Water Marble Effect Nail Art

Hello everyone :)

I have been considering trying out water marble nails for ages, but the process seemed so messy and time consuming that Ive always put it off - But today, I jumped straight in and gave it ago. (But I was right, its very messy and very time consuming!)

Before starting, you will need to choose at least 2-3 of your favourite nail polish colours. I went for red (nails inc), pink (accessorize) and purple (barry m), and give your nails a good base colour, I choose white as it helps the other colours stand out more.

Fill a bowl with room temperature water. It cant be too hot or too cold as it effects the way the polish reacts, so make sure this right before you proceed. You really dont want to have to start all over again!

An important tip is to cover all around your nails with tape. This ensures that they dont get covered in nail polish (and believe me they will!) and that you spend hours trying to clean them up.

Heres the fun part - Add little droplets of your polish into the water, one by one, mixing and matching with the colours.

Using a toothpick, gently pull from the middle of the circle dragging outwards. The outta edges of the polish is already dry (strange that the polish is dry while in water, but it is!) so make sure you always drag from the middle.

You can create whatever design you fancy!

Insert your fingers into the bowl, one by one and leave for about 30 seconds. With the toothpick collect the rest of the polish around the finger and then gently remove your finger from the bowl...

As you can see from the above picture, it really is a messy process, as this needs to be repeated for each nail, so will take up some time.

Once all nails are done, they should turn out something like this (probably completely different, but you get the jist!) My little finger went abit wrong :( but over-all Im pretty pleased with them.

left hand

right hand

I have found this design tricky but the good thing is, there is no right or wrong way. It is however, time consuming and messy so its a design that you would only want to do now and again, so unfortunatly not practical.

I love the fact that every time you do this it will be unique and it would be good to mix and match the polishes you rarely use!



Have you tried water marble before? How did you find it? Let me know if/when you try it out, Id love to see your designs!!

Lots of love,

Barry M - Croc Effects/Foil Effects

Hello followers, Have you all had a good Monday? Yesterday I FINALLY got my hands on Barry M croc effects nail polish. I cannot express how long I have been after this, and everytime I went into Boots, they were out of stock. Typical!

As soon as I saw it, I snapped it up... along with their Gold effects polish (oh, and managed to get their free lip gloss too, BONUS!!)

So, lets put these beauties to the test...

I shall start my review with Gold effects. As with all Barry M nail paints, the polish glided on smoothly, the colour very strong and I only used one coat (unusual for me!)

The colour is amazing. I thought the colour might fade after afew hours, but no its still as bright as when I first put it on. I love it so much, I nearly never put the croc effect over the top, but the bottle was staring at me, begging me to try... so I had too!

I read the instructions (above) and got in abit of a panic. Touch dry?! How will I know if its touch dry but not fully dry!? What will happen if I do it too early or too late?! Ahhhhhh. I hate,hate,hate touching polish when its 'tacky' and it leaves a horrible 'print' mark, but alas it had to be done *sob*

I applied a layer to my nails and waited for the results....

....and waited.....

and waited.... blimey this stuff takes along time! It must have been about 5 minutes before any pattern started to emerge, and when it did, BOOM.

I messed up alittle with my second finger, but over-all, Its pretty damn good! My thumb looks exactly like the top of the bottle, hehe.

My verdict on the croc nails is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.

I love it.

I seriously have no idea how they can make a polish make certain patterns, but its genius and I hope Barry M continues to create such good quality and unique products.

Ohhh, a thumb nail and my eye. Hello.

Whats your opinion on the croc effects and the foil effects nail polishes?

Lots of love,

Nail Case Tidy-Up

Hello lovelies!

I spend alot of time trying to find certain items when Im doing my nails. Its abit of a nightmare, so I thought id have a little 'tidy up' with my nail case.

Below is a before image and as you can tell - I dont know where anything is!!

Lets start with organising some polishes. Here are my trusted brand of polish - Barry M!! As you can see, I dont have that many and some are duplicates. I am in need of some more and as soon as I see '3 for 2' in boots - Ill be stocking up!!!



Do you like my desk? I decorated it myself *proud*



Next is my small yet ever growing nails inc selection. I do adore the kelloggs red, its such a beautiful vibrant red. My next favourite is 'Special Effects' which I got for Christmas from a lovely friend. Its sooo sparkley!!

Right, this section consists of my 'art' pieces such as rinestones, stickers, gems, wraps, flowers and much more! Its still so tiny, so I need to buy more, more, more!

The next 2 sections were based on polishes and things I use the most...

Nail care section - includes buffers, toe seperators, hand/nail cream, cuticle cream, files, q tips etc

This is the final result!!

As you can see the middle compartment is still 'messy' but Ive made a seperator, so now I have nail polishes on one side and art pens on the other :)

I think my ever growing polish collection is soon going to mean that my nail case cant take anymore. *sob* Sooo, Im hoping to invest in a nail polish rack in the near future!!

Something similar to this;

want.need.want.need.

Have a jolly good day!

Lots of love,