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DIY Gold Leaf Faux Jewelry

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Inspired by a shoot styled by Mandy of Oracle Fox where gold leaf was applied in the form of makeup and jewelry, I immediately had to try it myself. It’s an instantaneous and temporary solution for a lack of bling. Plus, it looks super fly! This technique may even come in handy this Halloween season when you decide you’ll want to dress up as a Fendi-bot . . . or C-3P0.

You’ll need:

Start by cutting the sheet of gold leaf into half inch strips. Use scotch tape to tape off an area of the skin.

The gold leaf will not adhere to anything without an adhesive agent so an application of spirit gum is necessary. Apply a coat of spirit gum. (Spirit gum, which is normally used for affixing wigs and fake mustaches, is a great non-toxic solution and can be found at most speciality stage makeup stores or Ricky’s in New York.) With a foam brush, dap the spirit gum until it becomes tacky.

Pick up a strip of gold leaf and press the gold side onto the tacky area with pressure. Remove the strip and repeat the steps until the whole area is covered.

Remove the tape and use your fingers to smooth out any loose flakes. The gold leaf should stay on for at least 8-10 hours. Spirit gum remover or rubbing alcohol can be used to remove it if necessary.

Voila! You’re rocking gold leaf!!

(top image via Vogue.com, rest of images by HonestlyWTF; bottom image Jennifer Fisher Spike Ring & Zoya Edyta polish)

63 Comments

  21. Elizabeth    October 11, 2011

    I love yours! I was wondering where you were thinking in terms of placement and making a faux ring was so genius! I like it even better than the eye shadow!

    -E, House of Guise

  39. Adelle Rosan    October 22, 2011

    DIY fashion jewelry are just so fab! I’m not really good at crafts, beads, and wires in making jewelry. So discovering magnetic jewelry pieces is truly heaven-sent for me. I stumbled upon this video by Arden, ARose186 http://www.youtube.com/user/ulinxjewelry#p/u/0/A9ay60xQVrE and she’s showed how simple and fun it is to create/assemble, mix-match-swap magnetic jewelry pieces made by ulinxjewelry.com. Yeah, by simply linking and clicking the pieces, you could create a charmed bracelet, a necklace, an arm band, a ring — all from just one set of bracelet –the possibilities are endless! I hope I win that giveaway set. Abso-lovely! I likey! :-) http://www.facebook.com/ulinxjewelry?sk=photos

  41. Megan    November 1, 2011

    What if you have to wach your hands? Is there a way to make these so you can wear them more than once?

  44. erw    April 2, 2012

    Hi manager
    we are chinese gold leaf manufactory.we produce the transfer gold leaf and the loose gold leaf.we can offer you competetion product,pls check our website http://www.goldleaves.net
    .thanks

  45. They Call Me J    December 6, 2012

    Very cool. I saw this done at NAHA in Las Vegas a number of years back and the girl had silver leaf around her neckline (sort of like a necklace only a bit more abstract). It looked fantastic. Gold makes it that much better.

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