Nail : Water Marble

Hello~ It is summer time finally. 


Hong Kong is kind of around 24°C - 29°C... well pretty chill but I just can't want to go to the beach and jump into the pool. Summer is my favorite season of the year. Loving sunshine, beaches... and of course bikini and beach boy... :P


So we are going to play with water today. ^^ Well not really going to the beach to do nail tutorial... but this technique we will need to use water to achieve, which is the easy and wonderful "Water Marble" effect. 


It is super easy to do, super fast and it looks so amazing that really looks like you just walk out of a nail salon. Gorgeous effect and finishing~ ♥

As usual, you will need the following tools to do this nail style...

Tools:
1) Base coat
Nutra Nail Base coat & ridge filler with green tea


2) Light shade nail polish
Tony Moly #VL01 Metallic purple


3) Darker shade nail polish
The Face Shop - #PP404 Deep plum 


4) Top coat
GOSH #F3 French manicure top coat


5) Removable tape 
Scotch... you can use regular stationery tape instead


6) Tooth pick (Around 10 or moer)


7) Bowl with 3/4 full of water (enough to cover your finger nail)


8) Nail polish remover


9) Cotton pad


10) Eyeshadow brush with flat tips

Video demonstration:

Instructions:
Step 1) Apply base coat
Apply 1 layer of Nutra nail polish to protect your nail. Wait until it dries.


Step 2)  Wrapping
With removable tape, wrap around the edge of your nail to cover the place your don't want to in-contact with nail polish. So 1 for the bottom of your nail and 2 for each side.


Step 3) Dripping nail polish
Prepare the bowl of 3/4 filled water. "Place" a drop of nail polish on the water surface. Yup... is "Place" on the surface not dropping it in... light handed.


Alternatively, placing light shade and darker shade nail polish each time start at the centre of the ripple. Repeat a few times as wanted.


Remember this process need to do really quick. Otherwise the most outer drop of polish will start to dry out.


Step 4) Tooth pick to create pattern
Use a tooth pick, randomly stroke across the ripple from the centre outward to create pattern. It looks like latte art but instead of coffee it is a ripple of nail polishes. ^^


Step 5) Dip in your finger nail
Once you create your desire pattern, place your finger nail on it with your nail facing towards the water surface. Dip it in but don't pick it up first. 


Step 6) Clean up water surface
Pick up the tooth pick again and then just skim through the water surface to pick up all the excess nail polish. 


This step is to avoid the excess nail polish on the surface to stick back on your nail which will definitely ruin your nail design. After that just put your finger nail away from the water surface.


Step 7) Remove tapes and soak up the water
Quickly remove the tapes around and use a q-tip or tissue to soak up water on your hand, especially those on your nail surface.


Step 8) Clean up your hand
I know up to this moment, your hand will be pretty messy as the nail polish will stick around your nail edge or even your hand.


Just simply pick nail polish remover and cotton pad to remove them.


Step 9) Clean up the nail edges
Use the eye shadow brush... soak it up with nail polish remover and just brush through the edge of your nail. It can get into the crease area so easily and your nail will looks nice and perfect afterwards. ^^


Step 10) Apply top coat
This water marble effect is really fast drying which after all these steps it will be pretty much all dry so it's time for top coat.


So generously apply top coat on your nail and go over the tips as well as usual. :P

Yeah~You're DONE!!! Really easy and fun to do nail style.


Hope you like this water marble nail tutorial. ^^

Thank you for watching. XO

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