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

I'm a Proper Mermaid This Time Beeeeaches

Ermerger guys, I don't have any glitter on me! Well, I do, just on my nails. I always have glitter on me. And cat fluff. It's funny how often my bf comes home with glitter in his beard. That means it's been there all day... Anyway, new nail vinyls mean something a bit different. I swear I'm not actually obsessed with mermaids, it just seems like it... Anyway, again, shall we?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

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