Howdy! As promised, I have my first Nail-aween Nail Art Challenge challenge for you today. Wow, that was a mouthful! The first challenge is a water marble. Everyone loves how water marbles look and everyone hates doing them. The technique is time-consuming, polish-consuming, and sanity-consuming. So I cheated. Here's a photo:
*more after the jump*
Howdy, everyone! We're 2/3 of the way through the 31 Day Challenge already, can you believe it? I really can't...amazing how time flies when fun is being had! Day 20 brings us water marbling. Everyone loves how a water marble looks and pretty much everyone hates doing them. I'm no exception. In fact, I'll let you in on a secret...I cheated this time! I figure if I can get the same look from an easier technique then I'm goin' for it! I did a faux water marble or dry water marble (you can read about that technique here) to save my sanity and I think it turned out pretty well. Have a look:
I started with 2 coats of Sinful Colors Jungle Trail as a base color. Jungle Trail is a light grey creme. To do the marble, I used Jungle Trail again as well as China Glaze Secret Peri-wink-le (a light blue creme) and First Mate (a deep navy creme) and Wet 'n' Wild Wild Shine in Sunny Side Up (a sherbert orange creme). After everything dried under a coat of Seche Vite, I went back in with the point of a cuticle stick and Sunny Side Up and First Mate to create the dots. The dotted water marble is a manicure that I've been seeing around on Pinterest (although nothing is ever linked back so I'm not sure who to credit for it) and is such a great easy way to change the look of the marble. I love the way this turned out, everything from the color combination to the pattern is just fantastic!
Tune in tomorrow to see a color inspired mani and thanks so much for reading!
Howdy! I'm really loving this 31 Day Challenge! I tried another new (to me) technique for today's manicure. Check 'em out!
It looks like a water marble, right? Well, it is a water marble, but without the water! So much easier and much less mess...I think I'll marble this way from now on. Basically, it's a homemade decal. Using Wet 'n' Wild's Wild Shine in French White Creme and their Fast Dry in Ebony Hates Chris, I swiped stripes of polish onto cling wrap that I stretched over a magazine to flatten it. You can also use a Ziploc bag or other surface that the polish can dry on, but won't adhere to. I used a toothpick to create marble designs in the polish while wet and then let it dry. While this was drying, I applied 2 coats of French White Creme to my nails. Once the decals were dry, I peeled them off of the cling wrap and applied them to my nails (it helps if the polish on your nails is still tacky, so hold off on any fast dry top coat action). I used a cuticle stick to trim the excess decal from my nail and topped everything off with Seche Vite.
Aren't they just fabulous? This is one of my favorite manicures ever and I can't wait to try it with some other colors...although the black and white contrast is great. Here's another shot:
Tune in tomorrow for some metallic polish! Thanks for reading!
