Sally Girl - Butta

Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good weekend. I wish I knew what was up with the weather, here in Pennsylvania it feels like the end of September instead of the beginning of August.. I am so not looking forward to summer being over (*tantrum*) For todays mani I didn't do anything special, I was actually trying to figure out how to use gel polish. Every time I would use them and cure them under my UV light, the darn things would still be tacky. I had no idea that I needed to wipe that tacky layer off with polish remover. Low & behold after doing a test, Viola!! I figured it out.. Now to dabble in all kinds of other goodies =) So, as the title states, this is Sally Girl in Butta. I don't have a clue as to why the named it Butta. I would have named it like deep space or something. Butta is a dark colored base, with silver, I want to say black, and some copper micro glitters & larger blue hex glitter scattered throughout. I did not need to fish for the blue ones. Coverage was great with this, I did however use 3 coats. I painted a free hand flower on each ring finger out of fluorescent yellow and green acrylic paints.

Sally Girl - Butta.  I really wish that they would make larger full size bottles of their polishes. =(

 

 

 

Again, this is 3 coats, topped with one coat of Gelish. The flower started to lift a bit, but after about an hour or so, it sat back down.

Application was very good, I absolutely love this color, It was love at first sight, I bought 2 bottles. =)

 

 

Thanks for looking everyone.  Have a great night.

 

Holo Butterfly Wing Water Marble.

Hello guys,  tonight I did a water marble to mimic butterfly wings.  I was originally going to freehand the wings, but... I SUCK lol.  There fore, I needed to water marble them.

I used a base of LA Girls 3-d effect in 3-d silver.  Here are a few pictures before the marbling, these were all in direct sunlight.

It is a scattered/linear (lol) holographic in a clear base, so this is very sheer.  This was 3 coats. 

For the water marble I used Wet n Wilds Black Creme & Clear so that the base would show through.  Working with clear in a water marble is not a simple task.  Not for me anyway.  If anyone knows of a good clear to use in water marbles I would love the suggestions.  For the dots I just  used a dotting tool and neon acrylic paints. 

Right hand, direct sunlight. 

Left hand, direct sunlight. You can see where I kinda muffed up a bit lol


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