Water Marble Nails!

Water Marble!

 

Good evening everybody! Tonight's post is going to be on (shock), water marble nails - as the title explains! ;-)  I have been wanting to write this post for a couple of weeks now, since I've been able to actually do a half decent water marble manicure on myself! It was years since I first tried to do this, and I gave up within an instant. First times (and a little after) of trying

this manicure is SO so frustrating, but please persevere.

I am in no way claiming that I have invented or created this trend, all I'm trying to do is put my way (and possibly others) ways of doing this across. I have had a lot of help from other people, other pictures and YouTube videos. All that I am trying to do by writing a blog post about it, is put things down in writing so you can refer back to here when you need help!

Things that you're going to need:-
• Bottled water (to be used at room temperature)
• A mug (one that you drink tea from is fine) or cup!
• 3 nail polish's + 1 white polish for a base (I use three colours personally)
• Sellotape (or anything similar)
• A wooden stick (or cocktail stick type appliance)

 

So for the sake of being able to write this post, I asked if I could try it out on my mum. It was difficult but I got there in the end lol!

So what I will do first is either wrap my nails with sellotale, I usually only do one or two nails as an accent, as I'm yet to try a full marble mani, and then I will apply a basecoat. You can do either two of these steps in what ever order you desire.
I then will do one coat of what ever white polish or just a nude/light as possible polish. I tend to do a thin layer for the sake of drying time and saving time. I use OPI Alpine Snow. By doing white first, it will help the other colours pop when the design is transferred from the water to the nail.

When these parts are complete I will pour the water into my cup. I use a Justin Bieber one from years ago but you can use which ever one you desire! ;-P
I will then proceed with dropping 'blobs' on polish on to the water. You don't need to wipe the side of the brush on the bottle like you would when painting your nails. You need to keep the 'blobs' as close to the water as you can when dropping them in, simply because for me personally, when I have dropped it from a height it has gone into a ball and not separated enough.
I use 3 polish's when marbling, just because at the moment, it is what I find easiest and most effective. For this mani I chose three colours that were quite different just so you can see the effect a lot clearer than if I was to use for example, three pink shades.



So on the left side of the picture above, you can see I have dropped polish in to the cup and it has gone into circular shapes. You can do this as many times as you like really as long as the polish will keep spreading outwards. Then you will get your orange stick or cocktail stick and start to do what I have done on the right hand picture - pulling the polish around to make patterns. This is the part that you really get to play around with. I would start a couple of colours in from the edge when pulling them, simply because the outer edge will have dried a bit more when you've completed the 'blobbing' part.

You will then submerge your finger on to your favourite part of the design you have made. Keeping your finger flat to the water when you first submerge.
Keep your finger in the water and gently blow on the surface of the design. Then you get your orange stick or cocktail stick and collect the dried polish on the surface of the water that you haven't used for your design. This layer should always be removed before removing your finger from the water.


It is at this point where you realise the importance of the tape from the beginning, because to be honest, without it, the clean up job at the end would be so boring and timely!
To remove the tape, just cut on the part where your finger print is, and remove from around your nail.


Now I have removed the tape, all I need to clean up is the cuticle area. I will use just cotton buds and a little paint brush. (All thanks to the tape).


And here is the finished look! I added a little Leighton Denny Angel Dust as well as a top coat.
I really hope that this post helps any of you that are wanting to try this nail art. If I can do it, so can you! :-) Refer back to here to help you along the way, or ask me, I don't mind! :-)

So as always, if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them below or tweet me on this link here. I'm also on Instagram with the same name (RiaHughesThen)