DIY Mirrored Vanity Tray _ Beauty Junkie

Hey guys, it's Kirby. I am back with yet another DIY, and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that this is my favorite DIY of all time, which is saying something because I have done so many DIYs in my life, and this one is just so cute, it's so chic, and it's affordable. So I love a good mirrored dresser, side table, and I love a good mirrored vanity tray because I think they're so, so chic, but the thing is is that you could buy them at places like Anthro and West Elm, but they're super expensive. They just upsell the crap out of them, and who wants to spend that kind of money when you can get your hair did or your nails did, in my opinion, right? So we decided to DIY this vanity tray, and it turned out awesome. So I'm going to walk you through the process so you can have a chic vanity tray for yourself. Okay, so the first step is you want to find either a gold picture frame or an old picture frame that you can spray paint gold. So go into a well-ventilated area, put down a tarp, and spray paint the baby gold. I did a metallic gold. You can go with rose gold. You can go with silver. You can go with whatever metallic you like. So let the picture frame dry after you've spray painted it on top and bottom for about 20 minutes. It shouldn't take that long. This is the most important part. You want to make sure that you're measuring your little glass mirrored platelets so that they fit perfectly, otherwise you're going to be in a load of trouble when you actually start hot gluing. So my frame is 8 1⁄2 by 12 inches, which is fairly standard. I'm going through and measuring and making sure that all of them fit perfectly. Some are smaller, some are larger, and I'm alternating the sizes between each row. You don't have to use the little tiny mirrored platelets. You could actually just get a full-size mirror and put it underneath. However, I found that those mirrors are 12 by 12, and they rarely make picture frames that are 12 by 12. So these little mirrored platelets have minds of their own. Even if you sort them out and practice test, sometimes they get a little crazy and they don't want to fit properly. So I'm using a hot glue gun because if anything messes up, all you have to do is just pull it off and then the hot glue just rolls right off and you're good to go. So at the ends of the frame, you want to make sure that you're pushing those platelets inside so that you're maximizing the amount of room in the row. When you're applying the hot glue, do not create a mound of hot glue because you want these little platelets to sit flat. I'm applying it directly to the glass and alternating by applying it directly to the tile. So do that all the way up, and you're done. So it is fairly simple. I would say this DIY took me about an hour, and overall, the cost of this was maybe $25-$30. Not that expensive when you go buy something that costs maybe twice or three times this. So let me know in the comment section below if you're going to make this DIY. I love this. I'm going to proudly display it and tell everyone that I made it myself. Also, I was going to say, one neat trick would be if you don't want to glue on top of the glass frame of your picture frame, find a piece of paper or a piece of cardboard and glue those little platelets to that first, put it underneath, and then put the glass on top of that so it kind of just seals it. Honestly, I think it would work either way. If you're clumsy or you know you might break it, maybe putting the glass on top would be better, but I think this is going to work just fine. So again, let me know in the comment section below if you plan on making this, what you love about it, what color you're going to spray paint it. I'm going to just say gold is looking gorgeous. And as always, you can find me on Instagram and Twitter, at KirbyJohnson, and on Snapchat at kirby.johnson. Snap me, tweet me, Insta me, any type of DIY you want me to make next. All right? I'll see you next time.