My attempt @ the sparkle wall paint

you cant tell from this angle really but that's the basic color of her room.

ill get a close up . . . ehhh

Ok u cant see it will in these photos but in person u can for sure see it. My friends had mentioned a product val spar makes that's basically glitter that u pour into Ur paint and then paint the walls with. and of course me being me decided that ! I NEED TO DO THIS FOR MY GIRLS WHEN WE GET TO THE NEW HOUSE !!!!!!

well i poked around online and started looking into different blogs and read in a few fourms all the different ideas people had and then looked at pictures. but it seemed the best examples of what i was going for came with no formal instructions or HOW TOs. so i decided i would just kinda test out all the ways that made the most cents

1. was blowing glitter on to the walls while the paint was still wet and tacky

2. mix into the paint. and then apply to walls

3. get a can of spray glitter and just spray all over the walls.

. . . . . i think there were a few others

blowing the glitter on the walls was too tedious

and mixing it into the paint looked like it could only be done with a certain products (ones i did not know of) and u didn't know for sure how much of the sparkle you would really get. the last one was a fabulous idea but that glitter spray paint only comes in a few colors and the smell seems like it would kill allot of brain cells and if nothing Else give u a killer migraine while u were waiting the two Weeks for the smell to dissipate. Pluss u would need a good pit of it to cover a whole room.

what i did was go to HOBBY LOBBY buy a few vials of very fine opalescent glitter in a few hues and then tested it out my self.

first we tried mixing it . . . . the paint just covered the glitter on the walls . . . then we tried blowing it on . . . . looked great but i couldn't get an even disbursement of glitter/ it was a pain in the butt / and it got glitter every where and was messy

i remembered one idea that i had thought of that made total sense in the beginning . . . but i didn't think to use because. no one else had suggested it and i figured that it just wasn't an option. IT INVOLVED MIXING GLAZE !!!!!!!! a clear glaze that normally you would mix with Ur paint to add certain effects . . . like different types of Faux finishes.

we finished paining the walls completely!!! the color that i wanted

and then i took my vials of glitter and dumped them into the can of glaze and mixed well and then rolled onto the walls . . . . . IT WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i didn't get quite as much sparkle as i would have LOVED to get but it was just right plus me an d the friend who had helped me paint were so tired. i wasn't even gonna think about doing a second coat that day and i kinda like it the way it is.

i don't remember the name of the products i used but its key to get glaze that is clear and not tinted. ours looked white when we oped it but it dries clear and kinda makes the color of the walls look a little lighter but not for long.

i would recommend getting glitter from here

http://www.kitkraft.biz/home.php?cat=73

http://www.kitkraft.biz/product.php?productid=869&cat=73&page=1 cause u can buy allot !

Martha Stewart sells probably the biggest containers of ultra fine glitter i have seen in stores but i couldn't find the opalescent.

any who there are my pics . . . . now maybe some one else will be looking for ideas an d stumble across my blog