How To Do Marble Nails With Sharpie

Marbled nails using sharpies and rubbing alcohol

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Sharpie Nail Art Is Easy to Do

This DIY nail art tutorial volition evidence you how to create marbled nails using sharpies. You can take the styles to the next level and use these instructions to create galaxy inspired smash fine art every bit well. This method is simpler to practise than marbled nails using h2o because there is no mess to worry almost, and it's much easier to clean upwardly around the cuticles if you lot aren't every bit precise.

A few things you volition demand for this boom art are:

White nail polish
Nail smoothen remover
Rubbing booze
Sharpies in different colors
Paintbrush
Pocket-size drinking glass dish
Cotton buds (optional)

Average Cost of Supplies Needed


Tool	Average Cost ($)
White Blast Polish	$1–$5
Nail Polish Remover	$ii
Paint Brush	$1
Sharpies (3)	$four
Rubbing Alcohol	$2

The items you will need to create this sharpie marbled look. — The items yous volition need to create this sharpie marbled look.

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1. Prepping the Nails: Paint the Nails White

If you oasis't already, wipe off any nail smooth already on your nails and make certain your nails are free of whatever oils or grease. Then have white nail smoothen and paint them white until the nail polish is opaque (i–two coats).

Paint the nails white using one or two coats of polish.

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two. Creating the Color Using Sharpies

Take a sharpie marker of your color option and depict on the lesser of a minor glass dish with information technology. Don't worry, this will not ruin the drinking glass, and yous volition be able to wipe information technology off completely with no damage to the dish.

And so spray 1–2 sprays of rubbing alcohol in the bottom of the glass to deliquesce the colour.

Color the glass and spritz some rubbing alcohol into the bottom of the glass, then swirl your paintbrush in it, squeeze the excess liquid onto the sides and paint. — Color the glass and spritz some rubbing alcohol into the bottom of the glass, and then swirl your paintbrush in it, squeeze the excess liquid onto the sides and pigment.

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3. Paint the Liquid on Your Nails

Dip your brush in the liquid and start painting your nails in random strokes. The color will dry fast, and if you go over the same surface area twice or three times, the color will darken.

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Pigment on the 2d Color

Repeat this process with the rest of the colors yous have chosen.

Two different sharpie colors

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After All Colors Have Been Applied

4. Add Actress Details

You tin can stop here or you can create a "milky way" expect by dotting on some white nail polish with the castor or with a dotting tool to achieve a cool effect.

Acrylic Marbled Nails

If you want to accomplish this look using acrylic nails instead, you can use the tutorial below to help y'all achieve a good design. With acrylic nails, it is easier to paint onto the nails showtime and and then apply a brush dipped in booze to spread the sharpie paint around.

Doing this method on your own nails is not as efficient since you are painting white smash polish on showtime. Drawing offset with sharpie on your painted nails will "cure" the sharpie to your nail and brand it harder to spread around with alcohol, thus giving a more than blotchy appearance.

Experiment with different color combinations and come up with cool marbled nails ideas.

This content is accurate and truthful to the best of the author's knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.

Deya Writes (writer) on September 26, 2015:

Glad to encounter you like it! :)

Jasmeet Kaur from Bharat on September 26, 2015:

loved the trick. I volition try it too...