DIY Play Time Makeup

It’s no secret that little girls love to play dressup, and that includes experimenting with makeup.  I’m not a fashionista myself, so there is not alot for them to experiment with round here.  Nail polish however is one thing we do seem to have a plentiful supply of; it’s cheap, bright, easy to do and makes them feel like big girls in an instant.  Somewhere, a very long time ago, I read about an idea where you could make your own play-makeup using nail polish.  As I was holding a plastic Easter Egg tray in my hands, I suddenly remembered the idea and finally got around to trying it.
Using the tray and an assortment of colours, I tipped a small amount into every second circle and left it overnight to dry.  The results weren’t too bad.
Warning – as nailpolish dries it seems to shrink, and as it does so it will try to pull the surrounding plastic with it.  You can’t see it in the photo but the tray underneath became all puckered and distorted.  It wasn’t enough to stop using the play-makeup but it had me worried for a while.
My biggest recommendation is to pick something more solid as your base; perhaps an old face powder compact, eye shadow tray or some other old makeup container that won’t pucker and twist as the light weight plastic tray did.
The girls love dipping their finger into the ‘makeup’ and putting the red on their lips and the other colours around their eyes, they do each other in a beauty parlour and even dressed me up with an imaginary rainbow on my forehead... nice.
(PS-If your little girls are princess-wanna-be’s, be sure to look at our Princess Craft EBook, there’s plenty of other DIY craft activities for children to try on a rainy day, or just because!)