This is my first, and probably last attempt at the splatter technique. LOL Not only did it take me much of the afternoon to do, clean up was a P.I.T.A!...partly because I chose the two most stain-y colors...what are ya gonna do, it's the 4th of July? and because my splatter aim was off most of the time...if you like the results on my nails, you should see the paper plate I used...it looks stunning! ;)
The end result is pretty cool, but IMHO the amount of time and effort involved isn't worth it...what can I say, I'm lazy!....I guess my curiosity to try a water-marble mani is right out the door!?!
If you'd like to give it a go, Jen has a step by step tutorial HERE. She makes it look and seem so easy!
If you'd also like to see another 4th of July splatter mani, check out Brooke's from Getcha Nails Did. I think I should have done what she did and followed the 'less is more' ideology. LOL
I think this turned out so cool! But if you didnt like the clean up with this then I would say def stay away from water marbling.
ReplyDeleteI love the way yours turned out! I love the look of the splatter mani, but I don't have much patients. That's why I've only managed to do a watermarble 2 times! lol,
ReplyDeleteI think it looks great!! Did you use tape around your cuticles like in water marbling? REALLY cuts down on clean up. And did you layer splatter over splatter until you had complete coverage? I did a RW&B splatter using a white nail base and red & blue splatttered over top. I bet there are going to be a lot of RW&B splatter manis for this 4th!
ReplyDeletewow, looks really cool!
ReplyDeleteThese beauty people always make it look so easy, lol.
This looks great, I just can't imagine having the patience to do this!
ReplyDelete@Megan - I used a liberal layer of cuticle oil - cleaning up the splatter, generally, wasn't difficult, it was just the areas right up on the cuticle & because the red and blue were super stain-y.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I used Skull & Glossbones as the base (pale grey) - I didn't plan on splattering to full coverage, but I just kept adding more and more hoping for better patterns. LOL
Looks cool!
ReplyDeleteIt looks great! I was REALLY messy when I did mine..I got paint all over!
ReplyDeleteThat looks fantastic!! I had a little fun on the blog tonight and tagged you in a post:
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I think I'm in love :O
ReplyDeletei HAVE to try this!
I wish I would have found your blog earlier I love the look of the splatter look. I might have to try it for my birthday next Monday..thanks Denise
ReplyDeletelove how this turned out! I gotta try this one day!
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