31DC13 Day 13: Animal Print

I have another challenge mani for you guys today! It's day 13 and so it was time for some animal print. I wasn't sure what to do for this day as animal prints aren't really my thing that much, but still I had few different ideas of manis that I have never done. Finally I remembered that Sannu did some butterfly wings nail art for this day two years ago and I thought then that it was really a great idea, so I decided to give it a try, also because I haven't yet tried this style!

Yeah, I know, this isn't a traditional animal print, but butterflies are animals, so I think this goes, right?! I started this mani with two coats of KBShimmer Teal Another Tail (I'll show you the swatches some other day!). Then I did a gradient with that KBShimmer polish and Colors by Llarowe polish called Behead the Drama Queen. Then I painted the black lines and the white dots with my Oumaxi acrylic nail paints.
 
My lines didn't really turn out too great, but then again, butterflies don't have such straight lines either... Lifting weights isn't the best thing to do before you are going to do some meticulous nail art, the hands can be a bit shaky, lol. But I still liked this look very much and this is really something that I have been meaning to do for quite some time already, so I'm really glad that I managed to do this now! I think they at least somewhat remind me of butterfly wings. Though I have to tell you that my bf though these were aqueducts when he saw these before I had added those white dots, lol. It's not the first thing I'd be painting on my nails, but what do I know... :DD
 
Btw, sorry about those water drops and snow on my nails and hands! It was so dark today that I had to go outside to take these pictures and it was snowing and raining like hell here...

But tell me guys, have you all already tried this butterfly wings style or am I the only one who hadn't tried this yet?

Misa BACKbone
KBShimmer Teal Another Tail 2 coats
Colors by Llarowe (gradient)
Oumaxi acrylic paints (black and white)
HK Girl Glisten & Glow 

Two years ago I went for a more traditional animal print with this leopard print manicure:

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Se olisi siis haasteen 13. päivä ja vuorossa eläinprintti. Mielessä oli muutama muukin vaihtoehto, mutta päädyin lopulta tekemään nuo perhossiipikynnet Sannun kahden vuoden takaisen esimerkin siivittämänä. Näitä on ollut tarkoitus testata jo pitkän aikaa ja nyt sain viimein kokeiltua! Eihän noista viivoista millään tavalla suorat tai hyvät tullu, ei ehkä pitäisi nostella painoja ennen pikkutarkan kynsitaiteen tekemistä... :D Mutta toisaalta, eihän ne perhostenkaan viivat mitään viivottimella vedettyjä kai ole, eli kaipa nämä nyt ainakin jollain tavalla perhosen siipiä muistuttavat? Tosin tuo toinen puolisko luuli näitä alkuun akvedukteiksi (ennen kun olin kerinnyt nuo valkoiset pilkut lisätä). :DDD Ei kyllä ehkä ensimmäiseksi tulis mieleen maalata akvedukteja kynsille, mutta mikä minä oon sanomaan...

Kynsissä on ensin liukuvärjäys KBShimmerin Teal Another Taililla ja Colors by Llarowen Behead the Drama Queenilla. Mustat ja valkeat on maalattu akryylimaaleilla. Näistä tuli ihan hauskat ja ainakin vähän erilaiset, kuin viime kerralla! :)

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