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Hi guys, today we're going to be working on this French Tip Water Marble,
and this is something that Ive had a ton of requests for.
And I'm really pleased with how it turned out, so if you'd like to see the
tutorial
just stay tuned.
Alright,
Im going to start out by just applying these french tip guides on my
nails,
you can see I've done most of them, I have just one more on this sheet here.
There are usually about a dozen
on a sheet.
This is another thing I usually go ahead and use a tweezer for, just because
it's slightly easier.
It's still going to be a little bit
tricky,
but I'm just kind of aiming to apply it
just underneath
of my natural smile line.
And
just press that firmly down
to each side,
and
these are not really my favorite, when I do a french manicure I'm more likely to
freehand it,
because I've had a lot of trouble
with there being polish bleeding under the edge of these,
even if you think you've got them pressed all the way down.
So I'm really going to be using them more as a guide for my water marble than for
my french tip.
For my base color I'm just going to use
China Glaze White on White,
and
I'm just going to quickly apply this to the tips of my nails,
kind of like I said, staying away from the very bottom edge of the guide because I
don't want
the polish to
bleed underneath there.
So, I've got my tips painted,
and they don't have to be particularly neat or even,
it's just acting as a background color for the marble.
And you want to let that dry for just a few minutes before you go ahead and dip
into the water.
As far as the taping, the main difference is going to be that instead of applying
just below your cuticle, you want to apply just below that guide,
and cover up the rest your nail bed.
So, for those of you not already familiar with that process, you can check out my Taping
Tutorial in the Tips and Tricks Playlist.
Alright,
now on to the actual marbling.
And the colors that I'm using today I have used before to water marble.
They're from the Color Club Halo Hues collection,
and the first time I water marbled with them
I used black as a base color.
This black all has called Beyond.
The blue is called Over the Moon.
The green is called Kismet.
And I'm going to just continue to build my bull's eye here,
and the main difference between using a black and a white base,
is that with the black they actually turn out with a lot more of the
holographic effect.
And I'll go ahead and included a link to that first tutorial,
so that you can compare between the two,
and let me know which you prefer, I mean holographic effect is always nice;
but with the white
base you actually get to see more of the color, which is also nice.
I'm just going to start out my design by going from one side
to the other.
And then I'm going to go ahead and draw in just some very
thin petals.
Keeping the lines quite close to each other.
And,
while of course you can always turn the cup when you're done,
to give a better angle for dipping,
I try to be
mindful of how I want to dip my nails as I am drawing,
and that just makes it
a little bit easier not to have to adjust for that.
So,
I've got those all finished,
I've got my nails all prepped here, and I'm going to dip
my ring,
middle and index all together.
I'm just going to line them up
in the cup
at a little bit of an angle to the design.
And then
dip in.
I'm going to reach in with my orange stick,
clean up that excess polish.
And make sure to get around all the sides.
Then you can slowly pull your nails out,
and
there's the water marble design.
I think I'm going to move the camera, and show you guys the removal.
Alright,
so the first step,
like anytime you remove the tape is just going to be
to cut the underside,
like this.
And, just basically get a scissors under there,
and cut that loop,
and that's going to allow you to
basically
peel the tape off.
When you get a grip you wanted to be careful, make sure you cut through all
the way,
and be careful since the design is still wet.
So, this is a little bit of a
close camera angle, I'm just going to
zoom out a little bit here.
As you pull off,
the french tip guide should probably stick with the tape, and come off at the
same time.
And there
you're left with just the french tip.
So, let me take off these other two.
And,
then you'll see,
that one I did get just a little bit of residue
from the guide,
as well a little bit of leftover polish.
But, as I pull off this last one,
you can see i really didn't get very much polish on my skin,
and that's just going to depend on how deep into the cup you dip your nails.
And,
I actually did manage to nick this one a little bit with my nail,
So
looks like this is an opportunity for polish surgery.
I'm going to grab
a vert small brush,
about that big.
And the key is just looking at where in the design you've managed to
smudge,
and then
basically just applying some of that kind of polish.
So,
I'm going to get some of
the black.
I'm just going to pick it up off of the brush onto my smaller brush.
And
just fill that in a little bit so that you can't see the white any more.
It doesn't have to be perfectly flawless,
you have to remember, people are not
generally going to be looking at your nails this close up.
If y ou think it's necessary you can touch up with the secondary color as well.
That wasn't really a very big fix, but
quite often I get requests for "well, what do you do IF ..."
so, that's what I do you if I manage to nick the design with my nail.
If I get a worse smudge I'll maybe do a video dedicated just to polish surgery,
but
for now that just about wraps up this one.
Of course can want to seal it in with some top coat.
and you're done.
So let me know what you guys think of this design.
Let me know if you prefer these colors over white or over black.
And as always -
thanks for watching =)