I have a very glitzy glam personality and taste. I like things to be elegant, and I like them to sparkle. I'm helplessly drawn to anything that sparkles or is doused in glitter. In my pinterest excursions, I've seen a few pins that lead to sites where you can buy glittery iPhone chargers, however this had some problems.
1. I already have a perfectly good charger that works just fine
2.I don't have an iPhone.
Recently I've been trying to force myself to work on more projects, and so I decided that this was a perfect DIY opportunity.

My solution to this was nail polish. Because of my job I can't have my nails painted, so I instead use my nail polishes to paint things ( I used this same technique to paint my phone, which matches the charger). For this project I used a silver nail polish with big chunks of holographic/prismatic glitter, and a pink polish with very fine glitter. I mixed the two together, and then using a paint brush, began to paint my charger.

On my charger you can see that most of it is white, with a little gray rim around the bottom. I only painted the white part pink. The gray part I painted with the same chunky silver, mixed with a metalic silver polish with extremely fine glitter. That took several coats to look glitzy enough.
I painted the whole thing at one time- so in order to hold it without smudging the paint, I stuck the prongs of the plug through the bottom of an upside down styrofoam cup. This kept the charger upright, smudge-free, and made drying and painting much easier.
When the paint was dry, I took a clear nailpolish that had some pretty prismatic sparkles in it, and used that as my top coat/ seal. This added a little extra sparkle, and will keep the bright, shiny "wet look" of the freshly applied glitter polish. I let the whole thing dry for a few hours, and tada!
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