Hey guys! Sorry for the late post, but better late than never I guess! Today I have this gorgeous white and gold glitter watermarble to show you guys, which I absolutely LOVE. Glitter polishes don't tend to marble well due to their thick, textured formulas, so to get a glittery watermarble like this you need to marble on top of a glitter base with white polish and a clear/sheer polish. Read my tutorial below to find out how to get the finished product :)
What I Used:
- OPI Glitter-Off Base Coat
- OPI Goldeneye
- OPI Alpine Snow
- OPI Act Your Beige (sheer polish)
- Glisten and Glow HK Girl Top Coat
- Plastic cup
- Toothpicks
- Cottonbuds
- Tape
- Scissors
- Tweezers
- Nail polish remover and cleanup brush
1. Apply a base coat to protect your natural nails from stains and provide a smooth base for polish. I recommend using a peelable base coat like OPI Glitter-Off when using glitter polishes for easy removal.
2. Paint your nails two coats of your chosen glitter polish and allow to dry. Add a fast-drying top coat to speed up the process and to smooth out the texture of the glitter.
3. Protect the skin around your nails with a few pieces of tape for a quick and easy cleanup after your watermarble.
4. Now that your nails are prepped and ready to go, fill a paper or plastic cup with room temperature water (water straight from the tap is generally fine, just make sure it isn't too cold or warm.)
5. Add a drop of white polish onto the surface of the water and it should spread out into a circle. If it doesn't, your polish is probably too thick - try using a newer bottle of polish. Add a drop of a clear or sheer polish inside the white circle, and it will spread out to form a ring of white around it. Don't use a top coat for this as the formula will likely be too thick and will dry too fast. Keep adding drops of polish into the cup, white then clear/sheer, until you have 6 or 7 rings in your polish 'bullseye'. Take a toothpick and gently draw zig-zagging lines across the polish to make a pattern.
6. Once you're happy with your pattern, find a section that you want to transfer onto your nail and then slowly lower your finger into the polish and under the water, with your nail parallel to the surface. Hold your finger just under the surface for ten seconds while the polish on the water dries. You can blow gently on the water to speed this up.
7. Swirl a cottonbud around in the water to collect the dried excess polish on the surface before gently removing your finger from the cup. Shake off the excess water on your nail and fingers and peel off the tape around your nail.
8. You should only have a minimal amount of polish around your cuticles thanks to the tape, so clean this up with polish remover and cottonbuds or a brush.
9. Once your nails have dried, finish your design with a layer of top coat for protection and shine. I'm trying out the fast-drying HK Girl Top Coat from Glisten and Glow instead of my trusty Seche Vite, and so far I'm liking it (there may be a comparison review coming up soon!)
There are infinite possibilities with this clear-marbling technique, I'd love to try it out with more glitters or a real textured polish like the OPI Liquid Sand polishes. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below, thanks for reading and I'll see ya next time!
Lisa xx
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