Marble This!!!!!

Water Marble Away!!!!! This was one of those mani's I had to figure out how the hell it work for everybody else and not for me... but I got it, finally! I have looked in awe at other peoples water marbling skills for to long, it was time to take the bull by the horns!!! I did go online and did a little research before I started, watched a few you tube videos... guess what it helped:) 
I am in this fall mood, I think its cause all the clothes at work have changed from summer to fall colors, but anyway I used the Zoya smoke and mirrors collection for this water marbling. I started off with Jana as a base color and then picked out three others... Dree, Jem and Cynthia.
Here is a picture of all of them:)

Water Marbling colors:)

So like I said before I had to do some research and found out you need to use some tape ... I said to myself tape, really??? But trust me, yes you need tape.  You put the tape around your cuticles, to keep down on the mess. Here is a picture of my nail taped up (btw I have already done almost all my nails in this picture so there is a little mess). 

taped up

So I'm going to start off with showing you the candle votive I used ( instead of a cup) with the bulls eye of the polish.

this is one drop of each color in the center
like a bulls eye

And here is more color added.

this is color added three times each

As you can plainly see Bulls Eye!!! Now on a few of mine they were a little off, miss shaped but its still cool cause next you are going to stir the colors up. 

ready for dipping

I stirred up the colors with a tooth pick. I never went to far out and always  wiped off the tooth pick with a paper napkin after each run through. Okay so you have your nail taped and the colors the way you want its time to put your nail right where you want it, turn the cup if need be. Nail facing to cup go right on top of the color and press down, have a extra stick to round up the extra polish before you remove your nail, so the polish doesn't mess up you design. And here are a few pictures of the finished water marbling look:)

I always like a little sparkle on top of just about all my polish, so I also added Fairy Dust by China Glaze. Here is a picture of the *sparkle*

I hope you polish friends love this as much as I do ♥ I know I'm going to have to do this about a million times more with all kinds of colors and maybe challenge myself with doing designs in the water... or maybe I'll just stick to this for a while:) If you have tried water marbling how did it work for you? If you haven't are you maybe thinking about it now???

Until next time, Happy Polishing everybody!

Love, 

Anne

Part 1 Zoya's Smoke and Mirrors

I was fortunate enough to have received from Zoya both Smoke and Mirrors from their fall collection to review. I'm sorry its taken so long to put them up but life is crazy right now.   
So lets start off with Smoke, there are 6 cream colors with a rich deep fall feel to them. The more I looked at them in the box the more I thought to myself I've seen these colors some place ... Oh yeah at work (I work in retail). All of these colors compliment our fall line almost to a T. I have to say these 6 are great for office wear and are going to go great with everything you have started to look at for fall:) Okay so in the "smoke" box we have Jana, Petra, Codie, Anja, Cynthia, and Dree.  Here is a picture of both collections. 

I hope you can see the difference in the Smoke and Mirrors collection. 

I started off with Jana. This is a medium rose lavender color, which reminds me of a being outside on a cool fall day with a good book. 

Petra is a darker purple that was just a little to dark for my taste on nails but very pretty.

Codie is a VERY deep chocolate brown, think Hersey bar (dark chocolate). It could have been just a bit lighter so you could tell that it was brown, after two coats it was way too dark almost black.

Anja a beautiful deep burgundy, I think was the prettiest out of the set and would defiantly go with tons of new fall clothes.

Cynthia a dark teal, all I have to say is ♥.

Dree ... well  its green and it reminded me of baby food PEAS!!! I know that we have a lot of things at work that would go with this color but I don't believe I could pull this one off with out a stamp on top or something. 




 I am still working on the second half of this review and will hopefully have it up soon. These are beautiful fall colors and I think that one of these or more should end up in your collection. 
I can't wait until it gets a little cooler here so I can show everyone at work how well these Zoya's compliment our fall line:)
Okay lovelies happy polishing, Love ya ♥ 


Anne

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