Monday 31 March 2014

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Cremes Water Marble Nail Art)

Holy. Moly. I am back from the dead. I was sick off work for an entire week last week, which was both nice and kind of crappy. It was nice because I was able to fully recover and honestly, it was a great break from social media. Made me realize some of the negative effects of Facebook! With that said, it also sucked because now I am SO behind. Behind here on Cthulhu, and just behind in work and everything in general. Ah well. Is what it is - I am still a bit sick but better enough to use a computer. So this is the FINAL week of the Bestie Nail Art Challenge with my NPBFF, Caitlin of Addicted to Lacquer. I don't know *WHY* I suggested this one, but I suggested the theme of "water marble", and Caitlin rightly put it at the end of the month. I also received my Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden collection so I tried to put two and two together and make a thing happen.

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Make sure you head over to Caitlin over at Addicted to Lacquer for her water marble and general awesomeness. I can tell you right now she spent more time on her water marble as that was ONE NAIL AT A TIME. As for me, I went for a two cup operation (which actually ended up being three because I am awful but whatever):

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

I have only water marbled a couple of times before but I had a plastic cup that I've been using for them. I used a couple of toothpicks as well. Here's a list of the materials and polishes I used for this water marble nail art:

+ 1 plastic cup
+ 2 toothpicks
+ room temperature water
+ Rainbow Honey Charaxes (blue)
+ Rainbow Honey Cymbidium (pink)
+ Rainbow Honey Viola (purple)
+ Rainbow Tayabak (green)
+ OPI White Alpine (white base)
+ Seche Vite top coat

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

I started off with a white base - one coat of OPI White Alpine. I ended up dipping my index, middle and ring finger in one batch. I made another batch for my pinky and thumb but severely botched the pattern so just used it for my pinky rather than throwing away the whole thing, and then finally did one patch soley for my thumb. I know you're supposed to do something smart like use tape, or vaseline for your skin but I honestly had no issues with the clean up. I just made sure to use cuticle oil after so the acetone didn't dry out my hands. Here's the disaster before I cleaned it up:

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

After clean-up, with Seche Vite top coat:

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

One thing that's hard to avoid when you do a water marble is the dreaded BUBBLES. Ugh. I am not sure how to avoid them but I think it's related to how you dip your hand in - maybe if I did it more slowly? More fast? I'm not too sure. I just tried my best to be careful! Unfortunately I ended up having to "patch" things up so I used a small nail brush to try and hide it. It ended up a fail because the colour is so thin so it looks different from a layer straight out of a bottle on a brush. So then I tried to cover it up with Rainbow Honey Metalmark:

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Bestie Nail Art Challenge - Week Five: Water Marble (Rainbow Honey Midnight Garden Creme Water Marble)

Overall, I am happy with my water marble. It's not the best and I have seen far better patterns out there, but I get so anxious over the polish drying up on the water before I dip my nail in, that I just do it as quickly as I can. It's also VERY polish heavy if you do a batch for each nail, so I also like doing two batch operations for that reason.

Anyway, that's the end of the Bestie Nail Art Challenge, I am kind of sad that it's over! I think Caitlin and I might plan to try another later this year. I also reshaped my nails. I don't know if I like them though. What nail shape do you like? Have you water marbled lately? Tell me your secrets for avoiding bubbles, I want some SCIENCE!

12 comments:

  1. Lady, this rocks. I love how our colour choices are similar too

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    1. Oh yeah I totally loved that - the one time we actually accidentally do bestie twinsie nails! :D

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  2. i like the nail shape! i have never water marbeled before but this way that saves some polish seems good to me. the end result is gorgeous!

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    1. Thank you lady! I actually trimmed them down a tad more because the pinky squared off in a slight break. I don't like my nails too long! This is probably the longest I like them. Any longer and they become annoying for gaming, hehe.

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  3. LOVE THEM!
    I love the colours and how the pattern came out. And your fingers actually look kinda cool with the design on them.
    I've only tried water marbling once and I had the bubbles too so I'm not sure what the trick is to that.

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    1. Haha I always love the full mess shots because you can see what the whole pattern looked like before I cleaned it off. One day we will find out how to defeat the bubbles!

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  4. Dang, that turned out so good! Love these colours together. Is it weird I love how water marbles look before clean-up?

    And I adore your nail shape! I've been thinking about going pointy/stiletto myself, but I'm not sure I could pull it off :)

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    1. I think you could totally pull off the pointy nail shape!!! I actually ended up dulling mine a bit though because my pinky didn't last long with the point. :(

      I wish I could just leave the water marble on the fingers. Would make the whole process easier without having to clean that mess up, lol.

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