First, I gathered the necessary materials listed on the website: white nail polish, 2 colors of my choice (I chose 2 different shades of pink hoping they would coordinate), a top coat, a glass of room temperature water, a toothpick, tape and nail polish remover and cotton swabs. I decided to skip the base coat because I was going to have the white nail polish on anyway.
After applying the white nail polish and letting it dry completely, I tried to tape around my finger so that all of my surrounding skin was covered to minimize cleanup when I was finished. The next step was where the errors could occur. I had to add alternating drops of each nail polish to the cup of water, use the toothpick to swirl the colors to get the "marbled" effect, and then submerge my nail in the water-all in a a small period of time.
When I first tried adding the drops of nail polish to the water, I realized it was hard to make each new drop in the center of the last drop, so instead I placed the drops randomly in the water and swirled all the colors together with the toothpick. After I swirled the colors, I dipped my taped finger in the water as instructed.
This is a picture of the water after the water had been added and I swirled it with the toothpick.
After submerging my finger in the water, I was hopeful about how it looked. My hope deteriorated as I sat with my finger in front of my heater for 40 minutes trying to get my nail dry. Because the nail polish was so thick, that's how long it took to dry-or at least how I long I thought it took. After 40 minutes I went to remove the tape from around my finger, but it ended up ripping up part of the polish, and smudging the rest. In the end it looked like this:
If you were try to do this nail style, I would suggest using the nail polish sparingly unless you have 2 hours to sit around waiting for it to dry.
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