Water Spotted Nail Art feat. Model's Own - Chrome Indigo

I used two coats of KIKO 336 - Electric Blue as my base color and applied some liquid nail tape around my nails to protect the skin from nail polish. Then using first KIKO 523 - Royal Blue and second Model's Own - Chrome Indigo I did the water spotted technique to create the spotted look. The matte finish was achieved with Essie - Matte About You.

My tutorial for water spotted nails and my most recent water spotted designs.

Water Spotted Neon Candy Nails

I felt like doing some really colorful nail art the other day and this is what I came up with. I picked a few lovely neon polishes and created random gradients with a sponge on each nail. For this first step I used Essie - Boom Boom Room, Bottle Servive, DJ Play That Song and China Glaze - Highlight Of My Summer. To complete the design I thought about doing a water spotted pattern on top using first Layla - Metal Chrome and then Wet n Wild - Black Crème. To see how I create the water spotted effect, check out my recent tutorial. I think it turned out really cute and I loved wearing this design! On top is one coat of Essence - BTGN High Gloss. 

Waterspotted Nails - Tutorial for Nail It Magazine

I just wanted to share a tutorial that I created for Nail It magazine! It shows how I created the waterspotted nails from a few weeks ago for The Lacquer Legion challenge. I hope you like it! :)

You will need:

• China Glaze - Holly-Day
• Dance Legend - Wazowski
• cup of water
• disinfectant spray
• toothpick
• nail polish remover
• top coat

1. Paint your nails with your base color. I used two coats of China Glaze - Holly-Day. You can add tape around your nails to prevent a mess.

2. Add a drop of your multichrome polish into the cup of water.

3. Spray it with the disinfectant spray. You can vary the distance of the spray and the waiting time until dipping in your nail to create different effects!

4. Dip your nail into the water and remove the polish on the surface of the water with a toothpick.

5. This is what it looks like without using tape. Time for clean up!

6. Add top coat and you're done!

Watercolor Nails inspired by Madeline Poole

Today's nails were inspired by the awesome Madeline Poole. I fell in love with this design but I actually have no idea how she did it. It looks so intricate and beautiful and I really wanted to have it on my nails! I painted on a white base with Flormar - 400 and Essie - Matte About You and then added acrylic paint mixed with water to create a similar marble. Then I used the waterspotted technique and H&M - Manhunter for the black marble. I'm not too happy with my attempt and my pictures but I still loved wearing this design. Make sure to check out mpnails on Instagram! 

Waterspotted Nails No. 2 with Dance Legend - Wazowski

Last week I had to come up with a nice design for my nails very fast. In such cases I usually do something easy that I have done before and I will know will turn out pretty. Since I liked my Waterspotted Nails with Dance Legend - Wazowski a lot I decided to do another one of these. I changed my base color to Sally Hansen - New Wave Blue just to see if it works as well. Although I prefer the dark green base in my first design, I do like the result here! I didn't have my Essence top coat with me and had to use Essie - No Chips Ahead which didn't work too well. Wazowski is definitely a favorite of mine at the moment!

The Lacquer Legion Adoration: Waterspotted Chameleon

It's time for the second theme of The Lacquer Legion! This month's challenge was Adoration: something we adore, no matter if it is a person, a color, a design or a nail polish. The first thing that crossed my mind was the water spotted technique from cutepolish which she posted last year. I haven't done one of these in a while and I really love the effect! Obviously I had to combine the technique with a current favorite of mine: Dance Legend - Wazowski from the Chameleon collection. I used it over a base of China Glaze - Holly-Day and the two colors look great together! I'm sure these would also look fabulous in a water marble. I have added some additional pictures to show you the multichrome effect of Wazowski. You can find all of the other designs of this challenge with the hashtag #LLadoration. And you can find my January design here. 

Deadly Sins Challenge - Day 13: Pride (Turquoise Stone - Water Spotted Nails)

The last week of the Deadly Sins Challenge arrived and the last sin is Pride. The theme of Day 13 says: Recreate your own work to make it even better.

