Leopards and Gradients and Stripes, Oh My!
27 Jun
What the heck do I call this mani? I want to call it a mish mash, but I think that’s technically when each nail is different. There are a few different techniques showcased here so I’m struggling to find a title.
I’m really loving the peach/coral, aqua-ish and green combination lately. I keep going back to it. These are same three polishes I used in my String Art post last week. I started by polishing my nails with Revlon Peachy. This was the first time I’d actually painted my nails with it. I loved it! It’s a perfect summer color. Then I did the leopard on my ring finger and thumb. I was tempted to stop there. I was so happy with it, but really wanted to do the stripes too.
Once the peachy had dried, I used some striping tape and polished some Orly Green Apple, then sponged on some China Glaze For Audrey. The gradient on the stripes was a little tricky because generally when you do a tape mani, you want to pull the tape off right away, while the top polish is still wet. For a sponged gradient, you would generally wait until the base color is pretty dry so the sponge doesn’t pull it all off. Obviously these two techniques fight against each other. I made it work though and I love the result! I’m absolutely in love with this mani and will be sad when I have to take it off.
Such a fun mani!! I’m loving the color combo too!
Oh, I love all your manis but this has to be one of my favorites!!
Wow! This has to be one of my favorite manis ever! Was already planning to try your string mani but now i can’t decide which to try first! Great colors, great design! Love it! Keep up the great work!
Love that colour combination!
I am loving this mani as well! I am loving all the different details you did to it. the stripes, the leopard, the gradient, oh my! hehe
That’s beautiful! Awesome job
I love these! Can’t wait to try it. What do you use for striping tape? I’ve just been (tediously) cutting up painters’ tape… yuck. lol
Thanks Mandannabird! I use THIS type of tape. It’s actually meant to be used as decoration by itself, but why not use it for striping too? It can be a little tricky to work with because it’s so tiny, but much easier than trying to cut those tiny pieces of tape yourself.
Super cute!
This is such a funny idea
I love it!
love!!!!!!