Dry water marble nail art / DIY watermarble decals

In this post I want to show a bit more pictures of my manicure from the mani swap with Lakobotan and also talk about the technique I used. This mani is also my post for Blue Monday.

Lakobotan did a regular water marble but I decided for the first time to make a dry water marble, some time called water marble decals. Which means that you do as usual and drip polish in water and then create a pattern. But instead of dipping your nails in directly (with some cleaning to do after) you just wait for it to dry. Then pick it up and cut it into a nail shape and place it onto you nail! It was harder than I thought but much less cleanup comparing to the normal water marbles. XD

Polishes used:
Rival de Loop Young - Blue Abyss
Rival de Loop Young -  Coco Milk.

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Maniswap with Lakobotan 2 - cartoon nails and water marble nail art

Hi today I have a post which should have been posted for two months ago.. but you know, life happened and here we are. ^^

Basically me and Lakobotan made another mani swap and I was inspired by a water marble she had done. She was inspired by a red cartoon nail art I'd made. (Thought I'd posted the swap pics here before, but they previously only made it to my IG.)

First a summary:

The cartoon nails:

I used Nordic Cap - NP09 (red) and Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark, Jordana Pop Art- Contemporary White. Lakobotan used OPI - Red hot Rio, Sally Hansen Xtreme wear - 28 Black Out and Essie - Blanc.

Watermarble nails:

Lakobotan used Sally Hansen extreme wear - 300 white on and Dance Legend - 401 & 418. I used Rival de Loop Young - Blue abyss & Coco milk.

So here you have it!

And of course, if any one else feel in the mood to create a mani swap with me, please let me know. ^^

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Mani swap with Lakobotan - Neon leo nail art and chanel quilted nail art

Hi, this is going to be a different kind of post. Me and my friend Lakobotan decided to make a mani swap. Which means that I recreated one of her previous nail art designs and she recreated one of my previous nail art designs. We've already posted on instagram but of course I wanted to show you here at the blog too.

First a summary.

Here's some closeup of the nail art and just below are Lakobotan's recreation of my Neon leo manicure (LINK HERE) which I did a while back. Mine is to the left and her is on the right.

I used China Glaze - Hang Ten-toes, China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard, China Glaze - Sun-Kissed and Kleancolor - Black and Lakobotan used Dance legend - 822 Banana Party, Dance legend - 824 Barbie Kiss, Dance legend - 828 Tropicana and Dance legend - 1024 Nox.

And here we have my recreation of Lakobotan's Chanel inspired nail art (LINK HERE). Hers is on the left and mine to the right.

I used Rivaldeloop - 406 and Essence - satin matt top coat and Lakobotan used Orly - Liquid vinyl and opi - Matte tc

This was such a tricky nail art to recreate. Basically you have to wait until the polish is dry enough to make marks on it. However, if it's not dry enough you'll go through the polish and if it's too dry it wont leave good marks. To make the marks you can use dental floss or even a  ruler.

It's not the most long lasting manicure, because of the tiny metal beads. ;) However it was fun and challenging to make. Probably the hardest technique I've tried so far, freehand is way easier for me. ;) However I liked it and I'll probably try again with other colors and maybe without the beads for a more long lasting manicure.

So what do you think? Have you tried the chanel-inspired look with the 3D nail art look? And do you know what it's called? Maybe quilted nail art? I see a lot of hits on google with that.

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