Beauty School Dropouts: Leopard Print nails

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Sunday, 15 July 2012

Rainbow Leopard Print Nails

When people ask what my favourite manicure to do is, I usually mention this one among my top 3. The leopard print manicure is so great because it's easy and always comes together in a really awesome way. With just 2 super easy steps!
I decided to try it out using a rainbow background because, who are we kidding, we all love rainbows. First, start by painting your nails whatever colour(s) you would like in the background. I did a red, orange, yellow, green, and blue nail on each hand, starting at the thumb.

Step 1: Irregular spots

Then, using a toothpick or small paintbrush, paint irregular spots on the nail, leaving some space in between them (check out the photo to see what I mean). I used white for this manicure but you can use any colours you find compliments the base.

Step 2: "C" and "U" shapes

Then, again with either a toothpick or a small paintbrush and black polish, outline the spots with "C" and "U" shapes, but leave a portion of each spot not-outlined. After you have done that, fill in the empty areas on the nails with black specks, tiny lines, and "C" and "U" shapes.

And that's it! It's super easy and always looks great.

Rainbow leopard print nails

Plus, you can switch up the background and spot colours and try out different combinations which is always a plus. Here are some other versions of the leopard print manicure that we have done. Check 'em out!

Gold and Brown Leopard Nails

Grey and Peach Leopard Nails

Grey and Periwinkle Leopard Nails

Pink and White Leopard Nails

Purple Leopard Nails

Silver and Blue Leopard Nails

Silver and Fuchsia Leopard Nails

Turquoise and Neon Green Leopard Nails

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Saturday, 30 June 2012

Canada Day Mix & Match Manicure

Tomorrow is Canada Day! In honour of the fireworking-BBQing-swimming-drinking-be-jollying day, I thought it would be appropriate to come up with a red & white manicure. I couldn't decide on a single design to use so I went for mix&match. It turned out pretty cute! Check it out!

Happy Canada Day everyone!

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Friday, 25 May 2012

Milkface Mother's Day Manicures!

As part of Mother's day celebrations, we set up in Milkface's Ottawa South location to give away free manicures (for Mothers especially, but anyone could have stopped by!). It was a beautiful sunny Sunday and we loved to give some Mum's a nice little gift and be surrounded by adorable babies at the same time!

Check out some of the fun manicures we came up with:

A bright Lisa Frank-inspired tiger print nail:

The awesome Nina rawwring for the camera!

A beautiful deep dark eggplant version of our fairy nails

Super fun and bright yellow and pink modern French tip manicure

The always classic and beautiful nude Fairy Nails

A great colour combo - turquoise and neon green leopard print! Love it.

Here is Kristina hard at work on a set of Fairy nails!

We had a great time working with Milkface...it's a beautiful shop and the lovely ladies who work there are so awesome to hang out with. It was great to see all the Moms getting the help they need picking out mom-and-baby supplies. We would love to manicures there again! We hope all you Mommies had a great weekend!

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Friday, 6 April 2012

Birthday Nail Party

Last night, we were lucky enough to join a super fun group of ladies having an awesome birthday-weekend kick-off party. Needless to say, there were tunes, treats, and champagne. Before joining the party ourselves (new friends, yay!), we got down to some serious nail business! Everyone had great ideas for their manicures and we had a blast picking out colours and coming up with super original designs. Check 'em out!

Some sassy royal blue and silver leopard print nails...meow!