I recently got my annual pass Magicband in so I got decorating. It started off as a grey band. I used black silver sparkle nail polish. Then put on silver Mickey head glitter I collected on a previous trip. Yes I picked them off the ground.
For those of you who are doing tattoos and want the images brighter instead of fading into the color in the background(although I think those are the best). I used the method described in post #1420. Got a plastic bag, applied basecoat bigger than my tattoo, let dry, then applied tattoo to the basecoat, slowly peeled the basecoat from the bag, turned it over and painted with a very thin coat of white acrylic paint and filled in the tattoo area being careful not to paint outside the lines. Let dry then apply base coat to band and immediately place the tattoo on it so it will stick. The colors are as bright as when they were on the packaging. It takes a little time but seemed to work out great.
I was placing my tattoo on black so it basically would have disappeared, but the colors popped with the white backing. See below jaguar logo.
I'm having a band painting marathon today. Here are two more.
My sister asked for the birds from Nemo.
Detail of the hidden mickey (my favorite part)
Wow! Your bands just keep getting better and better!!! I am truly impressed by them!This one is mine. I don't know how well it shows up in the picture but I used sparkle paint on the castle spires and glitter nail polish on the grass area and for Tink's pixie dust.
Thanks guys. I think Crush might be my favorite one so far too.
My DH, the wise guy, just took this picture. He says he's ready to go to WDW now.
This is all the bands I have ever painted except for Rafiki, which is hiding in my DS's room somewhere.
After 5 hours of a Decorate Your Magic Band party - we only finished 3 full ones and 3 partials. Here are the full ones. Some of them were tough and we had to remove all of the polish. We decided only to put a clear coat first.
One of our DDs - LOVES the Broadway Show Newsies - and it is a Disney Production - so she did that on her own. The other 2 are our friends that are coming with us - with the help of my other DD. Lot of fun - but still 5 more to finish.
I thought everyone on here did a great job but now that we tried - I have more of an appreciation for everyone. Working with the Mickey Head in the middle was tough.
Not super fancy like some of you guys have done, but I'm happy with it!
I won't get my Magic band til I arrive since I don't live in the US. Any advice on something quick I can do to personalize them once I'm already there?
Ours are rescues, so no relation. The blonde (Athena) was adopted when she was about 3yrs old from a rescue out of FL, she's 13yrs old now & the black one (Gingy), we took in a year ago when the owners could no longer take care of her, she's 4yrs. old, They aren't really bonded yet, like I'm sure yours must be. I'm hoping in time they will be, but Gingy likes to fuss (not bark, fuss, it's funny & weird, rofl) a lot. We had a mini male schnauzer, Athena & him were bonded & cuddled in the winter, so cute, he kept her warm. But he passed away this year at the age of 16. It was a heartbreaking time & Athena was depressed for a while too. They had been together for 10yrs. But she's better now. We love dogs & ours are so spoiled. I know this thread is for MBs, but I'd love to see a pic of yours, if you want to post one. I'm sure no one would mind, hopefully.
I won't get my Magic band til I arrive since I don't live in the US
Finally done w/ my bands. Can't wait to start using them next week. Hubby originally thought decorating the bands was a dumb idea, that is until he saw mine. LOL. So etleast I put one layer of clear polish on one of his to make it shiny. But I think you can all use your imagination for that one.....I didn't take pics of it.
Here is my Mickey band
I had other plans for my Minnie band but painting with nail polish was harder then I thought so this is what I ended up with.
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