Hello! Holidays started last week and to celebrate the fact that there's no uniform rules while at home, I painted my nails! I haven't painted them in so long, mainly because whenever I try to make cool designs, it always fails. But since it's holidays, and I was so bored, I decided to try paint my nails and give it a nice design. I searched on youtube for some cute nail designs but nothing good came up but I searched for it on google and it came up with a blog post Cheesie (cheeserland.com) did. It had steps on how to do this simple nail design. I used the same nail polish colours as her because on my first try I didn't want to ruin it and make it look weird. So I stuck with being safe. I love this design because even people with short nails can do it (I have short nails so I know for a fact that you can do it too!) I think that these nails are perfect for parties! I don't know, they just give me a wild vibe haha.

Equipment:

Clear base/top coat (Sally Hansen), baby pink nail polish for base (Pinkey, bought from Sasa), pink nail polish for dots (Sylvie, bought from Sasa), black nail polish for around dots (Nail Color), nail polish remover, pink tool (toothpicks can be used as substitute), Q tip

Step 1: Buff your nails so they are smooth and clean.

Step 2: Paint a thin layer of clear base coat. This will protect your nails. (Even though, if you're painting your nails, you're not really protecting them in the first place) You don't have to do this step, it's your choice.

Step 3: Paint a layer of baby pink. It has to be a light shade of pink because you don't want it to stand out as much as the actual leopard prints. But you do want a layer of baby pink because it contrasts with the pink prints. In the picture below, you can't really see but I did apply a layer of baby pink nail polish.
Step 4: Use a darker shade of pink and just paint random dots (doesn't have to be perfect) around your nails. Don't paint them too close together though and don't paint too much because the black lines will be hard to fit around. I advise you to use a toothpick (or those fancy tools) to do the dots, unless your brush is thin.

Step 5: Use your black nail polish and draw lines around the pink dots. I used a tool similar to a toothpick because the lines have to be quite small.

Step 6: You can add other stuff to your nails now. Like glitter. You don't have to, you can just leave it as it is. I did a few strokes of glitter for one nail on each of my hands. (I only did it on two nails because from experience, the glitter was super hard to get off)

Step 7: Paint a thin layer of clear top coat nail polish to ensure that your nail will look nice and shiny!

Step 8: If you got some nail polish outside of your nails, then get nail polish remover and a Q tip then just dab away the little bits of nail polish that always seems to go out of the line -.-

note: after each step, make sure you wait until the paint dries!

the finishing product:

This is my right hand, I'm not even gonna show you guys my left hand because it looks like shit. 10x worse than that ^

Question of the day: What's the most amazing nail art you've done? Give me some ideas.

Love,
Elaine