#31DC2013 Day 20 - Water Marble

Day 20 coincides with my housemates birthday and I almost missed posting this because of that. We're having a big party and I'm sitting in a quiet corner to post this. TGIF all!

 I was looking to create a pastel water marble here, and it turned out pretty well if I do say so myself. I wasn't trying for a similar design on every nail, although I love seeing other people do so when I get to water marbling I tend to naturally aim for something different on every nail. One day I'll try for a unified design but today is not that day.

I only had to redo about 3 of these once I'd played with colours enough to settle on these ones which I'm pretty sure is a new record for me! In case you want to know, blowing on my nails got rid of a lot of the bubbles.

Red, Yellow and Green Watermarble

Whew, hi internet, it's been a while hasn't it? Well, I've been busy in the real world, and I'm pretty excited about it. I've just finished both of my degrees! That's right, I'm getting two bachelors, one in Fine Art and one in Computer Science. I have two different ceremonies and everything, I get to do it all twice including pay the fees, hah. Anyways, I've been just drowning under the work load of my very last undergraduate semester ever but I'm all done now and I've been taking pictures like mad in the mean time so there is a lot for me to catch up on and show off, starting with this watermarble.

I wore this design for a long time without getting any chips, it was only once one of my thumbs chipped that I took some pictures, so I'm pretty darn impressed.

The glitter on top is Claire's Glow in the Dark polish, I know I've told y'all that I love it before. Seeing my nails glow just makes me so happy, and for this watermarble only the yellow glowed, which was really really cool.

You can see how my nails have grown out some from when I first did this, I think I put the glitter on top after a couple days to refresh the look of it all.

Has anyone else noticed their watermarble designs just not chipping that easily? I think it must be the way it wraps around your nails but my watermarbles are so long lasting. I always want to test them out and leave them on for as long as I can stand having the same thing on my nails.

I wish I could remember the polishes I used for the watermarble but I didn't make note of them at the time, silly me. I know it was red, yellow and green that I used, you can sorta see the green in the photo above, it was pretty translucent. If anyone wants to know specifics I can try to figure it out but I think if no one cares I'll just let that go and leave them as mystery polishes. 

Love to hear what you think! Is anyone else feeling free, what with the approach of summer?

Polish Days - Sentimental

So here it is, my submission for Polish Days. The category this month is Sentimental, and for that theme I've chosen to post a water marble design for you all.

Right hand

Left hand

Water marbling is what got me back into nail art after a long time of not doing it at all. You can see my first ever water marble at the end of this post, and it wasn't amazing but it really got me geared up to grow my nails and improve my designs as well as start this blog.

Right hand

To do this water marble I used a base coat of Revlon LilyChrome, which was interesting since I still have a patch on my right pinky and chrome polishes show every bump and imperfection. Because of that I worked hard to get a pattern on my pinky that would make the patch as unnoticeable as possible. How did I do?

Left hand

I used Wet n Wild Lady Luck and Wet n Wild 9.0.2.1.Orange for the colours and interspersed OPI Don't Touch My Tutu in order to really let the silver show through, since it is a very sheer white. Then I dotted 9.0.2.1.Orange in curving lines to compliment the water marble and add a bit more orange to the design (and to cover any bubbles or flaws in the water marble, but shhh). I used orange gems to do an accent nail on each hand as well.

Right hand

Did you notice? On my right hand I ended up with two very different fingers, but I just had to keep them, I absolutely adore the way they turned out. Anyways, thanks for reading! Click below the line to see my old water marble design, and be sure to take a look at all of these other bloggers to see what they came up with for Sentimental!

And here is my first ever water marble! Click to see it.