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Hello and welcome to Cupcake Addiction's Easy Nail Polish Bottle Cakepop Tutorial where
I'll be showing you how to make this gorgeous and really easy nail polish bottle cakepop.
For those of you that watch my channel, My Cupcake Addiction, you'll notice that I do
always have lovely bubblegum pink-painted nails. But for this tutorial, I've got a little
bit different. This is a collaboration with my friend Meliney from Mileney's Nail Art.
She's actually created me this tutorial of this fantastic and gorgeous little cupcake
nails. So I've created this nail polish bottle cakepop
for her. Head on over to Meliney Nail Art if you love nail art and cupcakes and check
out her tutorial. Tools and equipment that we will be using
today: I've got my pre-rolled cakepop balls. Now
if you're having trouble getting your cakepop balls to this consistency, rolled and ready
to go, we've got a great tutorial and recipe on our channel, My Cupcake Addiction, and
I will leave a link to that tutorial in the description box below.
I've got lollipop sticks. I've got a couple of toothpicks or cocktails
sticks. I've got just some black color paste. I'm
going to use paste for this rather than liquid because we're going to be painting on the
chocolate. And that is an optional extra. I've got some pink, dyed pink chocolate, so
it's actually white chocolate that I've colored with a little tiny bit of Wilton rose pink
color-paste, not too much. Otherwise, you can also use pink candy melts or you can use
any color you want your nail polish inside that bottle to be.
I've got one piece of soft eating liquorice. Now soft eating liquorice is not hard and
firm like your traditional liquorice twists. It's quite soft and when you squeeze it, you
can sort of, I guess, move it out of shape a little bit. But the main thing you want
with this is that it's a round shape, kind of like a lid of a nail polish bottle.
Let's get started. Firstly, we want to take our cakepop ball.
Now this is a standard-sized cakepop ball. And I'm going to work with one just a little
bit smaller about 2/3s of the size of a standard cakepop ball.
So we're going to take that. We're going to shape it into the shape of our nail polish
bottle. And I don't believe in having fancy molds or different shapers or anything like
that. I just shape everything by hand. And if you want them to be in uniform size, you
just make sure you start off with uniform-sized balls to begin with.
So I'm going to take that and I'm just going to push it down a little bit and use my fingers
just to shape it up into kind of that nail polish bottle shape. And obviously yours can
be any shape and size that you like. To get my nice flat top, I'm just going to
smack it down on the mat, on the top, and then on the bottom and just make sure that
I'm happy with the taper. Round off the edges a little bit.
You should have something that looks a little bit like this.
Now you want to pop that into the fridge and you want to wait until it's really really
well set. So that's going to go into my fridge for about 15 minutes until I'm convinced that's
really nice and firm. I've pre-refrigerated one of these so that
it's nice and ready for this tutorial. And as you'll see there, if I push it, it does
not go out of shape at all. So we're going to dip our cakepop ball or our cakepop polish
container. Just give that chocolate a little bit of a
stir and you just want to coat the end of your lollipop stick about a centimeter or
so in that chocolate. And supporting your entire nail polish bottle, push that stick
in about a centimeter and a half. Now you'll notice you've got this nice little
seal here. I would normally [try] to keep that but because we don't want to distort
the shape of our nail polish bottle, just take your finger and wipe around the sides.
So the chocolate's still going to be doing its job when you're sticking your cakepop
ball to the stick but it's just not going to be changing the shape of the nail polish
bottle. I'm going to pop that off into the refrigerator for about another 5 minutes just
to make sure that seal's really well set before we come back and dip our nail polish bottle.
Alright, we're back from the fridge and our cakepop is still nice and hard. Our lovely
chocolate seal is completely set so it's time to dip.
I'm just going to dip into that pink chocolate and pull it out. Make sure that your chocolate
covers that lovely seal or meets up with the stick and tap it off. Make sure that you do
tap off as much of the excess as you can. Now this is essentially what your nail polish
cakepop is going to look like at this point. Make sure that you don't have any chocolate
that's going to drip off or anything like that because it will actually distort the
shape of your nail polish bottle. I'm going to pop that into my polystyrene
block here to dry. While that's sitting in that polystyrene block,
I'm going to take this little bit of liquorice and I'm going to just sit it on top. Be very
very careful. And do not move it now until that is completely set and completely dry
because otherwise you risk losing your lid. If your chocolate should dry before you get
to that stage, just pop a little blob of the melted chocolate onto that set pink chocolate
and use that to fix your little bit of liquorice. If you do want to take it, just that little
step further, -- we'll use this one here that is completely dry -- you can use your black
food coloring and we can actually give it the OPI logo.
OPI is a nice easy one. Look, it doesn't have to be absolutely perfectly OPI but it's just
one that everybody recognizes as nail polish. So I'm just going to take that cocktail stick.
Dip it into that black food coloring and I'm going to start by just doing one line across
the top. I'm going to support it just by holding the top of the lid and the bottom of the cakepop.
One line across the top. When you're using black food coloring to paint,
you can always dilute it with just a little bit of alcohol, any clear alcohol, so cake
decorating [rose spirits] or a bit *** if you've got access to ***. And it will actually
help it dry a little bit quicker. Otherwise, you're looking at probably about 12 hours
for this to completely dry. Edible markers are also a great alternative
to food coloring. But I know not everybody has access to those.
Alright, so there you have your completed OPI or known OPI nail polish bottle, ready
to go for your next event for the make up lover or the nail polish lover in your family.
Thanks very much for watching.