I love the idea of making your own
things, whether these are clothes, cushions, phone cases, homemade beauty
products you name it; therefore I decided to have a go myself. I decided to
start off with something simple to get me going, which was to make own makeup
brush holder.
My brushes were previously just
sitting in a box rather miserably, each day I would delve into it to reach for
the brushes I wanted. Surely it is much easier to have them at hand on my
desk….it is now!
What I used to create my makeup brush
holder.
I used Dazzle Tac which is jewellery glue as I wanted it to
work on glass. This roughly cost me £5, I’m no expert in craft at all so there
may have been an alternative to use however this is just what the sales assistant
advised me to go with.
Tubes of glitter! I’m not joking I
purchased these glitter tubes from Woolworths a long time ago, they’ve been shut down like how
many years now?! I knew they would come in handy someday, I just knew it. I used just the plain
silver glitter for my project but you could use any you like if you fancy having a go yourself.
Lastly I purchased three different
shapes and colours of little rhinestones, here I have silver and lilac circles
and light blue tear drop shapes; these cost 99p each. The shop I purchased these from is called Abarkhan but I’m sure other places such as Hobbycraft would have them too.
For the makeup brush holder I used an empty and cleaned Nutella
jar. To get the sticker off I put it in very hot water for ten minutes, of
which after this time it peeled off easily; it was rather satisfying I have to say.
On my clean jar I placed some sellotape
along the top of the glass about 1cm down as I wanted to try and create a neat edge with the glitter. I then using an old paint brush painted the glue along the area
that I wanted to cover with glitter. Having to act quite fast as the glue dries rather quickly I poured some glitter onto a flat
surface which then allowed me to roll my glass jar in the glitter; hey presto
the glitter stuck to the glue! Once it had dried which took a matter of seconds
I then was able to peel off the sellotape which left a rather impressively neat
edge considering it was my first attempt.
Using a cuticle pusher (naughty) I placed the rhinestones in the order that I wanted along my jar, just a small amount of glue set them in place. I put tiny silver ones all along the bottom edge of the glitter band, with the lilac and light blue stones set in intervals on top of the glitter band.
Ta daaaaaaar!
My finished makeup brush holder which I’m so incredibly pleased with! I really want to make more even though I have no more make up brushes, or Nutella jars….
What do you all think of my first attempt?
