Day 21 of the Advent Calender Nail Challenge: Watermarble, one of the things I love to do 🙂 A big mess, but a lot of fun to do. As always, even though I taped my fingers very well, I still managed to get polish all over my fingers up to my knuckles!
After a good clean up, this is the final result:
If you look closely you can see that I had an airbubble halfway my accent nail.
I was planning on adding a silver polish to the mix, but that dried way to quick and messed up the whole design.
One more…
Colors used:
OPI Alpine Snow (white)
OPI Forrest My Case (green)
China Glaze Red Satin (red)
Have you added your design to Inlinkz already? I not, you can do it through Mommy loves nailpolish ‘s blog!
Hmmm wondering how I can make fruit cake on my nails tomorrow…
i love this! i can never get my water marbles to look this good! little envious!
Ahww thanks! 🙂
Its images like yours that keeps making try to get to get it right, I’ve had a few attempts which have all ended up with my in a mood and my work space in a mess 🙂
You can do it! I know it! 😀
Fabulous! I am among the ranks that has only come up with fails (and big old messes) on water marbling.
Thanks! I practiced a lot before it really worked out the way I wanted 😉
I love your water marbling, I read the tips and I’m going to use them when I attempt mine today. I’m terrified of water marbling.. But I’ll give it a try 🙂 It is kinda fun 🙂
Thanks! You really should try it out! It’s so fun! I hope to see your creation one of these days 😉
Thanks for the tips on the water marbling I, could never figure out how to get it to stop moving around
You’re very welcome. Hope that it’s helpful!
Your watermarble is awesome!
I wanted to let you know I tagged you in the Christmas Tag. I hope you keep the fun going :):
https://nobottleleftbehind.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/the-christmas-tag/
Wow really?! Thanks so much! 😀
This is a-mazing!!! Im soo jealous – I can never get watermarking to work 😦
Thanks so much! Practice, practice, practice. Really! My first attempts were a disaster 😉
Wow I love’m ! Airbubbles … do you have an magnifier for me? 😉
LOL! Glad it’s not that obvious 😀
Any tips or tricks to share for the perfect water marble mani? I’d love to be able to get it looking as good as yours!
Ahww thanks! My first attempts were a disaster! Believe me. Some tips… Okay here we go.
Use room temperature water.
Use polishes that doesn’t dry too fast.
Once you’ve created a bullseye, use a rosewood stick or toothpick (or a needle) and begin in the middle, drawing a line downwards (let the end ‘stick’ to the cup) and repeat upwards. It’s important to let the polish ‘stick’ to the cup on at least two places. Otherwise you’ll pull the design everywhere where you don’t want it. For the design I made I’ve created stripes by going from the left to the right (all the way through the design).
Once you’re finished creating a pattern, slowly put your finger(s) in the water on the place where you like the design the best. If you do more than one nail at the time, make sure they both hit the water at the same time. Otherwise one of them will be ruined by the other.
Then blow the left over polish dry (don’t pull out your fingers yet!) and ‘pick’ it up with a cottonbud (swab). Then slowly get your fingers out of the water. I like to remove the tape immediately because of the overflow of water (with tweezers). If you do that, make sure you don’t touch your nails with the tape.
If you see water drops laying on your nails, use a cottonbud (swab) to suck it up (but don’t touch the nail!).
Wait for the design to completely dry before cleaning up and adding top coat.
I hope this is useful!
Please let me know if you have more questions!
I love everything about this! The stripes you created in the marbling, the colors…. great job )
Thanks! 🙂
Ps.: I’m curious of your creation!
I’m curious too! lol I haven’t got the courage to try yet 🙂 Each time I’ve tried in the past has been a disaster!! It will happen soon though, once I drop my son at school…. or else he’ll want his nails water marbled too!
LMAO! Haha! Never seen a little boy with water marbled nails 😉
Trust me – he’s at the age where he doesn’t know what’s girly(just starting to “hate” all things pink though) and he wants to do whatever I do 🙂 He has his own collection of (dollar store) polishes….and he paints (on paper) with them 🙂 He would definitely want water marble on his tiny nails! lol
Whahha! I really would love to see that! 😀
I can imagine him showing his glitter nails at school one day. Bet everyone would love it 🙂
I’ve let him go to school with black or grey – but no glitters or other colors 🙂 And that was only on special days (halloween, birthday). Let’s hope he doesn’t actually get into the polish thing as he gets older!! Before grade one would ideal to be over the whole “I wanna do what Mommy does” 😉