Under the Sea!

Sorry for the abrupt vanishing act last week. I caught the flu, hung around in bed over the weekend and (sods law) was well enough for work by Monday.

Here for your viewing pleasure is today's nails of the week, a subtle blend of 3 blue (non China Glaze!) polishes:

Nubar Mali-Blue, Zoya Tallulah & Nicole It's Up to You - Blended


Add a Silver Konad Seahorse, for that under water effect

I've been in the mood for some sort of water themed mani this week after the boyfriend left me for a scuba diving trip to Belgium. So, after experimenting with water marbling, deciding its too smelly, messy and annoying... (That and I basically polished 3/4 of my ring finger on several attempts) to try something else!

A horrific water marbling accident
no fingers were harmed in the making of this pic!

After a bit of googling and youtubing I came across a super simple way to blend colours, while on your nails! So for your viewing pleasure I've made a little 'How to' guide.


You Will Need:

3-4 shades of polish, 1 base coated finger, some random top coat & nail polish remover


The key to this stage is to be quite fast so paint on your first two colours - don't worry about being neat, just make sure that they're a bit thicker than normal and overlap slightly. Oh and don't forget to leave room for the other shade!


Apologies for the terrible picture quality here, I had to enlist help from the boyfriend as I had my hands full ^^

Take your top coat, wipe off half of it into the bottle and then use the remaining to blend the two shades together. There is no right or wrong amount here but too much top coat tends to thing out your coloured polish and leave you with weird pale voids in the design.

Add colour number 3...

And once again blend with your top coat...

The first and most important thing I learned while doing one hand is that even when using Seche or any other quick dry item it still takes longer than a normal mani. So try and do it while there's something good on tv to keep yourself occupied while you're waiting.

The Finished Product

I hope you guys will give it a go, it looked totally awesome (I even got a compliment on them from the grumpy girl at the waffle shop!) and was super easy to do.

Finally a shout out to the totally sweet people at Nailene who are sending me some China Doll Nail art. I'm super excited! \o/

So, til next time, happy polishing!