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Friday, December 30, 2011

Green and white water marbling!

My first successful water marble! I'm mostly impressed, especially with the minimal amount of clean up I had to do. I took the picture before clean up to show how careful taping can make cleaning up easy.

First, I used two coats of China Glaze Snow, which is a white creme. Then for the actual marbling, I used China Glaze White Cap and China Glaze Glittering Garland.

I dipped the index and ring fingers together, after drawing a sort of four-leaf clover in the water. I also dipped the ring and pinky fingers together, after drawing a design that was more linear. I quite like the designs on the index finger and the ring finger. I also like how the designs on the ring and pinky fingers line up with each other!

I tried water marbling a few days after this, and ran into problems. The polish all migrated to one side after dropping it in, and it dried before I could draw in a design. I tried changing the water, and the same thing happened. I'll have to figure out what went wrong that time, because water marbling is pretty easy, and it looks great. I definitely want to do more marbling!

If you want to learn how to water marble, I recommend the YouTube channel by SimpleLittlePleasues. Her marbling is incredible, and I watched a bunch of her videos before trying it myself.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Shortly, anyway. This semester was so busy and weird, I've only painted my nails three times since the beginning of September. I have three exams left to write: one today, one tomorrow, and one on Thursday. After that, I have three weeks off. I intend to do a LOT of swatching to make up for the long hiatus.

Next semester, my schedule is much better. I crammed all my labs onto one day, so I will be able to paint my nails and swatch pretty regularly.

Good luck to anyone writing exams! Go fight win!