This is a step by step tutorial to help show you how to easily change colors in candles. Once you get a routine down changing candle colors will be a piece of cake.
Luckily you will be looking at my hands and the candle making props. I am definitely not smashingly dressed for the camera.
I enjoy changing color in my candles and creating a nice layered color look. It is not difficult. It just takes some planning and some organization.
Variables to think about in changing candle color:
- The look you are going for
- How cool is your first layer before you pour
- The temperature of you melted wax to pour on top of the first layer
Materials Needed:
- Your wax colors in easy to pour containers
- Spoon if you have extra small areas to pour into
- A bamboo skewer to chip away any added color that did not pour directly into the crevasse
- A mold
How to pour colored wax layers:
- Pour your first colored candle wax
- Wait for that layer of colored candle wax to cool off to the right temperature. Make sure it doesn’t cool so much that the wax shrinks. If the wax shrinks then the second color would seep around the first pouring
- Once the first pouring reached to right temperature pour the second layer
Here is a bonus tip on how to pour diagonal colored candle layers.
- Set your mold up on one side with a book, piece of wood or whatever you can find. Just make sure one side of the mold is higher than the other.
- When you pour wax into the lopsided mold your colored candle wax layers will take on the diagonal effect
There are so many other techniques that you can use to color your candles. I only cover the tip of the iceberg. Explore the candle layering colored techniques here then go exploring other avenues, such as, don’t allow the wax to cool all the way and see what coloring effect that may have.
Many Blessings,
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