Can You Use Sharpies On Nail Polish

Marbled nails using sharpies and rubbing alcohol

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Sharpie Nail Art Is Piece of cake to Do

This DIY blast art tutorial will bear witness you lot how to create marbled nails using sharpies. Y'all can take the styles to the next level and use these instructions to create galaxy inspired nail art likewise. This method is simpler to practice than marbled nails using water because there is no mess to worry almost, and it's much easier to make clean upwards around the cuticles if you aren't as precise.

A few things y'all volition need for this nail art are:

White nail polish
Nail polish remover
Rubbing booze
Sharpies in different colors
Paintbrush
Small glass dish
Cotton buds (optional)

Average Cost of Supplies Needed


Tool	Boilerplate Cost ($)
White Nail Polish	$1–$five
Nail Polish Remover	$2
Paint Brush	$1
Sharpies (3)	$4
Rubbing Alcohol	$ii

The items you will need to create this sharpie marbled look. — The items you lot will demand to create this sharpie marbled look.

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1. Prepping the Nails: Pigment the Nails White

If you haven't already, wipe off any smash smoothen already on your nails and brand sure your nails are free of any oils or grease. And so take white blast polish and paint them white until the nail polish is opaque (1–2 coats).

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

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two. Creating the Color Using Sharpies

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

Then spray i–2 sprays of rubbing alcohol in the bottom of the glass to deliquesce the color.

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 drinking glass and spritz some rubbing alcohol into the lesser of the glass, then swirl your paintbrush in it, squeeze the backlog liquid onto the sides and paint.

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iii. Pigment the Liquid on Your Nails

Dip your brush in the liquid and get-go painting your nails in random strokes. The color will dry out fast, and if you go over the same expanse twice or 3 times, the color volition darken.

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Paint on the Second Color

Repeat this procedure with the residuum of the colors you lot have chosen.

Two different sharpie colors — 2 different sharpie colors

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After All Colors Have Been Applied

4. Add Extra Details

Y'all can stop here or you can create a "galaxy" expect past dotting on some white boom smooth with the brush or with a dotting tool to attain a cool effect.

Acrylic Marbled Nails

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

Doing this method on your ain nails is not as efficient since you are painting white boom smooth on get-go. Drawing starting time with sharpie on your painted nails will "cure" the sharpie to your smash and make 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 (author) on September 26, 2015:

Glad to run across you like it! :)

Jasmeet Kaur from Republic of india on September 26, 2015:

loved the trick. I will attempt it as well...