Day 195) Marble art (Sephora)

Thanks to Teresa Gardner and her lovely blogpost (which you can find here: boomernails) I've been looking for OPI's black spotted everywhere.
Haven't found it yet, but I did find Sephora's Marble Art topcoat, which claims to do the same thing.
For the price of 5,14 USD I thought I give it a try.

As base for my nail art I used two polishes also purchased at Sephora:

Left: Sephora - 84 Full moon party

Right: Sephora - 72 Tomorrow, detox!

 

Both nail polishes have a simularity with metallic polishes.

The left one can be described as a dark purple with multicolor glitter.

The right one is a petrol color with silver glitter.

 

I started with two coats of the purple polish and then placed some randomly areas of the petrol color.

 

After this simple base let's get to the most important part of this post:

Sephora - 07 Marble Art

 

The topcoat itself has some simularity to watercolor paint.

I applied a very thin coat of this topcoat (too thick will just make a black nail).

It immediately starts to make holes in it. No perfect dots, but more random shapes, revealing the underlaying surface of petrol and purple.

I haven't used a topcoat, but if you're satisfied with the outcome, I think you should.

If you wait some time before applying a topcoat, some more marble art topcoat will be gone revealing more of your base color.

I think the nail art looks better the next day (revealing more of your base), but it all depends on your own desires and also your underlaying colors I think.

 

I'm very happy with the two topcoats I bought at Sephora (also see previous blogpost about Sephora's Tie Dye topcoat).

They've turned out better than expected!!

 

Day 194) Nail art Tie Dye (Sephora)

I've had a great weekend at Lisbon!
Bought some nail products, made my nail arts, but no working Wifi :-(
I'll try to get op to date as soon as possible.

I found a Sephora store in Lisbon and my hubby actually had to drag me out of there.
Í had never been in one before (shame on me) and it took me almost an hour to just look at all the nail products.
I guess my hubby didn't want to see how long it would take me to see everything ;-D
Thank god I could limit my buying by looking at the price. Everything over 10 USD I didn't want to buy.
I left the store with two nail polishes, two special topcoats and a remover. With a total under 20 USD.

For today's nail art I used one of the special topcoats: the Tie Dye.

But first things first, the base color:

Leticia Well - 444 (purple)

 

2 Coats of Leticia Well - 444 (purple)

 

Then I used the Tie Dye topcoat of Sephora:

Sephora - 05 Tie Dye

 

Because I didn't want the risk of redoing my nail art, I took it save and applied the tie dye topcoat in a way I could be sure it worked.

I applied the first coat of tie dye topcoat a little under my top cuticle. The second coat a little under the first coat and so on.

Sephora - 05 Tie Dye

 

An ombre is also easy to do. Give your nails the base color. First nail one coat of tie dye, second nail two coats of tie dye and so on.

Another thing I want to try is using the topcoat in one smooth motion to see if it will make a smooth gradient. I'm not sure if it will...but when I try, I'll share my experience with you.

 

But my experience so far is a good one:

-Nice price (5,15 USD)

-Easy to apply

-Great outcome!

 

For sure a topcoat I can recommend!