NOTD: Betsey Johnson Inspired/Leopard Accent

Hello lovelies,

Here is a fun nail of the day with one accent finger in a combo of my two latest obsessions: a half moon manicure and a leopard print. I know, I know, you're shocked. Well get over the palpitations and take a gander at THIS:

Whoops, nope, that's a picture of my puppy Izzy.

Here's the nails:

Hope you enjoyed!

Metallic Leopard Print Nail Art

I had a small tragedy today with a bottle of China Glaze polish breaking in the large Urban Outfitters bag I keep most of my polish in, and gooping up all my cheez wiz. Lesson learned? I need to store my polish in a more secure way to avoid goopiness and breakage.

Took my puppy to the vet today also, and got some ickiness to deal with in the next few weeks, and while I am so thankful that it isn't anything serious, the stress of the day meant I needed to focus on a project. I've done a super cute free-handed leopard print nail before that was the traditional leopard colors, but this time I wanted something subtle and "fierce."

So I decided to try out a subtle, metallic leopard print nail using China Glaze polishes in order to "pour some out" for my lost CG homie. I used three coats of China Glaze "Avalanche" (a periwinkle/silver frosty metallic ) for the background color, and using a small nail art brush, I made some blobs of silver spots using China Glaze "Jitterbug" (a charcoal silver micro glitter.) After letting them dry a bit, with a coat of Seche Vite in between, I used Orly "Goth" (a semi-opaque black with silver micro glitter.)

The secret for this design, which is crazy easy by the way, is to make blobs of color that aren't uniform, then let them dry. Then when you follow up with the outlines of the spots, just make little parentheses around the colored blobs with a darker color. And shazaam! You've made a leopard print finger nail. Well done, you!

OK, on with the pictures:

Hope you enjoyed!

My foray into nail art. Be gentle.

Today's NOTD is a super cute takeoff of something I've had in my head for a while. Do you ever have that happen when you picture exactly how you want your nails to look, what colors/designs you want to have and then it comes time to actually do it and you don't have the EXACT color you pictured and your inability to draw a straight line mocks you mercilessly while you tremble, nail art brush in hand.

So, after all of that drama, I decided I needed to stop with the half-moon manis (I know you were sick of them too,) and try something a little funkier than that. I picked up Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Lively Lilac and freehanded a tip and line in China Glaze Midnight Mission. Here it is for your enjoyment:

Looking forward to trying more along these lines. Hope you enjoyed!