Starry-Eyed Skull Bracelet

I fell in love with my first skull bracelet about a year ago after finding it in a weird little shop on vacation.. there's just something creepy-adorable about the little beads. Sadly, the elastic snapped to my skull bracelet and I lost half the beads. Instead of trying to find another one I decided to just make my own! On top of that, I wanted to make a more girly-glam version of the bracelet, thus the starry-eyed skull was born!

Supplies:
-Skull beads - They come in all different sizes, shapes, and colors. Try Etsy.com (just search skull beads and pick which you like best!) You can also find them at many craft stores.
-Jewelry elastic
-Glitter nail polish
-Ribbon (optional)
-Hot Glue Gun + Glue (optional)

Step One:
-String the skulls onto the Jewelry elastic. Measure to fit your wrist (with my size wrist/ beads I used 15 skulls)
-Tie string in a secure knot.

pink, red, and turquoise! 

Step Two:
-Lay bracelet flat. Face all skulls upwards
-Using glitter nail polish carefully dab each skull eye socket. The polish should fill the hollow socket. I found using a medium sized glitter gave me the look I wanted. You can see below the different between using a fine glitter and a medium. It's totally your preference!

 fine glitter vs. medium glitter

(tip: if you mess up or don't like the polish you've chosen use a cotton swab to remove the paint!)

for the pink skull bracelet I only painted every other skull

Step Three:
-Let polish dry completely (this could take a while)
-Optionally decorate with a ribbon bow. Use a little dab of hot glue to secure the bow so that it does not untie.

Voila! Spooky-Glam skull bracelets you can stack :)

I love chunky stacked bracelets

.. maybe a little too much :)

DIY Nail Polish

I own a lot of nail polish.. and I mean a lot. If you know anything about nail polish you know it can get pricey.. $8 for Essie or OPI is standard but you can expect to pay upwards of $14 for brand name polish (my new weakness is butter london). So what's a girl to do to save money and appease her crave for new polish? Make it herself!
It's super simple and uses things you probably have sitting around the house right now.

Supplies
-Clear nail polish (fyi level 1 rewards at ulta includes nailpolish... so I cashed in a level 3 for 3 bottles of clear... I love free polish!!)
-Eyeshadow
-butter knife
-paper

Step One:
Gather up all of your old eyeshadow.. those kits with 100+ colors that you would never wear are great. Expiration doesn't matter!

Remove shadow from container and crush into a fine, loose powder. Try mixing colors or shadow!

Step Two:
Empty a little bit of clear polish from the bottle to make room.

Create a funnel out of paper and slowly pour the eyeshadow powder into the polish bottle. You may have to stop and shake a few times. The more powder, the denser the color. 

Shake Shake Shake! Until all powder is mixed in with the polish.

Step Three:
Name your color, make a pretty label, and paint your nails! Makes a great personalized gift as well!

I love the depth and shimmer you get from using nail polish (ignore my slopping painting skills)!