I spent ages trying to draw these leopard spots. I watched some tutorials on YouTube and searched Pinterest and Google Images for some inspiration. I found something I liked and wanted to emulate, so tried freehanding the spots, just practising on a paper plate. But it was really quite woeful.
Then I had a bit of a brainwave and thought I could stamp the spots on. I used Cheeky plate CH1 and it came out OK, but I thought it would look better if I coloured in the centre and then outlined the black edges a bit more using a dotting tool.
It’s not brilliant, and I’m not particularly happy with it, which is why I also only stopped at one nail. My inspiration for this design came from here, where she has created more than one leopard spots nail. Perhaps I might be more pleased with it if it was on all my nails, but it took long enough to get to this point that I couldn’t be bothered to do the rest of my nails!
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For this manicure I’ve used:
- Base: two coats of Chanel Blue Boy
- Intermediate top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip
- Accent nail: Barry M Foil Effects Silver; stamping with Cheeky plate CH1 using Calvin Klein Ebony Hates Chris-Black; dotting tool to fill in with Blue Boy and to outline with Ebony Hates Chris-Black
- Final top coat: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Anti-Chip
