PeacherMarble // Peach Watermarble Nail Art Design

More peach nails! I originally wanted to do this will 4 shades; the nails inc plus the DND duo however, the DND shades would just not spread in the water properly. I tried bottled water, warm water, cold water, hot water, ad infinitum...this look took a while. I want to know the secrets of watermarbling successfully. 99% of the time it just seems to be "pray and hope for the best". 

This look isn't awful though and I quite enjoyed wearing it to work for the day. It reminds me the orange chupa chup lollies. I hate how dry my nails and skin are starting to look. I'm moisturising more than usual and applying nail oil every 5 seconds but it's just not enough.

Polishes/Tools used:-

- Essence Shine Last & Go // Wild White Ways (white)

- Nails Inc // Peach Tease (light peach), Hot Fuzz (dark peach)

- Revlon Colorstay Envy // Diamond Top Coat

Tea Party Trip // Neon Watermarble Design Clairestelle8 September 2019

So here is the finished result after I added the stamping from the last post. It's not awful but it's not exactly what I wanted either. I imagined this psychedelic look with melting clocks and teacups but I'm terrible at freehand and I didn't have any stamps that matched my ideas exactly and ended up with this.

It also doesn't help that all the black and white stamping polishes I have are starting to stamp really patchy. I don't know how others get super clean designs but I think I may need to 'prime' my stamping heads as it's getting really frustrating with constantly having to re-pickup designs.

Polishes/Tools Used:-

- Ciaté // White Heat (white)
- OPI // Dance Party Teal Dawn (teal)
- China Glaze // Flip Flop Fantasy V2 (pastel orange)

- Orly // Glowstick (fluorescent yellow)
- Artistic Colour Revolution // Love at first Skate (pink)
- Nicole Diary // Black Night (black)
- Essie // Platinum Grade Topcoat
- MoYou London Plate // Alice 02

Marba-dellic // Neon Watermarble Design

OK I needed to show you this before I kinda ruined it for the Clairestelle8 challenge (the prompt was tea party and well, my stamping did not go well...). I'm in awe of how beautiful this turned out as I've tried watermarbling with these shades before and they just wouldn't spread in the water but with some perseverance (and warmer water) I finally achieved this glorious look.

I used a white base to make the neons pop and of course used some liquid latex to help clean up. The problem with watermarbling is that there really is no fast or easy way to do it; you just need to keep practicing and know your polishes. You can watermarble with practically any polish but you've got to get it to drop from just the right height for the consistency or apply the right amount. I also dipped a clean up brush in acetone to 'free' the edges before peeling off the liquid latex; this really helped stop the edges from tearing up and for once I have beautiful curved edges.

It took me so long to decide on what photos to use as I took about a hundred. The colours just pop so nicely! These neons are also from the past few Mani & Lola boxes and I'm glad I managed to work them all together somehow as I abandoned my challenge of making at least 5 looks a month with them a while ago (there is just too many designs I want to do!). 

Polishes/Tools Used:-

- Ciaté // White Heat (white)
- OPI // Dance Party Teal Dawn (teal)
- China Glaze // Flip Flop Fantasy V2 (pastel orange)

- Orly // Glowstick (fluorescent yellow)
- Artistic Colour Revolution // Love at first Skate (pink)
(The other two were used in the stamping process in the upcoming post)