Authentic-looking gothic potion bottles featuring faux dripped sealing wax, tea-stained botanical poison labels, and sculpted clay stoppers.
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Soak amber pill bottles in warm soapy water to strip prescription labels; degrease with rubbing alcohol.
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Drip high-temperature hot glue around the cap rim and shoulders to simulate layers of running candle wax.
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Paint the bottle body in mottled washes of matte black, burnt umber, and moss green acrylic paint.
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Print or hand-letter vintage poison labels (“Wolfsbane”, “Deadly Nightshade”, “Bat Wings”) on paper soaked in black tea, singeing the edges with a lighter.
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Glue the parchment label to the bottle face and seal with matte Mod Podge.
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Top the cap with a natural cork or a sculpted air-dry clay skull.
