Pink and Green Water marble

I'm going to be visiting my family this weekend and as usual, I asked my 3 year old niece what color I should paint my nails. She always gives me 1 of 3 answers: pink, blue or red, so I already had a mani for those 3 colors in mind. Of course the little cheecky bugger gave me a completely different answer this time. She demanded in that stern voice only 3 year olds have that I paint my nails pink and green, because those are her favorite colors!

Ok... not 2 colors I'd normally pair together, but I like a challenge! I decided to give water marbling another go. I must have tried to get a decent pattern on my nails like a 100 times before, but I'm just so bad at marbling. I don't know what I do wrong, but I always end up with a mess on my nails.

Not this time! This time it actually turned out great. I really like this mani, so much so, that I decided to share it with you :D

I used the always impossible to photograph China Glaze Four Leaf Clover as my green, OPI Dim Sum Plum for the dark pink and OPI If you moust you moust as my light pink.

I think it's really cute and the colors work really well together. I'm so proud I finally managed to do a water marble, even if it's only on 1 nail.

Have you tried water marbling and if so, any tips on how to get the perfect pattern on my nails?

Have a great weekend!
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Mani Mondays: Fall

 

Happy Monday everybody! Time for another Mani Monday and today's theme is Fall.
I love the colors for fall, warm and cosy, they always remind me of hot chocolate by the fire.

For today's mani I tried something new: Water Marble. I watched a lot of video's on how to best go about this on Youtube and it looked fairly simple and like a fun art I could even pull off.

WRONG! Why did not one person in the video's I watched tell me it's a big pain in the ass! It's messy, annoying, the polish goes everywhere, I never get the design I want on my nails, clean up is a b*tch and it took FOR-EV-ER!!! Seriously, how anybody can see water marbling as easy and fun is beyond me...  I know I'm nailart challenged, but come on! Nobody can say this is a breeze! I felt like a toddler making her first finger painting...

The result was... well... kinda fun actually!
I think it's definitely a fall mani, but more like a psychedelic fall storm instead of the gorgeous fall leaves I was going for.

I used quite a few polishes for this look, maybe it would have been a better idea to do my first ever marble with just a couple of polishes, but hey, I thought go big or go home!

Street Chic, Papaya Punch, Riveting, Live and let Die, Meet me Gwen-Ever and Phat Santa

I really like the combination of these colors, I just need some more practice getting a nice pattern and getting that pattern on my nails.

Right hand

And don't get me started on the clean up... I used lip balm to make clean up easy and it was, but it still took me a long time to get everything off, especially the cuticles were hard to clean. But I did eventually mannage to get it to look halfway decent.

I really like the design on my thumb, it's a good representation of how I felt while creating this mani... All over the place!

Even though this was one of the most frustrating mani's I've ever done, I really like the result. I will be experimenting with this technique again in the future, but I will definitely use fewer polishes!

Have any of you ever done a water marble and if so, what are your tips to make it easier?

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