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Colors: Macbeth (Butter London), Blagger (Butter London), Wild Thing (Pure Ice), Concrete Evidence (Ulta), The End (Hard Candy)

This trendy leopard print mani is actually easier to achieve than it looks. Paint your nails with a base color, and use a contrasting color (or colors!) to create spots. The spots don’t have to be neat, so don’t stress! Just plop a few onto your nail. Then, with a dark color like black, use a dotting tool (toothpicks or bobby pins are great substitutes for dotting tools) to create some parenthesis-like shapes around your spots. Lastly, fill in any extra gaps between your spots with some messy dots. Seal in your design with a top coat, and you’re all done!

Try out this design with your own color preferences. I’ve always thought a monochrome leopard print mani would look really cute. For instance, you could start with a light pink base color, use a darker pink for spots, and an even darker pink for lines/filler spots.

Trust me, this mani is way less tedious than it looks. Give it a try!