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Friday, September 20, 2019

by Kitties26 on Friday, September 20, 2019 1 comment

31DC2019 - Watermarble - pastel water marble

So here with are with the Water Marble challenge in the prompt, a day that is no longer a feared for me in the challenge, in fact I love the water marble prompt. If you struggle with water-marbling, you should check out a post I did a few years back with some tips and tricks to get it to work right.

I realised I hadn't done a pastel water marble for the challenge yet, so I pulled out my favourite brand with pastel shades that I know marble perfectly.

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Thursday, January 17, 2019

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Digital Dozen does Marble - Day 4 Rainbow flame drag marble

Drag marble flames. I love them, they are so easy to do.

This time I took the colours to the max, and really pushed the limit of this technique with regular nail polish by using six polishes. When using this many colours its hard to work fast enough so that the first colours don't skin over and dry before you get a chance to start doing the drag marbling.

I used all JOSS shades for this rainbow look, except for the purple, which is the original version of Picture Polish wisteria. My bottle is just about empty, which is such a shame cause the original shade is so much better than the new shade.

I haven't done my day 5 mani yet, so I'm not sure if I'll get all five done this week.

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Monday, January 14, 2019

by Kitties26 on Monday, January 14, 2019 1 comment

Digital Dozen does Marble - Day 1

Happy New Year everyone. I'm still here, not very often, but I'm still here posting nail art. 58 blog posts last year - that was a pretty lame effort. Lets see if I can improve on that stat this year? I'm guessing that once I get to post all the 31 Day Nail Art I've been doing then I'll be well over the half way mark pretty quickly!

This week is the first Digital Dozen week of the year, and the first prompt is Marble. There are so many different marble techniques now that this prompt was pretty easy. I did start out with some classic watermarble nails. I did these by leaving the pattern to dry on top of the water and then cut them up and applied as decals. Its so much easier this way!

The stamping on my middle finger was for my daughter. Today she turned 8 years old and I wanted to add something to my nails for her today. Naturally as soon as she saw my watermabled nails she wanted matching ones too, but I told her I'm not putting in this sort of effort until she learns not to pick them off. She's a picker my daughter (she gets it from her father!) She would have amazing nails applied and they wont last longer than an hour until she picks them off. I wonder what age she will out grown that behaviour?

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Sunday, July 16, 2017

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Grace-full - Fruit Salad Collection with watermarble

Whilst at Aussie indie con last month, I managed to restrain myself and only buy a select few polishes. This was in fact the only entire collection that I got. I'm such a sucker for a nice coordinating creme collection, even though I have already mixed up my own rainbow colours that are similar to these, I couldn't pass them up.

The Grace-ful Fruit Salad collection is a set of 7 colours that all compliment each other so nicely that I just love using them all together in nail art. I've combined some swatches with a watermarble here. As you can see they watermarble perfectly. That is because they meet just the right criteria for a nice watermarbling polish, nice new polishes that are thin and smooth and well pigmented. I used two coats of each color for each of the swatch finger, and the water marble is over a white base.

Raspberry

Mango

Yellow

Apple

Blueberry

Grape

Strawberry

Monday, December 28, 2015

by Kitties26 on Monday, December 28, 2015 1 comment

Final Christmas themed nails for 2015

This is the nail art that I put together to wear for Christmas day. I did a water marble using three shades of green polishes and a clear polish to show the base colour through a bit. I then added some glitter placement using gold holo hexes for the wreaths.

Here is the polish beneath the green watermarble. Smitten polish Antiquing. Wow, just wow. I bought myself this polish from Femme Fatale cosmetics as part of my birthday haul using a gift voucher some of my bestie nail polish buddies bought me. It was such a great haul, and the funny thing was that I really went for 'me' polishes, lots of golds, holos, holo glitters and metallic shades. I'm so glad that I got this one. The base colour is a strong metallic pewter shade than leans gold and it has a really strong holo flame. This is two coats with Seche Vite top coat.

Sunday, September 20, 2015

by Kitties26 on Sunday, September 20, 2015 7 comments

31DC2015 - Watermarble

I used to get so worried about watermarble day in the challenge, it's either going to work amazing for you, or be a horrible mess. Generally if you have the Pipedream ANIVC then it's going to be a good watermarbling day, and luckily for me - I do!

I really wanted to get all the colours from the collection onto each nail, which meant I needed to do a very tight watermarble. I used my own polish mix for the clear polish between each drop when making the bullseye and was happy that I got all seven colours on each nail.

My base is Nfu Oh 61 - silver holo and then I added the watermarble over the top. I like how these almost look like a spiders web.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

by Kitties26 on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9 comments

How to make any nail polish work for watermarbling

Following on from my earlier post about how to make your own neon water marbling polishes, today I'm going to show you how to make just about any nail polish work for water marbling.

The polishes I'm going to use are Ulta3. I've been able to get some Ulta3 polishes to work for a watermarble, but they were brand new. The polishes below are not brand new, they are all at least a year old, some even older.

Ulta3 polishes rarely spread in the water for me, and if I do manage to get them to spread by wobbling the water, then I can't get a nice clean drag through the polish. It always grabs and pulls lumps through or leaves huge gaps. This was the best I was able to get in several trys.

The trick that has worked for me is the same one that I used for the neon polishes. You need to thin them out. For these polishes again I added a full dropper full of thinner. In the pink polish, which was half empty and a bit dried out, I added nearly three droppers full. Again you have to really shake them to make sure the thinner is mixed in really well. You are aiming for a consistency that will drip off the end of the brush quickly and easily.

This is easily the best watermarble I've been able to create with ulta3 polishes. Although the ulta3 polishes still have a tendancy to separate when you drag the needle through., which leaves fine gaps that will show you base colour (white in this instance).

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Monday, July 20, 2015

by Kitties26 on Monday, July 20, 2015 5 comments

Pipe Dream On the List with water marble

I might just be a little obsessed with playing with my new Pipedream A Night in Vegas Collection polishes. I do apologize for that, because I know how hard they are to get. If you are really desperate for a neon set that marbles well, check out this post from The Polished Perspective, as she shows you a range of alternatives that are easier to get your hands on.

Anyway, here is another look I created that is totally out of my comfort zone with lashings of pink and purple.

My base is just a simple polish that I mixed up myself using ultra holo silver glitter from Glitter Unique and suspension base. The marble is done with On the list and VIP pass and a clear polish to create the gap to see through to the silver holo base.

I also used three Swarovski crystals in three different sizes, in pink, purple and silver. Swarovski crystals are so much better than any acrylic ones. I have several wheels of acrylic ones and I doubt I will ever use them again. The Swarovski ones are reusable so the extra money you spend is definitely not wasted. I got mine off ebay.