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Monday, November 23, 2009

First Attempt At Water Marbling: Fail?

In my endless quest for cool nail stuffs I found this idea: water marbling. Ok. The idea is you take similar colored polishes, drip it in water, and then stick your nail in it. Sounds easy right? Yeah... no. It is messy. BUT! I did learn a few things I can now share with you! YAY!!

1. First of all you need water. It has to be deep enough for your entire nail to be submerged. Also, the water must be at room temperature. If it is too cold the polish will dry too quick. If it is too warm the drips will just go straight to the bottom in a little ball.

2. Next you must QUICKLY drop the poish in the water. This is easiest if you have the tops off first. Drop the first color in (it will spread out into a thin layer), then each of the next colors inside of the spread out first color.

3. Take a toothpick, straightened out bobby or safety pin, or your dotting tool and swirl the colors together in whatever swirly marbly design you want. You must do it Quickly or else the polish will dry on the surface of the water.

4. Now you have to QUICKLY stick your entire nail into the marbled design. Once it is under water hold it there for a few seconds to let the polish harden. Then wiggle your finger around and the hardened polish in the water should come off leaving a cool swirl on your nail.

5. Coat with topcoat to seal the design in.

Here's a few things I also learned in the process:
- You can use a color basecoat before you do your marbling but if it is a darker color, more than likely your swirl won't show up very well. I used a black base color my first time around. It didnt work very well at all.

- You are going to go through a lot of polish this way. So don't use your original Wizard of Ooh Ahhz or your Starry Starry Nights. :)

- Chunkier glitters tend to sink to the bottom, regardless of what temperature your water is.

- To keep the mess to a minimum coat your skin and cuticles in lip balm or vaseline. Some nail art companies (Transdesign for sure) sell a "jelly" that you brush on the skin and cuticle to keep it from staining. I would suggest this if you really like this technique aznd plan on doing it a lot.

-Any polish on the skin can easily be removed by a cotton swab dipped in polish remover.

-If you don't like the design, remove it and try again! It took me 50,000 tries (ok, not LITERALLY) to get a design I was satisfied with.

Here is what my first attempt looked like:











I used a random white creme and China Glaze Ruby Pumps. I like it overall. It reminds me of candy canes, YUM!!!!! There is a 1,000,000 easier way to do this with either regular nail polish or acrylic paint. We will save that for another day.

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