Lane's Lacquers: Flip Flop Challenge: Water Marble/Dry Marble

Monday, 4 February 2013

Sorry for the late post... Somehow I managed to leave my house without my house keys yesterday! I got to the checkout at tesco when they asked for my clubcard... On my keys... No keys... Oh s**t! LOL! I then spent several hours sitting in my car waiting on a spare set... DOH! I must admit, the first thing that ran through my mind was "I don't have time for this, I have a water marble mani to do!" Hahaha... I gots it bad! So here is my water marble a day late... This is actually my first time! I have attempted it twice before and after failing on the first nail, I put it all away and started something else. Today I persevered and was pleased with the results, not perfect but pretty good; and by the time I got to my pinky nail I was well in the swing of things and started to enjoy the process. My process compiled of a getting a small plastic dish of cold water - lukewarm didn't work with this polish, it wouldn't spread on the surface - then dropping in the polish: orange, yellow, pink, orange and then yellow again. I then gently dragged an orange stick from the outside of the rings to the centre repeatedly to create a pattern and gently placed my finger into the water, nail down, holding there whilst removing the rest of the paint on the surface with the same stick. Finally I took my finger out and cleaned up. I should just say my nails were already painted white from yesterday in preparation for the marble... I didn't bother with lip salve or tape around my fingers to help with clean up, I find it much quicker to just used a cotton bud and remover after the fact :)