pedicure of the week: 3 blue marble waves

blue marbled waves

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I have been very into blues this summer so for my pedicure this week I wanted to do another look with blues. I love the "water marble" look but for some reason have never been able to really replicate this successfully. So this week's look was kind of my DIY version of water marbling. I added one coat of white to all my toes to make the blues stand out more (sort of the equivalent of using eye shadow primer) and then I chose three colors of blue and drew little swirl patterns with a small size dotting tool. I then simply outlined the swirls and waves with white acrylic paint and added a few tiny dots with a small size dotting tool. I actually tried this pattern on all my toe nails but I didn't like it, it was a little bit too much, so I redid the toes in the dominant blue. I love bright patterns on my toes for summer :) I hope you enjoy this week's design. Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

Supplies:
1) Dark blue polish: "sparked" LA colors: This brand is sold at almost any dollar tree store

2) Medium blue polish: "coat azure" Essie #851: I got lucky and bought this particular polish at Ross for $3.00 but Essie polishes normally retail for $8.00
click to purchase Essie Coat Azure

3) Sparkling blue polish: "spectrum" Sally Hansen HD polish #14: I got lucky and got this polish at dollar tree but they normally retail for between $5.00-$7.00 in drugstores
click here to purchase Sally Hansen HD polish in "spectrum"

4) Topcoat: NYC in a New York Minute "Grand Central Station" #202: $1.82-$1.99 most drugstores
click here to purchase this topcoat

5) White Paint: Joann's Craft Essentials in #72001: I purchased this at Joann's Craft Store for $0.59

6) Dotting Tool: I purchased a set of five dotting tools on Ebay for $1.59
click here to purchase dotting tools