Hello Nailphiles!

I apologize for my absence in the past week – I’ve been feeling a little uninspired… but I’m back in full-force today with my first attempt at Water Marbling! This was a really fun new technique to learn, but requires immense amounts of patience. Luckily, you didn’t have to sit through the 20-something trials that came before this final mani!

… And here it is! Of course my ring finger could have used some help… but overall, i’m very pleased with how it turned out for my first attempt.

In preparation for this mani, I studied MANY of the wonderful tutorials from DearNatural62′s YouTube channel. She’s great at water marbling, and takes you step-by-step through tons of water marble patterns and color combinations.

For this mani, I started with 1 coat of Sally Hansen’s White Out on my ring and middle finger. Then created a flower/star burst water marble pattern using Zoya Sooki, Thandie and Darcy. I did two nails at a time with this method, rather than try and do 4 individual marbles.

I decided to only use the water marble on two accent nails, as I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to reproduce the water marble on all 10 nails. On my thumb, index and pinky, I started with two coats of Zoya Sooki, and used various sized dotting tools with Zoya Thandie, Darcy, and Sally Hansen White Out.

…and so I nailed my first water marble mani! I can totally see myself playing with water marbles in the future – there are so many patterns and color combinations you can create with this method. Definitely check out DearNatural62’s tutorials, she does great job of answering questions about the techniques in this video, and provides a ton of demos in this playlist. MySimpleLittlePleasures also has a great Water Marble playlist for demos.

I hope you enjoyed this mani! I can’t wait to try more of these to show you!

I’ve got some really exciting nail mail coming in this week from I Love Nail Polish‘s retirement sale last week! I’ve picked up some retirees as well as some multi-chromes I’ve been pining over for the last 6 months.

See you all soon!