The Digit-al Dozen Does Patterns On Pattern: Day 5 Water Marble On Gradient Nails

Hey there!  Well it's the last day of The Digit-al Dozen's Patterns on Patterns week and I'm glad I managed to pull out five looks for this theme.  It was a tough one!  For my final look I'm really stretching the definition of the term "pattern".  It's really more of a "technique on technique" mani.  I wasn't going to include it but I absolutely loved how it turned out so I'm throwing it out there anyways!  Keep reading for details AND to see the other couple of patterns-on-patterns that I rejected for these ones.

HPB Presents Christmas Water Marble Nail Art

Hey there!  This month the Hobby Polish Bloggers group are getting together to post our festive/winter mani's that we've all created.  For mine, I decided to attack water marbling again.  I have a love/hate relationship with this technique, as I'm sure many people do.  I love how it looks when it works but hate how often it doesn't work and the mess it makes!  I also stamped a few holiday bells over the water marble to make it even more festive.

Sunday Stamping - Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Hey there!  I haven't been able to participate in a Sunday Stamping theme for a month but I'm very glad that I'm back for this one.  This week's theme is Breast Cancer Awareness - a theme that's close to many people's hearts.  According to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis and the second most lethal caner among women over 20 in Canada.  I think doing our nails to help spread awareness the least we can do.

31DC2014 Day 20 - Blue Water Marble Nail Art

Hey there!  How's your weekend going?  I've pretty much done nothing but lay around today but I'm finally getting around to posting this water marble for Day 20 of the 31 Day Challenge.  I love water marbles when they work and curse them when they don't.  For this one I got lucky with the polishes I picked and they all spread nicely so it worked pretty seamlessly.  Hooray!  I used mostly Zoya polishes, plus one Essie.  Keep reading to find out which ones and to see how I just couldn't resist stamping it too.

31DC2014 Day 1- Red Disrupted Watermarble

Hey there!  So last night I came up with the brilliant idea that maybe I should participate in this year's 31 Day Nail Art Challenge as put together by the lovely Chalkboard Nails.  I'm going to use this as an opportunity to work on my nail art skills (though I know I'll be doing a lot of stamping).  And while I'm super excited to try this out, I wouldn't recommend starting your first mani with no ideas at 8 pm on the first day of the challenge...

Day 1's prompt is Red Nails.  I can do this right?  So I went with an AWESOME red, Colors by Llarowe The Mighty Red Baron, and did a messy water marble on top of it.

Color Club Poptastic Neon Water Marble Nail Art

Hey there!  I did a water marble...and it worked!  A couple of weeks ago I was chilling at the cabin all alone and I had brought the new Color Club Poptastic collection with me so I decided to give water marbling another shot and I'm so glad I did.  I've never been so proud of a water marble as I was of these ones when I did them.  Or I should say I was proud of this hand.  The other one looked like a toddler had scribbled on me, haha!  Luckily this is the hand you get to see...

Springtime Water Marble Nail Art

Hey there!  Happy Easter (to those of you who celebrate the holiday)!  Normally today would be a Sunday Stamping day but this week's theme is Easter and I didn't think I could do better than the Easter stamping I did last week.  So today I did an Easter/spring water marble with some flower stamping.

American Apparel Gradient, Water Marble and Stamping

Hey there!  Welcome to December.  How was everybody's weekend?  Personally, I am another year older.  On the plus side, my sister bought me a new light box and my friend Susan bought me approximately one million Mod Lacquer polishes which is super exciting because I've never tried that brand before.  A nail polish addict's dream...

Anyways, a couple of weeks ago there was a Groupon for American Apparel so I picked up some new polishes and wanted to use them together.  So here's the spring-y manicure I came up with (despite the snow on the ground).

Marble Nail Art

Hey there!  Today's manicure was inspired by one of my best friends...hi Susan!  Susan has been painting her nails for as long as I've known her.  The first time I met her way back when we started high school 20 years ago (yikes!) I distinctly remember she had black nail polish on.  Back then I thought that was very strange.  Nowadays I love black nail polish and the girl that was wearing it.   We text each other pictures of our nails and last weekend she sent me a picture of a water marble she had done and one of her nails looked like real marble to me.  So, because I'm a big copycat, I was determined to try out some marble nail art.

Halloween Water Marble

Hey there!  Quick post today on a water marble I did with some Halloween-y colors this past weekend.

China Glaze Bohemian Lustre Chrome Collection Watermarble

Hey there!  Tonight I want to show you a watermarble I did this past weekend.  Watermarbling is my nemesis (I'm sure I'm not alone there).  I absolutely LOVE the look of them but when I try them either my polish won't spread or it sinks or when I go to marble it I just break the polish or everything looks good and I just end up with polish up to my elbows.  I've read and watched tutorial after tutorial, I keep a jug of room temperature distilled water (as in lab-grade ultra-pure water) on hand and I still feel hopeless.  BUT this one pretty much worked.  Woohoo!

Originally I wanted nails that looked like an oil slick and I thought the China Glaze Bohemian collection from last year would make the perfect polishes to use.  They're duochrome and metallic...what's not to like?!

China Glaze Bohemian Watermarble