Leopard Print

I painted some rainbow leopard nails a while back and of all the colours I tried I liked the standard leopard best, another mani I've been meaning to paint for a while...

I also want to try it on a glitter base (as always gold) but I can't decide if it will look too trampy or not, I'm a little bit cautious with leopard print!

Yas 

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31DC2013 Day 8: Metallic Nails

I'm a bit late into joining the 31 day challenge as I was so busy finishing off my thesis, it's all done now so I'm free to paint my nails as much as I like, yay! 

I was planning on painting these yesterday for black and white but never got round to it. I decided I would make them metallic for today instead.

They are a base of Essie fair game with 2 coats of fine glitter (which you can't really see as the image quality is so bad) followed by a coat of Sally Hansen Nail Shine Miracle to smooth them out. I then freehand painted the black over the top. I can't decide if I like these nails or not, I think they could look nicer if the zebra print was finer and I spent more time on them.

Yas

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Leopard Print Rainbow Nails

You need: 11 colours, black is essential the others can be pretty much anything, topcoat, dotting tool

1) Base coat in a light colour (I've picked beige, pale pink, slightly brighter pink, mint green and pale blue)

2) Using the normal brush paint different sized blobs over each nail, this should be in a darker colour (I've picked brown for the beige nail, beige for the pale pink, hot pink for the brighter pink, turquoise for the mint green, and purple for the pale blue)

3) Use a dotting tool to paint broken circles and 'c' shapes around each blob

4) Fill any spaces with dots, dashes and 'c' shapes

5) Topcoat