Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Turquoise Stone Nails

These turquoise stone style nails have been doing the rounds for a while so with some free time during the uni break I thought why not have a go!



You will need:

Turquoise polish - piCture pOlish bonbon
Black polish - Sally Hansen Black Out
Gold/Gold flake polish - O.P.I Don't Speak Pure 18K Gold
Base coat - Orly Bonder
Top coat - Seche Vite 
Spray

Start with a base coat and then 2 coats of a turquoise polish


Leave to dry and tape off the skin around the nails


In a cup of room temperature water drip a few drops of black polish into the water like you were marbling and allow to spread


Take some form of spray with a thin mist such as perfume or insect repellent. I picked Off! Insect repellent spray and it worked a treat



Spray the surface once or twice and watch the polish separate and vein. Choose a pattern you like and gently lower your nails into the water to capture the design. Leave your nails submerged in the water and clean the surface with a Q-tip. You can do one nail at a time or 2, or 3 if you please


Remove the tape and clean any polish around the nail with polish remover. 



To get the gorgeous metallic details throughout the design you can either repeat the steps done before with a gold polish or I decided to use a gold flake polish. 



Apply one coat of the gold flake polish and then follow with your favourite a top coat and your nails are now precious gemstones!




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