My First Attempt At Marble Nails

So I have an interview tomorrow at one of the local clothes shops, and I want to give a great impression. This means doing my nails. As an excuse to try a new technique, I decided marbling would be a good idea. However, water marbling didn't quite go as planned and I ended up sitting and playing with the nail varnish in the water. So I used a different technique.

First of all I decided which nail varnishes I would use. As I am wearing a blue and white dress to my interview, I thought I would go with different shades of blue. So I used Barry M Nail Paint in 292 Navy, Barry M Nail Paint in 304 Mint Green (which is more of a blue) and Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours in Pop Fiction.

Barry M Nail Paint in Navy:

Barry M Nail Paint in Mint Green:

Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours in Pop Fiction:

So I used Barry M Navy as a base coat, I thought it would be a good idea, just in case the colours weren't as vibrant as I had hoped. After I had let this dry, I opened all the bottles of nail varnish, so that I could easily take out the brushes. The next thing that I did was put dots of each colour in random places on my nails, the more nail varnish, the easier to marbles. Usually, a tooth pick is used to marble the colours, but instead a cut the cotton end off a cotton wool bud, and used my teeth to make the end of the plastic stick square.

To marble the colours together, I lightly dragged the plastic stick along my nails in random patterns. I find that it is a lot easier to do each nail separately so that the nail varnish doesn't dry before you can marble it.
Making the patterns:

This technique worked really well, and I think next time I will try using just two colours. I also found sometimes, the darker colour replaced the lighter one too much, so I put a little bit more light on than dark.

My thumb nail:

All of my nails :

I think next time I will try this technique with just two colours, hope you enjoyed.