Blue water marble nails for Autism

In my last give-away I've asked people what they wanted to see in my next nail arts.

I found this very useful as it not only gives me ideas for next art but also what people want to see.

 

A few times they asked for a water marble.

 

To be honest:

I love the look of water marble nails!

 

But I hate the frustrations that it is giving me.

First 'the polishes'; not all of them work well for water marbling.

Second 'the design'; it almost never ever ends up the way I had in mind.

Third 'the outcome'; mysterious appeared bubbles, open spaces, awful design.

And last but not least 'the clean-up'; and this is with tape!

 

So, today's autism mani is quite perfect IMAO ;D

But it took me 2 hours of redoing which is more than a detailed mani will take...

 

 

 

For these nails I've used 2 polishes:

 

- Anny 385 Blue bikini girl

- Essence Beauty Beats 02 I'm backstage

 

Catrice Limited Edition Celtica

It hasn't even been Winter here but we are already longing for Spring.
At least, I am, and especially colorwise.
I'm loving the soft pastels and brighter colors.

Catrice's new limited edition "Celtica" is a nice transition towards these Spring colors.

It comes with 4 limited lacquers and pink/magenta nail flakes (crushed shell).
I only bought the lacquers.

From left to right:

- C01 Paralilac

- C02 Pinkadoxa

- C03 Love, Peach & Harmony

- C04 LOVEnder

 

I haven't got swatches for you but if you want me to swatch one or more...please let me know!

 

I did make a nail art with it.

 

As base I used C04 LOVEnder. Two coats was enough for good coverage.

Then I used C02 Pinkadoxa and C03 Love, Peach & Harmony to watermarble.

The polishes are quite thick (which should be as they are supposed to give a kind of gel look) and therefore hard to use for watermarbling.

Maybe a little thinner can do the trick...

 

However...this didn't completely turn out the way I wanted so I did some touching up with the same two polishes and a nail art brush.

The complete base color (C04) was covered and when I'm showing a limited edition I think you must at least see all the colors.

Therefore on each nail (except the accent) I placed two stripes with C04 LOVEnder.

On the accent I used C01 Paralilac to paint the heart accent as it's almost Valentine :D

 

 

 

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Day 208) Water marble nail art

Just a quick water marble today.
I'm off for some family time!