Have you ever heard of water marbling? In my search for holiday nail ideas I found that it’s all the rage for nail designs. People follow this same technique, but instead of dipping glasses they dip their nails. So cool! I love the effect and started dipping all kinds of stuff – fingernails, ornaments and these Dollar Store wine tumblers. With red and white fingernail polish you can make a festive peppermint design!
DIY Peppermint Water Marbled Glasses
You will need:
- Something to dip. I got these glasses a few months ago at the Dollar Store. Love these glasses! They are super sturdy because the glass is pretty thick.
- Red and white nail polish. I used my favorite Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear red and white. Note: some polishes work better than others. My Essie polishes didn’t work at all.
- Glass of room temperature water. The temperature is very important! If the technique isn’t working for you it’s probably because your water temperature isn’t right.
- Toothpicks.
Step 1: Start by putting a drop of red polish in the water. It should spread out over the top. If the polish sinks or doesn’t spread, then try a different polish or recheck your water.
Step 2: Keep alternating the red and white polish until the design is big enough to cover what you want to dip. The more polish you add the bigger the design will get.
Step 3: With your toothpick, draw out the peppermint design VERY carefully. Try to not break the surface of the polish with the toothpick. Just barely skim the polish to draw the design out.
Step 4: Now you’re ready to dunk! Dip the glass into the water and carefully pull it out. If you’re using a smaller glass or a bigger container of water, then you might want to tape off the glass. But you can clean up any edges with nail polish remover.
Each glass has such a unique look! So many fun patterns to try! What would you dip?
I love these, but I’m wondering what happens when you wash them? I assume they are not dishwasher safe, but does the pattern stay after washing the glasses?
Yes, you should definitely hand wash. They have held up surprisingly well to washing – the only thing that has been able to remove the color so far is nail polish remover.
These look amazing Steph – what a crafty lady you are!
Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas.
Ronnie xo
I love this! Very festive and also do-able. Thanks for sharing.
I would have never dreamed to dip a glass in water with nail polish.
yeah, me neither! And I would definitely would never have thought of painting my nails this way!
This is so awesome! These are the kind of DIYs that look so fun to me! I definitely need to try this sometime!
Those are very lovely, please bring those for our family Christmas party for our special Egg Nog! :)
Will do! Mark is going to make mulled wine I think so should be perfect ;)
This is such a fun cheery project. I’m surprised that there was such a difference in whether specific nail polish brands would work on the glasses. Interesting.
these are so unique! i’ve never seen anything like them. super cute :)
This is a great DIY gift idea!
Whaaaaaaat. This is so cool!!!!!!!!!!
Oh how cool! The patterns are so beautiful!
These are so unique and pretty. What a fun gift idea!
Alyssa
Love it! Will have to google dipped nails now too!
Let me know if you try it on your nails! I was a little too impatient to try it – though I did end up doing an entire set of glasses… :)
When you do nails, make sure to tape your fingers or use vaseline to keep the polish from getting all over your fingers. It’s surprisingly easy to marble your nails. This website has tons of good tutorials to do various marbling – http://mysimplelittlepleasures.blogspot.com/
Wow! I had never heard of this technique before… so pretty!
i can’t believe you actually use nail polish
thanks for the tip that essie doesn’t work, cuz that is what i would have used
i can’t wait to try this, headed to dollar store this week to see if they have those glasses
love this
brett
What a cool idea! I wonder if I have time to whip some of these up before our Christmas party on Saturday?!
Wow!! What a great idea! I love this!
Great idea!! These glasses look so cheery and would make great gifts.
These are so pretty! They’d make such a great gift, along with a bottle of wine. I am all about DIY gifts this year. :)
This is ridiculously fabulous! I also love the new blog look!
Love this! I want to give it a try :)
these turned out so so cool! I’ve seen the marbled nails, but never thought of dipping glasses. I love how inexpensive this is and how you can customize it for different holidays or just because!
such clever and beautiful idea!! thank you!!!
xxx Ale