Candy Canes
Hi
Goddesses
So, this week’s challenge over at PAA was
Candy Coma which meant I had a chance to remedy the Italian hallucination-ness
that was my original candy cane mani for the Purple Crumpet Fairy Christmas
Challenge.
For whatever reason – laziness probably – I was
still resisiting stripes, so I when I saw this Candy Cane water marble from
Goddess Colette, I thought all my prayers were answered.
Yeh.
There’s a reason she has a gazillion followers and I don’t lol – she can
do it!!! It looked soooooo simple, but
as ever, this water marble didn’t end up *quite* how I intended.
The trick with this marble is to make 1 line
across the centre, and then bisect it in stripes. My problems were that after so many stripes,
the whole pattern decided to drag itself with me, hence the messes of the index
and ring fingers.
The thumb is closest to what Colette had in
mind, and basically I went downhill from there lol. I do like the middle finger as this has the
best colour definition, and I also like the pinkie, though it shouldn’t be in
this mani (how come I never get this pattern when I try to make this pattern
lol).
The hardest part of marbling with red is to
find one that doesn’t just dilute itself in the water and end up a horrible
pink. Luckily I have tried to marble
with reds before so knew which ones to avoid.
I ended up using Barry M Raspberry and CG Snow as my white and my base
colour.
And yes …. Next year I’ll do a tape mani …….
Enjoy J xx
J
Top Tip – if you’re
ever unsure what a nail colour looks like, go to Google images, which will give
you plenty of contrasts and compares.