Happy St. Patrick's Day!

I decided to try this awesome clover water marble design I saw on YouTube, made by the water marble expert Simple Little Pleasures.

This is the second design I did for  St. Patrick's Day. The first one was a total fail. I had a bit longer nails when I did it, and the green I picked didn't look as nice as I thought it would. Then the stamping I did was quite unattractive and I decided it was too aweful to post this fail mani on the blog, so I did a new one today.

Even though green is one of my least favorite colors, this design came out pretty nice! I think I like it :) My marbling skills are not super, and the design isn't perfect like the original, but still - it's cute. Iove the combination of these two colors and the clover on the middle finger came out pretty nice.

For the base I applied two coats of Beauty Care 14 which is a bright lime green, and for the marble I used the same color along with Skinfood Mocha Gold. Once dried, I applied one coat of Poshe.

So what do you think about this design? Are you having issues with green colors as well? :)

I decided to try water marbling again after a long time. I did my first water marbling almost half a year ago, and I thought I did well, but I actually sucked at it lol, I just didn't know that then. It was just when I started to be interested in nail polish, while having less than 10 bottles of dry nail polish in my collection. I'm so ashamed of this haha

Actually it's pretty amazing how fast my collection grew (over 200 now) and my skills and techniques have improved. I would have posted my first lame water marbling but I'm too ashamed of it...

To be honest - I didn't do lots of water marbling, I think this is my fourth try with this on both hands.

I just found it pretty much frustrating and time consuming, and most of the times the result wasn't worth it. I thought to give this another try after watching some tutorials that refreshed my memory and gave me some tips (check out My Simple Little Pleasures and her awesome water marbling tutorials, they include simple instructions and tips for a great results).

I thought to make it a bit different so I started with an ombre base, and then added the water marbling on top. For the base I used one coat of GADE Marshmallow, then used a sponge to create the omber - I used 3 colors: light pink, hot pink and purple. The colors are GADE Marshmallow, GADE Fashion Fuchsia and GADE Purple Empire.

For the water marble I used Catherine Arley 805 which is a black holo, and GADE Luxe Nude which is a light milky color. I wanted the ombre to show underneath the water marble so I picked this semi transparent color, and it did a pretty good job. You can a transparent polish instead to create this affect. I think it's an awesome idea and an nice twist to the water marbling effect, so thank you to who ever came up with this first ;)

It didn't turn out as I imagined it, but hey - I'll take that! Much better than my previous attempts. It looks pretty nice, even though it's not symmetric as I wished it would be and it had some bubbles (which were popped once I applied my Poshe top coat). I think the design on my other hand came out nicer but I didn't take pictures of it since it was late and dark when I did the mani on this hand (yeah I do this sometimes lol).

When I was imagining the design in my head, I was planning to add a glittery top coat, as I did with my James Bond mani, but then I decided that the holo glitter of Catherine Arley 805 was pretty enough.

So what do you think of my water marble mani? Have you tried this yet? Feel free to share it with me :)