Illustrations by: dahlig

So while browsing through my blog and looking for a design that I wanted to recreate for this day, I stumbled upon a few designs that I wasn't too happy with. At first I was pretty sure it was going to be one from the early days of this blog, but then I saw the Turquoise Stone Nails that I did at the end of January this year. It was after cutepolish made her awesome Water Spotted tutorial and I then decided to use her tutorial to create my design. 

But even if I liked the result, I wasn't completely happy with them. I think they looked too constant or smooth and not very realistic. So I tried again, this time with a different base: I used China Glaze - For Audrey, China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint and Essie - In The Cab-Ana to create Watercolor Nails. Then I did the Water Spotted technique with Essie - Licorice and filled in some of the spots with Catrice - Shanghai. I think I made my design better, but there's still a lot of room for improvement! I think next time I might try a freehand version of these, because I still think the black pattern is almost a bit too strong. We'll see! 

Sweet Color - 337 / Water Spotted Nails

Today's post is a review of a nail polish that I received from Born Pretty Store. I will add swatches of the polish first and then some nail art that I did with my new color. The one I chose is from the brand Sweet Color and is sold for 6.14 $ per 12 ml. My color has no name but a number: 337. Sweet Color nail polishes come in extremely cute bottles, I love the shape and the golden cap! My color was not completely opaque after two rather thick coats, which is why I'd recommend using three thin coats instead. I had no problems with application and used one coat of Essie - Good To Go for the swatches. Unfortunately I wasn't able to capture the exact color, but it is somewhere between my swatches and the ones in the shop. After swatching I added Essie - Sew Psyched and Essie - Penny Talk with the Water Spotted technique. I really love these three colors together! 

You can use my coupon code DEL91 to get 10% off your order at Born Pretty Store! 

White Golden Water Spotted Nails

I'm so in love with this technique! For today's design I was inspired by The Sparkle Queen Jolene who did a very pretty design in white and gold. So I used two coats of Essie - Blanc as my base and then added Lancome - 012 with the water spotted technique. On top is one coat of BTGN Top Sealer. 

Have a nice weekend!

Turquoise Stone - Water Spotted Nails

A while ago I had the idea of painting nails that looked like a turquoise stone. I've seen it before with crackle nail polish but I wanted to have a different result. Thanks to cutepolish we know now how to do spotted nails without a special nail polish. I figured the spotted look would work best for a turquoise stone and decided to use it. I applied two coats of H&M - Bella's Choice and spotted my nails with Essie - Licorice. Then I filled in some of the spots with Licorice and Lancome - 012. On top is one coat of BTGN Top Sealer. 

Tricolor Brown & Blue Water Spotted Nails

Last week cutepolish did an amazing and very unique tutorial on how to do Water Spotted Nails. To be honest I'm usually not a big fan of cutepolish, but this one just blew my mind! I have no idea how she came up with this, but it is hands down brilliant. I'm a big fan of OPI Black Spotted, but there's no way I could get my hands on it. But with this tutorial you're able to do Spotted Nails in every color possible. All you need is the usual stuff for water marbling and hand sanitizer. I had some problems with this one at first, because I bought the wrong sanitizer. After seeing the very pretty tutorial by Nailderella I bought a bottle of Merfen spray, which I think is less stronger than the one I used before. With Merfen the tutorial worked perfectly and so I did two versions of those Water Spotted Nails, one in brown and one in blue. 

For the first one I used two coats of Essie - Eternal Optimist as my base color. Then I  used Essie - Master Plan for the first spotted coat and Essie - Smokin' Hot for the second spotted coat. On top is one coat of BTGN Top Sealer.

For the second one I used two coats of China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint as my base color. Then I added the first spotted coat with China Glaze - Cheers To You and the second spotted coat with Essie - Mesmerized. On top is again one coat of BTGN Top Sealer.

As you can see it is a bit difficult to do all the nails in a similar way. But just like with water marbling, I think it just takes a bit of practice and this will no longer be a problem. If it doesn't work for you try using a different sanitizer, this was my main problem. Now, how do you like this technique? Are you as excited as I am?