Happy Thanksgiving! I wish you a beautiful day to enjoy with your friends and family. While I am waiting for my husband to come back from work I decided to do my nails, since yesterday I finished baking and cleaning the kitchen around 11 o'clock. Yes, I was exhausted from baking two hazelnut pies (which by the way, I crack open 2 cups of hazelnuts myself) and my hands were hurting. LOL. I also baked two cheesecakes, I mean, two delicious cheesecakes. Not to brag about it but I do make one amazing cheesecake.
Back to thanksgiving mani, I did a simple spotted marble on eight fingers and I stamped on my two ring fingers. Here are the simple steps to follow to create this design:
- #1 Base coat: I used one coat of Essie Millionails for base coat, this nail polish if mostly to help your nails grow and prevent splits.
- #2 Base color: I used one coat of Orly's Soul Mate which is like a burgundy, it is a beautiful color to use for autumn and Christmas mostly because depending on the light it may seem like a dark red or a more lighter red.
- On another note on this what I thought was a fabulous color from Orly, while applying top coat it stained or smeared the gold nail polish that I applied on top and also stained my top coat brush, so minus -2 for Orly.
- #3 You will need to fill a small/medium bowl with water - just like the one you probably use for water marble is good. For spotted marble it is not necessary for the water to be filtered or at room temperature like the regular water marble. Any tap water works.
As you can see my bowl is all colorful and stained from previous water marble but it won't make any difference for this design or any design.
- #4 (This is optional) I didn't really did this step on all my nails, that's why clean up took me so long. Cover the area around your nails with any kind of tape. This will protect your skin from getting nail polish all over and will make clean up easier and faster.
- #5 Take the nail polish that you will use for spotting and drop nail polish on the water. (I used three drops)
It should look like this. If the nail polish does not spreads, you can try tapping the bowl a few times and or turning off any fan that is near you.
- #5 Beforehand you had to prepare a spray bottle with acetone or alcohol that you can mix with a bit of water. You will have to spray to the nail polish that you had laid on the water until it has separated to small chunks or keep spraying at your discretion.
After spraying a few times it should look like this.
- #6 Dip you nails in whichever sequence you want. I preferred dipping a couple of nails at the same time so I din't have to do this process more than twice. Continue doing this process until your eight finger nails have spotted designs. Remember if you do get a big chunk of nail polish on your nail that you consider excessive, you can always fix it by removing it with a Q-tip dipped in nail polish remover but be careful not to remove your base color while at it.
- #7 Remove the tape (if you did this step) and clean whatever excess of nail polish you have laying around your nail and fingers. I personally prefer using a orange stick because it's more useful to clean the cuticle area and edges, and I used a cotton to also clean my fingers.
- #8 I did some stamping on my two ring fingers. On my left hand I stamped some peacock or turkey feathers using the same gold nail polish I used for the spotted design, and on my right hand I stamped a beautiful small turkey! =D
I will have to work on sizing my photos so you guys can see the designs better. Overall it was a super easy design meant to look autumn-nie and to celebrate Thanksgiving with a simple stamping and choice of color. The cracked gold look would have been more visible if that darn Soul Mate wouldn't have smeared on it.
Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy and find useful this tutorial/review and have a wonderful Thanksgiving day. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me through this blog, follow me on Instagram @sprinklenails , and subscribe to my YouTube @sprinklenailart1808 which on my first post I mentioned that as soon as I have time I will bring video tutorials. That's it. Thanks lovies!
