How To: Water Marbling Nail Art

 Here's a super fun nail technique to set your nails apart from the rest! Water marbling is creating a 'marble' effect using water and nail polish. Simples right?

You will need:

A bowl

Cocktail sticks

Water

2 Or more of your favourite nail polishes

Nail polish remover

Cotton buds

Tissues

Let's get started...

Prep:

1. Take the bowl and fill it up halfway with cold water. Then take your first nail polish and add one drop to the water. The nail polish will spread into a thin, very faint circular film on the top of the water. I found that the cheaper polishes tend to be too thin for this technique to work, so it might be best to use a more expensive one for the quality of the ingredients. Next, do the same thing in the centre of your first circle with your second polish. Continue to do this as many times as you like until your bowl looks a little something like this...

2. Use the cocktail stick to gently coerce the layer into a pretty pattern like so...

Take the plunge:

4. Your pattern will look so pretty by this point, so fragile in the bowl, that it will be near heartbreaking to dip your nail in - but that's the aim of the game. 
This part's the messy part! You'll need your cotton buds and polish remover on hand - excuse the pun - to remove the excess marbling around your fingers. If you find it easier, you could always wrap some cellotape around the part that's getting dipped so you can just peel it off afterwards.
Take your finger and dip it face down in the centre of the pattern. The polish will instantaneously bond onto the nail by wrapping itself around your finger. Remove your finger from  the water and see the results!

Tidy up time:

5. To clear the bowl, dip your cocktail stick into the water and twist it which will gather up the excess polish. Wipe this on the tissue and clean your fingers up!

6. Woo you've done it! Allow the nail polish to dry as you would normally and to preserve the pattern, paint over it with a clear topcoat.

Granted, this technique is time consuming and messy - not to mention using up a lot of nail polish - but if you've gone for a simple manicure, using this technique for a feature nail on each hand would give a really quirky, stylish result. Thanks for reading and please follow for more tips and how to's!

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