Gothic Nose Ring

It's a Gothic nose ring with Bengali nose ring style. It was made on a very enthusiastic client's demand and I absolutely Loved throughout the making process! Hope you guys like it!

1. Thin wire ( preferably unannealed brass wire )
2. Flexible brand of polymer clay ( I used Fimo )
3. Sculpey Bake & bond
4. Mini ball tools

Take a thin straight brass wire. take a length of your preference how big or small you'd like the ring circumference. Start rolling some black polymer clay around it. stretch while rolling the clay till the end of the wire is covered. It's important for the clay brand to be flexible even after baking. I used Fimo polymer clay. Bake it in oven according to the instructed temperature.

Spike: Roll out some tiny spikes with the clay.

Rose: Take very small ball of clay, put on a tooth pick and shape a very tiny bud. Bake it. The make some more tiny clay balls. put one on your hand or over sponge and press over it with small ball tool to shape it a petal. make petals remaining ball of clays. the on the baked bud on the toothpick, attach the petals one by one overlapping in a way so that it looks like rose. cut off the toothpick from the bottom of the rose. Make as many as roses as you like. Bake these.

Skull: take a small ball of clay. you could put a picture of a skul for reference. start to shape like it. with tiny ball tool, press over where the eyes would be of the skull. put 2 red stones or red foil paper on the eyes ( Optional ) . Later I put 2 horns. Then Bake it.

Put bake & bond on the spots of the clay covered wire where you'd like to add the spikes, roses and the skull. Put very small ball of clays on those spots and press the spikes, roses and skull on those spots. take a tiny ball tool and try to blend.

Then Bake it.

Now the barb wire strands.

make very narrow strands with clay, wrap around a narrow rod in small springs. Bake it. Slide out from the rod.

Now again, make 4 long narrow strands. Slide the clay springs in 4 of the long clay stands. take both ends of 4 of the starnds together and twist a little from each side for an uneven look. the put some bake & bond on the middle back of the previously made clay cover wire ( with spikes, roses & skull attached ) and attach one end of the 4 strands there and blend it with that. on the other end, blend together and make a small loop. Then bake.

The moment of truth! the reason why we chose flexible polymer clay. Start bending the straight clay covered wire to a round shape. If it wasn't a flexible brand of clay, it'd have broken if attempted to bend.

So, Voila! It's done! put the ring on your nose on the other end, put a bobby pin through the loop of the strand and clip on you hair!