I unfortunately forgot to leave
some water overnight; therefore the water was too cold. But I work with what
I’ve got. Otherwise I was over
prepared, I made sure I had my equipment ready and nothing was forgotten. My
white nail polish is a gloopy disaster, so my base colour had to be mint (China
Glaze Re-Fresh Mint). It’s pastel and light so that’s what I used.
I had my water in a muller rice
cup with my three polishes ready to go.
Left Hand
Colours:
Pink: No7 – Me! Me! Me!
Blue: Revlon – Dreamer
Green Blue: Topshop – Green Room
When the first drop actually
spread (you’ll be hearing a lot about polish spreading. Or not in my case), I already thought
things were already looking good. By the time I got to the fourth drop… It
didn’t spread; I continued to make my design.
My second nail was the same story
of Green Room not spreading and just going on anyway.
Do you see Dreamer? Yeah neither
do I. I changed the polishes after. Those colours were giving me random blob
shapes. I thought they were ok, but time to move on.
Colours:
Pink: OPI – Japanese Rose Garden
Orange: Bourjois – Tangerine
Fatal
Yellow: w7 – Sheer Lemon
I tried Essie Lilacism and
Turquoise and Caicos, but it was far too sheer and I used the other colours
(listed above) over it.
Middle finger failed, and same
went for the ring finger I drew my design badly for that nail and it showed. My
pinky nail worked until when I was cleaning up the polish I smacked the
toothpick into that nail and that created a dent and the excess polish went on
the nail too. Turns out Sheer Lemon really is sheer.
The amount of times the polish
just wouldn’t spread or the toothpick would lift all the polish off making me
have to start again and again. I failed my left hand but I was kind of proud of
my first attempt at water marbling. It smelt awful, I understood what people
said about waste, so much polish not used. Since I’d failed my left hand I was
determined to do my right hand right.
Right hand
Colours:
Pink: OPI – Japanese Rose Garden
Purple: Barry M – Berry Ice Cream
Light Pink: Chilli Pepper – Light
Pink (no name)
Japanese Rose Garden really was
the star, so I kept using that; SO many polishes just wouldn’t spread. I tested
so many, that was my main problem. Finding colours that actually spread on the
water, it was so hard to guess which ones would. Some would spread but it would
be far too sheer, a white base would’ve been better but if it doesn’t show up
on the mint it won’t be great on white. Looking at my collection I couldn’t see
many that I thought would spread. New nail polish is the time for water
marbling.
Now THAT is more like it. I
really like every finger apart from my ring finger. There’s a random hole in
it!!! I used w7 Golden Sands for my index finger but it wouldn’t spread that
well, but it worked for that finger, it might be my favourite of them all. I
loved the pinky, I really just wanted to finish by that point but it turned out
really cool. Thank goodness. The light pink from Chilli Pepper spread amazing,
even though it’s completely sheer. I thought the orange from there would work
the same. It kind of did but left a hole, so I went back to my winning combination,
listed above. Once I realized that combination worked, that was it I stuck to
it.
I found clean up pretty good. As
long as you tape up your fingers well, you’re good to go.
Even after the frustration and
effort of water marbling. I would definitely do it again, its fun and so many
different colours and patterns to try. Of course when I get new nail polish,
the spreading issue really was the bane of my water marbling existence.
Equipment used:
Toothpicks (many toothpicks)
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