Fair maiden Hyper and Mischievous and floral water marble decal

Introduction

Good day darlings. I continue to use my Fair maiden Rainbow brights for water marble. This time I combined blue and green colors for floral design on middle and ring finger. These flowers turned out really pretty, but I had to cut them to fit my nails. On index and pinky i did simple french which was super easy, I applied one stroke of green Mischievous on top of semi-dry blue Hyper, let it dry and topped with Rainbow juice Enchanted polish.

Results

Figure 1. "Blue and green flowers"

Mosaic water marble nail design with Pipe dream polish

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today I have another crazy water marble. This time it was created using Pipe dream polish. This polish does water marble fantastically and gives prefect super clear circles. But I was really fascinated by green bubbles appearing through orange and decided to use this effect for my design. If you are interested in the video tutorial check out my IG. I let water marble dry and applied it as decals. Finally, I added some Japaneses mosaic stamping on top and it really changed this look. Let me know which version do you like more with or without stamping?

Results

Figure 1. Mosaic water marble.

Sinful colors Cream pink and dotting water marble nail art "Pink dotting marble"

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today's challenge for #watermarblepracticewednesday was to in incorporate dots. Well... I literally made water marble with dots and it was the most interesting WM idea I ever tried. I'made video tutorial to show you how exactly i droped polish in the water (Figure 4). Obviously I had to let WM dry and make decals out of it otherwise dots would be ruined. It dried in the cup for 24 hours before I made decals. I was delighted to see how it turned out, and took pictures right away. Unfortunately it never dried completely and after waking up in the morning I could see many dents and surface became uneven, what a disappointment. Next time, I'll try different polish and see if it will dry better.

Results

Figure 1. "Pink dotting marble"

Neon watercolor water marble with Fair Maiden Rainbow brights and MoYou London Pro XL14 stamping

Introduction

Good day darlings. This water marble design was done for Purple, orange and pink prompt at When colors collide. I decided to make something which would look like watercolor splashes going one into another and that's exactly how it turned out. Nude base helped to achieve color different color intensity, although it was pretty difficult to photograph neon polish. After wearing these for couple days, I added metallic purple floral stamping on top and result was really wonderful. I'm serious in love with both versions and can not choose my favorite.

Results

Figure 1. Purple, orange & pink flower blend.

Stamping Saturday: "Safari sunset marble" using The Don Deeva polish and stamping with MoYou London Explorer 23

Introduction

Contains press samples

Good day darlings. Today I have super bright and cheerful marble nails with Safari stamping. For marble decals I used two The Don Deeva polishes from Lost my marbles collection - Pink and Yellow. This polish is sheer neon jelly, so colors really pop if you apply them on top of the white background. After finishing with application of decals I decided that safari stamping would nicely complement these water marble patterns. And it turns out that I never did safari nails before, hard to believe, right? I'm super happy how they look all together, this might be my new favorite water marble design.

Results

Figure 1. "Safari sunset marble"

"Neon marble fox" nail art using Fair maiden Rainbow brights collection.

Introduction

Good day darlings. I want to share another water marble. This time it's super special for me, because it's a foxy water marble and fox is my favorite animal. I used neon polishes from Rainbow brights collection by Fair Maiden. This collection was designed for water marble, so it was super easy to use it. I'm very happy with final look, so bright and foxy.

Results

Figure 1.  "Neon marble fox"

Water marble nail design "Morning flowers" with Color club Safari sunset

Introduction

Good day darlings. I'm back to my water marbling phase, because it's so much fun and versatile. Here is classic water marble design with non classic choice of colors and finishes. I have neon green Frolic in the ocean, pastel blue with slight shimmer Bikini so teeny and super shimmery peach Safari sunset. I really love how this mix looks together. What do you think?

