Wednesday, January 30, 2013

New31DC: Day 30 - Your Favorite Nail Art Technique


Hello there!  For today's theme in the New 31 Day Challenge we are all going to show you our favorite nail art techniques...  I bet you couldn't have guessed before hand what mine would be!  Of course it is water marbling.  I actually feel like I haven't done one in forever, so I was glad to have the chance.


Since I've already informed you of my obsession with pastels at the moment, I thought I would do a pastel marble.  These colors all worked so well together, so this was an easy marble.  I used my usual base coat of OPI Funny Bunny.  I just did one coat of that before marbling over it.

For the colors in the marble I used Depend Nr. 354 (my new go-to lilac), Depend Nr. 347 (a lovely pastel peach), China Glaze Refreshmint (the pastel mint green), and OPI What's With The Cattitude? (a baby blue).


I chose to do a random marble instead of a regular pattern across all the nails... I think this is a fun change sometimes and is interesting to look at.  I also threw one coat of Orly Prisma Gloss Silver, a silver holo micro glitter similar to China Glaze Fairy Dust, over top.


Yay for water marbles!  I missed doing these.  Shall we see what everyone else's favorite techniques are?

11 comments:

  1. January 30, 2013 at 12:36 PM

    Beautiful marble!! Love pastel shades and the subtle glitter is perfect! :)

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  2. January 30, 2013 at 12:55 PM

    This mani is so pretty! Thank you for reminding me that Spring & warmer weather will arrive soon:)

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  3. January 30, 2013 at 2:30 PM

    this is soo ethereal I love it TONS!

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  4. January 30, 2013 at 5:58 PM

    The Queen of water marble. Nothing less.
    LOVE IT!!! and that holo top adds so much fairy feel to the entire mani!!!

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  5. January 30, 2013 at 8:04 PM

    WOOOOW !
    Amazing manicure :)

    xxx

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  6. January 30, 2013 at 8:15 PM

    I love this marble, the colors are subtle but bright, and your pointer finger looks pretty trippy to me!

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  7. January 30, 2013 at 9:07 PM

    it looks amazing!!! :)

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  8. January 30, 2013 at 9:25 PM

    WOW! Love this combo of colors. Still not brave enough to try water marbling though ;)

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  9. January 31, 2013 at 3:09 AM

    yep! this one did come out amazing!

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  10. January 31, 2013 at 4:42 PM

    I looooove the pastels you used! This is such a pretty mani!

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  11. February 19, 2013 at 9:50 PM

    These are really gorgeous!

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