Basically, nail polish is an enamel paint, most of which happens to be some level of translucent, and you are reverse painting onto the glass.
Almost all of my polishes are these really really thin glitters for the kids (cheap! like Sinful Colors and Wet and Wild), and when I saw one of these come along on pinterest I realized I could paint space scenes like this: http://instagram.com/p/XJdsSKECkz/
I tend to be doing 5-11 layers of different polishes (including clear as a spacer layer) to get a lot of depth even in the ones that aren't "paintings", though I've been doing some simpler ones for craft show last minute cramming purposes.
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This is a pretty good tutorial:
http://www.rebeccalikesnails.com/2012/02/nail-polish-jewelery-tutorial.html
Basically, nail polish is an enamel paint, most of which happens to be some level of translucent, and you are reverse painting onto the glass.
Almost all of my polishes are these really really thin glitters for the kids (cheap! like Sinful Colors and Wet and Wild), and when I saw one of these come along on pinterest I realized I could paint space scenes like this: http://instagram.com/p/XJdsSKECkz/
I tend to be doing 5-11 layers of different polishes (including clear as a spacer layer) to get a lot of depth even in the ones that aren't "paintings", though I've been doing some simpler ones for craft show last minute cramming purposes.