Sunday, February 22, 2015

HPB Presents Valentine's Hearts with Water Marble and Dry Marble

I hope everyone had a lovely Valentine's Day! I totally missed posting anything for Valentine's Day this year! For shame. However, I still wanted to get this out there because it was the first successful water marble I've done in a LONG while. Hooray! I wanted to see if I could make hearts using wet and dry marbling techniques.

Water Marble Hearts
For the marble, I used Zoya Mira and Fingerpaints Art You Kidding Me. I also applied a pale pink base color, Ulta Babydoll, to help the colors pop. White would also work well as a base. The glittery polish is Sally Hansen Gem Crush in Be Jeweled. I didn't make a tutorial for this, but I used this tutorial by James Nash as inspiration. Each nail is finished with Seche Vite top coat.

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Indoor LED lighting

water marble, heart, zoya, pink, purple, Valentines
Outdoors, shade

water marble, heart, zoya, pink, purple, Valentines
Direct sun
The hearts on my thumb were made with dotting tools.


Dry Marble Hearts
I really love dry marbling. It's so much less messy than water marbling and the effects can be really cool. For this, I used the same polishes as for the water marble hearts. To do the dry marble, I painted a base color of either Fingerpaints Art You Kidding Me or Zoya Mira. Before the base color dried, I applied 4 dots down the center of my nail. Using a fine tipped dotting tool and starting near my cuticle, I dragged a line down the middle of the dots to create a heart effect. You could also use a pin or a toothpick instead of a dotting tool. Seal with Seche Vite top coat and that's that.

dry marble, heart, zoya, pink, purple, Valentines
Indoor LED lighting

dry marble, heart, zoya, pink, purple, Valentines
Outdoors, shade

dry marble, heart, zoya, pink, purple, Valentines
Direct sun

So that's it. I think the marbling techniques work well for making hearts. Now that I had a successful water marble, there may be more water marbling in my future...


Thanks for reading!
-Melissa


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2 comments:

  1. Love! I wish I could get my watermarbles to look this good!

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  2. I love how romantic this design is! Would you like to follow each other?
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