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Morning flowers"

"Starburst" water marble nail design using The Don Deeva Lost my marbles jellies

Introduction

Contains press smaples

Good day darlings. Today I have fresh water marble design using The Don Deeva polish from Lost my marble collection. I used two colors blue and purple, both water marble flawlessly. For this design I made water marble decals, because I do not like to deep my fingers and prefer to apply marbles after they dry. I noticed that water marbles with The Don Deeva polish dry quite fast, also they are very thin and flexible, which makes it really easy to apply as decals. Check out my video tutorial at the end of this post to see it for yourself. Since this design was done for #watermarblepracticewed propmt "Starburst" I added some glitter stars and purple microglitter to complement water marble.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Starburst"

Miniature water marble tutorial and best designs of 2015

Introduction

Good day darlings. It's time to reveal which of mine designs you loved the most. And without any doubt the most popular and most loved was miniature water marble design "Exotic flowers" from my birthday. I myself think that it definitely was very special and deserves to be on top. Since August many of you were asking if I can post a tutorial for this nail art and sure enough I promised to make it asap. LOL, little did I know about life... so many things happened after my birthday, including my unexpected 2.5 month vacation in Russia, that I could not find time to make it. But I always remembered about it and finally the tutorial is ready. The most important part is to use small dish for water marble and wait for it to dry completely before taking it out. This can take several hours as in a small dish polish does not spread a lot and water marble becomes quite thick. There is an advantage of slow drying, you can take more time to draw your design and colors stay really vivid. Hopefully you will like it and find it helpful. And at the end I also included collage with five of my most popular nail designs of Instagram.

Results

Figure 1. Best nail design of 2015: Miniature water marble "Exotic flowers".

Figure 2. Miniature water marble video tutorial.

Figure 3. Five most popular designs on my Instagram.

Materials and Methods

Nail Polish:

• Picture polish - Lakodom (2 coats background and water marble decals) 
• Picture polish - Coral reef and Chillax (water marble decals)

Other materials:

• Acrylic paint - black

References

Links to the blog posts with most loved designs.

1. Miniature water marble "Exotic flowers"
2. Foil stamping "Gothic Movember"
3. Free hand "Flower power"
4. Double gradient with vinyls "Beyond colorful"
5. Acrylic rainbow with stamping "Summer rain"

Neon candy cane water marble and stamping decal with The Don Deeva polish

Introduction

Press samples

Good day darlings. This post is very special for me, because this week I received my very first polish for review from amazing Danette, creator of the Don Deeva polish. She generously sent me two collections and one custom made polish. I'm already working on proper swatches, but I could not wait and decided to use her polish for nail art right away. I've heard that The Don Deeva polish watermarbles really well and was super excited to try it myself. And oh my, it was much better than my expectations, even glitters watermarble perfectly. Since it was my long time dream to make a water marble design with glitter, I used two The Don Deeva jellies and one glitter for festive candy cane design. It turned out super bright and just a bit too neon for candy cane, but I still love it. Do not forget to check video to see for yourself how easy this polish watermarbles.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Neon candy cane"

Nail art with miniature water marble floral design using Picture polish Lakodom, Coral reef and Chillax "Exotic flowers"

Introduction

Good day darlings, very special nail art today :) I did this water marble design for Picture Polish contest, but unfortunately could not submit it as an entry, because I learned that water marble was not considered a free hand. I end up submitting another awesome free hand mani, and saved this one for a special occasion. Well, birthday is pretty special, is not it? And it also might be my last post for a while, because I'm going on vacation until the end of September. Do not worry, I hope to be able to a write post from time to time and upload some nail art on Instagram, you can check it out here. 

