Water Marbling Technique- Tips and Tricks

I finally did it! I successfully water-marbled my nails. I know I'm a little behind on the trend but I might as well start sometime. I experimented with it for a while, and this is the best process I found.

Prep:
First thing you need to get it some water in a dish that's big enough and deep enough to dip up to two fingers at once. I found that using room temp. water was the best- Start with more cold water and let it set for a while.
Color base coat- You will need to apply one coat of the lightest color you are marbling. You'll find that the marble itself will be very thin and your nail might show through.
Get all your polish ready and opened! It's such a pain to have to open each bottle before you need to drop it in.
Tape- Cut all the tape before you even start. You will need two pieces for each finger. One to go under the cuticle, and one to wrap around the sides of the nail and over the tip.

Dropping the Polish:
Don't go for a metallic polish, they won't spread very easily and it will be very thin. Starting with the first color, let it fall off the brush but keep the brush very close to the water. Don't touch the water with it, but if the brush is too high the glob of polish will sink right to the bottom. You can blow or shake the water a little bit to help the color spread. After that color is done spreading, continue the same process with the other colors you want to use, dropping it in the center of the other drop. There isn't a limit on how many drops you need, or how many colors you use. Once you have the amount of drops you want, swirl it around with a tooth pick.

Dipping the nail:
Tape your nail however you want- mainly to make the cleanup a lot easier. I like to dip two nails on the same hand at the same time, since this is such a waste of polish this will help use more. Anyways, put your nail in horizontally, leave it there for a few seconds, and with a dry q-tip swirl all the extra polish that isn't on your nail out of the water, grabbing it with the q-tip.

Peel off the tape and clean up your cuticles! It will probably take a few practice tries at first, but once you get the hang of it, it can be easy.

See you soon! xx