alittlenailobsession : Summer Swarovski Swirl Manicure

Today I bring you all the Summer Swarovski Swirl Manicure...Bit of a mouthful I know.

This involves a very fun technique named Marbling. I have previously done a tutorial featuring Marbling with water, but this manicure contains Marbling minus water, which is a lot less messy :) Yay.

The products I will be using for this tutorial are the following:

Orly Bonder Basecoat
Revlon's Jaded
Revlon's Cherries In The Snow
Orly Polished Top Coat
Barry M's Black
Essie's Mademoiselle
Swarovski AB Crystals (Large, Medium and Small)
Tweezers
Nail Glue
Nail Varnish Remover
Cotton Bud

Ready?

Step 1: Paint your nails with a base coat. I used Orly's Bonder.

Step 2: Paint on two coats of a sheer nude nail varnish. As I previously mentioned, I am using Essie's Mademoiselle.

Step 3: Paint on a very thick third coat of Mademoiselle. Then drop three or four drops of nail varnish at the top of your nail. For this step, I dropped mint green, pink and black coloured nail varnishes.

Step 4: With a small paint brush, proceed to swirl the nail varnish, mixing the colours from side to side. This is meant to be a random design, so there is no right or wrong. Wait for this to dry thoroughly.

Step 5: Draw a line of nail glue horizontally under where your swirl has finished.

Step 6: Proceed with using tweezers to place one large Swarovski AB Crystal in the centre and one medium sized crystal on either side.

Step 7: For your thumb nail, add one even smaller crystal on either side of the medium sized crystal.

Step 8: Apply a generous layer of top coat. I used Orly's Polished which gives a brilliant shine to the nail.

Step 9: Wait 60 seconds, and then apply three drops of Leighton Denny's Miracle Drops to each nail. This product decreases the drying time massively, again adding a gel-like shine and hardness to each nail.

Step 10: Use a cotton bud soaked in nail varnish remover to clean up the excess nail varnish from each fingernail.