Leopard print nails!

Like everyone else and their dog, i've recently been experimenting with nail art. When I was about 10/11 my friends and I discovered nail polish and nail art. I had this book (image from amazon) and would spent ages looking through it! I also ventured into false nails (much to the hilarity i'm sure of my parents).

 Then one time I spilled purple nail polish all over my mum's new white kitchen table top. opps.

As I mentioned in my last post, I love nail polish and hate having naked nails! I managed polka dot fingertips for christmas and on Thursday night I used Gem's tutorial for leopard print nails, and was amazed that a clutz like me could get such good results!

This was my 3rd attepmt as I realised how important it is to pick the right colours! On my first two attempts the base colour I picked was too dark so the black stripes didn't show up well enough. In the pictures above, my base colour was nail's inc jermyn street and the coloured blobs were rimmel's coralicious. Gem recommends using black eyeliner for the stripes, but I found a black sharpie gave good results!

I saw the Manic Street Preacher's twice this weekend (post to follow sometime this week!) and now I'm having a lazy-ish Sunday watching films and doing some work.