Don't you just hate when you see a tutorial for interesting nail art and you need forty different tools and brushes to achieve what will wear off in three days anyway? Well here's an easy method to create an easy leopard print nail with products you'll already have at home.
You can use any colours you would like, I have a few options in the picture above, from crazy colourful to subtle and dark(the center nail in the picture is actually gray with black and steel spots but my camera decided to make it blue). Just make sure you have a bright or light base colour, a dark colour for the spots and a vibrant or lighter colour for the colour of the spots.
For the sake of this tutorial I will use the colours pink, black and dark tangerine as shown in the photo above.
- Apply base coat to your nails(optional). Paint the pink nailvarnish all over your nails and allow to dry.
- Pour a little bit of black nailvarnish onto a piece of cardboard, a CD cover or whatever hard surface you don't mind staining; this will create, for lack of a better word, a blob of black nailvarnish.
- Dip a cocktail stick or toothpick into the black nailvarnish and draw little semi-circles onto your nails. The less perfect and unevenly spaced the more realistic the leopard spots will be. You may need to clean off the cocktail stick every so often and re-pour the varnish into your "blob". The first time I did this, being the Recessionista that I am, I had no cocktail sticks. Therefore I used an old earring that I no longer wore instead! So if you have no toothpicks I'm sure every girl can find an old cringe-worthy earring from her teeny-bopper days.
- Once the outline has dried, take a new cocktail stick(or clean off your earring) and fill in the spots with your tangerine nailvarnish carefully.
- When all nailvarnish is completely dry, cover the whole nail with a clear top coat to keep those random nails perfect for a few days!
Go forth and let out your inner multi-coloured animal,
Aila Maritz xox
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