Little Mermaid

I just joined in on a nail art contest by @cdbnails on Instagram yesterday. The first post is due tomorrow. There are 4 prompts and they are due each Wednesday through November. 

The first prompt is Favorite Disney movie.

Starting at the thumb and working to the pinky I have Ursula, a trident, the singing frogs from the boat scene, Ariel's fork hairbrush, and the shells and top of fin. 

I ended up re doing two of the nails. I was finished and decided I hated them and I wanted to try to do it a bit different.

The first one I changed was Ursula's legs. I really wanted to show the underside of some of them but it really just didn't work out very well. It looks so much better in the second one. I love this one so much I might end up doing a whole mani with this like a print. : )

The second nail I redid was Ariel's fork hairbrush. It looked really bad in the first one. The first thing I decided was to put it over a background color rather than just my nail. White helped it show up better but I really had to layer on the red. I also got the tines on the fork looking better even though I still only got three in three. (Sorry, Sheldon) 

Over all this is my least favorite nail but it still looks much better than the first try. I am improving little by little. : )

This is the first time I have tried doing anything for Disney and while I enjoyed it I was also a bit intimidated because there are SO many Disney manis floating around. I really wanted to try to do something that I haven't seen loads of already. I love the manis where they do a simplified version of each character but I really didn't want to redo someone else's mani so that is why I tried the frogs and the fork. 

I am really enjoying working on the challenges and now contest. It pushes me to try stuff I probably wouldn't have tried otherwise! 

Please comment and tell me what you think!!!