The good news is that I am over my stomach bug! The bad news is that I now have a cold! Seriously! My daughter is still under the weather too! So between all that and my son getting his 2 month shots today...we are still sort of a mess at my house right now!
So, I went digging in my "unused crafts" folder on my computer that holds all sorts of crafts and ideas and things I have done but have not posted yet (oh come on! I know you have one of these folders too!) and found this one to share with you today!
I remember when I was a child, I had pretend make-up. I loved it! All it was was plastic lipstick, plastic eyeshadow etc...anyway, I thought it was the greatest thing ever!
My daughter loves to try to get into my make-up. So I thought she would really enjoy to have her own faux make-up. So I went to Target, and WalMart, and ToysRUs, and every other store I could think of and NO ONE sells pretend make-up anymore. I found pretend plastic lipstick, but no other plastic make-up. Instead what I found was a lot of brightly colored, sparkly lipgloss and real eyeshadow.
Nope. Not gonna work for me. I wanted PRETEND MAKE-UP! Not cheap, 80's colors sparkly make-up! If I wanted to give my daughter real make-up, would buy her decent colors and decent quality stuff at least, not this horrible stuff! Yuck!
So I went to blogland for a solution. I found this idea here at Not So Idle Hands to make faux make-up out of nail polish! Seriously! What a great idea!
I bought several make-up containers from the dollar store and a variety of nail polishes from the dollar store as well.
Clean out the make up containers and pour the nail polish into the containers. Let dry! So simple!
And I also let an empty nail polish container dry out too so she had faux nail polish (although this one has given me a heart attack a couple of times when I see it laying out, open, on the table and I think it is real nail polish! ha ha!) But it is such a hit!
Note that the nail polish will decrease in volume by about ½ as it dries so you might want to go back later and add a second layer of nail polish to these if you want your make-up containers to appear "full."
Oh, and I HIGHLY recommend doing these outside, or in a garage, or other well ventilated area, it gets super stinky!
Ok. Well, I am off to get in pj's, take some NyQuil and watch Glee. (Don't judge me 🙂
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Maridith @ Strictly Homemade
That is a brilliant idea!! My daughter wants "pretend" make up so badly and all I could find was plastic junk at the Disney Store. This is a great idea. I am going to make her a set for her birthday. My goal is to make all homemade gifts this year and this is PERFECT!<br /><br />Thank you for the inspiration.<br /><br />Hope you get well soon!
Erin
LOVE IT!
Janaca
How cute, if I had a little girl I'd definitely do this for her, but I'll pass along the cute idea!
Emily
Wow! Yours turned out CUTE! thanks for the sweet shout-out 🙂
Joy
my dd would love this! I will be featuring this tomorrow. Come over for a visit. mommaskindacrafty.blogspot.com
Kim @ seven thirty three
LOVE this idea! I hate the cheapo children make-up... my daughter did get some that didn't show up, that one wasn't so bad! LOL<br /><br />Thanks for linking up with Sugar & Spice.
Abby
These are darling! I know my little girl will ADORE this idea when she gets old enough -- I sell Mary Kay part time and have TONS of make-up samples in my office area .. somedays it is her favorite thing! Thanks for the great idea!
Kaysi
What a great idea!!! I remember pretend makeup too, so fun!
Fawnda
This make-up is too fun! I love it! <br /><br />I also watch glee! 🙂 no judging here!!
Lauren
Ahhh! I LOVE this! I am absolutely going to do this for my make-up obsessed neice!
Teena
This is a great idea to recycle old makeup containers and nailpolish. And I think pretend makeup would be better for young skin than the real stuff. I might do this for my young niece, she might like it! Thanks for the Transformation Thursday idea <3
Lanie Ree
What an awesome idea!<br /><br />Thank you for linking this up as well!
Kimbo West @ a girl and a glue gun
i love this....and in essence I love you! so great! my daughter is truly going to be on cloud nine!!!!!
Pam
This pretend makeup idea of yours will work perfectly for my neices. Can't wait to try it out! Thanks for sharing!