OPI Water Marble
An attempt on a blue, red and white water
marble
I have only done two water marbles in my life
and none of them went very well. I’m not going to lie to you: This one didn’t
either. But it was at least better than the previous two I did.
This time I use demineralised water, and that
seems to help the polish actually spread in the water. That’s a huge plus.
I used OPI Alpine Snow as my base colour, and
started with one coat of that on my nails before starting on the actual water
marble.
When that was dry I started on the marble. I
used OPI Alpine Snow, OPI Unfor-Greta-bly Blue and OPI Let Me Entertain you.
They all spread out on the water really well; I was SO pleased!
I’m apparently not very good at drawing
patterns in water though :D But anyway, I’ve written before that I’m going to
post my fails too, so that’s what I’m going to do today :)
Are you ready? Okay, here goes:
The topcoat smudged my “design” and the tape was all over the place, also on the polish, argh! :D
I like the pattern on the thumbnail best, I think the other lines are too thin for me to actually like them. I did exactly the same way of dripping polish into the water for each nail, so I don’t know why the thumb turned out different than the others <puzzled>
I’m obviously not really happy with this, but
I am pleased with the fact that it turned out better than last time. That means
that I’m encouraged to try it again, which is a great thing!
Please be gentle when you comment!
Improvement always should make you happy - and I thinks it's gorgeous colors for this WM!!!
ReplyDeleteImprovement definitely makes me happy. And I hope to be able to make something next time that I am actually proud of presenting :)
DeleteGreat choices of colors! Bummer your top coat smudged the designs, but your thumb turned out really well! :)
ReplyDelete~ Yun
Thanks for the encouragement! :)
DeleteThe color combination is great, and actually I think thin lines is unusual and fun. I like watermarbling, it's fun to do, even though the result differs a lot. Maybe that's actually an advantage. You set out for something and something else results, that surprise you. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm not keen on the water marbling yet, because I don't really seem to get anything really pretty out of it. But I'll give it one more go, just because! :)
DeleteAt least you tried. I refuse to
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point, thanks for that! :)
DeleteI think its a nice try and I like the color combination :)
ReplyDeleteI have discovered that Essie's newer polishes is actually quite good for watermarbling :) I have trouble with all other brands (even OPI), but essie seems to work for me :)
I don't own many Essie polishes, but I'll include at least one in my next attempt - thanks for the advice :)
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