Hello lovelies,

Hope you've all had a nice weekend! Today I want to show you a manicure that is quite old - I did it back in September 2014 for the Olympia Beauty exhibition in London and never shared it with you. It was an attempt at watercolour-style flowers inspired by Neiru founder Jasmine Oshima. Jasmine has used gel and watercolours if I remember correctly but I've had to improvise and have used nail polish and watered down acrylic paint. I've painted my nails with two coats of white nail polish (Zoya Purity) and then created the watercolour flowers. There's not really much more to say so here are the photos...

Have a lovely day everyone! Lucie x

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