Back to school nails

It's that time of year again -_- Back to school, I was basically trying not to think about it, even thinking of not doing these nails but I thought I might as well. I thought about doing back to school skittles but once I got an idea in my head I knew I had struck gold (more like bronze. Or some other precious substance).

I got the idea of a pencil and notebook paper and I was set. I love that pencil, it's so simple. There's a little bookworm in the apple, I would've liked him to be a bit cuter but after a couple of attempts I gave up. I first used tape for the straight lines as I don't have a striper. But I realised that all the taping effort wasn't really worth it so I went to freehand stripes, and they turned out better than expected.
White: Models Own - Snow White
Yellow: Barry M - Lemon Ice Cream
Mustard Yellow: Topshop - Naked
Pink: Per Una - Pink (no name)
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Blue: Revlon - Dreamer
Green: Rimmel - Misty Jade
Light Green: China Glaze - Re-Fresh Mint
Brown: w7 - Brownie
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Peach: w7 - Linen
Despite my doubt about this mani, I really like it, and it's super cute. Made me feel happier looking at it in school :)

How to: Leopard Print

This is a basic tutorial on how to paint leopard print nails. Or for the experts an insight in how I do leopard print :) I do leopard print quite a lot, I love multi-coloured leopard print, which is why it's the only type of leopard print I will do :P But this "tutorial" applies to all leopard print :)

Step 1
Paint your nails in your desired colour. I have chosen Nails Inc. - Baker Street (cause it's amazing ;)).

Step 2
This step is optional, depending on how opaque the colours of your nail polish is. Using the brush of a white nail polish (Models Own - Snow White) blob random spots on your nails (emphasise random). Size of spots doesn't matter, it depends on you.

Step 3
Fill in the spots with whatever colour (or colours) you wish. The colours did not show up correct at all, but other pictures later in the post are better.

Pink: OPI - Charged Up Cherry
Orange: Essie - Tart Deco over Bourjois - Tangerine Fatal (I changed my mind ;))
Blue: The Face Shop - GR501
Purple: Essie - Lilacism

Step 4
The magic step where everything comes together. Cause currently it just looks like random blobs of colour on the nails. In my case, using a black nail art pen (Lovely Me:Ex - Black) or a toothpick/dotting tool dipped in black nail polish draw 2 not so round "C"shapes around each spot.

And voila!!! Leopard Print. You could put small black lines in-between the spots, but I chose not to. Of course you could use a different colour to outline the spots. But when using black to outline the spots, very dark colours are not recommended. Basically you can't see the black outline therefore making the leopard print futile (I learned the hard way :( ;)).

(The better pictures of the colours :P)

Honestly I love it, just cramming so many colours on my nails a "sophisticated" way. It's fierce ;P