Rainbow watermarble

Hi ladies :) I felt like I hadn't watermarbled in the longest time (meaning over a year!) and after seeing a whole bunch of beautiful watermarbled nails on instagram, I was inspired to create my own. These were done way back in July so I don't really remember the polishes used, except for the one I'm holding on to...oops! The orange is definitely OPI Call me Gwen-ever. Oh, and the holographic sparkle is from Glitter Gal Galaxy Holo Top Coat.

And under the sun

The marbling does look a bit random, so I'm hoping that with some more practice, I can get some uniform designs coming up :)

Thanks for reading!
~Sharon

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Pink and black 'rocker' nails?

Hi ladies~ Whenever I picture pink and black together, I somehow associate them with a 'rocker' image. Of course, my nails don't really look like that theme simply because I don't have the ability to pull it off :P Anyways, here is my pink and black manicure :)

Pinky & index: two coats of Australis Blackmail and layered with OPI Nothin' mousie 'bout it
Ring & thumb: drag marbling with Blackmail and China Glaze Ahoy!
Middle: two coats of Ahoy! and layered with Nothin' mousie 'bout it

For some reason, I just need most of my nails to be different recently. I can't seem to have them all looking the same :S Dilemma really, when it comes to painting! What do you think of these skittle nails? :)

Thanks for reading!
~Sharon

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Australian Series: A bit of drag marbling

Hi everyone~ This mani was initially meant to be a water marble but the nail polish refused to work together and so after spending ages finishing one hand, I gave up and decided to drag marble instead. I don't know why I didn't do this in the first place, it's so much easier and the polish shades worked really well together! Below I have two thick coats of Australis Peek-a-boo, a beautiful blue-toned pastel purple. I then added three dots of Ulta3 gold rush fever to drag marble with. I love how well the purple and gold shades came together ♥

Peek-a-boo is slightly thicker than other polishes but since it's so opaque, you can really get away with one coat if you're careful with application. Gold rush fever isn't a gold I would normally wear on its own, only because it'll clash horribly with my skin tone. Marbled with purple though, it looks amazing. I never knew gold and purple would look so well together. I'm definitely going to try more combinations of them in the future! :)

Australis nail polish retail for $7.95 and can be purchased at Big W, Kmart, Priceline and Target. Ulta3 nail polish are available at Terry White Chemists, Blooms the Chemist, Good Price Pharmacy and other selected pharmacies.

Ahh, I love how much simpler drag marbling is compared to water marbling. What do you think of it? Have you tried it before?

~Sharon

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Drag marbling take two!

Helloooo :D I'm extremely happy since my prac is almost over, although at the same time I'm going to miss the kids like crazy :(. Anyway, here's a drag marbling I did around a week ago when the kids went out on an excursion. I was seriously going crazy from only wearing work appropriate polishes :P.

This is two coats of Essie Sew psyched, I used Ulta3 black satin to do the marbling. I love how the black gives the mani a 'smoky' look to it :).

And my favourite nails: left pinky, fourth finger and thumb + right index finger.

~Sharon

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Drag marbling

Hello~ :) Awhile ago, I tried out drag marbling and it looks so pretty when done correctly, haha! As usual, Colette over at My Simple Little Pleasures was a great inspiration for this mani.

I started off with two thick coats of OPI You don't know Jacques over my base coat and then used my dotting tool to place three random dots of Ulta3 spring shower onto the wet polish. Using a toothpick, I randomly swirled the polish surface and waited a little while before sealing it with my top coat. I really love how simple drag marbling is, now I've just got to experiment more with it :D

~Sharon

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Water marbling

Hello~^^  This is part 2 of the water marbling post. As you can see from my previous post, I had pretty high expectations of my nails turning out beautifully. Unfortunately, I forgot to take into account that my nails are in no way as long and well...my white polish decided to play up and do weird things :S.

I thought I'd share this water marble since I would have totally loved the outcome anyway - if only my white polish didn't hate me so much :(. Maybe I should have added a coat of glitter to hide the imperfection.

And the polishes used:

Sinful Colors Vela

Essie Sew psyched

Ulta3 lily white

I applied one coat of lily white as the base colour and then water marbled with all three polishes. The colour combination reminds me of Christmas - oops, I'm a bit late on that theme haha.

Ick, just look at the mess! :( I quite like the way my index finger came out though.

~Sharon

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Water marbling when done correctly

Hey everyone~! This will be a quick post since I need to run soon - just some water marbling which came out really well when I was trialling on a fake nail. Too bad it didn't turn out so well on my actual nails :(.

Anyway, here it is. Colette over at My Simple Little Pleasures is such a great inspiration!

Please ignore the dings on the nail, I'm obviously quite clumsy when it comes to handling small objects like fake nails. I'll have a post later up today or tomorrow with the water marbling on my nails, I just need to get around to editing the photos!

~Sharon

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Water marbling with holos

Hello~^^ I tried water marbling the other day with some holos; lets just say that they dry extremely fast o__o! I started off with one coat of Color Club's Wild at Heart as the base colour and then marbled with Revvvolution and Wild at Heart. Photos holding the polish bottle are taken indoors under natural light, the other two taken under sunlight.

Left hand:

My favourite nails are the middle and ring fingers~

Right hand:

Favourite nail is the middle finger :).

I'll be going away for the next few days so some scheduled posts should be on the way.

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

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Nail art #14 - Halloween enough for you?

I'm not one who normally celebrates Halloween, it's not even a big holiday here in Australia, but after I came across this video, I knew I just had to have a go at it. My attempt wasn't the most successful, but from a distance, it looks pretty cool :P.

I used Ulta3's Black Plum  as the base and it's just a gorgeous wine red shimmer. Glorious, I tell you. I need to wear this on its own in the future, that's how much I love it. I then used Glossyblossom's nail art striper in White for the spider web. It's not brilliant, but I do like the outcome, especially when not up close. I swear it looks ten times better from a far.


Thanks for dropping by.
~shazzii

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Nail art #11 - Water marbling

I'm not sure I quite like how my water marbling turned out; I really have had better. Somehow the red on white polish gives my nails a rather bloody look.

Polishes used:
Maybelline Colorama Candy Apple
Ulta3 Lily White

I don't like the positioning on my first finger ,and the frustrating thing is that I had quite a nice pattern for it too. I got over-anxious, I suppose :/. Topcoat (Ulta3 Non-chip) also streaked the red polish, even though it was applied after awhile.

Thanks for dropping by.
~shazzii

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