Losing my marbles

Blogging has accidentally taken a back seat lately, mainly due to work being busy and secondly due to the fact I now need glasses while on the computer (sad face) I've been getting terrible eye strain and headaches, so after staring at a screen all day at work I've not felt like looking at another one in the evening.

I had the chance to have a real play with my nails this afternoon; I purchased some bargain dotting tools from ebay and wanted to play! Turns out nail tools don't suddenly make you a talented artist...

So I began searching for nail art that can look random but still good and found marbling. Turns out beauty bloggers have been toying with this for a while - with the water marbling method being slated left right and centre - it just made me think why on earth would you want to faff with all that in the first place anyway?!

The plastic bag method seemed to be a popular - and most importantly easy - option so I gave that a go! 

For the base I used a two coats of a white Barry M polish. Once this was dry I put on a few blobs of a fab, Barbie-like pink O.P.I polish, a sky blue Barry M and surprise surprise, my trusty purple Barry M gelly polish.









Then it was time to do the plastic bag bit. I quickly discovered if you press too hard it will look rubbish and lift most of the colour off!

So after a couple of goes I very lightly pressed and slightly moved the plastic around to encourage the colours to really mix.

I wasn't sure initially about it, it looked rather messy while wet - but my favourite swirled nails (see first post!) look awful while wet so I decided to wait it out...

It took a lot of cotton buds to clean this up!

 Once they were dry I added a generous
top coat and I quite like the final effect!

It took a lot of cotton buds dipped in nail polish remover to clean up my cuticles, fingers, hands though....

It's a great way to experiment with colour and I will  definitely keep practising this look.

Next I want to master ombre nails - tutorials make it look so easy but every time I try it just looks like a maniac has sponged my fingers with poster paint, not good.

Do you have any tips for the perfect ombre nails?