Video: How To Water Marble Using Nail Polish: Jewellery

I never did manage to get the technique of water marble quite right on my nails consistently. However, I did manage to get the technique to work in order to create my own jewellery using nail polish.

I used these neon colours by Colour Club to create a water marble ring. The colours (from left to right) are Warhol, Almost Famous, WHAM! POW! and Pucci-licious.

I also filmed the process as I think it is easier to watch a video step by step rather than trying to explain in in a blog post.

                   

Hope you found this tutorial helpful. 

Would you try to make your own jewellery? If so comment down below, I would love to hear from you.

Spring Time Water Marble

I had another go at water marbling, it is tricky but I am quite happy with how this manicure turned out. I have only tried this method a handful of times.

I applied one coat of Models Own Beth's Blue as a base and I used Jack Wills Electric Pink, Barry M Spring Green and Models Own Blue Lagoon to marble with.

Have you ever tried water marbling? If so, any tips and tricks? I think this is one of those methods which will just take time and practice to perfect.

First proper water marble attempt

So, I had tried to water marble before, but it never worked our right, I just got annoyed and gave up. I have a few days off from work this week and figured that I have a lot more spare time on my hands, so I wanted to give water marbling another chance. This effort is by no means perfect, but this is the first manicure I have done where I am pleased with the results.

This is what I did: first I painted all my nails with a base colour, Models Own Beth's Blue, I applied one coat. 

For my marbling colours I used Models Own in Blue Lagoon and Lemon Meringue and Barry M in Spring Green.

Using a plastic cup filled with water (much easier than using a china bowl, because you can just throw the cup away after) I dropped a dot of each polish in the centre and watched it spread. I did this a few times with each colour.

 Then using a bent out kirby grip I created patterns along the polish, work quickly because as I discovered if you work slowly the polish can dry out on the surface of the water and it makes it much harder to manipulate.

 When I was happy with the pattern created I dunked my finger in the water a pulled it out slowly.....

Now, next time I do this I will put sticky tape round my fingers as this does make a lot of mess, but nothing a cotton wool pub can't fix.

I do like that each time I did this I could create different patterns, so each finger is different.

I then used China Glaze fast forward top coat to smooth everything out, I did get a few air bubbles from my marbling, hopefully with more practice I will figure out how to avoid these. Like I said, this is by no means perfect and compared to other people's efforts perhaps quite poor but I like it! For me this have given me a little more confidence to try this technique again.