The little one and I love to do our nails (especially her). I do hers almost every week. Sometimes they look like rainbows, sometimes we add fun flower stickers. So, when I saw this on pinterest, I knew that I had to give it a try.
Source: weheartit.com via Jessica on Pinterest
So I got our nail polish and followed the little directions….
I used a disposable cup and put water in it.
Then added drops of nail polish
and stirred it with a wooden pick.
Last, but not least. I dipped her nails in it. What a mess. An epic nail fail. I let it dry some then went to town with some nail polish remover. I even tried one of my nails thinking maybe her nails were too small. And I also tried using a paintbrush and then putting little dots of nail polish on my nails and spreading them out that way. All came up icky on mine too. Maybe it’s the type of nail polish? I’m sure there’s some sort of trick to it. It would be fun to figure out.
Nancy says
July 14, 2011 at 7:17 pmcould you maybe put tape around her nail so when dry you could just peel off the tape? it does look cute…
kelly says
July 14, 2011 at 7:18 pmi’ve read some tips on this method:
-surround the nail and fingertip with scotch tape. less cleanup.
-don’t swirl the polish, just do one dip on top of another and let it make concentric circles.
i’d also think using all one brand of polish would make a difference.
RiverCItySerendipity says
July 14, 2011 at 7:46 pmYou have to clear the polish out of the cup after each nail with a qtip or a tooth pic. Try it agian. I bet it will work!
~Danielle
http://rivercityserendipity.blogspot.com/
Kris says
July 14, 2011 at 8:02 pmI found this, I hope it helps!
http://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/swirl-nail-art-using-water
You’ve given me something to try with my girls this weekend, though! 🙂
Brandi says
July 14, 2011 at 8:17 pmI googled swirled fingernails and came up with something called “water marbling.” There are some youtube videos that show you how to do it really well, it looks like you use scotch tape to tape off most of the finger skin, and you use a tooth pick or orange stick to clean the excess nail polish off the surface of the water so that it doesn’t stick to her skin when it comes out.
It also looks like they swirl the nail polish a little less.
Mandy says
July 14, 2011 at 8:20 pmYour not the first person I know that tried this and it didn’t work out. I want to try it but haven’t sat down to do it yet.
Bree says
July 14, 2011 at 8:37 pmMy sister tried this & instead of using tape on her finger to keep the polish from sticking to her skin, she spread vasaline around her nail so the polish wouldn’t stick there. She wasn’t able to get the marbled effect quite as nice as the picture, but it did still turn out pretty good.
Mandy @ Sugar Bee Crafts says
July 14, 2011 at 8:45 pmI tried it too – – on my post (http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/2011/06/red-white-and-blue-nails.html) some left a link to a great how-to video – – shoulda watched that first!!
Seaweed and Raine says
July 14, 2011 at 9:36 pmThat was kinda funny… in an icky, Oh my goodness how do I clean this up kind of way. Are you going to try it again withoutc swirling it so much? It does look kinda pretty 🙂
Mindy1024 says
July 14, 2011 at 10:11 pmYeah, I would love to try it and I think the tape is the way to go and I agree that they do circles. Wondering if the instadry doesn’t work well…
Amy says
July 14, 2011 at 10:33 pmFour tips I’ve discovered help
1.Use vaseline on the skin
2.Don’t use InstaDry or other quick drying polish.
3.Swirl less or make concentric circles in the cup
4.Place 1 or 2 drops max of each color into the cup and use a qtip to clear the polish out of the water after dippin 1 or 2 nails.
M'Recia says
July 14, 2011 at 10:42 pmIt epic failed for me too.
Penelope says
July 14, 2011 at 11:09 pmScotch tape is a great investment when doing this 🙂
1) Insert finger into water, past the nail. Leave in water.
2) Use a toothpick/orangestick to collect the polish still on top of the water, away from your finger, so no polish gets on your finger when you bring it out.
3) Pull finger out!
