More fun with watermarbling!

I hate falling behind on his blog. But, I have a little time at the moment, so I'm going to show you guys my most recent watermarble. I actually wore this mani for 2 days earlier this week while I was still recovering from my bout with the evil cold plague, and it held up rather well. I think that's one of the reasons that I love marbling - they wear very well and look soooo neat!

 I loved wearing this one, guys. It came out a lot better than I had anticipated, namely because I wasn't sure the colors would play well together, but they ended up working very well. I used Sally Hansen Marine Scene and Sally Hansen Pronto Purple for this watermarble, and instead of using the usual flower design, I went for something a little more stripey. My camera really did not want to pick up either color very well at all, which peeved me, but I assure you the teal is very vibrant with lovely shimmer and the purple is a bit brighter.

All of these pics were taken in the light box due to another winter storm killing off all the sunlight!

I was very happy with how this one turned out. This was the first time I have used Marine Scene, and I was let down by the formula. Very sheer and thin with lots of drag. I used 3 coats as my base, and it was still rather sheer with very obvious VNL. The water marble took care of that, but worn alone this would probably be a solid 4 coater. It is, however, a very beautiful teal, but if I'm going to wear a teal I'm more apt to wear Trophy Wife than anything else. It does marble very well though, so I will more than likely incorporate this into another water marble mani sometime in the future.

I'm hoping to have time to post my first holiday mani in the morning. I have a bunch that I really want to do, but I'm not sure I'll have time to do all of them before Xmas!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

31 Day Challenge Day 13: Animal Print! & why the heck are my nails suddenly shaped weird?

Hi guys! Very quick post today, since it's been a long day in my world, and I'm not feeling all that great. My daughter just got over a stomach bug and I'm feeling like I may be its next victim. So, right to today's mani!

Today's challenge was Animal Print. I had originally planned to Konad for this one, but no matter which animal print stamp I used, nothing really felt right. I ended up freehanding some tiger stripes instead. I used Essie Bangle Jangle for my base, sponged on some Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Pronto Purple, striped with China Glaze VIII and dabbed on a bit of Sinful Colors Frenzy. Here is the finished mani:

Indoors, natural light:

Sunlight:

And Worst Macro Ever!

I'm pretty pleased with my tiger stripes! This is the first time that I have attempted freehand animal print of any kind, and it was much easier than I had expected!  It also gave me a great excuse to try out the striping brushes that I picked up earlier this week. :)

I'm going to throw this out here in case you guys have any ideas: The nails on my middle and ring finger are literally changing shape overnight these days. They are starting to curve inward at the corners, and some days my ring finger has an indentation right where the nail meets the fingertip on the side. When I say literally overnight, I mean it is one shape when I go to bed, and a completely different shape when I wake up. Some days they're both totally normal. I'm stumped. Any ideas, ladies?? You can see it in the pics of today's mani, the ring finger being especially obvious. Any advice here is much appreciated. I'm not willing to get rid of my length over it, though. So that solution is out! ;)

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber