How to Make Glitter Paint 2025

How to make glitter wall paint? The new trend glitter home wall decoration has unlimited options, there are wallpapers with thousands of different patterns and colors, as well as a ton of different wall paint options.

If it weren’t a tiring job, you could apply a different application to your walls every year. For example, I changed my walls, which I applied a two-tone color last year, to sand beige, one of the trending colors this year…

However, while I was researching different wall decorations for you, our valued Decorau.Com readers, I came across glittery wall paints and I think I will use this type of paint on at least one of my room's walls next year.

Therefore, I did a detailed research on glitter wall paints for my readers who think like me and of course for myself… Here are the things you don’t know about glitter paint…

Why should you paint with glitter paint?

Painting walls with glitter is becoming a new trend and it’s no surprise, it’s super easy to apply and gives us gorgeous shiny surfaces. It gives a sparkle to the walls in bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, small reading nooks etc. We want to help you choose the one that best suits your needs.

2025 Glitter wall paint samples

Glitter Wall Paint Prices and Brands 2025

Here are 2 suggestions where you can get current glitter paint prices.

We leave you some images to inspire you and see the amazing results that can be achieved.

Ready-made Glitter Paint Application

They are water-based, colorless interior paints that create small sparkles on the wall thanks to the fine glitters they contain.
First coat your wall with water-based silicone. wall paint Paint with 2 coats. (It can also be applied on freshly painted or clean wall paint.)

Wait for your water-based wall paint to dry completely. (2-4 hours)
Mix your ready-made glitter paint well and apply 1 coat to the wall. (These paints are ready to use, they do not require thinning.)
If you want to increase the glitter on the surface, you can apply a second layer after 4 hours.

Pay Attention to These!…

Stir your paint frequently before using it and while painting. (For even distribution on the wall.)
The wall must be clean, dry and dust-free.
You can apply your paint with a short-haired water-based satin water or a small finger roller.
Glitter paints can be found in 0.75lt and 2.5lt packages. You can paint a small room in 1 coat with a 0.75lt box.

How to prepare glitter paint for a small room

You can make your own glitter paint by mixing fine powdered glitter, available from hobby supply stores or stationery stores, into your water-based paint.
If the paint on your wall is very old or plastic, first paint it with only 1 coat of binder primer.
If you are going to prepare glitter paint for a room, mix 2-3 small boxes of 45 ml fine powder glitter into your 2.5 liters of paint.

To prevent the glitter from clumping in the paint and to distribute it evenly, slowly stir and pour your glitter in while diluting your paint with water. (It should be mixed very well.)
If you are going to apply two coats of paint to the wall, apply the first coat without mixing the glitter. After 2-3 hours, apply the wall paint with the glitter mixed in.
You can find these fine powder glitters at hobby supply stores, some DIY stores, or online.

Things to Consider When Painting Glitter Walls

The best glitters to mix into your paint are fine powder glitters. Some powder glitter types: Hologram glitter (the most preferred glitter in the picture), gold glitter, silver glitter, green glitter, blue glitter, mixed color glitters (gold-silver, gold-copper, green-purple, etc.). (Click on the image to enlarge.)
Glitter may decrease over time on cleaned walls.

How to apply glitter paint to the wall?

As we mentioned before, there is no secret to applying this type of paint, it is designed to be applied directly without the need for anything special.

For painting we need a roller, a brush or a small roller, a bucket and a stick (optional), masking tape (optional).

1. (optional) Limit the area you want to paint with masking tape and put plastic or blankets on the floor to avoid getting dirty. This step is optional but highly recommended.
2. If we do not get the desired result, clean the wall thoroughly to remove any dirt that may contaminate the paint.
3. (Optional) Paint the wall with a layer of primer, this step is useful if we want to apply a light color on a dark wall.
4. It's about painting the wall with a white paint so that the paint we paint on it will look much better.
5. Carefully open the lid of the glitter or sparkly paint, you can open it with a screwdriver when it becomes too hard.
6. Stir the paint thoroughly with a stick or something similar (Sometimes glitter may remain at the bottom of the container)
7. Add the paint to the bucket
8. First we will cut the corners with a brush. Go through all the corners and areas of the wall that we cannot reach with the roller.
9. Finally, we wet the cylinder in the bucket, we do not enter the water so as not to leave drops.
10. Always apply vertically to the wall, it is important not to change direction and to move vertically the entire wall in one pass.
11. In this way, we will achieve a much more professional result.
12. We carefully remove the masking tape and, if necessary, we can touch up with a brush.
13. We let it dry overnight.

Recommendations and scope

We recommend using a sponge roller or a wide-bristle paintbrush. This paint has a coverage of around 9 to 12 square metres per litre, but it will all depend on the layers you give it and the effect you want.

Glitter additive for paint

As we mentioned there are cheaper alternatives to the previous method, it is a glitter additive added to the water based emulsified paint, the nice thing about using this method is that we can triple the base color and tone of the paint. The glitter, we can also decide if we want to add more or less glitter depending on the intensity we want.

We can also mix the additive with clear paint or varnish, but this is a slightly more complicated method and if this type of paint is not mixed very well and not applied evenly, it usually forms “globules” where more glitter accumulates.