See if that helps…and yeah, you don’t need to swirl much at all, just drop concentric circles and maybe run a toothpick from the middle out, like a spider web.
Amanda@ISewDoYou says
July 14, 2011 at 11:18 pmI’ve tried this too, but haven’t perfected it. I found this site on pinterest, she’s got videos that are good. I think the type of polish must make a big difference, cause I tried to do a red/wh/blue one w/ cheapo Bonbon 95cent polish from walmart and it was WAY too thin.
Z of ZKNITZ says
July 15, 2011 at 4:43 amWhat a neat idea. I like the way it looks afterwards.
Laura @ live.laugh.photograph says
July 15, 2011 at 6:52 amI’ve done this a few times before as well! It definitely isn’t easy but I usually use tape which can be pretty annoying… I will definitely try the vaseline!!
Also, not sure why this is but using bottled water for some reason helps a LOT!
I used this tutorial!
http://mycrazylifeasamomandawife.blogspot.com/2011/06/fruit-stripe-gum-fingernails.html
Dayna F. says
July 15, 2011 at 7:11 amthis girl has some GREAT tutorials. i have yet to try any of them, but i’m trying to grow my naisl out so i can! http://mysimplelittlepleasures.blogspot.com/
Julie says
July 15, 2011 at 10:40 amIt looks like people left great comments. I was also thinking that aside from the green, your colors are much closer so they may not show the marbling as well even if/when you get it to work.
I’m definitely going to have to try this with my wee one!
Sarah says
July 15, 2011 at 11:32 amhttp://www.creatingreallyawesomefreethings.com/2011/07/craft-82-tie-dye-nails.html
ecoMILF says
July 15, 2011 at 2:22 pmwow so many resources to choose from. that’s what you get for sharing your failures as well as your successes! Thanks for generating all the resources!
Angie - treasuresfortots@gmail.com says
July 15, 2011 at 5:34 pmHere’s a tutorial I found for swirly finger nails:
http://chameleongirls.blogspot.com/2011/07/swirly-finger-nails.html
Anonymous says
July 15, 2011 at 6:31 pmhttp://chameleongirls.blogspot.com/2011/07/swirly-finger-nails.html
Leslie says
July 16, 2011 at 5:40 ami saw this on pinterest too…glad to know what the real life on this looks like.
candice says
July 16, 2011 at 7:31 amI’ve done this, but instead of painting my nails I dipped some sunshades in – came out really cool! I used different brands of nail polish and some worked better than others. whatever the surface of the water looks like is how it’s going to transfer. yours might be a little over mixed and the paint might be too thick. it’s supposed to spread across the water until it reaches the edges, so if it’s just globbed in a puddle on the surface of the water it won’t come out right. the videos everyone’s posted links to will really help in explaining that. definitely you should try again!
Elizabeth says
July 16, 2011 at 9:25 amI have done it and it worked fine. I watched several you tube videos first. A few things that helped… Scotch tape and filtered water ( used mine from the fridge.). I also read that room temp water works best, so I let mine sit out for 20 or so minutes. I hope you don’t give up and try again.
Alyssa says
July 16, 2011 at 2:08 pmHehe! I laughed out loud when I saw that fail picture! Don’t worry I’m so completely positive it would have happened to me too! It is a pretty clever idea though! You’ll get the hang of it!
Kim Alford says
July 17, 2011 at 6:04 amThis is awesome! At least you went for it!! (Glad you shared!!:)
<3
Jesy says
July 17, 2011 at 8:53 amI have been seeing this pop up a lot lately.. over at CRAFT there is a video that might help too 😀
http://www.creatingreallyawesomefreethings.com/2011/07/craft-82-tie-dye-nails.html
looks messy but also looks adorable!
Jenilyn says
July 17, 2011 at 3:07 pmI LOVE your new header and layout! It’s beautiful!
Liz says
July 18, 2011 at 4:11 pmThanks for posting this. I thought it looked a little too good to be true when I saw it on Pinterest too. Sorry it didn’t work!