Gel Polish Marble Design | Blooming Gel vs Base Gel

[@devorsharo]

Thank you! I was just reading about blooming gel earlier today and I wondered if one could use base or top coat instead! I’ll be trying this tomorrow. 😊

[@NailsbyZoeH]

Is your top coat tack-free, or does it cure with an inhibition layer? If it's tack-free, I'd cleanse and then lightly buff the design before applying your final top coat. You may get adhesion issues if you don't buff, as tack-free top coat doesn't like to adhere to itself. Base coat is always tacky so no issues there 😊 Good luck, let me know how you go 😊

[@devorsharo]

@@NailsbyZoeH Thanks, I have both tacky and tack free so I’ll be sure to use tack free. 😊

[@cheerfulsatanist]

Maybe its me but I've found you can get excellent near identical effect if you do what you did, but in reverse. Dot or swipe lines how you like of your colors on your clean base nail. I find it better to have that layer dried/cured before adding your haggling shades, otherwise its hard to avoid it getting muddied, esp if your new to this technique. From there using a Sep brush, typically smaller, apply base coat or blooming gel to the colors u placed that are still wet. From there just slowly work the BC or BG through your colors to get that marbley or str8 watercolor effdct. You can keep working it to get the desired degree of realism. If you really want to make it a perfect dupe for marble or quartz crystal \ amethyst crystals take an EXTREMELY thin or worse detail brush and drag it through the finished and worked through (To your preference design) and add some super thin "veins" at random. Metallic look amazing for this but its really dealers choice. You typically don't wanna try to blend these lines at all, u want them thin and minimally present, ( real marble is often identified as such by those little lines we see in stark contrast to the background when were looking at actual marble stone. I've also found practicing off of actual marble countertop or stone ware images can help to get a solid handle on what patterns we see in actual marble so as to best recreate it with your nail art. From there topcoat \ cure as your sealing method of choice (acrylic \ gel what have u, both will work). It will also look dope in either a shiny no wipe top coat or a matte no wipe top coat. I've also gotten great results using monomer as the blending agent. Doing marbled nails I. These ways also cuts down on the likelihood of too thick or bulky nails in the end, also making it more of a guarantee each layer will be fully dried \ cured, something hat can get difficult when you have super thick nails. Good luck.

[@NailsbyZoeH]

Hi, thank you for your comment. I've tried several ways of marbling, but not the way you suggest, placing the colours down first and then going in with base coat or blooming gel. When I've put the colours directly on the nail, I've used a dry brush to create the marble. I can see how your method would give a good watercolour type effect. I'll have to give that a go, thanks. And thanks for watching. :)

[@moongoddess42d]

This is seriously good info! Thank You for so much for sharing! 😊 I’ve seen where isopropyl alcohol can also be used for creating the marbling effect and like that look, it supports a bit more control over where the blooming/blending happens.

[@moongoddess42d]

I really appreciate your video as I convinced myself that some artists were using base vs blooming and wondered what the difference would be. Seems like there is merit with both techniques…possibly on the same nail or set even. I’ve also seen where isopropyl alcohol can be applied to gel colors on the nail and like that approach as well. Thank You so much for sharing! 😊

[@NailsbyZoeH]

You're very welcome, thanks for watching 💜 💜

[@PriyaMalhotra-p3p]

What's the use of Blooming gel 😊

[@devorsharo]

Oh and by the way, I could see your designs, but I have a large iPad. And with the latest update I can now zoom in on videos.

[@NailsbyZoeH]

Oh cool, thanks for letting me know 😊

[@coolrunnings3]

How do you zoom in on video’s please?

[@NailsbyZoeH]

@@coolrunnings3 I'm not sure, sorry. I don't have an iPad, but I've looked on my Android tablet and can't find a way to zoom in on a video. Sorry I can't help you with that one.

[@36paris]

If you have an iPhone 14 you just pinch the video with two fingers as if it were an image you were trying to expand. I’m not sure about earlier iPhones or other brands tho. Sry

[@NailsbyZoeH]

Thanks Rachel 😘

[@Forever_yours44]

I can’t see the nails details.

[@NailsbyZoeH]

Thank you for your comment. I have zoomed in on my latest video, so hopefully that helps. Thank you 😊

[@Born2beQueens]

ITS too far to see anything on nails, IT would be better to make videos zoomed in. Good luck!

[@NailsbyZoeH]

Thank you for your comment. I have zoomed in on my latest video, so hopefully that's easier to see clearly. Thank you 😊