Finally, a True Water Marbling Success!

Water marbling has been on my mind lately. More specifically, my frustration at my inability to do it properly. All that changed tonight though as I FINALLY. GOT. WATER. MARBLING. TO. WORK. And man, did it ever work.

Keep reading for what I did differently this time.

Here's what I did differently this time. For a start, I didn't try to be too clear with the colours. I really liked the idea using fire colours as I've had fun with them in the past. I chose five different colours for this, China Glaze Winter Berry for the red, Nicole by OPI The Right Thing in an orangey coral, Essie Vermillionaire for orange, China Glaze Papaya Punch for, well, papaya colour (works a lot better in a water marble than straight) and Sally Hansen Mellow Yellow for yellow.

This time I added a lot more polish than I did on my previous two tries. Each finger has two drips of each colour going red to yellow in sequence, twice. This was what really made the difference. The polish didn't dry out straight away and I was able to play with the patterns to maximise the impact. I'm so happy with how it came out!

A note on the colours: wow was this hard to photograph. Something about the reds and my skin tone just made my camera freak out to the point I had to use a flash to get a realistic read on the colours :( This next photo is closest to how it looks in real life though.

The Verdict: I'm so happy with how this came out I did both hands! As I mentioned before, ten drops of polish is actually the right amount to use as it will keep the polish wet and lets you play with it. My face, looking at this: :D yeah.

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the biggest tag on y

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

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