Skip to main content

Water Marbling with a Clear Polish Over Glitter!

If I see someone doing something cool with their nails on the internet, Imma wanna jump on that bangwagon.  Yesterday, it was water marbling over glitter polish to make poinsettia nails - like this. Given it combines my new obsession of water marbling and glitter, I'm on it!  

To start, I applied two coats of Sally Hansen Celeb City - my favourite silver foil - followed by two coats of China Glaze Pizazz, a lovely rainbow glitter mix.  I have a bunch of other glitters like this like Sephora by OPI Spark-tacular, OPI Rainbow Collection and Nicole by OPI Rainbow in the Sky-lie but seriously, I cannot get enough of them.  The Sephora polish was one of the ones that started this obsession for me so of course I'm going to buy more.  Anyway, once that was done it was on to the water marble.  This was a little tricky as it was not easy trying to find a clear polish that would spread properly in the water.  I tried multiple base- and top-coats with no luck.  In the end I went with Essie Kisses and Bises as it's one of those nearly clear shimmery polishes that go well over black.  







The Verdict:  I like how this came out but I wish I'd stuck to the one pattern for the water marble.  I was trying to be all experimenty but just came out a bit weird.  I do like the whole water-marbling-with-clear-polish thing though, I'm going to have to try more types.
Labels:

Comments

  1. Polished & GlitteredNovember 22, 2012 at 9:21 AM

    This is fabulous!! <3 And now seeing this reminds me that I forgot to get distilled water from the store! :P

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sincerely StephanieNovember 22, 2012 at 9:55 AM

    I love this! Your pinky and ring fingers are my fav

    ReplyDelete
  3. UnknownNovember 22, 2012 at 9:57 AM

    I love this! You did a great job and I don't see any problems with doing a bunch of patterns. =D

    ReplyDelete
  4. RobynNovember 22, 2012 at 10:06 AM

    OHHHHHHHHH MY. I'm going to have to try this :D I've done a clear/black marble before over a sheer polish but not glitter. Very cute!

    ReplyDelete
  5. HLNovember 22, 2012 at 10:32 AM

    So beautiful! I'm a complete glitter addict too, although I'm nowhere near as patient as you with handplaced glitter. This looks awesome.

    How did you finally get the water marble working for you?

    ReplyDelete
  6. WendyNovember 22, 2012 at 10:47 AM

    This is beautiful! One of these days I'll try some marbling, but it just looks so messy to do, I can't bring myself to try. Yours is so lovely it almost convinces me x x x

    ReplyDelete
  7. NatalieNovember 22, 2012 at 11:11 AM

    Fabulous! I love this! <3

    ReplyDelete
  8. CaitNovember 22, 2012 at 1:24 PM

    This is so creative! My least favorite part of water marbling is all of the experimentation, but sometimes it is so worth it! :)

    ReplyDelete
  9. JayneNovember 22, 2012 at 10:00 PM

    This turned out so well! My eyes are bulging out of my head!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Natalia ANovember 23, 2012 at 4:19 AM

    What a gorgeous final result!

    ReplyDelete
  11. MoanaNovember 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM

    Wow, you sure mastered the water marble! How much do you charge for lessons? Haha. Amazing, the glitter makes it look so deep and awesome.

    ReplyDelete
  12. AnonymousNovember 27, 2012 at 8:38 AM

    this is crazy amazing. Amazing! I need to get a good clear polish to try the marbling with. Love this!!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. LauraNovember 27, 2012 at 8:42 AM

      Oh, with this, don't bother with a clear polish like a top or base coat, it doesn't work. I ended up using this: http://www.essie.com/shop/kisses-bises-p-369.html because it's so sheer it doesn't show up over the glitter. Don't know what that says about it as a polish but hey, whatcha gunna do :)

      Delete
  13. EmilyDecember 8, 2012 at 12:22 PM

    How do you recommend to do water marbling? I've always wanted to try it but never knew how!

    ReplyDelete
  14. AnonymousApril 15, 2013 at 9:13 PM

    I used this mani as inspiration for my Monkey See, Monkey Do Monday mani! Thanks :) Here's the link if you want to see how I did: http://www.dizzylittledigits.com/water-marble-day-15-april-30-day-challengemonkey-see-monkey-do-monday/

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

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
2 comments
Read more

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:
Post a Comment
Read more

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:
Post a Comment
Read more