#33DC - Day 5 - Mexican

Hi guys.  I'm, back for Day 5 of the #33DC challenge, and the prompt for today is Mexican. This was a difficult prompt for me.  I'm going to be really honest here and say that I know basically nothing about Mexico, and I don't own the Mexican stamping plate either, so I was pretty short on ideas from the word go!   I did however manage to throw something together in the end, as is evident from the picture above : )

I remembered seeing these adorable little sugar skull decals a while back on ebay, so I picked up a pack of those, planning to do a full mani with them.  Bit of a cop out, I know, but I didn't want to miss the prompt completely so hopefully you'll forgive me!  This is my first time trying out water decals though, and I originally did a full mani with them, but my application was, well, it was horrendous.  They wouldn't sit flat, and had little edges curling up.  3 coats of top coat, and I still ended up pulling one of them off, as I kept picking at it!  Beaten, but not broken, I decided to relax for the rest of the evening and have another go the next day.

That evening, I googled the Mexican flag as a back-up option should I fail again (I hated geography at school, and I only know about 4 flags in total!)   The next morning, I noticed that the colouring of the sugar skulls would match pretty well with the flag, so I decided to do 2 gradient nails in those colours, and use the decals for the other 3.  That way, I still had a couple of spare decals just in case.  I didn't need them in the end, but I was glad I had them anyway, there was less pressure that way : D

I know it's not exactly original, but I'm pleased I'm not skipping the prompt, or posting a fail!

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