Ziploc Bag Nail Decals

What Pinterest Showed Me

compared to...

What I did

First of all, I didn't use a water marble design, though I'm sure it would yield the same results. 

All you really need is some nail polish, a toothpick...

And a plastic bag/wax paper/cellophane.

Tape is your friend too. You might want to tape the bag/paper/cellophane onto the table.

I ended up using almost completely different colors than what I had taken a picture of. Then I started to paint the bag.

....

Then you can get creative and make whatever design you want. This is where I would assume water marbling would come into play. 

Then I questioned my existence. 

Finally, I gave up and went to bed. 

The next morning, the polish was dry. You're supposed to use tweezers to peel off the polish. However, I could not find a pair. Therefore, I used cuticle cutters. 

Ta-Dah!

I used scissors to cut out a small square big enough to fit on my nail

I covered my thumb nail....

....and tried to peel off the excess with the cuticle cutters and my finger. As you can see, I took a pretty big chunk off my nail. 

Then I remembered that you're supposed to apply a base coat first.

Boo! 

So this time, I applied a base coat, pressed the decal onto my nail, and cut around it. DON'T FORGET TO ADD A TOPCOAT! And it looked like this. The design would have probably looked better if I would have just directly applied it to my nails. Oh well, I guess I need to practice at it. 

I might try this again. The dried polish sheet was fun to play with anyway :)

NAILED IT! 

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