Summery Water Marble

I was driving home from work the other night and I thought, "I think I want to do a water marble tonight." So I did!  Let me tell ya, if you just suddenly get an urge to do a water marble, you might want to take it as a sign.  It's not something you should try to force or do when you aren't feeling like you have a little extra patience!

I was really happy with the way my left hand came out.  The right, well that was another story.  I didn't like it so I forgot to take a picture of it.  Yeah, that's it...I forgot!

For this one I used a white base color under the marble.  Then I used Claire's-Secret Garden, Grasshopper and Hard Candy-Splendid.

I love the water marble look but it can be such a pain!  Do you enjoy doing them?

Nerdy Nails - Day 23 - Inspired by a Movie

Watchmen!  Great graphic novel & good movie.  I was going to do this one for tomorrows challenge which is "Inspired by a Book" . However,  my other book idea is also a movie, I decided I'd just do this one today!

Here I used Hard Candy Splendid as my Yellow base, NYC French White as my white base  and a mix of a Sally Girl Teal color and Claire's Secret Garden for the blue base. For the designs I used acrylic paints.  You can see how thick it came out in close of the close ups!

Sorry if it's redundant,  I felt the need to catch this one from a few different angles!

The Night Owl Nail was very thick.

This is by far my favorite mani of this challenge.  I am pretty impressed with myself here!  It turned out so much better then I thought it would. The only trouble I had here was Night Owl.  I did it 4-5 times before I was happy. I couldn't get just the right angle on his mask.  Oh and I messed up a bit on the happy face nail but I just fixed that up with some of the Hardy Candy Splendid, topped it with Seche and you can't even tell!  That stuff is just magical.

Have you read "Watchmen" or at least seen the movie?  I recommend both but if you only choose one, choose the graphc novel!

Ruffles - Day 3 - Yellow Nails

I'm totally diggin' yellow polish lately so I was quite happy to do this one!

I used Hard Candy - Splendid and I drew the design on with a Sharpie.  Sharpies aren't really the best thing to do nail art with, sometimes you can get a top coat on just fine and sometimes it doesn't work out.  This was one of the times it didn't work out.  It looks fine in the picture because I didn't put top coat on it.  Which also meant that I couldn't really wear it very long without the design rubbing off and possibly getting all over my face if I had an itch!

Now that I think about it, I think the Sharpie would have worked out better if I hadn't applied a first layer of top coat before I drew the design on.  Oh well, I'll experiment with that idea later.

Here is Day 3 - Yellow

Oh, the dots were done with polish and a dotting tool btw.