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Dammit Water Marbling, Why You Hate Me

So after the excitement of the China Glaze Prismatics, I had a little time to myself.  Continually taunted with one successful water marbling under my belt but several failures, I wanted to try out a rainbow marble again.  I gathered ten different colours from red to pink, fetched my room-temp water and got to work.

This is what I ended up with, after 45 minutes:






It's just OK.  I can see so many things wrong with it:
  - My cuticles wouldn't clean up
  - My tape was wrong and let polish in
  - Couldn't get the polish to spread so the reds (first) dried out and wouldn't play with the pink and purple in   the middle
  - Gap on my little finger
  - Same colours used on my index finger but doesn't match the others.

Siiiiiigh.  Just not my night for water marbling.  There are couple of cool combos in here though and I firmly believe in sharing all my polish experiences, good or bad.  I do like how blaringly neon this is, I WILL GET THIS TO WORK PROPERLY, MARK MY WORDS.
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 22, 2012 at 2:33 PM

    i'm in the same boat! I have such a hard time with this!

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