Poison Frog Nail Art - Digit-al Dozen Animal Week

Hello all :)

Second day of The Digit-al Dozen taking on "animals".  Yesterday I went for pastel zebras and today...it's one of my favorite little animals...FROGS. Yep, I love frogs. I might end up making frogs for the rest of the week. Fair warning :P

Here's my inspiration: the Ranitomeya uakarii

Source: http://www.dendrobates.org/uakarii.html
 From left to right: Zoya Raven, Born Pretty Store #20, Dermelect Head Turner, SpaRitual Ebb and Flow, SpaRitual Delight
 Above shows a shot before any top coat. I FINALLY remembered that I have matte top coat and this would be the perfect time to use it! The rest of the photos show the spotted nails with Essie matte top coat. I decided to leave the gradient nails alone, as the sponge gradient texture resembled the actual frog skin a lot!
 For my spotted nails I created a color by mixing the 2 Sparituals together. The gradients are The Dermelect, Born Pretty and Sparitual Delight.
I love these challenges that are so broad it leaves so much for the individual to interpret. I think these turned out pretty good! Only thing I'd change up if I could would be to make the black spots larger.

Stay tuned for more frogs, I mean animals from Digit-al Dozen week :P

xo Victoria

*Dermelect and Born Pretty polish provided for review - previously posted.

Comments

  1. This is a awesome manicure! So cool :D

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  2. Wow, love the mixture of different finishes! And that picture of the little froggie is adorable <3

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  3. Love it! I did a frog for one of my challenges way back when! There are so many awesome, colorful frogs to use as inspiration!

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  4. I like your inspiration and the nails represent it perfectly

    http://o-fata-simpla.blogspot.ro/

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  5. The gradient is sooooo sweet! But your blue dotted nails are my favourite! Love them! **

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  6. wow, this is great! you did such a fantastic job imitating the frog

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  7. Really cool, your design looks just like the frog :)

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  8. I love your nails and that is the coolest frog!

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  9. this manicure is more meaningful when you see the frog.
    i LOVED it, and using the matte top coat was the best choice.

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  10. Frogs..hmm..reminds me of something..nice job!! So cool..
    love ya VV...your pal, BD

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  11. Great inspiration and beautiful manicure! :-)

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  12. This is such a beautiful mani! It really reflects the patterns of the frog.

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  13. That frog looks so cool! You nailed this, I love it!!

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  14. This is genius! I think I would have known what it was even if you hadn't said, and it's STILL abstract and not too literal. Really fun mani!

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  15. Love the idea to use the matte tc! Looks great!!

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  16. I love frogs too! I think you pulled this off really well, it looks great

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  17. Ew! That frog is so gross. Good thing I'm more concerned about the beautiful mani.

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  18. Above shows a shot before any top coat. I FINALLY remembered that I have matte top coat and this would be the perfect time to use it.

    The rest of the photos show the spotted nails with Essie matte top coat. I decided to leave the gradient nails alone, as the sponge gradient texture resembled the actual frog skin a lot.

    The Heller Approach

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