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Use Nail Polish to Create Artistic Accents on your 3D Prints, Like These Dominoes - 3DPrint.com

Have you ever 3D printed something and then needed some extra color on your print job to make it look finished? Many people use Sharpies for this kind of accenting, but perhaps you should consider using fingernail polish for a job like this. The project featured here did just this. Nail polish was used to accent the 3D printed dominoes designed by “Hercanstein,” aka Brian Murphy. These dominoes were designed by Murphy using Solidworks Student version, then 3D printed and decorated by Desi Quintans. What you get as a result is a colorful and professional set of dominoes that will make you want to play the game immediately.

Quintans is a PhD candidate in Sydney, Australia who shares all kinds of projects and tips on his website. Back in January, Quintans began documenting the process of coloring white filament using Sharpies, essentially making homemade colored filament. So, as you can see, colored 3D printing is something that appears to preoccupy Quintans’ 3D printing experimentation. Next, on the same website, Quintans posts about using nail polish to help accent objects with recessed lettering or divots so you can see them better.

Using six different colors to mark the domino divots, Quintans states that nail polish works the best for a job like this because it is inexpensive, easy to find, durable, and it comes in many different glosses and finishes ranging from matte, swirled, glittery, and even thermochromatic (responding to heat). Another benefit of using nail polish is that it dries quickly. The nail polish set Quintans purchased for the job came with 16 different colors and a brush and pen to use for application. For the job of filling in small divots, the pen works very well because it allows so much precision. Quintans explains that a large dot of color was placed in each divot “so that it was beading above the surface of the domino, and it subsided into a thick coating along the surface of the domino.”

And that’s about all there is to it if you would like to try accenting 3D prints with nail polish. Quintans does leave us with some parting tips. Remember to mix your paint/polish before applying it. If you need to fill a channel with a color, then use a backwards and forwards scrubbing motion: “Place a dot, push it backwards. It helps get the paint into the corners and onto the sides of the channel.” Also, apply a thick layer of polish. It will shrink and coat the surface as it dries. Finally, keep in mind that polish may not work on ABS because of the polish’s solvents, so if you are planning to print with ABS filament and accent with nail polish, keep the possible damage factor in mind.

So now that you know how to paint with polish, I am sure you can find some print job that needs a colorful touch up. Happy Polishing! Are you going to try this? Tell us about it in the 3D Print Accents with Nail Polish forum over at 3DPB.com.

 

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Tagged with: 3d printed dominoes • 3d printed games • Brian Murphy • colorizing 3D prints • Desi Quintans • nail polish accents • painting • thingiverse

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Mani.me and their 3D printed Nails; the future of manicures?

Published on December 11, 2018 by Michelle J.

The technologies of additive manufacturing’s impacts is constantly brought to different sectors from food to vehicles, through fashion and reaching consumer products. However, believe it or not, 3D printing technologies have gone into manicures… Or at least that is the proposal of Mani.me, a company dedicated to the manufacturing of fully 3D printed nails. Bringing the custom made and customised aspect to a new level in nail art.

The operation of personalised manicures is simple. You only have to send photographs of your hands through your application. With this information the team of Mani.me is able to develop the solution with 3D printed nails. It’s the fastest way and quit a lot simpler than any other traditional technique. To learn more about this innovative project we have spoken with Jooyeon Song, co-founder of Mani. me, and one of our selected as entrepreneurs in 3D printing under 30 years.

3DN: Can you introduce yourself and your link with 3D printing?

Hello, my name is Jooyeon Song and I am the Co-founder of Mani.me. I first discovered 3D printing when I was 19, while working for Hyundai Engineering Center in India during my gap year at University. When I worked as an IT assistant in the center, and I was often mesmerised by how designers bring their project to life, from their head to a real object particularly thanks to 3D printing. And I started to learn about CAD modeling and studied 3D printing tech since then.

Founders of Mani.me: Jooyeon & David Miro Llopis

My business partner David Miro Llopis studied industrial engineering at CentraleSupelec in Paris. His graduation thesis was on the generation of plasma: he designed and 3D printed a plasma reactor. On top of that, he’s passionate about creating products especially with new technologies.

3DN: How did the idea of ​​creating Mani.

me come about?

As you can imagine, I love manicures. However, when I worked as a management consultant, I always felt frustrated because it was very difficult for me to find time to go to the nail salon. I didn’t like committing 2-3 hours of my time from an already busy schedule. I tried getting it done by myself at home, I bought a bunch of manicure polish bottles. However, painting my own nails by myself resulted in terrible looking nails (especially on my dominant hand), many unused polish bottles, as well as a messy room.

When I was working in Finland, my sister sent me a fake nail set that was popular in Korea. But as they were mass produced for the “average size”, they did not look good, and most importantly I felt really uncomfortable. It didn’t give me a feeling of being well “put together”. Then I thought, ready-to-use manicures should be tailor-fitted and soon after found out that I can connect the dots with my 3D printing passion.

3DN: What are the different steps to create 3D printed nails?

It starts with getting a pictures of customer’s hands.  We’ve developed our photogrammetry software, which can transfer 2D image information into a 3D model, generating a unique model for each nail.

Our customers takes a few pictures on our app, and we build a nail model in our software. With the 3D model as a base, we can generate a 3D pattern file for each design our customer selects on our gallery and then 3D print it!

From a customer perspective:

  1. Browse our gallery to find the trendiest colors and the best designers from all over the world.
  2. Get fitted (only the first time) by taking 5 pictures form your phone camera.
  3. Check-out a single set of nails or join a subscription plan where you can get additional sets for many occasions.

