New nail art technique produces beautiful nails, sticky abominations in equal measure
Painting your own nails can be a stressful affair fraught with frustration – nail polish is actually a pretty difficult medium to work with, and a steady hand is required to end up with finished nails that don’t resemble those of a two-year-old who spent the afternoon finger painting. This new “water marble” technique promises to help even sausage-fingered ladies achieve gorgeous nails simply by dipping their digits into a bowl of water and nail polish.
But does this supposed nail hack even work?
Okay, so “ business nail ” may have been something that we made up as a joke, and guys may not always like our nail art , but we girls keep on doing it anyway because maybe WE like it. Here in Japan it’s common to see women with gorgeously-done nails that are a result of gel technology. Gel is painted on with tiny paintbrushes then set under UV light. The results look amazing and last for a month, but it tends to be pretty pricey.
▼ Marble nails done professionally at a Japanese gel salon.
Luckily, there are a number of budget options out there, from nail wraps to press-on fake nails in a variety of pretty colours and patterns. The only trouble is that your level of success with DIY nails is pretty much equal to your level of artistic ability in general. So, can this seemingly idiot-proof nail painting method really help anyone to achieve beautiful nails? First, let’s check out this video by She.com demonstrating how to do the “water marble nail” at home.
You can’t deny that this video is pretty hypnotic. Just look at all those swirling colours. And they way they just gloop onto the nail like that is unbelievable!
It looks deceptively simple, in fact, so we turned to Twitter to see whether anyone has been able to pull off the “water marble nail” method at home.
Some people made a pretty good job of it…
水の中に手入れてマーブルのやつやってみたけど、全然上手くいかんのよね〜😑
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#ネイル http://t.co/VdnF5Nq21Y
⋈ s a y a ⋈ (@gaga_love38) December 26, 2014
ウォーターマーブル#ネイル http://t.co/yt0TIyYGu3
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@りっちやん (@9115y) January 09, 2015
#watermarblenails I did that, first time too. I'm happy with it. http://t.co/tYTNyRCKQO
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MaRi MaR (@Mari007MIA) February 28, 2015
マニキュアでマーブルネイル💅
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水に垂らすマーブル 初めてやってみて
すごい疲れた！ちょーーだるい！(笑)
気づいたらこんな時間😅
11時に寝るはずだったのに😅 http://t.co/0vIQ0ZLpWQ
TANLiNA (@R53011) November 15, 2014
NEWネイル！ウォーターマーブルに初挑戦！お正月ネイルにしましたー♡ http://t.co/NQEaqRvxq7
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りんご@大葵まま (@icchun_mam) December 30, 2014
今日のネイルの授業で自分でやった-!
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ｳｫｰﾀｰﾏｰﾌﾞﾙ楽しいwwwどろどろwww http://t.co/6BmGvMNxmk
М!!!!KA (@luvxoxo_mo) July 18, 2014
水に赤、トップコートの順で垂らして爪楊枝で混ぜて良い感じの模様作って其処に指突っ込んで不要な部分は爪楊枝でくるくるして回収ー。
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水から指を出したらほら簡単、マーブルネイル。マステ剥がしてマステで保護出来てなかった部分を落として完成！ http://t.co/4CvKmRd0dm
あおと (@rosja_ja) October 30, 2014
While others, um, didn’t quite, um, “nail it”…
町屋さんのネイルがよくわかんないから黒で久々にウォーターマーブルやった(途中)黒と紫が良かったけど色がハッキリ出ないので赤 http://t.co/45JAYPIqlf
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藍@まちゅや系女子 (@nyanko_111) February 27, 2015
water marble nails are a mess..
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still working on it😅😪💅 http://t.co/NsmNnlHq32
av◡̈ (@allisonv_x) January 18, 2015
Trying to do those water marble so pretty nail hahaha #nailedit http://t.co/5QRf6W9iI2
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Camille l.bazinet (@CamilleLbaz) February 17, 2015
マーブルネイルしようとして失敗した。一周回ってありだと信じて落とさないでおこ_(:3 」∠)_ http://t.co/OQaaD7noFj
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ぽ (@RF_Walker) October 10, 2014
マーブルネイルしただ。少し失敗したした。 http://t.co/qn55CE1Rme
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ほぉたん (@hotan0824) November 27, 2014
While everyone should feel free to experiment with their nails any way they want, I kinda feel like plain old, boring unpolished nails are better than a sticky DIY job gone bad. What do you think of this technique, and nail art in general?
Source: She.com via Facebook
Main Image: Twitter @rosja_ja
