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Thursday 29 August 2013

Blue water marble with glitter (Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith)






Here's a manicure that evolved over a several days! I started out with plain, light blue nails - a sort of palate cleanser from all the glitter and nail art, lol! This is Zoya Blu - a really pretty light blue cream from Zoya's spring pastels collection earlier this year. I choose my colours by mood more than *season* as defined by the manufacturer!


Zoya Blu
Zoya Blu


Next day I added a water marble. I'm a relative beginner at water marbling, but I love the effect, so I've decided to try to a water marble every week to get more practice! In my last water marble I used just a single colour and clear polish to make a marbled pattern over a gradient, but this time I wanted to marble with several colours. I used Zoya Blu, Zoya Jacqueline, American Apparel Passport Blue and Rescue Beauty Lounge Cuprum.






It's not perfect of course, but I do like the way the patterns came out. RBL Cuprum worked in an interesting way, it spread really quickly and thinly over the water, and on the nail it looks a bit like a water colour wash.

My favourite nail was my middle finger on my left hand - here's a macro of that one. You can also see the coppery flecks in RBL Cuprum on the edge of my middle finger nail rather well in the macro. Although I like the fact that every nail turns out different in water marbling, I wish every nail came out as good as this. Obviously more practice is needed!



GLITTER, however, is great for covering imperfections! And because you can add it selectively, you can use it just to accent some areas of a nail art design:

Water marble with Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith


The glitter I used is Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith; this is a mix of slightly teal-ish blue glitters in hexes of various sizes, some tiny blue bar glitters and bigger pale gold holographic hexes. 


Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith
Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith 

I chose this glitter because the tone of blue matches up nicely with the blue shades in my water marble, and the pale gold hexes set off the warm cream of Zoya Jacqueline really well.

Water marble with Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith

Water marble with Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith
Water marble with Pocket Money Polishes Keep The Faith 

Zoya Blu and Jacqueline were part of a gift from a lovely polish friend, as was American Apparel Passport Blue. RBL Cuprum is a favourite from my stash - I got my bottle in a swap a while ago but the colour is still available to buy from the Rescue Beauty Lounge Website.

Charlie, the maker of Pocket Money Polishes, very kindly sent me Keep The Faith as a sample when I last ordered polish from her. Keep The Faith is one of the new Pocket Money Polishes colours for September, and goes on sale on 1st September at the Pockcet Money Polishes website, which includes a blog with information on new colours and release dates. You can also keep up with Charlie and her polishes on her facebook page



10 comments:

  1. Love, love such great combinations!!!

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  2. This looks fantastic - I'm pinning on Pinterest! Love it!

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  3. This is gorgeous! Love the colors you used here too :)

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  4. This looks fantastic! I wish I could get water marbling to work! lol :)

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    1. Thank you!

      I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I think getting the water at the right temperature is quite important, so the polish doesn't set on the surface and go wrinkly before you put your nail in.

      And make sure to separate the rest of the polish film on the water surface away from your nail with a stick before you take your finger out - I messed up a lot with that the first few goes and ended up with sort of double prints on my nails, lol!

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  5. It's stunning! You can never have too much glitter ~

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    1. Thank you! I think that's a good mantra, lol!

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