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"

November Macro challenge: Femme Fatale Hearts desire swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings, new months has began and we restarted out macro challenge. You can find full list of prompts at the end of my post and feel free to join us on Facebook or Instagram, also use our tags #novmacrochallenge and #macrochallenge. We start with an easy prompt - Swatch it. And I swatched wonderful polish called Heart's desire created by Femme fatale cosmetics as a part of White witch collection. Heart's desire is a sort of coral crelly polish with green-gold flakies and tiny orange microglitters. It looks really pretty in the bottle, but I was not really sure if it goes good with my skin. However, after taking macros I immediately fell in love with it. Just look at the flakies and and sparkles, they are fantastic. I'm wearing two coats without top.  If you search this polish on internet you will notice that there is a huge difference in colors between different swatchers. In my opinion, Herat's desire is definitely a warm coral polish, not a cold pink and I tried to show it as close to real life as possible.

Results

Figure 1. Hearts desire swatch.

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"

Picture polish Paris swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings, for the month of August I joined among others one Russian Instagram challenge* (#лакоавгуст2015) and for the first prompt we were supposed to show our favorite summer polishes. It was very hard to choose one, but finally I decided to show Picture polish called Paris. It's a coral beauty with holo shimmer, which looks very elegant and fresh on the nails. Also this shade looked perfect with my necklace and I was able to make this wonderful collage. Finally since coral is almost red, I'm gonna use it as an entry for the first prompt of #bomnailartchallenge.

*At the end of this post you can find all four challenges which i will try to follow this month.

Results

Figure 1. Picture polish Paris swatch.

Picture polish Bohemian and Paris with Moon nails stamping using Pueen 48 "Half moon coral"

Introduction

For the Stamp one, stamp all ten prompt we had to make ornate coral nails with stamping plus another nail art technique. Normally I like to combine my stamping with something else, but this time I just could not decide what to add to the combo which I had in mind - coral Paris and gold stamping. Finally I thought to try half moons for the first time. This did not work really well, because Bohemian is top sparkly for half moons and it looks untidy on pictures (my half moon is also not perfect), I guess contrast polish would be better. I finished with super tiny french tips to give it complete look. Oh and I used new stamping polish in my collection which I bought from Moon nails supply, as you can see it stamps beautifully. I bought 2 mini sets, total 16 bottles,  and some colors are really unique, so you will see more of this polish soon.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Half moon coral"

HPB Presents: Too fancy lacquer Mon cheri and stamping nail art "Floral lace"

Introduction

Today I have my last very simple post for HPB may flowers. This delicate floral stamping was done after I swatched Mon cheri. This combination of colors is a bit strange, but I think it works because Mon cheri is cold red-coral polish. This stamping pattern looks nice and airy even on short nails and of course holographic sparkle adds a touch of sophistication to this otherwise very simple look.

Results

 Figure 1. Nail art "Floral lace".

HPB presents: Nail art and tutorial with radial gradient and stamping "Tea roses"

Introduction

Today I'm posting my third nail design with May flowers for HPB and it also counts as stamping entry for 30 day of Colour challenge. This look was inspired by tea-roses which I had for Mother's day and it's my first attempt at radial gradient. I really enjoyed creating this gradient and stamping as it has my favorite colors all together. Even though final look turned out more orange than actual roses, I love it and would not change anything. It was also first time when I used cuticle protector called Crystalline nail veil, which I bought from Color4nails. I was every impressed with this product, it was easy to apply and clean up after gradient and stamping was super easy. It inspired me to create small tutorial on this look (figure 6)., let me know if you are going to try and recreate it.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Tea roses".

Easter bunnies nail art

Introduction

Catholic Easter is almost here and instead of pink swatches for 30 Day of Colour challenge, I want to show some nail art called "Easter bunnies". Sweet Katherine from Procrastinails allowed me to add this nail art to other pink entries, even though the base color is  coral. I stamped with two different whites, for feathers I wanted to have more delicate semi-transparent look and used Konad white, for bunnies I used my regular MdU white. Also it was a bit of a challenge not only to flip image of the bunny, but also to color it at the same time, but at the end it all worked out.

Results

Figure 1.Nail art "Easter bunnies".

30 Days of Colour: Emily de Molly Deep sea coral swatch

Introduction

Day two is red color and another Emily de Molly polish - Deep sea coral. It's coral red jelly/cream with blue and purple shimmer. This polish is a true beauty, easy to apply and delightful to wear. I did Easter nails with Deep sea coral as a background and I'll show it to you on Saturday. For now please enjoy these delicious swatches.

Results

Figure 1. Collage with Deep sea coral.

   

ABC challenge: Color craze, coral reef and more "Gradient of love"

Introduction

It's a third day of the challenge, so for letter "C" I used untried Color craze polish Animated and gorgeous Picture polish Coral reef, previously used once. This pink-red gradient was perfect for St. Valentine's day stamping and I also could not resist and topped it with holographic Djinn (Enchanted polish). I called this mani "Gradient of love" as it pretty much shows volatile nature of love. Also it looks super bright and at the same time tender  creating perfect mood for this upcoming romantic day.   

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Gradient of love".