Leopard print nails?

On one of my recent flights, I was reading a magazine. I saw a little blurb about nail polish strips that intrigued me.

The basic idea is its a nail polish sticker. A sticker made of nail polish. Whatever. But the cool part was that they were all these designs that you would have to pay big money to get in a salon… if they could even do it in the first place. So, my next trip to the store, I had to look at them. As I expected, a little pricey, but even MORE intriguing.

I am in a cousin’s wedding later this year, and she is using leapard print as a bit of theme in the wedding. One of the polish styles is leopard print, so the other day I broke down and bought a package of leopard print nail polish strips to “give it a try.” They’ve been taunting me from my dresser ever since.

So tonight, I broke down and tried them. I haaate color on my finger nails. (Except black. For some reason I don’t mind black nail polish on my finger nails.) I usually either have a french manicure, clear polish or they’re nekkid. I stared down the nail polish strips. I just could NOT do it on my finger nails. I just couldn’t do leopard print polish on my fingers for the world to see.

I pulled the strips out of the package and decided that surely I could use them on my toe nails. In fact, I could probably use one strip for two toes (since toe nails are so much smaller than finger nails.)

I carefully took my bright red, chipped polish off. Trimmed my nails. Then I obsessively read the instructions. Three times.

Then I started.

IT WAS SO EASY!! Now, we’ll see if they last the promised 10 days or not, but as for applying the polish strips? Simple. And I did successfully use only half the package (by doubling up toes to strips, with only ONE toe showing a bit of a gap from a size discrepancy from thumb to big toe size). The idea behind the strips? Way cool. The leopard print?

Well.

IT’S NOT ME!

I keep staring at my usually bright red, pink or maroon toes in a mixture of amusement and horror.

See for yourself:

It’s one part cool. One part hilarious. One part wrong. At the end of the night? I’m glad I gave these a shot. And I am glad they actually work! But. Yeah. This is going to take some getting used to…

Note: This is not a paid review of any sort.

8 thoughts on “Leopard print nails?”

  1. Is this from Sally Hansen? These stickers are in vogue now I think because they’re so easy to put on and have really fashionable designs! The leopard print is awesome!

    1. Yes! Those are the ones! I definitely want to try another style in the future. They have a cool metal-looking set I’m very interested in trying.

  2. You MUST leave those stickers on. They look so fun… at least for the wedding.

    I love polish and all the beautiful colors, but can’t wear it on my fingers either, just my toe nails.

    1. I’m going to keep these on as long as they last! Curious to see if their 10-day promise is true. They’ve grown on me through the day… now they just amuse me. They have this cool metallic-style set that I really want to try next. I can see myself getting hooked on that.

  3. I think they look cute, but I would never wear them. I think it’s funny that we have the same taste in nail polish. I snagged your idea and posted my polish collection. Hope you have a great weekend.
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    1. YAY! Going to look now.

      They’ve grown on me through the day. I’m mostly just amused by them. If nothing else, its fun to push past my personal style boundaries.

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