Matching Manicures - Animal Print

Današnja tema su životinjski motivi i ja sam imala blistavu ideju da umesto klasične šare životinjskog krzna ili kože uradim celu zverku i to mitsku. No najblistavije ideje su često takve samo dok su na nivou ideje i plašim se da je ovom prilikom realizacija daleko od zamisli.

This week's theme is animal print and I had a great idea not to just put animal fur or skin pattern on my nails, but to do entire animal and a mythical one at that. However, the brightest ideas are often such only as thoughts and I am sorry to say that this was one such case.

Već neko vreme želim da zmajčeka sa pločice Ya Qin An Y015 uradim kombinujući Draleta i Đoleta (logično), ali tragičnim spletom događaja Đole mi se razbio i nepovrato napustio moju kolekciju. :( Kada sam očistila nastali haos i malo došla sebi ipak sam pristupila izradi manikira. Na sve nkte sam kao bazu nanela Moyra Holographic 252 Infinity. Potom sam Essence crnim pečatnim lakom prenela na pečat sliku glave zmaja i obojila je Draletom i žutim i narandžastim Color Paints lakovima. Kada se tako nastali dekal osušio, nanela sam ga na palac. Ostale segmente slike zmaja sam radila na isti način, s tim što sam ih bojila samo Draletom i raspoređivala po noktima tako da izgleda kao da zmaj vijuga preko njih. To je sve ispalo relativno okej, ali mi je nadlak (Cuccio) razmazao malo slike. Pravi problem je nastao kada je došlo vreme za slikanje i kada sam shvatila da zbog orijentacije glave zmaja i njenog položaja na mom palcu ne mogu da napravim ni približno pristojne slike. Ovaj manikir svrstavam u promašaje (višestruke), ali ne sumnjam da su druge devojke uradile nešto znatno bolje i zato vas pozivam da kliknete na linkove ispid i vidite šta su one to spremile.

Its been awhile since I planned to stamp dragon from Ya Qin An Y015 image plate using A England Dragon and Saint George (naturally), but due to a tragic set of circumstances, my Saint George bottle had broken and irretrievably left my collection. :( After I cleaned up the mess and calmed down a bit I did give this mani a go. First I painted my nails Moyra Holographic 252 Infinity. After I used Essence black stampy polish to pick up dragon's head and I filled it in using Dragon and yellow and orange Color Paints. When it dried, I placed the decal on my thumb nail. I transferred other segments of the image i the same way, but for those I only used Dragon, and I placed them on my nails in such way that it seemed as if the dragon sinuated over them. It all turned out rather well, but top coat (Cuccio) smudged bits of image. Now, the real problem turned out to be the orientation and positioning of the dragon's head which made me try some impossible hand positions in order to get the image fully visible and even then the images were far from decent. I declare this mani a fail in several ways, but I have no doubt that other girls have something far better in store so I suggest you click on links below and see what they had come up with.