Nail polish: 8 alternative ways to use it at home that will amaze you

We are used to thinking that nail polish is only used for manicures and pedicures.

But nail polish is, in reality, much more versatile than one might believe. Everyone has at least a couple of nail polish bottle in the home and it can be used to solve some everyday problems.

We show this below, listing some of the potential alternative uses for nail polish. And these are only a few of them!

One of the ways to nail polish - especially old ones that you might want to throw away - is to varnish your keys. Having a bunch of keys in different colors will allow you to recognize them more easily. Not to mention that they will look stylish.

Decorating a phone cover with nail polish has been a popular technique for years. It's a creative way to personalize your smartphone without breaking the bank.

And have you ever tried to decorate hair pins and hair grips with nail polishe? The result is truly glamorous.

Not to mention accessories and costume jewelery. Creating fantastic colored necklaces with thread, small metal washers and nail polish, can be a very simple and very fun job to do. And if you have no intention of creating new jewelry, you can always use nail polish to rejuvenate old pieces, giving them color and a new life.

Thanks to its composition and its consistency, nail polish can even allow you to repair certain objects. The loose frame of a pair of glasses, for example, can be fixed with clear nail polish. Tighten the screws and apply some polish. Once dry, it will lock the screw in place.

Nail polish can also be great to cover and camouflage scratches or other light damage to patent leather shoes.

And by putting a little transparent polish at the end of a thread, you will make threading a needle much more easily.

And finally, here's one last creative way to use nail polish. Decorating bland white mugs can be a truly unique idea.

Have you ever used nail polish like this?