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Water Spotted Nails

Don't you just love how these water spotted nails look? When I first ran across this new nail art technique online I was overjoyed with it. I will have to admit that after trying the technique out I was a little frustrated at first. Why can water spotted nails be a little frustrated? Because, just like water marble nail art, water spotting can be both time consuming and messy but it really is worth it. The final spotted nails look is absolutely amazing!

Is this your first time hearing or learning about this new nail art technique? This technique is just weeks old so please do share with us your experience with trying it out or what your first reaction was to it. You can share through the comment form below.

How To Do Water Spotted Nails

Your first basic guide should be the video above. It walks you through each step by showing you how it is done and if you are already experienced with water marbling, then you should have no problem with this design. But below I will give you some tips on how to do water spotted manicures. These tips are things that I learned as I tried them for the first time, second time, and third time! I wanted to make sure I had it down perfectly before doing a video on them.

1st: Just like water marbling, when you go to add the nail polish to the water you need to make sure that the water is room temperature. If it is not, then the polish will not spread out.

2nd: You need new polish or relatively new polish to make the polish spread across the water. The polish also needs to be a high quality polish or else it will not spread.

3rd: I couldn't find a hand sanitation solution in a spray bottle at the stores I visited. What stores did I visit? I went to walgreens. I guess I could have tried Walmart...I bet they had it but I came up with another idea instead when I saw a small spray bottle. I had a huge bottle of gel hand sanitizer at home and I figured that I could just put it into the bottle. I went ahead and spent $2 on a small empty spray bottle.

When I got home I put the gel hand sanitizer in the bottle and tested it out. I quickly found out that the gel did not mist like I needed so I mixed water in it to make the solution mistable. It worked! If you don't want to mix it with water like I did, then you can mix it with alcohol to make it more viscous. In fact, mixing it with alcohol will probably give you better results.

I also tried to do this same thing with a big spray bottle but it didn't work well because the mist droplets were to big and made to big of spots in the nail polish on top of the water.

4th: When you spray the hand sanitizer or substance containing alcohol into the bottle make sure you do it at a far enough distance. If you spray it too close, then the impact area will be too bunched up and you won't get the right results.

5th: I don't know why but I forgot to put tape on my fingers before tipping them into the polish/water. Maybe I subconsciously wanted this nail project to be more messy. :( I recommend using tap so the clean up process is much easier.

Share Your Water Spotted Nails With Us

I would love to see what colors you use for your water spotted manicure. Please do share your designs with us by sending an email to us at polishpedia (@) gmail (dot) com or by uploading an image to our facebook page. I can't wait to see your nails!

~Jocelyn (Nail Artist @ Polishpedia)