This is Halloween Challenge! Day 2: Watermarble

Hello all! Today's "This is Halloween" challenge was to create a water marble. I love water marble nails but I'm just not good at them. I know a lot of bloggers feel this way. It's definitley a technique that takes time, patience, and practice. With that said, I think with practice maybe I will get better at them. My thumb never seems to come out right... I was thinking witches, so I choose to use Halloween colors; purple, green, orange, and black.

So what do you think?

What I used:

• Base color: Sally Hansen White On
• Sally Hansen Sun Kissed, Black Out
• L.A. Colors Fun in the Sun
• essence Lime Up!
• Dixie cup
• Room temp. bottle water

 Next week is Ghosts and Jack-O-Lanterns, Halloween staples! I'm looking forward to it. Also, I was going to start the Where in the World? Challenge today but I am not feeling so well so I am going to postpone it until next week. Hope you aren't too disappointed. I just really didn't have it in me.

Until next time,

Erin

2012 Summertime Challenge! Week 9: Summer-themed Water Marble

Hello! Today is the last day of the 2012 Summertime Challenge, which was my first challenge ever! First challenge I've participated in and the first I've created. I learned so much about creating a challenge. I think I might do it again but next time I am going to network better and come up with it well in advance. It was a really nice learning experience.

So today's objective was to create a summer themed water marble. If you have been reading, then you would know that water marbling is something that I am really bad at. In fact, I've never done it before this week (successfully.) I almost died when I realized that the 31 Day Challenge had one for the day before I was to do this one! I was like, "Seriously? I have to do two water marbles?! I suck at them!" Well yesterday's water marble came out pretty good and this one isn't too bad either!

What I used:

• A dixie cup
• Bottled water
• Toothpick
• Thumb and ring finger:
• China Glaze Street Chic
• Orly Decades of Dysfunction
• Index, middle and pinky:
• Sally Hansen Pacific Blue
• SH Blue Me Away
• OPI Suzi Says Feng Shui
• Masking tape

I wanted my water marble to remind people of the beach. That's why I went with sand colors and blues to represent water. It's not too bad. I think it would have been better if I had used a base color but I was feeling lazy and just used a base coat, then I did the water marbling. I really love how my thumb came out. What colors do you like to use when you water marble?

As for clean up, I used tape this time. It was so much easier to clean up but I hate wearing it. A couple of my fingers were getting stuck together. Only me right? I am so clumsy! :) What is your preferred way to clean up when doing water marbling?

See you tomorrow!
Erin

31 Day Challenge! Day 20: Water marble

Hello all! Oh the dreaded water marble! Today's challenge is one of those days were patience is needed. I'm actually lacking patience today since I'm not really feeling well. Luckily the only thing that has suffered is my thumb. Today's untried polish is OPI Cajun Shrimp.

Let's Do the Time Warp Challenge! Day 1: I should have been born in...

Hello all! First off I would like to say hello to all of my new readers! Hi! I'm so excited to share my nails with you :) If you are new then I need to catch you up with what's going on here on the blog. I am currently involved in 2 nail art challenges, which is turning into 3 since I am starting this one today. Three nail art challenges! AHHH! I am crazy haha This is what happened...I created a challenge that's only once a week back in July, then I started doing the 31 day challenge, THEN I was on the lovely Neverland Nail Blog and saw that she was hosting a new challenge. Lindsey's new challenge sounded like so much fun I just couldn't pass it up. Here's the layout.

Doesn't this sound like so much fun?! I am very excited because not only is this challenge going to be fun, I could potentially win a prize! Wahoo! Lindsey is going to be posting every Monday and Wednesday. I'm thinking I will join her on those days, I just had to post today due to yesterday's traveling and pampering my injured ankle.

Day 1: I should have been born in... The idea was to pick a  decade we wish we could have lived in. I choose the 1970s. This was the time of peace, love and happiness. There were go go dancers and hippies, and the beginning of disco! Though I love Disco, I choose to channel the hippy/tye dye part of the 70s. I used a sponge for my thumb and pinky. For the rest of my nails, I did water marbling. It actually came out good! I was amazed haha. 

What I used:

• Base color: Sally Hansen Coral Reef
• Thumb and pinky: 
• SH Coral reef, SH Sun kissed, SH Mellow yellow
• Makeup sponge
• White stamping polish. 
• BM 322, BM 320, BM203.
• Index, middle, ring fingers: 
• Sally Hansen Coral reef, SH Sun kissed, SH Mellow Yellow, SH Blue me Away, and essence Lime up! 
• Water, dixie cup, toothpick. 
• White stamping polish, 
• BM 304, BM 07, BM 205.
• Various sized nail art brushes. 

I think my nails came out pretty groovy man. Stay tuned for Day 2 of this challenge and Day 12 of the 31 Day Challenge tomorrow. 

See you then!
Erin