NOTD: Christmas Poinsettia Water Marble + Tutorial

This design came about ... well, not exactly by mistake, but it's not what I started out to do with these colors.  I was going to do the french tip marble that's been on my to-do list for like, ever, and as I was experimenting, this design just came out & my plans had to change =)

 

I used Wet 'n' Wild French White as my base, and then I marbled with Sally Hanson Salon Berry Sweet & Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Going Green.  After marbling I topped it with one coat of China Glaze Golden Enchantment just to glitterfy & bling it up a little, although it was hard to catch all the sparkle in pics.  I can't quite call this my favorite marble ever, but it may be my most impressive if that makes sense?  Just got such good positioning with all of my dips, and it's PERFECT for the season!  It came out looking so much just like the flower - here's my poinsettia water marble for Christmas:

 

 

Favorite nails left to right:  left thumb, left index, right middle, right ring:

 

Here's the tutorial - I'd heard Going Green was a bad one for staining, and you can see it actually tinted the water green, which doesn't normally happen marbling, so I'm hoping it won't be too bad on my nails since the red is dominant:

 

 

 

Here are just a couple of my tests - I was going to use the top pattern for my french tips until I did the bottom one & totally changed my plan:

 

 

I have a TON more holiday ideas.  I don't know if I'll even get around to all of them, but I'm going to give it my best shot =)  Thanks for reading.

 

~Colette