Saturday 18 January 2014

Taped Water Marble

Taped Water Marble Nails


Well hello again! It feels like I haven't been here for ages, but its been a weird week for me. I have been messing around with some new nail art, and practising my one stroke on paper. But for today nails I wanted to try a taped water marble. I loved the taped nail design I did as my last nail art of 2013, that I wanted to do another in a different way. I didn't want a pure white base polish, so opted to use Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Crinoline. I painted my nails with two coats yesterday as I needed the polish to be totally dry before using the tape.

Crinoline


I have used striping tape, masking tape and sellotape for other nail art designs, but as I was attempting a water marble I wasn't sure how well the sellotape or masking tape would work. So while out shopping I noticed in my local pound shop they had some white waterproof medical tape. Hopefully this will work!!
I'm also using Jesse's Girl polish for the water marble design.



Fashion Friday, Crush, Mermaids Lagoon, Cupcake Frosting and Girls Night Out

So I started out by cutting strips of masking tape to save on the clean up, and then with the medical tape, I cut squares and then cut those in half to make triangles. The same way I did my nails for my last nail art of 2013, but there I used sellotape.


Working on one nail at a time, I taped each finger like so. Sticking the triangle on the tip of my nails this time. Made a stripe design water marble, and here are my finished nails after clean up and topcoat.





As I always use my left hand for showing my manicures, and only sometimes show my right hand, I wanted to show you how this design looks with no top coat. So took a quick photo of my right hand, before I topcoated it.

No topcoat
The medical tape worked really well for this taped water marble. I removed some of the stickiness from it first, but as my base colour was totally dry I don't think it would have mattered if I didn't. Happy with how this came out, a sort of freaky french tip design :)
I have been trying out some other striping tape designs, and may do that as my next manicure. Not too sure yet as I have a watercolour paint design I tried out and really like too!!

So for now, wishing you all a fab weekend and much love :)


12 comments:

  1. wow lovely nails wish I could do something like that!

    Carrieanne xx
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    1. Thank you :) you should try, its a bit fiddly but simple to do x

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  2. Tracey this is cool! I love the water marble colours and the tape worked well this mani would be great for them summer BBQs :) xxx

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    1. Thanks Dawn, I'm debating wether to put a holographic topcoat on them lol, but I'm please with how they came out x

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  3. Great mani, and a fab idea to use the waterproof tape.

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    1. Thank you. I will try the same tape for non water marble designs just to see how well it works xx

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