As you can tell, they aren't perfect. That's my favorite part of animal print designs, actually: they aren't perfect, which means even if I screw up I can pretend that's the way it was supposed to be in the beginning. In fact, they were supposed to be leopard print when I started out, and these could easily be made into leopard print, but I had to be somewhere and it wasn't going as fast as I was hoping so I decided they were going to have to be giraffe.
Start with a white base. I only needed two coats to get my nails the color I wanted, but they are also fake so they already look somewhat white and you may need more than that. Then I put on a quick top coat and let it dry.
The next two steps you can do in either order: the spots before the tips or the tips before the spots. I always give myself plenty of time for the base to dry before I try to do tips, so I took a break from my mani and came back to it later and did the tips first. There are tons of color combinations you can use for this, I chose what I considered the brightest of my blues and a matching pink (the purple was added because I felt like I hadn't had purple on my nails in awhile) but they were originally all going to be blue. I think they would be cute with one color for each nail!
I always do my tips with scotch tape. They don't come out completely perfect but I've found out it's the easiest method for me. You really do have to make sure the base is dry if you use this method, or the polish will start coming off.
The spots are the best part: they can be messy! You can put them all over the bottom of your nails or just up the sides like I did. I used a detailing brush but you can also use a flattened toothpick to get messy spots like these.
A quick top coat later, and it's finished!
The next two steps you can do in either order: the spots before the tips or the tips before the spots. I always give myself plenty of time for the base to dry before I try to do tips, so I took a break from my mani and came back to it later and did the tips first. There are tons of color combinations you can use for this, I chose what I considered the brightest of my blues and a matching pink (the purple was added because I felt like I hadn't had purple on my nails in awhile) but they were originally all going to be blue. I think they would be cute with one color for each nail!
I always do my tips with scotch tape. They don't come out completely perfect but I've found out it's the easiest method for me. You really do have to make sure the base is dry if you use this method, or the polish will start coming off.
The spots are the best part: they can be messy! You can put them all over the bottom of your nails or just up the sides like I did. I used a detailing brush but you can also use a flattened toothpick to get messy spots like these.
A quick top coat later, and it's finished!
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