My Nail Journey Part 1 - Water Marble

Water marble nails…where do I even begin? Water marble nails have been the bane of my nail painting life. I tried so many times and every.single.time it went wrong. I tried different colours, different polish brands, different water temperatures but no matter what I did the results were patchy and average at best. Then one day…BAM… I did it and it worked. Perfect water marble nails. The only thing I did different was do it in a plastic cup, rather than a glass one. But it worked perfectly. And since then I have been able to do it successfully two more times – once on myself and once on my sister-in-law. What changed? I literally couldn’t tell you, but I’m complaining! Anyway, here is my wate rmarble journey. Please excuse the exceedingly shoddy camera work on the earlier photos :-)

  The Failed attempts:

1. Only one finger worked!

 

2. A weird and very spead out blue

                                                                                                   

3. I only managed to do one good finger. The rest were...a disater.

                                

4. Hot Mess!

5. This one worked the best but stll looks like a random pattern.

And then...:

Where did that come from?!

I didn't want to try my luck so I only did two fingers.

Second Succesful attempt so I did all my fingers.

The only downide was gouging my ring finger.

So there you have it! If I am able to replicate a successful water marble again I will attempt to take some progress / tutorial photos. Any question, please ask in the comments! If you guys liked this then I will do Part 2, 3, 4 etc on things like stamping, gradients, nail art.

Rhi. x

Job Interview Nails

Hi guys!

Just a quick one. I had a job interview today. I always freak out about my nails prior to job interviews – Should I go really safe and wear a nude? Should I show my personality? Should I try and blend both? Should I paint my interviewers face and the company logo across my fingers?! (totally, joking with that last one…kind of).

Anyway, so I thought I would share what I went with this time  - Trout Pout by Butter London. I decided on no nail art because I thought it would look more professional. However, this shade is a gorgeous bright coral so still had a little bit of ‘me’ about it without being too in your face. What do you think?

Job Interview Nails - Trout Pout

Trout Pout - Outside shot

Rhi. xx

Golden Triangles

What to call this mani?! At the risk of being boring I just went with ‘Golden Triangles’ because, well, that’s what it is. These nails were inspired by a prompt I saw on Instagram for ‘flakies’. Now I only own one proper flakie…an Essie polish. It’s super pretty but doesn’t show up in photos at all so I created a little bit and used the only other flakie-ish polish I own – OPI Pure.  I’ve been in love with these gold polishes (yes, real gold!!!) ever since I saw them.  OPI Pure is totally stunning and looks 10x better in person.  I originally just planned to paint the gold flakes on in a triangle shape. It ended up looking like this:

However, I wanted the triangle to look a little more defined so I just painted around it with gold polish so it popped. I did this using a handmade nail brush, aka an old eyeliner brush. Here’s the finished look:

Gold Triangle Nails

Here’s everything this look requires (minus the painting brush as I forgot about it!):

 

OPI Polishes - (L to R) Love.Angle.Music.Baby, Live.Love.Carnival, Pure

The polishes I used were all OPI:

Base - Live.Love.Carnival

Gold Flakes – Pure

Gold lining – Love.Angle.Music.Baby (one of my all-time favourites!)

Plus Essie Good to Go for my top coat.  

I got the vinyls to outline the triangles from nailvinyls.com

Rhi.xx

Pond Mani

I've not been feeling well over the weekend and, feeling a bit sorry for myself, want to do a really easy mani. I've been trying to do a pond mani for ages but haven't had any sufficently sheer polishes until I found one of Sally Hansen's Palm Beach colours in the pound shop last week. Perfect timing. This is such an easy manicure to do – just use a dotting tool and white polish to make polka dots on your nails. Layer the sheer polish over the top and voila!

Dotticure Pond Mani

Dotticure Pond Mani

Dotticure Pond Mani

  So simple and so pretty! All the bits I used are below:

Sally Hansen Jell-ous, OPI Alpine Snow

Sally Hansen - Jell-ous

OPI – Alpine Snow

Dotting Tool from Amazon

I’d really love to get the whole set of these sheer colours. I’ve been eye-ing up the OPI ones for ages! Have any of you tried sheer polishes?

Rhi. xx