FingerFood's Theme Buffet - Mocha Coffee Chocolate Frappuccino (Inspired by Robin Moses)

Hello everyone! I have been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks but have never found the right time until now! Everyone knows my love/hate relationship with water marbling (love to look at it, hate to do it), so dry marbling was always a preferable option for me. I had a go following this fabulous Robin Moses video and I was hooked. I used the technique to create this look for the GOT Polish challenge the other week, but this was my first attempt. 

I decided to use it for the Theme Buffet this week as the prompt is "Delicious" (suggested by Ivy of "Nails of Blue") and it reminds me of my favourite mochas from Costa. Coffee and hot chocolate, best of both worlds! :)

I started with two coats of Color Club Earthy Angel and allowed it to dry. I then added one more coat and while it was still wet added "blobs" (a technical term!) of LA Colors French White and Color Club Rebel Spirit and Positively Posh. I dragged a fine detail brush through the blobs to create the marbled effect. Because there is quite a lot of polish on each nail, its best to give it a while before finishing with top coat. 

I decided to keep my pattern in a little bit more of a uniform French shape that Robin goes for in the video, but I am such a big fan of this look. Some colour combos that I've tried really haven't worked out that well, but this one just makes me want another Costa :)

Sam xx

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GOT Polish Challenge Yellow/Peach and NAILS Mag 31DC - Marbling

Hello everyone! Another Thursday and another GOT polish challenge day has come around. The colours for this week are yellow/peach and I can't say I was thrilled with them, especially as I wamted to be able to tie them in with the NAILS Mag prompt "Marbling". Many of you know that I have a love/hate relationship with water matbling (love how it looks, HATE doing it!), so that was a no go from the off. However I have been trying out Robin Moses No Water Marbling technique (tutorial here) with up to now fairly inconsistent results and today it all finally clicked into place - I am so happy! 

The base is LA Colors Illusion. It really is an illusion as I promise I didn't really use purple in a yellow/peach prompt, honest! ;) Then while the polish was still wet, I added blobs of LA Colors  French White and Hottie along with Models Own Lemon Meringue. I used a fine detail brush to drag the wet polish into marble patterns and allowed to dry for a good while before finishing with Seche Vite.

I was so happy to have got this technique right finally that I did two sets, one in the GOT colours (ignore the glaring misuse of purple - but it needed a background colour to make the yellow/peach work, so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!), and another in coffee and chocolate similar to the ones in Robin's video. Here is a sneaky peak at my yummy "mocha coffee chocolate frappuccino" version:

I'm off to do some more of this, playing around with the vast array of colour combinations alone are enough to keep me going for weeks, so expect to see a few of these. I've also spotted a tutorial on how to do flowers in this style - I am all over that!

Tomorrow's prompt for the 31DC is "Mint" and I have something fun lined up for that one! Until then, follow the Inlinkz for all the other GOT manis :)

Sam xx

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