stone cold

I have done variations on this both in style (light granite nails using a sponge) and technique (both turquoise and autumn nails created using a saran wrap method), but this turned out to be one of my favorites. Since it was winter, I wanted to do a darker marble or granite nail effect. (Side note: how perfect is that little snowflake by my pinky finger in the above picture?!?!)

I began with a coat of butter LONDON Horse Power Nail Fertilizer and a coat of Nail Foundation Flawless Basecoat. Next, I painted my base layer in a light grey using the butter LONDON shade Billy No Mates. 

Once the base coat had dried, I bunched up a piece of saran wrap and selected my first accent lacquer, painting some of that shade on the saran wrap. After dabbing the saran wrap onto my workspace (a paper towel, paper plate, magazine or something should do fine) to get rid of the excess polish, i sponged a little onto the first nail. I repeated this process with each nail, adding different colors, dabbing in different places on the nail, and painting different spots on the saran wrap to create different textures on the nail. After that was complete I used a striping brush and butter LONDON's Union Jack Black black varnish to paint some veins on each nail. Then, using Marbs, a beautiful molten gold--I traced over top that black vein, leaving just an outline of black--giving the appearance of veins of gold in the marble. I sealed the look off with one coat of Seche Vite Topcoat.

I absolutely fell in love with effect. Like I said at the start of the post, same concept and techniques that I have used previously, but totally different results! 

Hope you like it! 

Billy No Mates     Chimney Sweep         Sloane Ranger            Cotton Buds              Union Jack Black              Marbs