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Pretend Make-Up

Published: Apr 21, 2010 by Ashley Phipps · 454 words. · About 3 minutes to read this article. · 15 Comments · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads and sponsored posts · This blog uses cookies · See our privacy policy for more info Filed Under: Craft, DIY, Gift Ideas

| Pretend Make-Up | 5 |

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 🙂 

Happy Designing!
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  1. Santa's Gift Shoppe and Ideas

    April 21, 2010 at 4:41 am

    Hi..I’m Barb.. I am your newest follower. I hope you will get a chance to visit my blog @ santasgiftshoppe.blogspot.com<br />&amp; get inspired by something for your family/home. I hope you will follow me as well.

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  2. Maridith @ Strictly Homemade

    April 21, 2010 at 11:50 am

    That is a brilliant idea!! My daughter wants &quot;pretend&quot; 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!

    Reply
  3. Erin

    April 21, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    LOVE IT!

    Reply
  4. Janaca

    April 23, 2010 at 3:59 pm

    How cute, if I had a little girl I&#39;d definitely do this for her, but I&#39;ll pass along the cute idea!

    Reply
  5. Emily

    April 25, 2010 at 2:45 am

    Wow! Yours turned out CUTE! thanks for the sweet shout-out 🙂

    Reply
  6. Joy

    May 26, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    my dd would love this! I will be featuring this tomorrow. Come over for a visit. mommaskindacrafty.blogspot.com

    Reply
  7. Kim @ seven thirty three

    May 26, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    LOVE this idea! I hate the cheapo children make-up... my daughter did get some that didn&#39;t show up, that one wasn&#39;t so bad! LOL<br /><br />Thanks for linking up with Sugar &amp; Spice.

    Reply
  8. Abby

    May 26, 2010 at 10:26 pm

    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!

    Reply
  9. Kaysi

    May 27, 2010 at 7:56 am

    What a great idea!!! I remember pretend makeup too, so fun!

    Reply
  10. Fawnda

    May 27, 2010 at 11:37 am

    This make-up is too fun! I love it! <br /><br />I also watch glee! 🙂 no judging here!!

    Reply
  11. Lauren

    May 27, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    Ahhh! I LOVE this! I am absolutely going to do this for my make-up obsessed neice!

    Reply
  12. Teena

    May 27, 2010 at 4:49 pm

    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 &lt;3

    Reply
  13. Lanie Ree

    May 28, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    What an awesome idea!<br /><br />Thank you for linking this up as well!

    Reply
  14. Kimbo West @ a girl and a glue gun

    May 30, 2010 at 9:27 pm

    i love this....and in essence I love you! so great! my daughter is truly going to be on cloud nine!!!!!

    Reply
  15. Pam

    May 31, 2010 at 1:01 am

    This pretend makeup idea of yours will work perfectly for my neices. Can&#39;t wait to try it out! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply

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