Neon water spotted nails

The hot weather has been gone for a while now and I'm really looking forward to some more heat and sun again.

I can't change the weather but I can bring some brightness with my nails :D

I wanted neons and decided to go with the water spotted technique.

For those who are new to it...here is a great tutorial by +cutepolish 

Polishes used:

- Essence Hup Holland Hup 02 Hattrick! (white)

- Models Own Luis Lemon (yellow)

- Models Own Toxic Apple (green)

- Models Own Bubblegum (pink)

- Orly Baked Hot Tropics (purple)

- Bourjois Blue no blues (blue)

I used perfume for spraying and have bright scented nails now :D

Day 333) Water spotted Christmas nails

This week's challenge on NPQ (and you should all join the fun) is 'water spotted nail art'.
I'm not new to this technique and even made a tutorial for it back then.

Never the same nail art twice, so I needed to make it a bit different.

This time a Christmas version.

I've started with a great green Christmas polish by China Glaze:



 

China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze Collection 2013 - This is Tree-mendous

A clear base filled with gold (which shows silver in pictures)  and green micro glitters. It's amazing how it looks; when you look up close to the nail it looks like there is more gold than green but this should not be possible because it's definitely a green. To be opaque it needs 2 to 3 coats but it applies easily and dries pretty fast.
In conclusion: A verry pretty green for the Holidays :D

Next I took my water marble cup and dropped some red polish in it:
Catrice Ultimate Nail Laquer Limited Edition Thrilling Me Softly C04-Allure

Then I took a free perfume sample and used it to spray on the polish.
Depending on the polish and the perfume you use it's common to get small spots with one spray.
The more times you spray the bigger the spots...it's a polish monster...eating the polish away.
So, knowing this I tried to capture it on my nails

Index is one spray, the rest more and more (each time eating more polish and therefore showing more of the base color).
I prefer the ring and pinky but maybe that's just the color combo.

Now, to put some more effort into it I did a nail art on the middle and ring finger: Christmas bells

Polishes used:
* China Glaze - This is Tree-mendous (base)
* Catrice  - Allure (water spotted)
* China Glaze - Just Be-Claws (bow)
* Catrice - Black To The Routes (outlines)
* Rimmel Space Dust - Total Eclipse (rings on bell)
* Maybelline - Winner takes it all! (bells)

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 122) Water spotted nail art with perfume

I came along this nail art and I just have to share it with everybody!
It's easy and it looks fantastic!

I saw some YouTube tutorials about it and I've seen people doing it with hairspray and sanitizer spray. I tried both but it didn't work for me. It either made too big spots or it clotted together as a sticky black mess.
After several times of trying my eye catched a perfume sample and I thought: "Let's give it a try maybe that will work". And it works!!!

Materials:
- Bright colors nail polish (at least 3)
- Black nail polish
- (Tape)
- A cup or something which you can use for water marbling
- Perfume (perfect way for using the samples or perfume you didn't like or use the one owned by
  your signifant other ;-D )
- Nail polish remover

Step-by-step:

1) Paint your nails with the bright colors.

I used pink, yellow, blue and orange to devide the nail in 4 parts and then added some purple.
I did use a topcoat (for the picture) but I don't think this is necessary yet.
If your cuticles are a mess right now don't clean up you'll have to do that later on anyway.
Let the nail polish dry.

2) Use the tape on your fingers if you want to decrease the cleaning later on.

3) Fill your cup with slightly warm water from the tap.

4) Drop the black nail polish on the surface of the water: 3 or 4 drops should be enough.

The nail polish has to spread on the surface. If it doesn't you either have to adjust the temperature of the water or get a newer polish.

5) Spray your perfume on the surface of the water. Start a little high with spraying and wait a few
     seconds to see if there is a reaction.
    If not. Get a little closer and try again. A max of two sprays should be enough for a nice spotted
    design.

6) Choose the spotted area you like and dip your nail on it (flat)
    Then move the finger slowly forwards in the water.
    Use a toothpick or something to remove the excess polish from te water (around your finger).
    And carefully lift your finger out of the water.

After each nail dip there will still be some perfume left on the surface of the water. Therefore I recommend that you clean your cup after each nail dip. You don't want the reaction with the black nail polish as soon as you drop it on te water but after spraying.
By cleaning I mean putting the cup under the running tap for a few seconds.

If you finished all your nails this will be the look you'll have:

Note: When you spray once you'll have smaller dots but I wanted the bright colors to have the lead not the black.

7) Remove the tape and clean your skin and cuticles with the remover.
    Wait for the nail polish to dry and finish it with a topcoat.
    DONE!

I love it! These are hot summer nails

Let me know if you ever tried it or going to try this.
What did you use?
Did it came out the way you wanted?