FingerFood’s Theme Weeks: Cute: Japanese Kawaii Animals

For the cute theme in the FingerFood’s Theme Weeks challenge I have always been intending to do these nails.

These are Japanese kawaii animals (kawaii means cute). Think Hello Kitty and Pikachu and you’re there.

I couldn’t find any references for four characters I loved, so I mixed and matched some ideas I saw on various items, like miso soup bowls, phone covers and the like.

The details were dotted and hand painted using a very fine, cut down detailing brush.

The duck’s base is George Buttercup Shine, which took four coats before I was happy.

The bases for the other animals took just two coats: the white for the rabbit is Sinful Colors Snow Me White; the pink for the pig is W7 Baby Pink; and the grey for the cat is Sally Hansen Ion.

Here are the manicures from everyone else that is participating:

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