30+ years ago we used to play with nail polish in my grandparents bird bath and plastic tubs by dripping the polish in the water, watching it spread, and picking it up with our fingers or pencils.

Beautiful! Just a little tip,...clean the ornaments with rubbing alcohol to get rid of any kind of residue. It will help adhesion of the polish.

I used to do my nails this way, cover skin around with liquid latex and dip nails in! Looks amazing

you need to put them on popsicle sticks then put them in styrofoam to dry, or tie a string through the Loop to hang to dry, and Make deeper water, that way you can put it all the way in the water at the edge and pull it out up through the polish

Sooo much better turn out then when my daughter & I tried hydro dipping our fingernails using nail polish   & water

Whaaaaaaaat???!! You haven’t even started and my mind is already going crazy with ideas. I didn’t know. 😮 I’m so excited! I have a tub of nail polishes and a dollar tree on my list of to dos today!

It looks like ribbon candy

Ran across this video after buying clear ornaments the day before. I have lots of nail polishes and had this in mind but wasn’t sure exactly how to do it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. The ornaments are beautiful. Got a new subscriber. 😊

Purple and teal with silver is gorgeous

I do this on the lids of jars.  I  like to reuse jars rather than just throwing them away.

I've watched experts dip guitar bodies and paper before-they use less paint (or nail polish) and then take a chop stick and swirl through the paint creating all kinds of neat patterns. Then they take the item they are dipping and they don't roll the item around on the surface. Simply push the item straight down through the paint and pull it straight out.  It's pretty interesting. They also use bins that are much deeper than what they are dipping down into the water.

I can confirm that the nail polish leaves a very thin invisible film across the water surface. All the nail polish will do it but the worst one is the iridescent (or any color that is a "shimmer" ). As you saw how quickly it spread out, unless it is completely dried, it will spread out evenly across the water's surface even to the point where there is no more mica visible. You will just have a clear film that affects the surface tension. The more quickly and evenly it spreads is an indicator of the culprit. I have used paper towels to try and remove  the film but I could still see broken pieces left behind and floating around freely. If a symmetrical spread of your colors is needed, these pieces can interfere with the new polish spreading out.

I have never considered using alcohol inks before as I also believe that it will simply dissipate in clean water buttons give me an idea. You could try filling the surface of the water with with the iridescent then add the alcohol ink on top and swirl it. Or create custom colors by mixing the alcohol ink into iridescent nail polish before putting it in the water.

Also one trick I used to do if previous colors were showing in new dips, instead of changing the water and cleaning the bowl, I would after cleaning up the polish, pour some clear in it to push the other colors away to the sides of my bowl. Sometimes I would clean the clear before doing my next color but if I still got interference from the previous colors I would just start my new pour on top the clear.

I just realized this is a three year old post but if you should happen to see this I would love to see the alcohol ink on top the nail polish experiment.

To eliminate muddy neutrals, dip one color at a time when using complementary colors.

How fun!  And I have a box full of ornaments just waiting for me! ♥♥♥

Hi thanks for your lovely  idea I have never seen this before and it is great i have lots of nail polish  never used was going to  give it away but now I am going to find something to dip have you thought about using a bit of string to hang  your  bobbles on to dry or maybe the  naill polish . might run of. Thanks for your lovely painting from Annie Scotland UK. Happy thanks giving.

Happy Thanksgiving.  In case interested: I've done alcohol ink on glass ornaments before but not hydro-dipping.  I put one color at a time inside the ornament and used canned air to disburse.  Use the same method for each layer of color.

The nail polish ones look fantastic

Hi all! Greta from Minnesota

These are very pretty ❤ fun projects to do with My Grandson ❤

Place the popsicle sticks inside first then dip, then you can put them on the foam board to dry. You could also put them on the strings first and dip then hang  to dry.