Happy Holidays! I am finally getting into the holiday season and decided to do some water marbling today! These are the beautiful results! I certainly think these look a lot better on longer nails but still had and love how they look.
Polish Used:
Essie Forever-Yummy
Color Club-Gingerbread Man
Fingerpaints- Paper Maiche
(A note the metallic color Gingerbread wasn't the best for water marbelling, the glitter created a weird coating that was hard to get out of the water)
What you need:
A cup
Water
Nail polish (red, white, gold optional)
Toothpick or orange stick
Polish remover
How To: It's important to note that working fast is important as once the polish dries in the water it becomes a big skin like thing that won't go on your nails.
Fill your cup with water and let's get started
Place a drop of polish in the water
place a drop of different colored polish in the water
repeat until you have a few rings of polish
take orange stick/ toothpick and draw lines in the rings (creating a marbling effect)
create your desired marble and dip finger in the water
use your orange stick to collect extra polish from around your finger
remove finger and repeat the process
When done use a polish remover to clean off excess polish around your nail
Viola! Perfect swirly nails YAY!
I used different patterns of polish sometimes started with white then next nail started with red to create a more random pattern. I love these, it was pretty quick and easy.
In the last two picture I had my kiss everlasting nails on (check out the review here) I painted them with a base color in gold then used black, red and white for the marbling relieving that metallic nail polish from the water made a big difference!
Tip: if you begin to see a film over your water: drop some polish in the water and let it dry, collect the polish on the top of the cup with your orange stick=gross film gone.
I have been having a lot of fun using water marbling so in the past 2 days I've changed my nails A LOT! Here are some more pictures
In the first three of this next set I used a white base coat which really made the colors pop!
I found that when I put tape around my nail before dipping clean up is a LOT easier!
Wow, this is amazing!!!! I love how simple the directions are too~
ReplyDeletelooks awesome. im going to give it a try
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you like it Deborah and Gabriela! Gabriela good luck please post pics when you're done! Thanks for looking at our blog! XoXo
ReplyDeleteU def. r one creative woman. They look HOT!!!!
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