I was wearing this watermelon pink/red shade by Ulta and really didn’t have the energy to do a new manicure for my trip to the O.C. Fair last weekend , and I knew for sure I didn’t want to top off the mani with glitter and deal with the hassle of removing it. I decided to give water marble nails yet another try. When I first tried this nail design last year, I did it on bare nails and it was the messiest process ever. As beautiful and easy as this nail design is, the cleanup was a pain in the rump. I made a couple changes and now I love it! I need to venture out of my comfort zone and use different colors. I used the same shades last year when I tried this! I should have gone with purple and yellow toned green.
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- Using Q-tips applied a thick layer of petroleum jelly around the nail, being careful not to get any on the nail.
- Dropped small drops of (2 or more) nail colors. Since my nails were already polished I used 2 colors.
- Using a toothpick I swirled the colors together in no particular order or pattern. I personally like the somewhat extreme variation of each pattern and variance of colors.
- I dip each nail in the water and polish “mixture” but on a side that has mostly water, and pull my nail out catching the polish “mixture”. This step will make sense once you’re doing your nails lol.
- Every few nails, I take a Q-tip dipped in nail polish remover to clean up the polish that covered my finger. The quicker the better because once it’s dry you’ll be upset you didn’t start your cleanup process sooner. The thick layer of petroleum really helps keeping from the polish from adhering to the skin.
- I sealed the design by using Poshe topcoat. It really doesn’t take long to dry since you’re applying the thinnest amount of polish possible.
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Here’s the post I did last year that also includes a dry marble technique that make work better for some of you.
Ladies, give me your color combination ideas….I need them!
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You could always use monochromatic looks. Or you could do light/dark contrasting colors. Even black, white & 1 pop color { ex:black, white & pink or blue, green etc. }. Check out Collette from youtube for ideas on different color combinations to use for nail marbling designs : her channel link is:
http://www.youtube.com/user/SimpleLittlePleasues
Thanks doll! I’ll check her out
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