We are still finalizing our patent for the technology we have developed. We’ll tell you more about the materials, the software and every step of the process once everything is settled!

3DN: How do you see the future of additive manufacturing in the cosmetic market?

When I first discovered 3D printing in 2011, 3D printers were only for rapid prototyping as they had limited printing speed and material availability. Let’s say, at least for me, it was hard to imagine printing “shoes” from a 3D printer. But now, we see that 3D printers keep evolving, offering scale production capabilities in several industries: Aerospace, Automotive, Health and Fashion.

We believe that this constantly evolving  3D printing tech will reshape custom manufacturing. And guess which industry needs custom manufacturing? The cosmetics market for sure! Every woman and every man is special. Their skin color, preference, occasion, skin condition, and nail size. We now have millions of choices in terms of cosmetic product availability, but nobody is sure if she/he has chosen the right product for themselves. This issue very much applies to the cosmetics manufacturers. Along with typical supply chain issues of sustainability and quality, the cosmetics industry has to keep up with the quickly changing demands of customers, stock a wide range of products to suit all consumers, and still avoid wastage from unsold inventory.

Cosmetics manufacturing as we know it will never be the same. And it will be very exciting to be part of this transformation – how additive manufacturing can innovate this industry.

3DN: Do you have some final words for our readers?

Your nail fashion can be as changeable as your shoes with Mani.me & 3D printing! I hope to see many other interesting applications of this technology. For more information about Mani.me’s 3D printed nails, you can visit the official website here.

What do you think of the the 3D printed nails from Mani.me? Let us know in a comment below or on our Facebook and Twitter pages! And remember to sign up for our free weekly Newsletter, to get all the latest news in 3D printing send straight to your inbox!

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This article could have been called "British scientists using 3D printing made a breakthrough in the nail service", but it didn't work out. The material is actually old, but the hands did not reach for a long time, as they say.

It all started with a comment to one of my first noob articles:

Beautiful nails... with a cool pattern... (c) pl32

That's where I got the idea to make a custom stamping plate. This is a technique of applying a pattern by transferring paint from an engraved image to a silicone pad, and from it to the nail. Or not on a nail, but on any other surface - there was just one model that such a painting technique would be very suitable for.

As I understand it, most of the inhabitants of this site are "in the tank", so I'll leave the video guide:

It turned out that your obedient servant has a crust about taking manicure courses, but he uses gel and other things exclusively in modeling. She was born a modeller, but never became a manicurist. Before buying an ender, to answer the question "do I need a 3D printer at all", I ordered printing from 3dtime.by (not advertising). The model, as usual, is from Tingivers. At 150% scale, most of the parts are made of ABS and some of the parts are made of photopolymer. There is not enough small logo, which you can draw:

And then there's the idea #saw in the comments. I quickly sketched a prototype engraved plate in Tinkercad: https://www.tinkercad.com/things/4m4qwpFEvxF-copy-of-swanky-duup-uusam and sent it to the same studio where Wheatley typed. Printing on the ender with 0.2 and 0.3 mm nozzles was not successful, so the photopolymer. This little thing was made for me free of charge, having warned that it was very thin and would be printed on supports:

A few words about the materials: a special varnish for stamping is needed here. Ordinary nail polish will be too transparent, ordinary gel polish is collected on a stamp in droplets. I had black and white lying around, which I diluted for some reason, and it didn’t turn out very well. Pictures are funny, but the situation is sad:

Maybe it looks decent in the photo, but I lost count of how it happened. But no one has such a plate, that's a fact. We dig further - for the second time I made a plate with different engraving depths and with holes, I also bought additional varnishes and gels for stamping for tests.

It is believed that deep engraving is good, but there was nothing to measure it on a good plate. Therefore, we will select the depth experimentally.

Orange and silver - special gels for stamping, dried in a UV lamp.

It seems that deep engraving is contraindicated for gel, it squishes and smears in a large volume, details swim.

Such rubbish turned out, not beautiful drawings in a second. If you still think it looks decent, here is a behind-the-scenes photo:

The execution didn’t end there - I went with a self-made plate from a manicure master (I’ve been doing my nails for 5 years, and after the courses I already go to the masters - that’s how evil joke of fate). It was around February. The drawing did not print as it should, I had to somehow save it with sparkles. Suffered for a long time:

But if you remember why everything was started, this is what will come out:

This is such a strange experience of printing stamping plates. Such things can definitely be obtained by laser engraving on metal, but, having a photopolymer printer in the arsenal and an undemanding request for image quality, you can create a plate on demand. I don’t understand what exactly went wrong - either the plate itself is curved, or microroughness, or even adhesion to the plate material.

If you still decide to repeat, here are some tips for you:

  • You need to work quickly, especially with varnish - it dries and does not imprint. The transparent stamps that have appeared on sale simplify the work, allowing you to accurately aim. Again, I don't want to do advertising or anti-advertising, but I didn't print my native stamp Shery Varnish, I had to replace it with Swanky Stamping - sticky and soft from transparent silicone. Do not use solvents for cleaning, only adhesive tape or sticky rollers for clothing.
  • The thinner the design lines, the deeper the engraving should be. A good varnish works on 0.15 mm, a special gel needs no more than 0.1 - it does not dry out and spreads, hence squelching and dirty marks.
  • The plate must be cleaned immediately after use - the varnish is removed with a liquid based on ethyl acetate or acetone, the gel - with alcohol. The gel, in fact, is a kind of photopolymer, so I advise you to clean it straight away and in no case expose it to ultraviolet rays - there is a high risk of merging with the plate tightly.

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