colours remind me of an icecream truck xD /giggles rub a dub dub

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  8. This is such a cute idea! You have super cute handwriting by the way :D:D

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  9. This is so cute :3 and colourful, love it x

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  10. omgosh this is so pretty!!! haha and I love all the colours you featured! I must expand my nail polish collection more now XD

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  11. Such a cute idea~ I love all the pastel swatches :D

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  12. Tezza, you are so bothered LOL. I only have like 20 polishes or less but seems like a neat idea! I was wondering what you were doing with the puddle-pop sticks and etc on instagram haha

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  13. What a cute idea! And handy because the colours are labelled. I love love love the third purple on the left

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  14. That's a really great idea (and fun to do^^). Love all the colours you have as well :) X

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  15. wow thats so smart!
    its so much easier to imagine new nail designs that way!
    btw what color is the left 3rd one in the purple nail polishes photo?
    x

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  16. So gorgeous! If I had the time and patience I would totally do this!
    I always go for pinky colours too haha naturally drawn to them!

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  17. so nice, that's such a great idea!

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  18. Haha, very clever! I love your nail polish colors, such a nice collection!

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  19. haha this is such a neat and creative idea! not only is it practical (you can easily see which colours you already have!) but it also looks really pretty. love all the glittery purples you have too :D

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  20. That is seriously aesthestically and functional design! I dig :D

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  21. I feel like I should do this too..
    But I have a feeling that I'm going to be too lazy ahaa

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  22. wow you've got a colorful collection there! awesome~

    keep in touch :)
    -Joyce

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  23. Wow! That's a lot of nail polishes! But this is quite a good idea so you can just easily browse through your collection. Liking the plum coloured ones.

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  24. this is the cutest idea x

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  25. Omg this looks so cool! I guess it would be quite time consuming and you probably need to have a lot of patience, but the end result looks so pretty and helpful, so i'd say it was worth it! =)

    Anna @ FEED ME NANA xoxo

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  26. This is such a cool idea!
    Especially in deciding what color to wear.
    Thanks for sharing <3

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