WHAT A PITA MARBLE

I was kind of shocked when I saw that I hadn't done a post since Thursday. WTF? I don't even have an excuse other than just pure laziness.

After all the cleaning I did on Thursday, I guess I hit that wall I sometimes hit when I keep staying up too late and not getting enough sleep. Which basically is every day for me, but after about 2-3 months, I'll have a day where I can't stay awake. That day was Friday. I swear I fell asleep at least 4 times throughout the day. Just quick little nappy-naps, but I still hate it. They leave me feeling completely sluggish and out of it for hours.

I was determined to do a water marble. As I was pulling out polishes on Saturday evening to start it, I popped a nail off. Oh, I was pissed!! Rather than just glue the one back on I figured I might as well just soak the suckers off.

Of course that meant the water marble was out because you can't put your hands in water for 3 hours after application. Normally I will put them on at night so I know they will stay dry overnight.

That meant I had to throw something on just because I didn't want naked nails. I decided I would do a fan brush manicure because I haven't done that in a really long time. 

And oh, I did one that turned out so horrid I didn't even take a picture. On Sunday afternoon I tried stamping over it to cover up some of the ugliness, and even that didn't work. It was really bad so I took it off and threw on a coat of white in preparation for the water marble.

Since we had a couple of the puppies over for playtime yesterday afternoon, I did the marble last night.

This one gave me SO much trouble! I think it took me almost 3 hours to finally just call it done. I would have liked to do a couple of nails over, but I couldn't look at swirly polish another second.

My colors on this one are Sinful Colors Snow Me White, China Glaze Pelican Gray, Studio M Sweet Pea and some really pretty baby pink from Sally Hansen that didn't have a name.

The trouble I had on this one was finding polishes that would all work together. I tried 4 different grays, 2 different light pinks and 2 of the darker pink before I finally got them all to cooperate.

And that is why I don't do water marbles as often as I  might like. Sometimes they are simply an exercise in frustration like this one was. My lack of patience often times gets the better of me. I was being stubborn on this one because I really, really wanted a pink, grey and white water marble.

Now I want it gone because I'm mad at it. I'm going to force myself to leave it on until tomorrow night.