Arden: Hey everyone! Today's prompt in the 33 Day Challenge is to try out a technique that is new to you. If I were a person who embraced adversity, this probably would've been the perfect opportunity to try out water marbling again. But everytime I've ever tried to do water marble nails I've ended up wanting to bash my head into the wall. I've just never gotten it to work. So instead of suffering through the same crushing defeat again, I decided to try out this marbling without water technique by Robin Moses.
First, watch this tutorial video. It is super great!
I started by painting my nails with a base coat, and then two coats of OPI Don't Touch My Tutu (whenever I do nude nails, I always start with this polish, because I feel like it helps me work up to a nice opacity quicker). Then I applied a very thick coat of Julep Layne (a more pinkish nude) to my first nail.
I dabbed on white (Julep Bunny), black (Sally Hansen Black Out), and sparkly tan (Julep Cynthia) polish and used a small nail art brush to swirl them together. I will say that I don't think my nude coat was as wet/thick as the one in the video, because my colors did not swirl that well together. When i try this again I will definitely try to make the base coat thicker. But the polishes still swirled pretty well.
When I finished with each nail, I went back and dabbed on some gold glitter polish using my Color Club gold striper. I added a top coat and voila!
Obviously, not as totally awesome as the original, but still pretty good! I'm gonna call this new technique a success. (And not nearly as maddening as water marbling. Which I will try again someday. Maybe.)
Be sure to check out the rest of entries in the 33DC below!
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