Nail Art: Nail Art Tutorial – How To Make ‘Animal Print’ Nail Design

Hello guys!

The design I want to share with you here is very spectacular and beautiful and is suitable for everyday wear and for formal occasions. The main effect is animal motif.

Animal Print

Advise: this design is easy and relatively fast – the main time consuming action is the application of the decorating glitters. I can ensure you that it attracts many curious eyes and compliments, so – have fun :)

Step by Step Tutorial

Products:

- Nail Polishes for the background: light blue / dark blue, white

- Nail Polishes for decoration: light blue / dark blue, black

- To seal the design: Top Coat

- Additional tools: dotting tool, dark blue / silver glitters

Materials

Design:

1. Polish your nails in a color of your choice. I made two blue variations here to show you how the design looks like with a light and a dark background.

2. Apply white nail polish on specific parts of your nails. You can whiten your tips, but also any other part randomly if you want to make every nail different. I chose to make two kinds of French manicure. Let dry.

3. Make small shapes of your background color over the white polished areas. As we’re going to create animal prints, you don’t need to be very careful and make perfect dots, so you can use directly the brush or your nail polish for this step. As a small accent, you may want to create the shapes over one of your nails with different then the background color as I did. Wait for the motifs to dry.

4. Using a black decorating polish outline the motives by making different shapes in a leopard style. This outlines may look like brackets, like V, or may be regular dots and lines. Fill in the left white places also with black elements. Let your nails dry completely.

5. Apply a little bit of clear polish / top polish over the line between the white and the background color. Using the dotting tool place glitters along this line. You can use whatever glitters you want, based on your background color. It’s also interesting to combine different colors of glitters on each of the nails.