Making Marble Effect Candles - How to Dye a Candle to Make it Look Like Marble

Use the pliers to grip the wick of your candle. You will need to just very quickly, in one fluid motion, submerge your candle into the melting pot and then pull it out. Do not leave it in the melting pot as the hot water will begin to melt your candle.

You can experiment with twisting the candle as you dip it to get swirling effects.

Dip each color separately. Do not mix dye shavings in the same pot or they will melt together and form one color, not multiple colors.

Either use different melting pots for each color, or use the same melting pot, removing the dye in the water completely before adding your next color of dye chips.

To remove the dye from the water dip some dry newspaper into the melting pot. The melted dye will cling to its surface and be lifted from the water as you remove the newspaper from the melting pot.

This candle was dipped first in green dye, then blue. The two colors are distinct.

Blue and green dyes were mixed together before dipping this candle, creating a blue-green color with occasional streaks of solid green and solid blue.

If your candle will not stand on it's own, you can rig a simple drying hanger by placing a wire or stir stick across the opening of a large pot, and clipping the wick to the wire with a close pin or other clip, to allow it to cool and dry.

This is not usually necessary, as these candles will usually cool and harden up within 30 seconds or so.

This really is all it takes to make exotic and intricate marble dipped candles!