Coating polymer clay with UV resin
When everything has been baked I wanted to make it look nice and shiny. As a complete and total newbie to this hobby, I wasn’t stocked up on everything I needed. I decided to use UV nail polish to cover my pendants. This turned out to be a mistake.
Although everything looked nice, after a couple of days I’ve noticed that the nail polish coat had started to flake off. In the end, I had to remove all of it and what wouldn’t peel off I sanded down.
My very next purchase was UV resin. I have to say it is brilliant, but I’ve learned a few things too. It says that it’s UV resin (suggesting it will only work with UV lamp) but it will still harden when left exposed to the daylight. I’ve used little brush to cover the clay with resin and while I left it uncleaned on the side for probably 30 min or so, resin started to set. Luckily I managed to clean it.
That is why I’ve now started using a wooden nail stick to apply resin instead. Another reason for abandoning brush was the fact that it was leaving air bubbles after applying.
I’m happy with how well the UV resin worked. For big projects, epoxy resin might be better and probably more cost-effective, but for little things like a few pendants and earrings, UV resin is perfect. Especially when working on one piece at a time.
So that’s my polymer clay pendants and earrings ready.
