Watercolor nails

An inspirational photo with this technique I've got in my inspirational TO DO folder since long time ago. I've always considered it cute, but truth be told, I've always hesitated to try a technique that I couldn't control the outcome because it doesn't depend on me how the colors will overlap and I really wasn't prepared to do a manicure that requires more work in cleaning up after than the manicure alone. Since I had some extra free time, I dared to try. You really can't know until you try.

Jednu inspiracijsku fotku s ovom tehnikom sam jednom davnih dana spremila u TO DO folder. Uvijek mi je ovo bilo simpa, ali iskreno, zazirala sam od tehnika kod kojih pod prvo ne mogu kontrolirati ishod jer ne ovisi o meni kako će se boje na svakom noktu pospoijti, a pod drugo, nisam bila spremna raditi manikuru u kojoj će mi više posla zadavati čišćenje nereda nego sama manikura. Kako sam ovih dana imala nešto viška slobodnog vremena, odvažila sam se ipak pokušati. Ne znaš dok ne probaš.

I opened this tutorial to make it right, and even though I had other color combo in mind, I was naughty enough to choose something similar to what's done there. From original dark gray, lilac and baby pink, I kept only the last one and added the bright gray and a dirty, dusty purple.

For this manicure I needed:

• Aura Silk proteins as nail polish base
• Debby white polish, two coats
• Essence Rosy in love
• Golden Rose Fantastic 186
• Moment 4
• Plastic foil or freezer bag
• Essence BTGN TC

Otvorila sam si ovaj link s tutorijalom kako bih sve napravila kako treba i iako sam u viziji imala neku drugu kombinaciju boja, ipak sam bila dovoljno zločesta da odaberem nešto slično ovome u linku. Od tamno sive, lila i baby roze sam zadržala jedino ovu posljednju te uz nju odabrala svjetlo sivu nijansu i neku prljavu, prašnjavu ljubičastu.

Za ovu mi je manikuru bilo potrebno:

• Aura Silk proteins baza za nokte
• Debby bijeli lak za nokte u dva sloja
• Essence Rosy in love
• Golden rose Fantastic 186
• Moment 4
• plastična folija/vrećica za zamrzivač
• Essence BTGN TC

After one base coat and a couple of Debby white polish, I dropped a drop of three different shades of polish (Essence Rosy in Love, Golden Rose Fantastic 186 and Moment 4). Actually I drained the polish brush against the polish bottle neck and touched the nail with the tip of the brush. After having all three colors on my nail, I grabbed the freezer bag and pressed it slightly on wet polish stains. What you see in the pictures is the result. To make everything stick, all you need is only a coat of TC. In my case that's Essence BTGN. You don't have to use freezer bag, any nylon you have will do. What matters is to be fast because if the polish drops get dry it won’t have that nice marble look, only smudgy. If you don't like the pattern you get, you can apply other drops, but only after everything is already dry or else you'll do even more damage.

Nakon jednog sloja baze i osušena dva sloja Debby bijelog laka za noke, kapnula sam na svaki nokat po kap do dvije tri različite nijanse laka (Essence Rosy in love, Golden rose Fantastic 186 i Moment 4). Zapravo sam četkicu samo malo ocijedila o vrh bočice i kistom dotakla nokat. Kada su sve boje bile na noktu, uzela sam vrećicu za zamrzivač te je lagano pritisla na mokre mrlje laka. Ovo što vidite na fotkama je rezultat. Da bi se sve lijepo povezalo, potreban je još samo sloj TC-a. U mom je slučaju to bio Essence BTGN. Inače ne mora se nužno koristiti vrećica za zamrzivač, dovoljan je bilo kakav najlon koji vam se nađe pri ruci. Bitno je samo raditi brzo jer kada vam se kapljice laka krenu sušiti, neće izgledati lijepo mramorno, nego upacano. U slučaju da vam se ne svidi uzorak koji ste dobili na nekom noktu, kapanje možete ponoviti, ali morate pričekati da se već napravljeno sasvim osuši. U suprotnom ćete samo veću štetu napraviti.

In the sun / Na suncu

Have youalready tried this manicure? How do you like the technique?

Jeste li probale raditi ovakvu manikuru? Kako vam se sviđa ova tehnika?

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