Splash Splatter

This Sunday, the church where I serve is having their annual "Splash Back into Christ" where the church worships in the city park,, then enjoys a fingerfood brunch and water games!  Everyone wears their "Splash Back" t-shirts.  I just got mine and when I saw it, I KNEW I had to make nail art to match!  This was my first attempt at splatter and I LOVE IT!!

Here's the shirt that inspired my design:

And here are the nails!!!!!

This was such a fun one to do!  Sorry they're not cleaned up very well in the photos.  I took these while the nails were still a little wet (that's some thick splatters!) because I wanted a good photo in case I smudged, gashed, or mangled them!  

Here's how I did it....

First, I applied three coats of Pure Ice Splash

Then I set up my supplies: old tablecloth to cover work area, foil for dabbing, polishes, clothespin with cottonball dipped in remover, masking tape to cover fingertips, tip of a broken ink pen (small straws work, too)

I put masking tape around my fingertips to aid in ease of cleanup and keep extra splatters off my skin. 

To make the splatters, I dripped the CG Boundless Color Blue You onto the foil, then dipped the small end of a broken ink pen into the polish so it would form a film over the hole.  I brought it up to my mouth and blew a short puff of air through it aimed at my nails.  I did practice this a bit on some scrap paper to kind of get the hang of it before I did it to my nails.  After I put Blue Me on all the nails, I wiped the pen tip off with the cottonball dipped in remover and did the same splatter technique with CG Boundless Color White Night.  Then I added a bit more blue and a bit more white.  Then I sat down to catch an old episode of Covert Affairs while I waited for it to dry a bit....which takes a while with all that thick polish!  When things were sort of dry, I took off the tape.  

Here's  look at the mess I made....

And here's a few shots of my nails with the shirt that inspired it all.....