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[beanside]

I've been piddling around with nail polishes lately. Jess got me hooked, and like her, it's an easy thing to do for self-care when I'm down on myself.

I've been looking at tutorials, and decided, with poisontaster's donation of a glass bowl last weekend, to try water marbling. This is what I ended up with. I'm kind of in love with it. It wasn't as difficult as I thought, either. I can't wait to try more colors.

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[rock-chick-333.livejournal.com]

Best. Idea. Ever. I'd never even heard of water marbling before, but this was so gorgeous, and your idea sounded easy, so.

(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/rock_chick_333/24750774/4573/4573_original.jpg)

This was the one that didn't work, my first attempt where I screwed up the bullseye and then screwed up the flower worse, and ended up just swirling it all round in a fit of the pouts, and dunking the plastic in it just to get it out of the cup. And it dried so pretty I just had to put it on my nails! Looks like pricy art-enamel jewellery, no?

I may be a little obsessed with this. I'm blaming you. And beanside.

[beanside.livejournal.com]

It does! That's lovely!
I need a nail polish icon...hmmm.

[kelly-girl.livejournal.com]

That is really cute. I like how well the colors go together. Seeing how certain colors melded together was so fun.

Here's another technique I saw over on Pinterest.

http://thepolishwell.blogspot.com/2012/09/nail-ideas-saran-wrap-nails.html


I haven't tried it but it looks fun too. I like how the outcome looks.

[rock-chick-333.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's another cute idea, thanks! I'll bear it in mind for my next-but-one nail paint; I just got my hands on my first Konad plate, so that one's gonna be next up. I'm getting kinda antsy for it, TBH - the marble nails are still going strong after three whole days, which is unusual for my hopelessly chip-prone nails, and I half want to keep the marble forever, and half want them to be leopard-print now, dammit. *impatient*