Nail polish is nice on your fingers and toes, but there are several other uses that might help make your life a little easier.
1. Waterproof your labels. Use clear polish as a coating to prevent ink from ruining labels.
2. Stop! don't lick that envelope, seal it with nail polish instead.
3. Stiffen fibers. Tell Grandma she can thread her own needles now.
4. Costume jewelry chipping, peeling or changing colors? Try clear polish while they're still new and they'll stay new a lot longer. This works on belt buckles too.
5. Now your costume jewelry is all polished up, but the stone popped out. No problem, just reset it using a drop of clear nail polish as glue.
6. After salvaging your jewelry and resetting lost stones, you realize you wasted your time because you never liked them anyway. You just couldn't pass on the sale. It happens to all of us a time or two. That's ok, just use different colored polishes to change the color of the stones. Voila, new jewelry, that you bought on sale and really really like.
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If you're a creative person and have an eye for color, try mixing polishes to match the color of a chipped vase or ceramic piece. Now Grandma will never know that you chipped her heirloom vase.
8. After making that chipped vase look new again, your creative juices are flowing and you just can't stop there. Grab a bowl, water, and handful of polishes to marble papier-mâché boxes, bottles, or other small items you want to decorate. I found a lovely tutorial here by Kelly Bryden.
9. Get a rip in your pantyhose? Dab on a little clear polish to keep it from running. Did you lose that little piece of plastic on the tip of your shoe laces? Use polish to prevent the ends from fraying. Also works on