Nail Art: Lippy Electric Leopard Manicure (PHD Colour Accent Challenge Entry)  

I've been following Polish Hoarder Disorder (PHD) for a while now. She has weekly nail art challenges. I finally have the courage to submit an entry to this week's challenge – Colour Accent – to create a grayscale nail design and include a pop of colour!

Edited on Monday 26 July 2010 to Add:

The link to other entries for this PHD Colour Accent challenge.
This manicure has also been featured on Models Own Blog this weekend.

This is my submission:


Here is another look. The Models Own Bubblegum neon pink isn't showing up as neon vibrant in the photo than in person.

Lacquer Used:

Base Colour:		Beauty UK		Soft Grey	3 coats
Stamp Plate:		Konad	M57	Leopard
Stamp Colour:		Barry M	293	Grey	1 coat
Lip Colour:		Models Own	059	Bubblegum (Neon)	1 coat
Topcoats:		Seche Vite	83005	Dry Fast Top Coat	1 coat

Instructions:

1. After base coat, I applied 3 coats of Beauty UK Soft Grey. 
2. I stamped all my fingers except for the ring finger using Barry M Grey for the leopard pattern from Konad M57 plate.
3. With a small brush, I drew mini lips randomly on my ring finger using Models Own Bubblegum.
4. Then, by freehand again drew a bigger lip on the thumb again using Models Own Bubblegum.
5. Going back to the ring finger, with a dotting pen, I drew some leopard pattern between the mini lips with Barry M Grey.
6. To finish off, I used Seche Vite Quick Dry Top Coat to seal off everything and make it shiny.

Hope you like this manicure. I only have 4 Konad plates, so I was slightly limited of patterns so I decided to do something freehand. I ordered Bundle Monster plates last week, and they're on their way, can't wait! The challenge was fun, it really got me thinking with the limited plates I've had, I would definitely enter more challenges in the near future!

What do you think of this? Did you enter this challenge?

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