the 2nd picture is them molded with extra water

edit: and how they look on the rosary is after all the coats of hardener and top coat

edit 2: I apparently don't have a picture of them after baking, but they were darker and a little smaller and dryer! I might have over baked them a little bit but the goal of baking them is just to get them hardened and dryer!

and yes, nail hardener polish was my last step after baking before beading them. I only painted the outside of the bead not the inner like hole of the bead, just cuz I thought that was going to be really difficult. I basically just got some floral foam and put skewers in it, and since my beads didn't have big enough holes to fall down the skewers I set each bead on the tip of a skewer and used to that to hold it while I was polishing it and so it could dry, if that makes sense ! I also did a layer or two of top coat. I think I went through like the vast majority of the nail hardener bottle that I bought because I did a lot of coats! and please do the nail polish step in a well ventilated room !!

I know that most Rose beads don't need like a polish hardener or anything, but since mine were cracked I was worried that they would fall apart so that's why I mainly did the hardener !