What's on my nails today?

Hi everyone,


week 2 of the 52 Week Nail Art Challenge is one of the prompts I dreaded the most... water marble! There are some techniques that are terrifying and water marble is very high on that list as far as I'm concerned. I had a really cute design in mind and found the perfect polishes... only to discover they wouldn't spread. No matter what I did (water slightly warmer, cooler, filtered, tap, different cups) I just couldn't get a nice bull's eye. So in the end I just went for different polishes and this is the result:

Hi everyone!


By now you've probably noticed my presence has been less than usual. I won't bore you with the details but the flu turned out to be something a lot nastier and I'm still recovering. But of course I couldn't let the last Friday of the month pass without an attempt at a manicure, especially since I picked the inspiration for November: a pretty manicure by @ane_li. Here's my version:


I already knew I wanted to use more fall appropriate colors but in the end my nails turned out completely different than my vision. If you want to know what happened, please read on :)

Hi everyone!


Brace yourselves... I can't stop grinning so you're going to see lots of exclamation marks and smileys in this post.

Guess what? I DID IT!!! I finally did it! I mastered the beast! I dove in head first and won the battle!
What is it I'm talking about (read: scream about like a maniac)? Water marble of course!!

I so couldn't stand that I just couldn't do a water marbled manicure like all the other nail bloggers that I decided to sit down behind my desk on Sunday morning and try and try and try again until I was happy or it was time to go to bed (whichever would come first). I tried out several cups, a zillion polishes, dropping polish with the brush almost touching the water or higher above it, dragging lines with a needle, a pin, a dotting tool, just about anything that was sort of pointy and... I did it!!! Wanna see?

Tadaaaa:

indoors, no flash