So I've seen gradient and galaxy nails a lot and thought that the galaxy nails looked amazing.
They look so arty and impressive but it's incredibly easy to do, there are tutorials everywhere which like gazillions of different colour combos. I actually have a pair of cosmo print leggings from New Look so I drew inspiration from them.
The colours I used was a Barry M black base, and then I just randomly sponged on Retro Blue, White, Berry Ice Cream and Cyan Blue from Barry M and also a shimmery turquoise with no name by Miss Sporty and then just a coat of Servin' Up Sparkle by OPI.
This was the third time I'd had a crack at marble nails and they just turned out so awesome. Thought I'd go for a blue theme as I have an assortment, but then the silver jumped out at me and thought that'd make it sweet.
The colours are all Barry M. Foil Effects Silver, Indigo, Cobalt Blue and Cyan.
I just looooove leopard print, and I've seen many leopard print stickers and stencils, so I thought I'd try it without any of that.
It was a bit tricky, as I don't have anything like dotting tools so I just used the end of a kirby grip for this, and my black was really dried up so it was hard to dot on.
The colour I used for the base was an old gold I have floating about, the name has been rubbed off, I think it's possibly my mums. And for the spots I used Barry M in Mushroom and an NYC nail varnish in black.
I said it was tricky, but it wasn't really, only because of my crap nail varnish, but I'd recommend trying it because it looks so cool.
Recently I bought a sparkly Barry M Magenta number and it's such a cool colour.
I already have a red sparkly one and have also acquired a blue Topshop one which I haven't tried out yet, but here's the red and magenta.
The red had chipped off a bit before I took the picture. I painted that on top of a white base just to make it stand out more, but it doesn't make much of a difference without it to be honest.
I had to do quite a lot of coats as the glitter is tiny and it is quite runny but it turns out lovely.
Can't wait to try my blue one, the glitter is a bit bigger in that so I'm intrigued as to how that'll come out.
I bought a matte top coat a while back and used to use it over everything I did.
Haven't used it in a while and after doing the yellow I thought I might as well go for it.
The topcoat I have is 17 from Boots and it works really well. It works really quickly, but you need to make sure and let it dry for aaaaages, cos I did this about 10 minutes ago and as I was typing, I accidentally hit my nail off the edge of my laptop and I've made an indent on my nail, craaaap, BUT the picture was taken before that ordeal so this is it. Wow, that was a really long sentence.
As crap as it sounds, the picture doesn't really catch the mattiness of it. Don't think that's a word mind you.
So I was in the mood to do another crackle yesterday after I did the yellow nails. But unfortunately my black crackle has gone weird and dry and powdery.
Then I remembered I had my purple and yellow looks awesome with it.
Reminds me of giraffe. If giraffes had purple patches.
After the success of my first water marble I decided to try it again, it's just so much fun.
Only thing about water marbling is how much effort is required, but it's sooo worth it in the end.
I really liked how this turned out, proper summery colours.
The colours I used for this, were all once again Barry M, there's Cyan Blue, Yellow, Fuchsia and Coral.
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