Marble & Stamping Nail Art Design

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to start by saying sorry for my extended absence recently. I have had a lot going on in my personal life, some good and some not so good things which have kept me occupied. Unfortunately, I have been a little too busy to do my usual weekly posting or even nail art in general!

It appears that the dust is finally settling and things are returning to some form of normal. In my time away, I have made a few changes. I'm currently playing with the idea to change the day I put out new posts, although I'm undecided on when/if that will happen. I am still very interested in doing this blog, because I do enjoy it and it's a little bit of a routine I'd like to keep. So, all I can ask is that you bare with me over the next few weeks until everything comes together. With that, let's get onto the nail art!

I have mentioned in other posts that I want to start doing more involved nail art, so I decided to throw a few things into one design and created a marble background with stamping over top. I have these seriously beautiful stamping polishes from Hit The Bottle and they're just sitting there looking pretty, so I'm breaking them out and giving them some time to shine. If you'd like to know how I created this mani, keep reading.

I used these polishes:
Big Primer Base Coat by Sally Hansen
Sparkling Cyan-ide by Hit The Bottle
Paint The Town Violet by Hit the Bottle
Lady In Black by OPI
Blanc by Essie
Cocktail Bling by Essie
Kwik Dry Top Coat by Sally Hansen

Side note, these nails were done about three weeks ago, and I forgot to take note of which grey I used so there's a possibility it could also be Sunny London by Essence.

The products used are:
Stamping Plate 181 by Born Pretty
Plastic Scraper
Large Clear Stamper
Liquid Latex by Lulaa
Thin Striping Brush

I started with one coat of Big Primer base coat, allowed to dry then applied two coats of Blanc for the base. Whilst drying I applied liquid latex around each nail. Using Blanc, Lady in Black and Cocktail Bling, I applied a few drops of each polish to my stamper. I tried to use as little black as possible as it tends to overpower the other colours. I then pressed the stamper onto the nail, rolling and dabbing to get a good blend of colours. Once I was satisfied with the marble, I used an orangewood stick to remove excess polish around the nail and removed the latex. I repeated this for all nails. Once I had finished stamping the marble design, I decided to add just a little more black. Using my thin striping brush and Lady in Black, I created some thin wavy lines. I then used a little bit of acetone to blend it out. For the stamping, I reapplied liquid latex to each nail. After drying, I grabbed my stamping plate, stamper, scraper and Paint The Town Violet. I painted the polish over the portion of design I wanted, then scraped off the excess. Picking it up with the stamper, I quickly pressed the image onto the nail, then removed the latex. I did the same for all nails, except switching to Sparkling Cyan-ide for my middle and pinky nails. To finish off the nail art, I applied a Kwik dry top coat.

I thoroughly enjoyed this design. It was so fun to create and even more fun to wear! I'm sure everyone went through that marble stone obsession that took over the internet in the last year or so, but I'm still stuck on it. 
I love the way these stamping polishes look over the marble. Especially this enchanting blue! It's such a beautiful colour. I wanted it on all of them, but I thought the purple would look just as good. I think I was right, ha ha.

What do you think?
Are you still obsessed with marble too?


Thanks for stopping by!

Peachy Smoosh Marble & Stamping Nail Art

Hey everyone, 

It is officially summer here in the land of Oz! Not that you'd ever know it was anything other than winter in Victoria, but nonetheless, still summer... which means bright, fun, colourful manis that I am so ready for!
So, as you know, I have all these super cute stamping polishes from Hit The Bottle and I've been a little scared to use them. This week I decided to let loose and just go for it. I didn't just want to do stamping, so I decided to mix in my favorite nail art technique, Smoosh Marble! Here's what I've got for you this week, peachy smoosh marble & stamping.

Peachy Smoosh Marble & Stamping Nail Art

For this fun design I used these polishes:

Big Primer Base Coat by Sally Hansen

Apricot Cockatoo by Essence

Tipsy Grasshopper by Hit The Bottle

Sparkling Cyan-ide by Hit The Bottle

Drunk Tank Pink by Hit The Bottle 

Paint The Town Violet by Hit The Bottle

Kwik Dry Top Coat by Sally Hansen

These products were also used:

