31 Day Nail Art Challenge: Green Nails

This is kind of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, but doesn't really look like that monster. In fact, he looks a bit more like The Grinch, ha! But it is supposed to be a swamp monster guy. And he's supposed to be in a swamp. I like the monster more than the swamp. :-)

 The base color is Adventure Island by Sinful Colors. I really like this shade.

I started with the trees, and these came out pretty well. They are painted on with acrylic paints. I used water and very thin paint to make the bottoms of the tree trunks all wishy washy.

 Then I added water. I am not too thrilled with the water part of this. But painting a swamp is kind of difficult, so I just went with it.

Before topcoat... (I added China Glaze It's Alive for bling in certain areas)

And after topcoat! Pretty fun, and I super love this glitter from China Glaze. I will have to try it out on a whole nail. 

My right hand in the sun. I wasn't about to attempt another swamp monster on this hand. 

Polishes used in this manicure: China Glaze It's Alive, Sinful Colors Adventure Island, Essie All In One Basecoat, and Seche Vite Topcoat.

Tomorrow it is blue nails and I am super excited to show you these. I actually previewed these on my facebook fan page. If you like facebook, feel free to like my Sonoma Nail Art fanpage. Thanks!