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Hey guys,

Just found this stuff at a chemist:

It's crazy! It comes with a little square plastic magnet attached to the packaging. One is supposed to paint one's nails and then hold the little magnet over the wet polish and get a pattern appear as the magnetic particles are attracted to the little magnet, which has a design embedded into it. We played with it this morning, painting a microscope slide and then placing it over a variety of little magnets. I figure if we either got some tiny magnets from a toyshop, OR painted some onto a larger piece of OHP sheet perhaps, we could get some permanent magnetic fields. The hard part will be preventing the girls from painting their own nails with it!

How cool is that! I want some for myself, and I may get some for the school too. Was it from a chain of chemists?

Well, Terry White's up here - but it was in the cheapo range. Only cost me $5.00!

Love it! (so would me daughters....)

fantastic - thank you

I actually bought some of this a few months ago for my daughter. It is amazing. You really have to apply a thick coat though for it to work properly. It looks fantastic once dry!

My daughter has this and she loves it - just got it from the local chemist.
Must say I did not even give it a thought for school.

KIMMY

Maybe I should have put this thread into "You know you're a Labbie when..."

Can you tell me who makes this nail polish please? I havent been able to find it in the chemists over here in the west.

The brand I bought was "Ulta3", which usually appears in those bins of make-up etc at chain chemists or make-up shops like Priceline. However, I hear that there are other brands as well. Maybe go into one of those places and ask. If you do a search for Magnetic Nail Polish, it's all over the net.

Got my nail varnish yesterday. Very excited! I am struggling to get it to work every time though. Very embarrassing saying to my HOD "look how cool this is", take the magnet away and it looked exactly the same!

If you're using their magnets, it has to be ve-e-ery close, but not touching, and almost instantaneous.

http://www.suredeal.com.au/all-deals/deal/3231/?aid=jm

for those of you without access to this nail polish who would like to get it here is a deal that is only valid for a few days (it's one of those email ones you can sign up for). I have never purchased from the site though so I can't guarantee anything. Smiley said she only paid $5 for a bottle so I don't know where they get the $60 value for 5 bottles, but $24 is still a good price for 5. Anyway, check it out if you're interested (and if the link works). If it doesn't and you want to look send me a PM and I'll get back to you. I am going to try to get some for here.

And while I'm on this subject, has anyone had success creating permanent magnetic fields using ohp sheets or microscope slides? I need to have a bit of proof that it's worth it to back up my request...

Yes! You have to be quick, but I've had success painting it on glass microscope slides. Paint the slide and quickly place it over a small magnet (toy shop size). Little ring shaped magnets work too.

And thanks, I signed up and purchased some more myself!