How to "dress" up a lead jig head

[bnt55]

What do you guys do to give your jig heads a better look? I made up a bunch of round head jigs and powder coated them white/pink/chart but they still look woefully plain. My jig box looks like amateur hour when compared to store bought ones, and yes I know the fish don't care but I would still like to have a little pride when looking at my DIY jig heads. I am up for anything, I can get new powder paint, I have an air brush station (however I cant get the paint to stick for very long after fishing) I would like them to look a little better. Ideas/pictures?

[froggerbass]

Paint them a light color and then airbrush before clearing or Just add some glitter- green pump with some blue glitter is always nice

[Solitario Lupo]

Can always put a clear coat to help paint stick. Honestly don’t care what the head looks like just put a plastic on and fish. Maybe you can put some skirts on it or feathers.

[Munkin]

You need to clearcoat over airbrush paint or it will not last long when fishing. As for the overall look; what do they look like now, and what do you want them to look like? The jigs I paint for other people are works of art but the ones I fish are the from the rejects pile.

Allen

[willwork4fish]

I just powder coat with white, black, brown, GP or chartreuse and bake them. A lot of times with a color like smoke I just throw it unpainted. I wouldn't overthink it.

[catdude28]

I gave up on powder coating, baking, etc. I did not feel that the time and effort was worth it. Now I just put on two coats of nail polish.

[Nowater2shallow]

If its more for your mind just dip the nose in a different color. For an idea if you have 3/8 and 1/2 in white dip all the noses of the 3/8 in one color and all the 1/2 in another then you know what the sizes are as well

[SoonerFan]

I use fingernail polish on the water or the powder coat stuff at home.

[osutodd]

I like the look of airbrushed and epoxy coat, with a little glitter mixed in. Sometimes I might put on an eye before clear coating.

Of course, it is more fun making really pretty tackle, but for most of my fishing, I just use one color of powder coat, and when we go to Canada, I mostly use unpainted heads. The fish just don't seem to care much about what color the head is.

[Jig_Man]

If you want to get creative look up cadman and brush tapping powder paint. It should take you to a discussion where he explains how he does it. He is a master at this craft.

[fr8dog]

On bigger jigs, I powder coat, bake, then use clear nail polish with glitter in it. Looks nice. Not sure if it does anything.