My failed Water Marble Nails.

Hey all,

One of the most challenging nail art techniques that i have attempted is water marbling. It entails quickly dropping different shades of polish into a just right temperature bowl of water, then dunking you finger in the design, gathering up the excess polish from the surface of the water with out disturbing the nail that is sunk in the water. Then you have to pull the nail out of the water and clean up the excess polish that has gotten on your skin. ONE FINGER AT A TIME Sound tedious, messy and a bit complicated? Well it is! So leave it to me to attempt it.

I did all the prep that it suggests. Taping all the skin around your nail so that it makes clean up easier, the base coat, the 2 coats of white so that the marble colors pop, the million tooth picks and the cotton swabs. You have to get the bowl of water just the right room temp or the polish either dries to fast or doesn't marble correctly.

After all the prep it was time to start the water marble process. You take a drop of one polish on the water and follow with another and another until you get the desired "bulls-eye" effect. You then take a tooth pick and pull it through the polish

This is where I ran into trouble. I just couldn't get the toothpick to drag. The polish was either drying too fast or getting stuck on the toothpick. I tried about 12 times. Finally I conceded. This is my finished product. 

I wish I had taken a pic of the pile of toothpicks and cotton swabs I used. It was a hot mess. Needless to say I will probably steer clear if trying this again for a long while. 

Happy Painting 

xoxo

KK