OK, here is a pic of my mani. Just want to warn you, judging from the reactions to the discussion about it awhile back, it is not for everyone. You will probably either love it or hate it. I started with gelish foundation, used 2 coats RCM The Night Is Young as the base color, then very carefully and precisely cut pieces of a shed snakeskin which I found on my property to fit the base area of the french tip mani and pressed the pieces into the tacky layer, put on 1 layer of gelish tio to hold it in place, 2 layers of RCM Black Stretch Limo as the tip color, ending with 2 more layers of gelish tio to smooth it out as much as possible.
I am imagining an assortment of both Ooohs and Ewwws going on right now.
It has a bit of texture to it, next time I would probably like to have gelish Structure to smooth it out more as I'm a picker and this will be a real test of self control. I've never had a shatter mani, but it might be kinda close to that. It has a whole animal print look to it, but subtle. Maybe because the background color I chose is so dark, I don't think it is immediately obvious that it is snakeskin. Which is probably a good thing for my first try. It was not easy to work with, and took a long time. I did use Orly bonder base coat under the whole thing, so hopefully that will help with the removal process since I had to use a total of 3 coats of tio.
And with a reminder that this is only my 2nd pic posted, and I'm not a great photog, here it is:
Whoops, pic did not show up, look at my next post for the picture.