Starburst Marble Nail Design

• Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink and Purple Nail Varnish (I used Barry M – they worked great)
• A Plastic Cup
• Some Scotch Tape
• Lots of Q-Tips
• A Couple of Toothpicks

STEP ONE

Fill up your plastic cup with water. Make sure the water is a a height where you can comfortably dip your finger into it!

STEP TWO

Begin with Red, Drop a single drop of nail polish into the water and watch it disperse!

STEP TWO

Get your Orange nail polish and drop another drop – directly inside the now large red spot. Wait for that to disperse, it should do with ease – if not, swirl the cup very gently!

STEP THREE

Now time for Yellow! Drop that drop inside the drop you just made.. And so on and so forth with all of your colours!

STEP FOUR

Keep going with your ‘bulls eye’ until you’re happy with how it looks.

STEP FIVE

Now, take your toothpick and very gently pull back the centre of the bulls eye making petal-like patterns

STEP SIX

Once you have a pattern you’re happy with begin to tape your nail. As you will be dipping your finger into the nail polish – you will get it on your skin. To avoid a messy clean up job – tape up all of the skin around your nails.

My Design!

My Nail all taped up!

STEP SEVEN

Once you’re all taped up, find a spot on your design that you want on your nail and dip your nail into that spot and immerse it in the water. (HOLD YOUR NAIL IN THE WATER DON’T LIFT IT OUT RIGHT AWAY)

STEP EIGHT

I couldn’t photograph this bit properly (See Q Tip in bottom left of picture) . But, while your nail is immersed in water – take your Q-Tip and swirl it around (AVOID YOUR NAIL) and pick up all of the excess nail polish. Once the rest of the excess nail polish is gone, lift your nail out of the water and you’ll be met with this nasty sight!

WHAT A MESS!!!

STEP TEN

Don’t fret – if it looks like this – you’re doing it right. Once the nail polish has dried a little bit (Not completely) then peel off the tape.

Repeat for all 9 other nails! It may take some time, but once you get better you can do 2 nails at a time!

TA DAAAA!!!

There you have it, rainbow water marble – simple as that!

Lots of Love,