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31 Day Challenge: Water Marbling

21st September 2014

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Well I must admit, I’m very relieved that the water marbling ordeal is over and done with. I spent the whole morning trying to create something passable and this is the outcome. While it’s certainly not my worst, I don’t think it’s my best either. Water Marbling is one of those things that either goes perfect for me first time, or takes hours and never looks as perfect as I wished it would! I decided to call it a day and paint two nails with solid colour since I just couldn’t get them right after multiple tries.

For the water marble, I used Barry M White as my base coat, then created the water marble using Barry M Mango, Barry M Miami and Barry M White.

On my middle finger is Barry M Miami and the thumb is Seventeen ‘Power Pastels’ Bright Peach.

It’s all topped with two coats of Glisten & Glow HK Girl.

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Introducing #guiltfreeze with yoomoo x Nails Inc.

19th May 2014

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This summer, yoomoo have teamed up with Nails Inc. to bring us #guiltfreeze, a nail art competition with prizes up for grabs every week. Nails Inc. are bringing the nail art and yoomoo will be providing the mouthwatering snacks! To keep up with the competition and tutorials, make sure you like yoomoo on Facebook or subscribe to their YouTube channel.

The first tutorial in the series is Water Marbling so that’s what I’m trying my hand at today. In the past I haven’t had the best luck with marbling – it’s definitely one that comes with practice but I truly nailed today’s attempt. I got both nails done on the first attempt and managed not to ruin them before they were dry. Success!

How to enter #guiltfreeze

1. Visit yoomoo on Facebook to get your money off voucher here

2. Snap a picture of your yoomoo inspired nail art with your pot of yoomoo in hand (just like my picture above)

3. Post your picture to Instagram with the hashtag #guiltfreeze to win on-the-spot prizes

For my take on Nails Inc.’s water marble, I used Barry M White as my base colour and created the marble using Barry M White, Different Dimension Lucky and Nails Inc. Udderly Shocking Pink. If you want to get your hands on your own bottle of Udderly Shocking Pink, make sure you enter your nail art on Instagram for a chance to win!

I also used Revlon Minted with some circle decals from Born Pretty Store (#123).

It’s all topped off with a coat of Glisten & Glow HK Girl.

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31DC2013 Day 20: Water Marble

20th September 2013

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Today’s prompt – water marble – is without a doubt my least favourite on the list. Always has been and always will be! Of every nail art technique I’ve ever tried, I find water marbling the trickiest so I’ve copped out and just done one marbled accent. That one nail alone took me three tries. It would take me all day to do the whole hand and I’d probably lose my mind in the process. Despite my feelings towards water marbling, I still really like this mani. How can I not when the main colour here is Raindrop. God, I love that colour way too much!

For the water marble I started with a base coat of NYC Raindrop and wrapped my finger in tape. I then created the water marble using Sinful Colors Cinderella, Barry M Blue Grape and Barry M Guava.

I then used the same colours to create a skittle mani on the rest of my nails. The glitter on my pointer finger is Nail Lacquer UK Sticks and Stones Blue.

Everything is topped off with two coats of No7 Stay Perfect Top Coat.

Day 20: Water Marbling 2012

Day 20: Water Marbling 2011

See what’s coming next in the 31 Day Challenge 2013!

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The Lady is a Vamp

16th June 2013

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I don’t really know what came over me but today I attempted, once again, to water marble… voluntarily! Once again I was reminded how much I hate it so this will probably be it for a while.

I picked up this pretty black glitter for £1 is Store Twenty One today, it’s Thunderstorm from BYS. I was expecting it to be a pretty glitter that I could layer over black polish but it turns out you don’t even need a base colour so I was pretty happy about that. It’s even prettier than it looks in the bottle too, I think it’s going to see a lot of love from me.

I used Sally Hansen Blackout, Rimmel Heart on Fire and BYS Thunderstorm as my base colours. The water marble was created using Heart on Fire and Blackout. Finally I finished it all off with a coat of Essence Better Than Gel Nails.

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31DC2012: Day 20 Water Marbling

13th November 2012

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I’ve never made any secret of the fact that I despise water marbling and in the last 2 years, I’ve only done it twice when it was part of a challenge. Well as much as I hate it and totally wanted to duck out of this day, I ain’t no quitter! So last night, I put my big girl boots on and knuckled down to business.

I went in to this knowing that I would only be doing one accent nail. It’s insane how much this technique has stressed me out in the past and I’m quite a level headed person! I took precautionary measures and promised myself that as soon as I did one nail satisfactorily, I’d be finished so I didn’t end up pulling my hair out this time!

Rie and Cris have both done amazing jobs with their water marbles today. Go check ’em out!

I used Sally Hansen Ion* as a base colour and created the water marble with Barry M Watermelon and Blueberry from the Gelly range. My index finger is Barry M Blueberry and I used one coat of Seche Vite to top it all off.

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Black and White Challenge Day 9: Water Marble

25th April 2012

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I’ve been dreading today since before we even started the challenge. Water Marbling and I are just not friends, never have been, probably never will be! I love the way it looks so much but I’ve never been able to do it to much success.

I gave it my best shot but after an hour of trying, I was really starting to lose my patience. I even dropped my black polish in the water which was just the last straw and I had to let out a very loud growl of frustration! I don’t think it’s worth sacrificing my sanity for the sake of some nail art so I had to settle for just an accent nail.

For the accent finger, I painted on a base coat of Barry M White and used Wet n Wild White and W7 Black for the marbling. I’m wearing A-England Bridal Veil on my index finger and W7 Black on the others.

Perhaps the other ladies had better luck than I did with their water marbles today!

Rie at Nails and Noms

Esther at Fab Fingertips

Stephanie at Sincerely Stephanie

Emily at The Laquerologist

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Day 20: Water Marbled

29th October 2011

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If I could take one sick day from the 31 Day Challenge, it would be today! The mani you see here is my third attempt at a decent water marble. By the time I finished I was suffocating under the sheer amount of marbling fail. Never again, guys, never again!

In hindsight, my experience with water marbling was not that bad, but at the time all I wanted to do was scrub this off my nails as soon as the pictures were taken. It looks kind of nice, but for the hours, sweat and tears it stole from me I probably won’t be doing it again any time soon!

Head over to Rie and Cristina‘s blogs to see if they had better luck than me with their water marbling!

Base colour: BYS Lilac Bliss

Marble colours: La Femme Grey Cream, Nails Inc Victoria, George Scarlet Kiss

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