Specially when you can identify what went wrong in the process.
So this attempt started the same way as all the other:
Polish goes in water, spreads, drag needle over, dry over night.
Yet, it turned out quite different.
IsaDora - 179 - Winter Rose
W7 - 140 - Buff
ESSIE - Little Brown Dress
close up few minutes after it was made |
15 h later, it looks like this |
I could still make a nice manicure out of it, so it wasn't completely ruined, but it baffled me that it turned out so differently. As I hadn't had any failed attempts at all using this technique I wanted to find out what went wrong.
I asked the girls at Polish-aholics Anonymous on Facebook, and the suggestions ranged from water contamination, to temperature drops, and even air contamination. One suggested it might simply be the polishes I choose.
So I went to the scientific method, and worked on eliminating one and one of these theories.
By using the same polishes in the same order with new water, and with a lid, the problem still occurred. So it could not be air- or water contamination. Though, this was a very good bet.
As I had used the same water all week, there was a possibility that water contamination could be a factor. I would lift the decal out of the water, and make a new one right away, so the water was never changed. However this had not, and continued not to be the problem, so it had to be something else.
I then decided to use the same polishes but to swap out one of them. As I am not the biggest fan of IsaDora - Winter Rose, that was the polish I decided to swap out. This attempt had no errors and can be found following this link:
Vintage Wood - A watermarble adventure
I was twisting and turning on the decal. It wasn't much to work with, and it had gaps here and there. Some of it simply crumbled away when I took it out of the water.
It's not my best work, hehe, but I made it, kinda, work.
At least you tried! I still haven't even done that!!!!
ReplyDeleteI tried and tried for a full week. One marble each day. Was getting a bit insane at the end. So I placed the rest of them in a plastic bag to use them later, so I am interested to see how long they keep in there.
DeleteSo I'm nosying around here and of course I had to start with a watermarble tag. :) I'm glad I did, just to tell you I encountered this same problem, too, actually, and I always just put it down to that one polish not playing nicely with others. *shrug*
ReplyDeleteIn this case IsaDora - Winter Rose has a very troublesome consistency even when applied regularly on the nails. So in this case it really was that polish.
DeleteYou nosying around has made me look at the water decals I made and as they still look to be in pristine condition, I will attempt to use them in the coming weeks. :)