alcohol ink - Lucy's Stash

Hello lovelies,

Another month has passed (incredibly fast I must say) and it's time for another Paint All The Nails nail art challenge. This month we voted for watercolour theme so I'm sure there will be A LOT of beautiful manicures :) If you'd like to see them all, check out the link-up below or check #paintallthenailswatercolor on social media.

I haven't prepared a watercolour mani this month because it completely slipped my mind but I've had one older one that I could use, hence the square nails ;) So let's have a look at what I did this time...

Paint All The Nails Presents Watercolour | Nail Vinyl & Sharpie Nail Art

I've reached for beautiful Morrocan-style pattern nail vinyls from Whats Up Nails* because I wanted to try the Sharpie and nail vinyls art after watching Simply Nailogical's tutorial.

I must admit that the manicure didn't go to plan and the Sharpie watercolour leaked underneath the stencil in few places (I didn't press it down enough). So I just did some nails with the stencil and some just plain. To do that I draw few lines with chosen colour of Sharpie on a piece of foil and then loaded a brush with a bit of alcohol and wiped the Sharpie off the foil. Then I put it randomly on the nail, added different colours and kept going in with alcohol and colours until I created a nice effect.

The base colour is Color Club French Tip, an opaque white creme nail polish (15% discount code STASH15 - not affiliate, just saving you £££s).

I was gutted when I peeled off the stencil and the inked leaked underneath but funny enough, I now like the final result and I hope you do too!

Have a lovely day! Lucie x

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Hello lovelies,

So I FINALLY edited a video tutorial for alcohol ink marble manicure. It's been waiting for editing since Easter...I know, I'm that bad!

We've all seen marble manicures or nail tips with beautiful alcohol ink marble but all that I have seen have been over gel polish. That is fine but not all of us wear gel polish and the alcohol inks behave quite differently on nail polish/topcoat. Firstly, let's have a look at the final manicure (without final topcoat as I stamped over it later - mistake!)....

Alcohol Ink Gradient Marble Nail Art & Tutorial

I have found that you can easily wipe off the ink from gel polish but you can't do it on nail polish, it kind of stains it. Plus if you don't use topcoat or if you're doing too many layers and playing with it too long, the nail polish underneath starts to kind of melt and smear. I don't know why but it happened to me more than once. With gel polish you can play with the ink and layer it as much as you like.

Also I wasn't able to create that perfect marble effect over nail polish. The ink doesn't seem to move and seep into each other etc. just like it can do on gel polish. But I will definitely keep trying to translate the beauty of alcohol inks on nails! One thing I want to point out though - alcohol inks nor Sharpies are NOT made for cosmetic use so technically we shouldn't be using them. But unless you get too much on your skin you should be fine.

Here's a tutorial of how I did this gradient marble manicure. I have used all 7 inks I own in Espresso, Ginger, Cranberry, Red Pepper, Raspberry, Purple Twilight, Denim and Pool.

I hope you've enjoyed today's post and don't forget to let me know what you think and what is your experience with alcohol in nail art.

Have a lovely day! Lucie x

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