Twilight's Aura - Interlocking Dots

There's no lengthy explanation to this manicure. I had a new polish, Barielle's Aura Angora, and I needed to do something with it. I pulled out Maybelline Color Show's Twilight Rays and did an interlocking dots mani. None of these pictures do Twilight Rays justice, really. It looks like just a glitter polish, but it's such a gorgeous shimmer that I really couldn't capture. My photography skills were not up to the task. So just enjoy the pretty pictures!

MSMD -AND- Weekly Challenge Theme

As the subject line suggests, I'm doing double duty with today's post. This is both a Monkey See, Monkey Do Monday, and it also follows this week's theme for the 52-week challenge I'm following.

I got the idea when I saw this post from Marie's Manicure Madhouse, which in her case was inspired by clothing, but I saw both cobblestones and scaly skin in it, as well. Whichever way you look at it, it's a gorgeous manicure:

This week's 52-week challenge theme is "animal print", so I combined that mani inspiration with this snakeskin print...

...and this is the manicure that came out of it!

The base color is Maybelline Color Show Twilight Rays, and the snakeskin print used OPI Wooden Shoe Like to Know? and China Glaze Kalahari Kiss.

Let me know what you think of my monkey-see-monkey-do snakeskin, and check out these other entries into today's MSMD Monday!