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

 

 

 

P.S. I would really like to share your Facebook link (if you have it) for #sharethelove

Just leave your link in the comments and I will get to it!

 

 

Day 208) Water marble nail art

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

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?

Day 74) Watermarble