A cheerful Sunday Morning to you all!
I had recently learned about two "not as messy" water marbling techniques. Yup. Super late to that party. Since I can't even brush my teeth without looking like a rabid hyena, water marbling is an all out disaster for me. And I can't get any designs to ever look as nice as the ones I see online. So, I decided to try out a couple of other methods.
The first method I found here
Water Marble Nail Art Applique/ This appealed to me for a couple of reasons, mostly because I would have more control of the design on my nails. It....didn't quite work out how I planned. I would also like to add that any errors in the disastrous results are mine and mine alone.
Without much further ado...here are my results:
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Sooo much pretty!
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| More glittery goodness! |
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| Like hobgoblin blood in a cup... |
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| I is so smrt... |
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| Bottle shot..sounds like a war cry.. |
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| This was after they tried to run away... |
And here are the actual nails...
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| Oh the humanity! |
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| The beautiful slaughter of a manicure |
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| I believe I was weeping tears of Nail Junkie at this point |
Now, this was a first attempt, but after two fingers, any thought of a full mani went out the door. I used Sinful Colors Al Fresco for the base, which is beautiful all on its own. And here is where I made my fatal error: I didn't wait for my base to dry enough. And it ended up being a disaster. And I honestly have little to no patience for the amount of clean up necessary to make any water marble to work. So I quickly scrubbed my nails clean and went to method two.
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| Chaotic chaos...used the same colors because of reasons |
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| PAINT ALL THE ZIPLOC BAGS! |
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| Wow, that looks so much |
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| NOPE! |
So again, all the error is on my end. I can't remember where I had seen this method, but I definitely found it online and I made the same mistake here: impatience. The nail polish wasn't quite dry enough to pull from the bag without tearing and my base color was still too wet. I ended up folding over several layers of the decal to get decent coverage and you can see the amazing results here. I wore this for one day because I was not up to do anymore mani that day. It peeled right off within 24 hours. Which meant less to remove later that evening.
I will try this again, learning from my mistakes (I hope). Colors used for both were: all Sinful Colors: Al Fresco; Be Happy; Nail Junkie; Savage; and Rise and Shine.
Here are the other manis I did this week which were posted on Instagram
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Sally Hansen CSM Punch Drunk with Deborah Lippmann Sugar Rum Cherry and Some Enchanted Evening accents
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| About the Girliest I get |
China Glaze Fancy Pants and Dashboard Dreamer
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| Cloudy stippling ombres of amazeballs! |
A England Perceval and Glitter Gal Black 3D
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| Regimes tend to fall every day. I tend not to weep over that... |
Thank you kindly!
The "bad" version of China Glaze Emerald Sparkle. It's fucking gorgeous. Love it! 
China Glaze Re-Freshmint and Exotic Encounters. EE is in my top 3 colors of all time. 
