AMAZING LIQUID PALISADE ALTERNATIVE!

Hey guys, I hope your year is getting off to a good start! 

A couple of days ago Sabine posted an instagram video using liquid latex as an alternative to Liquid Palisade and well I ordered a bottle right there and then. It came a few days ago and I am in love so it deserves it's own blog post. I hope you'll find this useful and interesting!

Word of caution: If you are allergic to Latex do not use this product. 

Liquid Palisade retails for $22 for 10ml which is supposed to last for 50 manis. Liquid Latex can be found on Amazon, Ebay, craft stores for around £5 for 250ml, Sabine paid 8 Euros for 500ml so the price varies but it's a lot cheaper when compared to Liquid Palisade. I don't think you'll ever run out a bottle that size! Just ensure the liquid latex you buy is safe for sking. 

The ingredients in both products are very similar but the Palisade has added pigment in it. If for some reason you want yours to be coloured instead of white/clear then you simply add a bit of acrylic paint, food colouring etc. 

So does it work well? Yes it's amazing! I used to use PVA glue but it takes forever to dry and you can't use it for watermarbling so this a very good alternative, it dries super fast, it's runnier and thicker than pva so it's less likely to rip when you peel it off. You can use this on the skin around the nail to ease clean up, peel off base coat and in nail art. 

I poured some into an empty nail polish bottle to make it easier to use. 

Awesome! I don't have a bad word to say about it, except oh it does a little bit of a funny smell which disappears once it's dry. 

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30 DAY CHALLENGE, DAY 20 - WATER MARBLE (NO CLEAN-UP)

my last watermarble was the most miserable fail ever, but i have been aching to try it again and this was the perfect opportunity. i also want to make this post into a little tutorial thingy well, no anyway my biggest hate of water marbles was the clean up aaargh, it was the biggest turn off, so when i did my water marble for this mani i taped my fingers up well and good and all the pictures i'm going to show you are COMPLETELY NO CLEAN UP WHAT SO EVER ! all the pictures you see are like 30 seconds after i'd taken my fingers out of the water !! 
first i'll show you how it turned out 

lately i've really been loving matte and i love this much more matte !  

ok so yes, it's not the most perfect watermarble ever but it may possible by one of the cleanest loll

anyway i'll show you a picture of how i did it (sort of)

ok so like i said i taped up my fingers really well and around the cuticles 

this is what my fingers looked taped up before i dipped them in  *excuse appalling state of nails*

i made sure the tape covered my cuticles and pressed it down with my nail to makes sure it didn't lift or anything and i got the tape under the nails again

i think i'll make a separate post with better picz on how i taped up my nails, if you're interested, if you do want to see that post then leave me a comment 

loll, random dodgy water marble thing (yes, i'm not perfect, this is my 3rd every try lol)

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