Red, White and Blue Water Marble

Well, my Memorial Day red, white and blue gradient was a major fail, but at least my marble manicure was a major win. I used Wet n Wild French White Creme as a base color and marbled using WnW French White Creme, WnW Red and Loreal Jet Set to Paris.

I adore this manicure so much! I marbled this on Thursday night and in an effort to make it last until Monday, I applied Gelish top coat and cured it under my LED light. I've never tried to do that using regular polish and it actually worked. I can't wait to try this with other colors. I love how shiny the Gelish top coat makes it.



This photo was pre-Gelish top coat

Hope you all are having a great weekend! We went to Greenfield Village for their Civil War Remembrance Weekend (4th year running) . Today I planted my tomato and cucumber plants in my Topsy Turvey  grower and tomorrow we get so spend some time being mellow at home.  I love long weekends!







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Dry Water Marble trial

I first heard of dry water marbling from More Nail Polish's Blog post and I knew I just had to try it out. Basically, you transfer the water marble pattern on plastic, let it dry and then transfer the color to your base color.

I used Essie's One Day without Blues and Wet n Wild Eggplant Frost. I really need to work on my technique. I think I need to watch some of Colette's videos. She's a water marble genius and I know I could use some pointers! LOL. Anyways, here's what I came up with. This was over my Zoya Gemma mani from last Friday:





Not too bad for a 1st try ☺
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More Halloween Nails

Here are a couple of Halloween mani's. This 1st one is a water marble fail. I like the three nails shown, but I just couldn't get the look I was going for. The base color was orange and the swirls were black, green and purple.


This is today's NOTD. The base color is Wet and Wild in Eggplant Frost which is a purple color with a blue flash. The images are from Fauxnad plate P57 and then added a layer of Wet and Wild Hallucinate. This is my left hand:

and right hand:


I need to get more creative, huh?

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PHD Challenge Mani: Vampire Nails

Has anyone entered PHD's weekly challenge? The theme for this week was Vampire nails. There's a link to her blog on the left. Here is my entry:

I wanted to go for the True Blood effect here:



I tried to achieve this by using a water marble manicure. My Simple Little Pleasures has a great tutorial...there's a link to her blog on the left as well. I think she is hands down the best water marbeler out there!

The base is OPI: Quarter of a Cent-Cherry, and I marbled with Zoya Blair and WnW Black Creme. Here's what I got:



Closeup:


What do you think? Not too bad for my 1st water marble mani! I had the hardest time trying to capture the colors, my camera hates reds. You can click on each pick to enlarge it.

Thanks for looking!!