Safari gradient nails

Hey beauties!

Today's nail art is safari nails I did for twinsietuesdaynailart, a weekly promt on IG hosted by @99probsbutmynailsaint1 There's a new prompt every week and I've tried doing most of them. 

Let's begin by showing you the inspiration photo I found. 

Isn't it lovely? I wanted to attempt doing something like this on my nails. It was a lot harder than I thought!

Here's what I used for this design:

Pictured: 

Sinful Colors Snow Me White

OPI Do You Have This Color In Stock-Holm?

Nicole by OPI My Sol Shines Brighter

Wet n Wild Sunny Side Up

China Glaze Fairy Dust

Seche Vite Top Coat

NYC matte me crazy

Kolinsky clean up brush 

Small brush 

Not pictured:

Latex free make up wedge

Bliss kiss simply peel latex barrier

Here is the gradient before adding the animal silhouettes.

I applied one coat of Sinful Colors Snow Me White as my base. Then I applied the liquid latex around my cuticules for easy clean up. I grabbed my make up wedge and applied my three colors beggining with OPI at the top, then NOPI and then Wet n Wild. I rolled the sponge on my nail and added more polish to the sponge. Repeated this on all my nails. I did about three or four passes on all my nails (all 10 nails!). After my gradient was done with a clean side of the sponge I dabbed on some Fairy Dust at the top. I topped it all off Seche Vite top coat.

For the silhouettes I used black acrylic paint. I used a brush that came in a set I bought from Walmart, but I trimmed some of the bristles off to make it thinner. 

I drew some animal shapes and filled them in. I think I probably tried three times with each nail! It's a miracle I didn't just give up and threw everything away! Lol 

After all my "animal" shapes were done I top coated it all! (What animal is on my middle finger? Lol) 

Here's the final result.

I hated the glare so I made them matte. I liked it much better!

What do you guys think? Do they look like animals? 

Check out the hashtag #twinsietuesdaynailart on IG to see all of the art work that's been done by a ton of talented ladies! And follow Melanie if you aren't following her yet! 

http://instagram.com/99probsbutmynailsaint1

Hope you guys liked this design. Thank you for reading and don't forget to follow me! See you next time! :)