NOTD - Golden Leopards

NOTD - Golden Leopards

After seeing this design on Emily's blog, after her guest post over at DoNotRefreeze, there was no way that I couldn't play copycat. Yeah, yeah, everyone does them and they're pretty cliché these days, but I still love them! The one time I've tried them before ended in disaster - my hands looked like a cross-breed of a Fimble and a cow had thrown up on them. Not this time...




GHETTO FABULOUS.

Gold base - Barry M 'Gold'
Silvery tip colour - Avon 'Mystic'
Brown dots - Barry M 'Mushroom'
Black lines - Claire's liquid eyeliner
Topcoat - Seche Vite

I applied the gold polish, sponged some silvery taupe onto the tips, dotted on some brown dots and squiggled around them with black liquid eyeliner before adding a topcoat for some shine. The silvery tips look so awesome in the light, giving a subtle two tone effect which looks way more interesting than straight up gold :) Unfortunately this wont last very long - I've got some plaster work at college I need to do! Darn you, art, with your nail ruining effects...

What do you think of leopard nails? Boring? Fun? Tacky?