Are Marbled Mugs With Nail Polish Toxic

Pour your nail polish into the water.

Are marbled mugs with nail polish toxic.

I found my mugs for 79 each at goodwill. The best thing about these nail polish mugs is that they only costs a couple of dollars to make and even less time to finish. I used nail polish i already had at home which means i was able to make six nail polish mugs for less than 5. Just take a cotton ball or swab and clean up those unwanted areas with nail polish remover.

This one however is right up my alley. But the second mug i pulled it straight up and then dipped it again to cover more of the mug with the polish floating on the water s surface. The nail polish dries very fast on the water so the hotter the better. First fill your container with hot water.

Nail polish is toxic only about as toxic as sticking your fingernail in your mouth but still it s also not dishwasher safe so when you re giving it as a gift know it likely won t last long. Hold the nail polish bottle close to the water otherwise the drops will fall to the bottom instead of resting on the surface. Partly because it s a coffee cup and partly because it uses fingernail polish to make the colors. How to make marbled nail polish mugs.

2 things happened here i got some crazy abstract marbling which it turns out i love but i also got some bubbles that popped and stuff that gave my mug more texture than i was hoping for. So i ve seen a few tutorials on marbling and some of them use acrylic paints. If you ve accidentally gotten nail polish too close to the lip of the mug or if there are some spots on your mug that you re just not happy with don t worry. So i bet you ve seen these watercolor inspired mugs hanging out on pinterest and the interwebs but they are all made out of nail polish.