Tried something new this weekend.

Tried something new this weekend. Instead of water marbling and dipping each finger I made one design, let it dry on the water, carefully took it out, and then cut it up and used them like decals. I don't know if I would always be able to make that work, but my nails are so short and nubby right now that it went just fine. I liked doing it that way because you USUALLY waste less polish, and it's USUALLY much less messy.

However, this time it was a huge mess. I spilled not only hot water on myself, but 3 open bottles of nail polish. EPIC FAIL. I was sitting there saying to Shadow (in an attempt to elicit help from him) "HOT WATER! NAIL POLISH!" Those are about all the words I could manage for a minute because I could not believe what I'd just done. He just looked at me like I was crazy until I screamed for him to get a towel.

I'm usually much more calm and prepared when doing my nails, but I had a "dying vole on my porch" type of situation to handle so I found myself suddenly chatting with Wild Mammal Care in the middle of my nail-doing. They asked me if she'd moved and when I got up to check I spilled everything everywhere because I am awesome. Also, my little porch vole didn't make it. 🙁 I'm not super surprised, though, because you don't see them out usually unless something is wrong.

So yeah. Nubs for now. That is what happens when I go a month without polish. My new nail / cuticle oil is doing a great job on keeping my nails from peeling, but having some layers of polish on is really what protects mine from breaking.

Also, pardon all the bubbles in my topcoat. It was getting too thick, but I gave my polish thinner to a friend so I just had to deal with it. LOL I gotta put thinner on my list of things to buy ASAP. Those bubbles drive me crazy!

This is currently my left hand.

This is currently my left hand. Since I'm left-handed I break those nails a lot more often (as you can probably tell).

I couldn't decide this weekend whether I wanted to do a water marble or a gradient - so I did both. Who says I have to match? 😂

I usually only watermarble an accent or two..

This is the first time I've bothered to take the time to do ALL of my fingers in a water marble.  The look is pretty neat, but it's easier to do it to someone else due to all of the clean-up and the messiness of the process.  I know the point of the water marble is to get some really cool, flowy effects, but I really like my thumb, pointer, and ring finger.  They just look kind of stripey... not very impressive, but, oh well.  😛

This hand definitely turned out a little more interesting.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the thumb.  Couldn't re-create it to save my life.  😂  If you can't tell - the whole thing was pretty experimental which is the reason that none of my nails look very similar.  If you drop the polish in the same way and draw the same shapes in the polish then you can make them all look pretty much the same.  There are videos on YouTube that show you how to get certain shapes / looks; however, I didn't look them up right before I started so I just went with whatever I was doing.  Just playing around, I guess.  🙂