Nail Nerd » Starry Night Nails. Nail Nerd » Snowy Dream Nails. As a Rocky Mountain-raised girl there’s a part of me — a very small, infrequently charged part — that sees all of the winter snowstorm reports flying around and misses a really good blizzard.
Especially at night. There was something so beautifully quiet as a kid, laying in bed with the window shades drawn up to watch fat white flakes drift past. It made the world sparkle and felt a little magical, and while I don’t miss a lot of the grown up stuff about snow (shoveling, heating bills, wrecking shoes and asses) I’m crazy nostalgic right now for a silent snowy night. So I made my own, dangit! Nail Nerd » Cool Colored Marble Nails. Finally, victory!!!
Ugh marbling! So I’m thinking my problem may have been that the cup I was using was too small — I upgraded today to a larger saucer and heyyyyy wouldn’t ya know, it’s like the polish had more room to spread out in or something. Nail Nerd » Lilac Tiger Nails. Went through two rounds of the base on this — currently in a love-hate place with Essie; loooove this color (Power Clutch) but that it takes such careful application to get an even coat with the formula is a bummer.
So I had to do it over when the first round went kerflooey, still didn’t totally love the finish and used Art Club Creme De Razzberry to draw in some pretty aggressive tiger stripes. Nail Nerd » Neon Marble Nails. Water marbling with neon colors gets a little tricky given their curious consistency and tendency to dry a lot faster than regular polishes, but I had the power of coffee on my side and decided to go for it.
Couldn’t get more than like 4 rings going before it started to dry up but I like that each nail still got at least 3 colors. I picked out the red-to-blue spectrum and used Color Club Youthquake, Psychedelic Scene, Volt of Light, Feelin’ Groovy and Chelsea Girl. Nail Nerd » Cotton Candy Sponge Nails. I can’t put my finger on why exactly but these totally reminded me of junior high; maybe it’s the pastels, I don’t know.
Anyway! The base on this was Essie Miss Matched but that quickly got randomly sponged over with love & beauty Sky Blue, Wet n Wild FuchsiaRama, Color Club Vintage Couture and Wet n Wild Blazed til I eventually stopped. It’s sort of like a reverse galaxy nail, minus any thought of pattern or glitter.