Happy Easter! A Zoya water marble for your basket!

Happy Easter everyone!  Since I don't have children, my niece and nephew live a little too far away, and having my dogs help me dye Easter eggs is a death wish, the next best thing is to water marble my nails.  I combined Zoya Bevin, Dove, Malia, Avril and Kristen for a pastel marble inspired by those little hard shelled chocolate Cadbury eggs (which are the devil).  I finished the look with a single coat of Zoya Sparkle Gloss.

I tried a new method this marble... instead of scotch taping my nails off I applied a thick lotion/balm around my nails and cuticle, doing my best to stay off the actual nail.  I then cleaned the nail bed off with a Q-tip soaked in polish remover to ensure the polish would stick.  Zoya Purity went on next as a base, and then I dipped as usual.  Since the skin surrounding the nail had that coat of balm on it, the excess polish came right off and clean up was a whole lot easier than the tape method.

Hope everyone got a little family time in this weekend!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

So this has to have been one of my most frustrating water marbles to date and it was entirely my fault.  I am on the road for Valentine's Day this year, so I attempted this on Friday evening.  It was a marble of Zoya Purity, Zoya America, and Zoya Nephratiti.  While all three colors are gorgeous on their own, combined they caused me more frustration than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.  The culprit, Nephratiti.  Nephratiti has a tendency to blend with Purity, and while pink isn't going against the Valentines theme, it just wasn't what I was going for.  My stubborn self refused to remove the troubled color after the first few attempts and just plowed forward.  All in all though, they didn't turn out too bad. This marble was completed using a base of Zoya Purity, with a marble of Zoya Purity, Zoya America, and Zoya Nephratit followed by a single cleat coat of nubar Diamont.

My first water marble!

Ah, my first attempt at a water marble.  It was fun to do, just a little more time intensive and something I won't be able to do on a weekly basis.  This is done with Zoya Caitlin, Zoya Dove, and Zoya Kelly.  The base of the marble was a simple white I had in my drawer and the top coat is nubar Diamont.