How To - Water Droplet Manicure

Products Used

OPI Just Spotted the Lizard

OPI Gel Top Coat

Nail Art Brush Slim

OPI Base Coat

OPI Gel Lamp

OPI NAS Nail Sanitiser

Cotton rounds

OPI Expert Touch Lacquer Remover

To achieve this awesome 3D manicure just follow these simple, quick and easy steps. I first cleaned the nail plate with nail polish remover on a cotton pad then applied OPI's Natural Nail Base Coat. Follow this with two coats of OPI's Just Spotted the Lizard from the L.E Spiderman Collection, (or any reflective, multi coloured polish). Let this become touch dry before moving onto the water droplets.

To create the water droplets I made a little puddle of OPI Gel Top Coat onto a wipeable surface and using a slim nail art brush scooped some of the top coat up and dropped it onto the nail in random drop sizes. I cured the droplets under my OPI Gel Lamp for 2 minutes to ensure they are completely set. I chose not to use a top coat as I felt it didn't allow the bubbles to be as big as I wanted them to be. I finished them off by spraying a cotton pad with OPI's NAS and wiped over each nail to remove any sticky residue left by the Gel, and DONE! (Don't forget to wipe the excess Gel top coat for the puddle off your surface with nail polish remover! or you could end up with a sticky mess.)

OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, OPI Just Spotted The Lizard, OPI Gel Top Coat,

You can use absolutely any nail polish and Gel polish you have but it has to be a gel that needs to be cured with a light not the lamp-less version you can now get. Let me just say I use OPI because it's a brand I love and trust and chose to get my Gel nail kit from them. I am not in anyway affiliated or sponsored by them nor have I received any products to use / review from them.

I first saw this manicure on @u_nona's  Instagram page. She also has a video tutorial but I changed out the Gel base coat for a Gel top coat as I had no luck with creating water droplets with the base polish. I also used a different polish colour as I didn't have anything similar to what she used.

I would absolutely love to see your versions of this manicure! Let me know if you try this in the comments below.

This is what happens when you remove the polish with nail polish remover and then your left with gel water drops. (just flick the gel off your nails to remove.)

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Until next time,

Shannon.

These thoughts and opinions are completely my own, This post is not sponsored, nor were these products provided to me.