40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Animals

Week 29 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

The prompt for the challenge this week is Animals.

Recently I have seen loads of animal print nails on the web.  I can't give credit to anyone in particular as I took inspiration from lots of pics that I liked and this is what I came up with.

For my base for the animal nails I used SH Shorely and then the gradient is done with a mix of brown, black and white acrylic paints.

The next two photos are without clean up.  Not too bad a mess and it was fairly easy to clean up as it was acrylic paint used for the gradient.

 

See what other participants did in this challenge via the inlinkz below:

SIMPLES - Week 1 - Accent Nail and InStyle Nails Inc Freebie

I have joined a new group on Facebook organised by The Crumpet herself, its called SIMPLES: Nail Art from Muggle to Mastery.  It's main aim is to master various nail art techniques.

For the first week (I am very late with this one) the learning objective was the Accent Nail.  This time using glitter polish. The glitter I used is more a fine/micro glitter lacquer rather than your normal more pronounced glitter.
I also used the free Nails Inc nail polish I got with the June issue of InStyle magazine.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Nails Inc - Sugarloaf Sunset
LA Girl - Metal - Sterling Silver
Acrylic Paint - Black
Seche Vite top coat

GOT Polish Challenge - Week 8 - Orange Animal Print

Week 8 of the (Golden Oldie Thursday) GOT Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts. This week the theme is Orange.

I had various manicures I thought I might do, but they all fell by the wayside as I sat there last night to do my nails.  I used my fave neon orange from LA Girl which I have had a few years now.  But I don't wear it often as I don't want it to run out, maybe I should get a backup!

Anyway this is what I ended up doing.  I actually quite like it. This colour so suits the nail shape.

Items used:

OPI Nail Envy

LA Girl - Disco - Dance Craze

Black acrylic paint

Seche Vite

Don't forget to take a look at the other orange manicures by fellow bloggers with the link below. x

GOT Polish Challenge - Week 7 - Chevrons

Week 7 of the (Golden Oldie Thursday) GOT Polish challenge over at Crumpet's Nail Tarts. This week the theme is Chevrons.
Now, I was confused as to what a chevron was.  I have seen a lot of manicures with the "v"shape (which I thought was a chevron), but then again there are a lot of "/\/\/\/\/\/\" manicures also claiming to be chevron (I thought zig zag was the right term for this).

So I did a bit of investigating and googled the term chevron and most descriptions stated " ..a V-shaped line or stripe, especially one on the sleeve of a uniform indicating rank or length of service." Check it out here (chevron) and here (zig zag).

I also came across this great post which put my mind to rest and yes I too shouted out loud!

OK rant over.

First I change the shape of my nails again this week.  Made them more "pointy" not sure if they are almond or stiletto?

I also made my own decals for this challenge. I cut this into chevrons and used in my manicure.

My first oldie polish used is the black in this decal.  It is Black by Honeypot Cosmetics.

My other oldie is the red by Barry M.  I have had it ages and I have never used it. So here it is in all its glory.

Items used:
OPI Nail Envy
Barry M Gelly - Blood Orange
Sally Hansen - Ion (pinky and for the decal base)
Striping Tape
Seche Vite

Flaming Animal Print

I loved wearing this.  Such an autumnal colour, shame my photography let this one down, sorry.  Flaming orange base with red leopard print.  As always I used OPI Nail Envy as my base and SV as top coat.

A Bright Animal Print

Continuing with my catch up nails.  This was back in August!  I love this combination of colours and random animal print on this length of my nails.  Quick and easy.

 Nails Inc Lacquer.

Blue Animal Print

I am on a catch up mission is the next few days.  I did this manicure way back in May and have only just got round to posting it.  So here it is.  I saw one in pink while looking through pinterest and thought I would have a go in blue.  I did not turn out how I expected.  I got lots of compliments at work though, which is always nice.  Also as you can see on the index finger the black paint smudged, my top coat was a little on the thick and gloopy side and I was too impatient and applied before the paint had dried.

Items Used:

OPI Nail Envy

NYC top coat
Zoya - Iris
Barry M - Pure Turquoise
China Glaze -  Blue Hawaiian
Black Acrylic Paint

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 13 - Animal Print

Day 13 (week 13) of the ER31DC - Animal Print

This is my take on the animal print.  I could have done a lot better but hey ho, it's ok. Also, can you spot the mistake? Oooops :o)

Items Used:
OPI Nail Envy
Pride of London - White polish
Acrylic Paint - Black, red and blue
Seche Vite Top coat

24 October 6/7 - Valen-Time for An-imal Print

I have done this manicure before and it turned out much better. I think the choice of colour here did not help and again I was tired!!  But hey ho ..... I know what to do/not to do next time.

Items used:
OPI - Valen-Time for Love
Acrylic Pain - Black
Nail Envy
Seche Vite Top Coat

My Birthday Nails

Using my favourite colours, here are my Birthday Nails.
Just photo for now as my camera refusing to take decent photos. :o(  So will take more and add more later.

Edit: Here is another photo, not much better. Sadly my mid-finger nail is broken and no matter how much I patch it up, it just keeps coming apart. Friday 6th July I had enough and chopped it :o( Now not sure if I should file the rest down to similar length or leave them. Mmmm....

 Items used:

Nails Inc - Oxford Circus - Pink

China Glaze - Kinetic Candy - Blue

Acrylic Paint - Black

Seche Vite

Tigers and Leopards...Oh My!

My manicure for today is a blue and taupe animal print one.  I saw this on the www while I was surfing and I am afraid I don't know who it belongs to, so if it is your, thanks for the inspiration.

I just really like the colour combination and the mix of animal prints on the nails.  The taupe colour here is just one coat but for the blue I have on 3 coats and there is still a VNL.  I like this a lot, I think though I must try it with different colour combinations too. 

Items used:
Nails Inc - In Style Mink - Taupe
Color Club - Chelsea Girl - Neon Blue
Acrylic Paint - Black
Seche Vite top coat