Now back to the mani, which might be my all time favorite. Did you ever made water marble so beautiful that you wished to put the whole thing on one nail? I know,  I did, and that's why I came up with miniature water marble technique. Unfortunately, there was no time to make a tutorial, but if there will be an interest I'm going to make a separate more technical post with video and pictures of how to make it. For now, please enjoy beautiful photos and do not forget to look at the macros. They show how holo flakies in Lakodom make a beautiful gradient with creamy Chillax and Coral reef, it's truly wonderful. And I'm gladly accepting birthday wishes today :*

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Exotic flowers"

Guest post at Tales of coffee lacquer and beauty plus Duck polish story

Introduction

It's a very unusual post today. First of all I want to say that you can read my guest post at Tales of coffee lacquer and beauty. Take a look, it's stamping over water marble and I was really happy to write it for Sumeet. Here is one picture, as you can see I used metallic Kleancolor polish for stamping.

Another news is that I wrote to the Born pretty store and they agreed to send me some stamping plates for review. It's very exciting, since so far I was always purchasing things myself. I'm looking forward to work with them, those BP plates which I have stamp really nice. My review post will have clear indication that these plates were a press sample, but I promise to stay truthful as usually.

Finally, there was a contest at Polish stamping plate Coop where we were supposed to create a scene using nail polish bottles. I got so carried away, that I made a whole story in four scenes.

30 Days of Colour: Indie polish neon watermarble and Mundo de Unas stamping with MoYou Explorer 23 "African masks"

Introduction

My second June entry for 30 Days of Colour challenge Neon/splatter is a actually a stamping over neon water marble, so no splatter part. Water marble was done using decal technique, you can find detail in the original post. I was not sure which king of stamping to do and used African tribal masks from MoYou Explorer plate. It looks rather unusual, and I can not decide how I feel about this mani. My favorite is ring finger with sad mask, even though this stamping image makes nail look a bit crooked.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "African masks"

Water marble decals with neon Indie polish "The brighter - the better"

Introduction

Neon water marbles are one of the hottest trends currently and I was really sad because of my no buy I could not get any new polish, to try it. Not for long though, just until I realized that neon matte collection which I bought during winter could be good for marbling. And my intuition was right, they marbled perfectly (Figure 1 and 2)!!! I used 1 coat of yellow  Don't forget the sunscreen as a background and made water marble decals for all fingers except ring finger. I tried this technique before with Picture polish and loved how clean it's compared to regular water marble. This time I took photo of dried marble to show you (Figure 2, last two pictures), is not it cool?  For my ring finger I used regular dip in method and it also worked fine, but I noticed that marble got more stretched and a bit less vivid, which was not surprising since you push on the marble to get it on your nail. Making water marble decals also allows to achieve perfect positioning and saves a lot of polish. I love this bright final look and how neon green and pink became warmer due to the yellow background.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "The brighter - the better".

30 Days of Colour: Picture polish Escapade and Chillax watermarble "Malachite nails"

Introduction

I was really looking forward for Holo/watermarble day in 30 Days of Colour challenge, because I did not use this technique since December and was excited to try making decals from watermarble. This idea of drying watermarble and cutting it into deals is just super smart (link to video tutorial at the end of my blog) and it makes this awesome type of nail art so much easier. Also for a long time I wanted to use my teal Picture polishes Escapade and Chillax to make malachite nails, and this was a perfect way to do it. Both polishes spread in water really well, they mixed a bit, but it was perfect for the look which I wanted. But of course I was too excited to let it dry and started to pick up marble too early (after couple hours), as a result portion of it got stuck together. However, I put it back into the water and waited overnight, it dried perfectly and I made decals for three nails. I used only two of them, because they looked awesome together. There was one coat of Escapade before I applied decals, just to ensure perfect coverage and two coats on fingers without decals. These nails are dream come true for me!!!

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Malachite nails".

Winter nail art challenge: Christmas candies

Introduction: 

Today the challenge was to make nail art related to Christmas candies and I knew right away that my inspiration will be candy cane. I decided to make something more complex than just stripes, and water marble technique seemed to be ideal for candy nails. Water marbling can give gorgeous results, but you need to be patient. Looks like this time I nailed it :)

Results:

Figure 1. Candy cane nails holding candy cane.