Leopard Print Nails

Hi my lovelies,

Just a note before we begin. I actually found out today the other definition for a purple nurple, which is: the act of grabbing and twisting a nipple of another person, oneself, and even occasionally other mammals to cause pain (Urban Dictionary). Hmmmm... Now the weird title of my last post is even weirder... I swear I only thought it was a drink! I promise!



Anyway...

I have another tutorial for you today. I know that there are already like 10 thousand tutorials for leopard print on the web, but then I was like, meh, one more can’t hurt. Even if it just shows a couple of people how deceptively easy this design is. I honestly have just stayed far, far, far away from animal print for my nails because I really thought it would be exceedingly difficult, but then I actually came across a tutorial for leopard print and went ‘wow, that actually looks really easy’. So, I decided to have a go and I was really surprised at how easy it was and how effective they look.

My first set of nail foils I had were leopard print ones and I really loved them and so I am just so happy to be able to recreate that look with my own hands. :)

Have fun and I hope you enjoy!

Leopard Print Manicure

Beige nail polish (I used Beige by Colour Co.)

Brown nail polish (I didn’t have any suitable, so I mixed together some poopy-looking brown from Rubi Shoes and Copper by BYS)

Black nail polish (I used Black Out by Sally Hansen)

A large and small dotting tool (I used the end of a paintbrush and a bamboo skewer)

Top coat

1.     Paint a base of beige (I need 5 coats for mine to become opaque…) I hate beige...

2.     When dry, add spots of brown with the large dotting tool or the brush itself, if you want. They don’t have to be particularly neat and try and make them all random.

3.     When dry, use the small dotting tool (or bamboo skewer) add small squiggly lines around each of the brown spots

4.     Seal it all in with a top coat.