BP-98 Stamping Plate by Born Pretty

Liquid Latex by Lulaa

Large clear stamper

Peachy Smoosh Marble Nail Art with Sparkling Cyan-ide

I started with Big Primer base coat. After drying, I applied two coats of Apricot Cockatoo. Whilst that was drying, I applied Lulaa latex around my middle and ring fingers. Taking stamping plate BP-98, I applied small dots of Tipsy Grasshopper, Sparkling Cyan-ide, Drunk Tank Pink and Paint the Town Violet to the design, then scraped it a few times to blend the colours. I then quickly picked up the design with my large stamper and pressed it over my ring finger. I removed the latex from this finger and cleaned up around the nail where necessary. Moving onto my middle finger, I grabbed my stamper and dropped small amounts of Tipsy Grasshopper, Sparkling Cyan-ide, Drunk Tank Pink, Paint the Town Violet and Apricot Cockatoo on to it. I then pressed the stamper over my nail, spreading the polish out. I continued to stamp over the nail until I was satisfied with the colour distribution, then removed the latex and cleaned up. I finished off with Kwik Dry top coat. 

Peachy Smoosh Marble Nail Art with Apricot Cockatoo

I am happy with how this turned out, although I feel the stamp was a little duller than I was hoping for. I may have over done the scraping,  causing less polish to be left on the design. But this smoosh is awesome! I think it looks like a grungy, arty, delightful mess and that's super fun. 

What do you think? 

Don't you just love these bright stamping polishes?

Thanks for stopping by! 

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art

Hey everyone. 

It's starting to look a lot like spring around here. We've had two sunny days in a row! Which seems to be some sort of magic at the moment. So, to celebrate this, here's my first attempt at a stone marble design using neon colours. 

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art Design

For this design, I used these items:
Hidden Treasure - BYS
Citrus - ulta3
Atomic Oj - ulta3
Fruit Tingle - ulta3
Tahiti - ulta3
Large Stamper
Camo Coat - Celestial

Neon Stone Marble with Hidden Treasure - BYS 

I started with Hidden Treasure for the base coat, three coats to get a decent opacity. After allowing them to dry, I grabbed a plastic sandwich bag. Taking each polish, Citrus, Tahiti, Atomic Oj and Fruit Tingle, I dropped each colour on top of the next to create a bulls eye. I made two of these close to each other. Then I picked up the bag and started rotating to swirl the polish around and create a stone-like pattern. Once I was happy and before the polish dried, I used a stamper to pick up the pattern and transfer it to my ring finger. Then I finished off with a quick dry top coat.
 

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art with Citrus - ulta3

That's all for this one. This one was really fun. I tried this out so many times beforehand to figure out the best way to get the look I wanted. I was going to turn this into a decal and put it on after drying but they take a long time to dry and I'm a little impatient. Haha. Eventually I would like to try doing it that way because using a stamper de-saturated it, which kind of sucked, but I wasn't too mad about it.

Neon Stone Marble Nail Art Close Up

I'm pretty happy with the end result, especially since I wasn't sure it would work.
What are your thoughts?
Have you tried this?
If so, I'd love to see it!
Leave me a comment below and I'll check it out. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Smoosh Marble Chevron

Hey everyone!

I hope ya'll have been well. 

I decided to try a little more free hand this time around. I'm not the best so I did get some help from my good friend, striping tape. 

This one is a little more complicated than usual, which is good because sometimes we all need a challenge. I tried two different techniques for this one due to a minor mishap, and decided on this one. If I did it again, I'd find another way because this one worked out a little better than the original technique. 

So here we have the Smoosh Marble Chevron design.

Smoosh Marble Chevron with Garden Variety - Essie

What I used:
Sea-ing Stars - Sally Hansen
Garden Variety - Essie
Blossom Dandy - Essie
Blanc - Essie
Lady in Black - OPI
Camo Coat - Celestial
Kwik Dry top coat - Sally Hansen
Striping tape
Striping brush

Smoosh Marble Chevron with Blossom Dandy - Essie

For this design I started with two coats of Blanc. While drying, I applied Camo Coat around the nails to protect from the next step. I dropped blobs of Sea-ing Stars, Garden Variety & Blossom Dandy onto a large stamper, then stamped them onto the nail, making sure to spread all the colours around. I then removed the Camo Coat, allowed the polish to dry and then added a quick dry top coat. For the two white nails, I placed two pieces of striping tape into a chevron shape and painted the top half with Blanc. I used Lady in Black and a thin striping brush to paint black chevron lines & a black line across the free edge. Finally, I finished with a quick dry top coat.  

Smoosh Marble Chevron with Sea-ing Stars - Sally Hansen

There you have it. I know this is not my best work, but I still love the way it looks. I am a little bit in love with smoosh marble nails, they always look amazing! And of course they're so easy!

Whats your opinion on smoosh marbles? Have you done them? Let me know.

Thanks for stopping by!