Tie-dye water marble in black and purple

#clairestelle8challenge had 'out of comfort zone' as a theme and it was quite obvious that water marble should be my choice.😝 I ended up with something looking like a tie dye, or octopus tentacle. I dunno. But I liked it.

Polishes used:
China glaze - Violet Vibes
Depend cosmetics - nr039
Depend cosmetics - matte

31DC2015 - Day 20; Floral watermarble in baby blue and red

Baby blue, or like bright pastel blue combined with red is a combo I really like! Some how it feels very bold and cool in my mind. Today it's watermarble and I've always wanted to do it in those colors. As the last time I did a dry watermarble, which means that I put polish in water, but waited until the pattern was dry and then picked up the pattern and placed it onto my nails, instead of the dipping straight away. Less mess and easier to get the pattern where you want. I actually tried making it the "normal way" but gave up. Anyhow, I was inspired by Dorisylhow who made flowers but in the end I decided to skip the dots in mine, I also just made accents. All in all I'm super happy with this nail art. :)

Polishes used:
R de L Young - Ruby Red
R de L Young -Waterfall

 

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Dry water marble nail art / DIY watermarble decals

In this post I want to show a bit more pictures of my manicure from the mani swap with Lakobotan and also talk about the technique I used. This mani is also my post for Blue Monday.

Lakobotan did a regular water marble but I decided for the first time to make a dry water marble, some time called water marble decals. Which means that you do as usual and drip polish in water and then create a pattern. But instead of dipping your nails in directly (with some cleaning to do after) you just wait for it to dry. Then pick it up and cut it into a nail shape and place it onto you nail! It was harder than I thought but much less cleanup comparing to the normal water marbles. XD

Polishes used:
Rival de Loop Young - Blue Abyss
Rival de Loop Young -  Coco Milk.

Maniswap with Lakobotan 2 - cartoon nails and water marble nail art

Hi today I have a post which should have been posted for two months ago.. but you know, life happened and here we are. ^^

Basically me and Lakobotan made another mani swap and I was inspired by a water marble she had done. She was inspired by a red cartoon nail art I'd made. (Thought I'd posted the swap pics here before, but they previously only made it to my IG.)

First a summary:

The cartoon nails:

I used Nordic Cap - NP09 (red) and Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark, Jordana Pop Art- Contemporary White. Lakobotan used OPI - Red hot Rio, Sally Hansen Xtreme wear - 28 Black Out and Essie - Blanc.

Watermarble nails:

Lakobotan used Sally Hansen extreme wear - 300 white on and Dance Legend - 401 & 418. I used Rival de Loop Young - Blue abyss & Coco milk.

So here you have it!

And of course, if any one else feel in the mood to create a mani swap with me, please let me know. ^^

Studded watermarble in purple and orange

No. 20 in the 31dnc is water marble and I had a plan of combining orange and purple for this one. I also decided to have two accent marble nails of each hand and neon studs! I used a white base for the nails I water marbled with and I think that was lucky. As I suspected orange and purple mixed to harsh get brown which meant that the normal method of adding lots of polish to the water marble to increase the saturation didn't work, because these particular polishes started to mix to brown. Instead I used little polish and the marble looks a bit pastel like. However I really liked the result, especially with the square metal studs on all the nails. And btw, my black metal studs I've painted black my self, thought they added a cool contrast to the pastel thing going on. Hope you like this. :)

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Neon Purple
Kleancolor - Neon Orange
Nordic Cap - NP12
Nordic Cap - NP13
Metal stud rhinestones in neon colors (bought from ebay)

Metallic watermarble with Kleancolor

For day no.9 - metallic nails, in the 31dnc I wanted to make a water marble. I took blue, purple and pink and just made a random pattern. I like the colors together but the photos came out very weird and the cleanup looks messy. At least there where no problem using the Kleancolor metallics for water marble. :) This is also my contribution to nail art sunday at Lelack. :)

Polishes used:
Kleancolor - Metallic Sapphire
Kleancolor - Metallic Fuschia
Kleancolor - Metallic Pink

31DC2013 Day 20; Watermarble with gradient

Day 20 and I was too tired yesterday to schedule to day's post which is about water marble. And as usual in this challenge I wanted to challenge my self and create something I yet haven't done, one of those things was a water marble with a see-through polish and black on a gradient base nail. Said and done and so I did. I used a pink and a blue polish and I was happy to see that they mixed so well that the middle section of the gradient turned purple! (love when it happens) Later I started with my water marble, I had to test some polishes before I found the perfect transparent one, many sheer polishes seems to dry very quickly. I found one and I very happy how this turned out!

Polishes used:
China Glaze - Hanging In The Balance
China Glaze - Love's A Beach
Kleancolor - Metallic White
Nordic Cap - NP12

Oily black spotted water marble

God morning folks! :)
The nail art I'm showing today (archive though as usual) I've used the spotted water marble technique, depending on how you do it it can look like OPI controversal polish "Black Spotted" which only were sold limited. I really wanted that polish but quite shortly after the release, tutorials of this started popping up. I ended up not buying Black Spotted since the same effect can be accomplish with any black creme polish, water and any spray bottle. This time I went for an oily effect, it's not perfect on all nails and for my right hand I went for an accent, less oily. Of cause I wanted a cool background and went for a vertical like gradient in neon green and neon yellow.

Polishes used:
Nordic Cap - NP12 (black)
China Glaze  - Sun-Kissed (neon yellow)
China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard (neon green)