My first floral design is water lilies! After seeing Sveta Sanders post THIS awesome tutorial for needle marble swirls a few days ago, I've been itching to try it. After I was semi-successful, my friends told me that my version looked like water so I was able to tie it in with Floral Week by adding some lilies!
The three colors I used for the swirling were all Elevation Polishes! Ceram Sea, Thracian Sea, and Pic du Gar. They all have a squishy, yet very opaque, formula so they worked really well for swirling. Once the swirls were dry, I added some simple lily pads and water lilies.
What do you think? Will you be trying the tutorial I linked above? Thanks so much for reading, come back tomorrow to see the next floral week mani!
Beautiful! I've never thought to dry marbling in this fashion, but I definitely will now.
ReplyDeletesimply amazing!!
ReplyDeleteThis is so gorgeous! I tried the marbling and failed, but I will try again!
ReplyDeleteStunning! I've never tried that marbling technique; I should soon!
ReplyDeleteWow! This is incredibly gorgeous!! I love the combo of the needle swirl and the lilies - looks like it could be a Monet painting!
ReplyDeleteSqueee!! I am so incredibly in love with these!! Love love love them!
ReplyDeleteLove it!!!! Never heard of the technique before but it goes perfectly with the lilies!
ReplyDeleteOMG!! YES!! I love this!! I dabbled around with this technique last night, and after a few tries I got it to look pretty good!! I adore it with the flowers on top!
ReplyDeleteLooks amazing! Such a fun touch to a water marble!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful design!!
ReplyDeleteOH MY GAH. FREAKING SERIOUSLY. I can't even deal with how perfect this is.
ReplyDeleteBRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT! Yes, I am yelling in your comments, because THIS IS SO AMAZING! The spiral is fabulous and the water lily details are fabulous!
ReplyDeleteGenius! Using water marble technique for water background is just amazingly genius!
ReplyDeleteIf that is semi-successful, I want to see how full success looks like. It just awesome!
ReplyDeletethis looks trippy !
ReplyDeleteOh my goodie goodness! Little ponds on your nails! Amazing!
ReplyDeleteAdding the flowers over the marble was pure genius!
ReplyDeleteWow, I love this! I LOVE the idea of using the marbled background for water!
ReplyDeleteThe marbled background is GENIUS! I really wish I could take a slice of your creativity gene!
ReplyDeleteShut the front door! These are so fabulous! Dang girl! I love these! :)
ReplyDeleteoooh this is so pretty!!
ReplyDeleteYou kill me, you really do. Watching this mani morph into the final design was also amazing. It started out stunning and just kept getting better!
ReplyDeleteI truly could not love this more - turning that base into a waterlily pond was genius. And you and matte top coat? I die xx
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