How to Have Tiger Stripe Nails

Want to quickly and easily give your nails a tiger strip design? Look no further. This tutorial uses shatter nail polish in a different way, which gives you a random stripy look instead of a random shattered look. It’s pretty cool, but it might take a few tries to get it just right.

If you Google ‘tiger stripe nails’, the images really don’t represent what I’m about to show you how to do. The lines will be a lot thinner, and closer together, but it gives a really interesting look that can be tiger or zebra stripes, or any other pairs of colours.

Materials

· A base colour (orange for tiger, white for zebra, but you can pick whatever you want)

· Shatter nail polish by OPI (black is best, but you can mix and match)

· Clear base coat and top coat polish

Procedure

  1. Apply the base coat.
  2. Put on the orange nail polish and let it dry.
  3. If needed, apply a second coat of orange nail polish and let it dry completely.
  4. And now the tricky part. Put the shatter nail polish on in a slightly thicker layer compared to the shatter effect* and wait until it’s absolutely dry.
  5. Apply the clear top coat layer and let it dry.

If you want to, you can also paint part of your nails white (I’d recommend less than half) to make them look even more like a tiger.

* This is a tutorial on how to use shatter nail polish, and for that you need to apply a pretty thin layer of the shatter nail polish. However, for stripes you need to put on a thicker layer, but not too thick otherwise it won’t shatter at all. Experiment with its application until you know how much to use to get nice looking random stripes.

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