Water colour nail art

Hello lovelies,

Happy Friday!  Do you have fun plans for the weekend?  I am going to a blogger meet on Saturday which I am sure I will share on Instagram as well.  Otherwise I am hoping to relax and catch up on some nail stuff.

Some time ago I got myself some water colour pencil crayons and I hadn’t used it for ages.  I pulled them out and had a play and I really loved the water colour look.  It inspired me to do some water colour nails.  Let me show you what I did.

I started with 2 coats of Essence – Wild white ways and left that to dry completely.  I then used a thin nail art brush dipped in acetone and polish blobbed on a plastic card.  I used Color Club – Endless summer (blue), Color Club – Twiggie (green) and Color Club – Mrs Robinson.  I dipped the brush in acetone and then ‘thinned’ the polish on the plastic card, then I made water colour ‘blobs’ on the white.  I hadn’t done this before so it was all so random and a hope for the best.  Once I had done all the nails I left it to dry completely.  I then stamped using BM-S117 and Mundo de Unas – Black.  I used different parts of the image edges and in different directions on each nail.  I then topcaoted with a matte topcoat and that was that.

What do you think? Does it at least look a bit like water colour? I really like the colours together and I love it in matte.  This was really fun to do even though the ‘thinned’ polish dried really fast.

Thanks for reading,