31DC2015 Day 13: Animal print

Hi lovelies,

I hope the weekend has treated you well and that you are enjoying this Sunday.

You can follow everyone taking part by using the #31DC2015.  I am going to be keeping my posts short and sweet throughout the challenge so that it means more time to get cracking with the prompts 😉   Here are the prompts for this year.

Animal print is a tricky one for me.  It’s no secret that I am obsessed with leopard print.  When it comes to this prompt though I always try and stay away from leopard print because it is something I do quite often.  Last year I tried to find an animal that had interesting colours and marking.  This year I decided to go a little unusual.  So it may not be strictly on prompt for a lot of people but it is what I chose anyway 😀  Let me show you.

I decided to do mermaid tail nails.  I started with a gradient of Morgan Taylor – Shock therapy, Essence – Splash and Morgan Taylor – Wrapped in riches.  I loooooooooove how the colours look together and in real life it was even more delicious.  Once that was dry I stamped on the scales using BM502 and MoYou stamping polish in white.  The white polish was a little tinted by some of the base colours but I really love that it happened.  It made it seem more like part of the colours.  I topcoated and that was that.  I do wish that I had trimmed my nails a bit before I did these.  The image was barely long enough and you can see some of them just just didn’t make it to the edges :/ Nails are trimmed now though so hopefully it won’t happen again 😀

You can see my #31DC2014 version of Day 13 here

What do you think of my mermaid tail nails?  Does it work?  Does it even look like a mermaid tail?  And how do you feel about my choice for this prompt? 😀

Thanks for reading,