Tuesday 18 September 2012

Water Marble Nails - Summer Swirl






Water Marbling creates awesome and unique designs for your nails that will impress and amaze everyone and is surprisingly easy! 



I love these bright neon colours, they are gorgeous and stunning and perfect for the warmer months

You can use any colours you like and as many as you want!
Marbling Materials:

China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, China Glaze Lemon Fizz, China Glaze Kinetic Candy, China Glaze Aquadelic, China Glaze Secret Peri-Wink-Le, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On and Sally Hansen Double Duty Base & Top Coat

Not all brands will work or spread as well.
 I have found that China Glaze, Revlon, O.P.I., Sally Hansen and Essie work the best. The consistency, quality and newness of the polish are important:)


Starts with a base coat and then 2 coats of white polish
Next tape around each nail (base/sides/top) to make for an easy clean up





In a cup of room temp water start dropping your nail polish into the centre one colour at a time to create a target 
(move fairly quickly so the polish doesn't set)

Use a toothpick/skewer/pencil to gently draw a design into the polish
For petals move from the edges into the centre and then from the centre out




Choose a section of your design you want to capture and then with your nail facing downwards, slowing and flatly lower your finger into the polish and then hold it under the water for 10 seconds

Gently blow on the surface of the water to harden the surrounding polish and then collect the excess polish with a toothpick or Q-tip before slowing bringing your finger out of the water. 
Make sure you collect and remove all the remaining polish from the surface of the water before doing your next nail or the polish won't spread as well.
I change the water between hands
Repeat for each nail!

 

After a few minutes cut the tape off
Use a Q-tip in some nail polish remover to clean up your cuticles and any polish on your skin
When completely dry apply a top coat to protect your marbling :)




Have a go and let us know if you're a marbling master :)


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