Back! With some watercolor nails!

Here's a new post after some time - tried out something new and thought I'd share it!
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The watercolor nails series!

So I did a share of the image on instagram and someone said it looked like paddle pop and I thought it looked the brand desigual's color. All in all, it uses some very striking color. And the reason why I choose this design was because people kept giving me nail polish and I hadn't had time to try them all! Might as well do that all in one go, ha!

Presenting to you the colors used! All the OPI ones are given
by my beloved girl friends, thank you for the love ♥

Very important items - the basic coat and top coat!

All you need to do is to get a facial sponge (no need for super
smooth types, the kind you use for foundation)

Initially I thought I might have used too
many colors but it blended yummily

As usual, a shot with the keyboard. Colors look remarkably striking!

All in all I'm happy with the results, and you can learn more about
making water color effects on youtube if you're new to the idea.
It's fairly simple!

Peacock watermark experiment

It's just as suggested by the title, I decided to create a watermark designed to look like peacock feathers. Here's how I went about doing it:

Using navy green, I coated the nail with a base color

Added a few more coats so it looks more solid

These are the colors used for the watermark!
I shall skip on how to create a watermark because there are many tutorials on youtube to help you

The peacock water mark, 3rd try
For the 1st try, I used blue and green but it appeared as the 1st nail below. I then decided to use midnight blue, and double that layer with another blue to create a gradient like the one shown above.

The three tries, the third one finally makes more sense!
The color is right, the shape is more defined, I just have to refine it with more petal-shapes.

Not sure if you can tell, but using the method previously proposed in the video I shared didn't work. Water-bubbles appeared anyway. Shall research more on this.

My two favourites of the day.
Honestly, which do you prefer?

And this marks the end of my first experiment. There are several things I wish to refine:

1. Find a darker blue, and add yellow and gems to make it more colorful, like the peacock feathers.
2. Research on how to remove those water bubbles.
3. Consider using a cup, or a bowl with more depth, so I will not touch the bottom of the container and smudge the nails

Overall, I think this got off a good start :)
Wonder how it can be improved..

Tips for Water marbling

Watching Youtube videos is strangely addictive and illuminating at its best. You'd uncover secrets to other folk's success and you'd start to gain confidence on how the nails can be done because they just make it all look so easy!

So here I am with my list of tips for Water marbling, which I'm due for this Saturday!

1. Room temperature filtered water (in other words, drinking water) works best
2. Don't go too near a fan when at work because it can dry your polishes too quickly
3. When nail dipping, keep it in water for half a minute and do a few small swoshes while doing so to remove air bubbles - thanks Nailpassion!
4. Use a thin needle or toothpick, anything thicker than that would make design mapping too difficult
5. Have a base color, keep to your base coat and top coat too even for this technique!

Do you have more to add? Feel free to pen them on the comments box on our right! :)