At the beginning of the week I told you all that I used a different technique for each of my marble manis, that was the plan right up until my first 2 versions of this mani. Fortunately I don’t have a ton of nail fails, but when I do fail I fail spectacularly! For this mani I started with nail polish freehand, versus the sharpie markie freehand from Day 2… freehand has never been my strong suit but I thought abstract marble freehand couldnt be too hard. 

I was wrong. Enter Exhibit A, and B. 

After my first attempt, Exhibit A, I wasn’t happy with how forced it looked and the total lack of ‘whispy lines’. So I tried to work on it some more. A few minutes later I snapped a few pics of Exhibit B and all I could think was that it looked like a spider threw up on my nails. So so bad.

I immediately took it all off and started over again….

Black Marble Nails

After abandoning my idea of doing freehand and went back to my tried and true drip marbles, I was fairly happy with the outcome. At least happier than I was with the previous versions.