The Inevitable St. Patrick's Day Manicure

Happy St. Patrick's Day, folks!  I hope you've all been responsible with your partying this weekend, if you are so inclined to party.  Here in Chicago, St. Paddy's is a pretty big holiday.  I try not to leave the house too much if I can help it lol  Even if I don't love the holiday itself, it's a good excuse for a manicure!

As you can see, I gave the water marbling another go.  I'm relatively happy with how it turned out, but I wish I could figure out a way to do it that didn't leave so many bubbles.  I was able to cover a lot of the bubbles up with some gold glitters, but I wish my technique was better.  Oh well, practice is the only answer, I suppose!
 

I marbled 4 of my nails with just greens and white and then my index nail is done with a rainbow of colors.  Kinda like the leprechaun's rainbow with the pot of gold at the end.  Check the end of this post of a list of polishes used.
 

Have you given water marbling a try yet?  Any tips for those of us trying to perfect the technique?  Or do you think it's just more trouble than it's worth?

Thanks so much for reading!

Polish list:
Base color:         Snow Me White by Sinful Colors-white creme
Green nails:       Last Chance by Sinful Colors-dark green creme
                             Mojito Madness by Essie-grassy green creme
Rainbow Nails: January by Julep-cherry red creme
                             Times Square by NYC-tangerine orange creme
                             Pull Over by Sinful Colors-bright yellow creme
                             Mojito Madness by Essie-grassy green creme
                             Endless Blue by Sinful Colors-deep blue creme
                             Tempest by Sinful Colors-lilac creme

ABC Challenge: I is for Iocaine Powder and Irish Green

Howdy, everyone!  It's Wednesday and that means it's time for another ABC Challenge!  Today's letter is "I".  In my last post, I mentioned I might be using a new polish I got from LynBDesigns, and, not being one to go back on my word, I have! 

I've done another green mani...I didn't realize I did that many of them, but I guess I do lol  Anyway, here I've started with 3 coats of Sinful Colors Irish Green.  I passed IG over for a good long while because I didn't realize that it was a jelly!  Sinful Colors should really change their labeling to indicate what type of polish is in the bottle.  IG is a super bright, super squishy green jelly and it's just perfect for St. Paddy's Day just around the corner!  

On top of IG, I've added a coat of Iocaine Powder from LynBDesigns.  As I'm sure most of you know (and if you don't, you should really watch this movie!), Iocaine Powder comes from the movie The Princess Bride.  It's one of my all-time favorites and when I saw LynBDesigns had a collection inspired by the movie, I knew I had to have it!  IP is a holographic glitter topper bursting with micro-glitters and itty bitty flakies...some super sparkle power here!  As with the other LynB's I've tried, IC had a great formula.  I've used only one coat here on top of the green and you can see how great the sparkle is.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to check out the other ladies doing the ABC Challenge.  You can find them via the thumbnails below.  As always, thanks so much for reading!!