Hey everyone!  For our water marbles this week Danielle and I took our inspiration from sunsets.  I didn't have a picture of a sunset that I used, I just knew I wanted to used pinks and orange, and a bit of purple.  I did a white base for this marble, then used Zoya Lo, China Glaze Fuchsia Fanatic, China Glaze Gothic Lolita, and Essie Braziliant.  Don't forget to check out the link to Danielle's marble at the bottom of my post!

Hey guys!!  Here is the last of my Cult Nails designs.  I tried to save the best for last... this is an AWESOME polish.  I am sooo glad I was able to get my hands on it.  I didn't want to cover up the gorgeousness that is this polish, so I did a few copper rhinestones at my cuticle to just accent the coppery flakies that are in there.  Be sure to enlarge the macro at the end of the post!

Hi guys!!!  Here is another one of the Cult Nails designs I did.  I think I only have this one and then one more to post.  I did this gradient with one coat of Cult Nails Bad Devious Nature as my base, and then I sponged on Cult Nails Time Traveler using this method I saw on Makeup Withdrawal.  Finally, I added on the single rhinestone at my cuticle.

I think next time I try a gradient I will try the method from The Nailasaurus and see if it works any better.  I liked how this one turned out but it was definitely not as smooth of a transition as the photos on the tutorial I used.  Hers looked almost airbrushed!



What method do you like to use for your gradients?

Hey everyone!!  Its that time of the week again!  This week's theme was water inspired.  I went for a foaming wave look... I think it turned out well, and the color I used were super easy to work with.

I used a base coat of OPI Funny Bunny, then I marbled with Funny Bunny, Essie Greenport, Essie Shelter Island, and China Glaze Sea Spray.  I thought about adding some glitter to this, which I tried after I took these, but it was too much.  Oh well!

Last night I added a blog sale page!  I have polishes listed of course, but also a bunch of MAC and other HE makeup.

Wow, this is my third water marble this week!!  A bunch of blogger friends and I decided to declare today Holo Day, and all rock them together.  There are links at the bottom of my post to the other who are participating, so be sure to check out what they came up with!

Just in time for this group effort, an awesome swap I did with a pal arrived from Brazil.  It was FULL of Hits  polishes, I received 8 of the polishes from the No Olimpo collection.  I did my marble using 4 colors, Hits Apolo, Hestia, Dioniso, and Atena.  On my thumb I just used a white base coat and one coat of the Hits holo top coat, Hefesto.  Check out the macro shot I included of that at the end!  I was in love with how the holo looked over white.

Hi guys!  Here is another one of my Cult Nails looks... I hope you aren't getting sick of these yet because I still have a few more left to post. :)

I decided pretty early on that I wanted to do a water marble.  I feel like they are becoming my signature look.  I love doing them, and I love wearing them, so I'm ok with that.  And I always seem to get the best feedback from you guys, so I guess you enjoy them just as much as I do!

For this marble I used some Cult Nails polishes that I borrowed from my lovely friend, Gina! (Thanks Gina!!!)  I used Time Traveler, Manipulative, and Bad Devious Nature.  My base was one coat of Manipulative.

After I finished the marble I added some silver rhinestones to the centers of my "flowers", and then flat silver studs to the "petal" area.


Mr. Sparkles says this was his favorite marble that I have done yet, and I thought that was a pretty good compliment!  Hope you all like it as much as he did!

Welcome back to Water Marble Wednesday!  Today my partner in crime, Danielle from Polish. Glitter. Rock & Roll!, had the idea to do a grab bag to choose the polishes for marbling.  I thought the idea of having a random selection of polishes sounded really fun... It had the potential to be awesome or a total fail! My biggest problem was that since I have all my polishes on shelves and racks, not in drawers or boxes, it would be difficult for me to truly randomly choose.  So, I came up with the idea to ask some friends for assistance.  I asked several people to look through my stash list and choose one polish for me to use in a marble.  That was all the info I provided them.

These are the polishes that were selected!  Zoya Kieko, China Glaze Concrete Catwalk, China Glaze Electric Beat, and Sephora by OPI Tempted by Teal.  There was one polish that was chosen that I ended up omitting from my marble since it wasn't playing nicely in the water, and that was OPI Dutch Ya Just Love OPI?  The color actually coordinated well with everything else, so I wanted it to work, but it was just drying too fast and being a pain.  (In an interesting turn of events, out of the 7 people who I asked to choose colors for me, 3 of them picked Kieko!  What are the odds?!)






Special thanks to my helpers, Jacki, , , Sheila, , , and Laurie!

Don't forget to check out what Danielle did!

Hello everyone!  More Cult Nails art for you today!

For these I used 1 coat of Cult Nails Vicious, then I taped off the V shape at my cuticle and painted one coat of Cult Nails My Kind Of Cool Aid.  I then placed the square black rhinestone at the tip of the V.  It wasn't until after I finished that Mr. Sparkles suggested adding the line down the middle, so I did that freehand with a striping brush.  If I had planned on adding it I likely would have done so before the rhinestone in order to get a more neat line, but oh well!  I am still really happy with how this turned out.  I hope you guys like it too. :)

Hi guys!  This is my next design with my Cult Nails goodies.  I used 2 coats of Cult Nails Let Me Fly on my index, middle, and pinky, and 2 coats of Cult Nails Power Thief on my accent nail.  I then placed the square rhinestones onto my still wet nails in this diagonal pattern.  I finished my design with a coat of Wicked Fast top coat.

Hi everyone!  Here is the first look I came up with using my new Cult Nails goodies.  For those of you who do not follow me on Facebook, I was chosen by Maria to do some designs using the nail art products they will soon be selling on their site.  She asked for volunteers on their Facebook page, and chose 8 people from the submissions.  I am so honored to be one of those people!  Everyone who was chosen will have their designs on the Cult Nails website.  The nail art accessories will be available beginning June 1st.