Amur Tiger

Today's challenge is International Tiger Day, which is held on 29th July. Tigers are amazing animals, the biggest cats in the world, but graceful and beautiful.
One very poetic description of a tiger was made by Yann Martin in his bestseller-book "Life of Pi":

He was incredibly muscular, yet his haunches were thin and his glossy coat hung loosely on his frame. His body, bright brownish orange streaked with black vertical stripes, was incomparably beautiful, matched with a tailor's eye for harmony by his pure white chest and underside and the black rings if his long tail. His head was large and round, displaying formidable sideburns, a stylish goatee and some of the finest whiskers of the cat world, thick, long and white. Atop the head were small, expressive ears shaped like perfect arches. His carrot orange face had a broad bridge and a pink nose, and it was made up with brazen flair. Wavy dabs of black circled the face in a pattern that was striking yet subtle, for it brought less attention to itself than it did to the one part of the face left untouched by it, the bridge, whose rufous lustre shone nearly with a radiance. Tha patches of white above the mouth came off as finishing touches worthy of a Kathakali dancer. The result was a face that looked like the wings of a butterfly and bore an expression vaguely old and Chinese.

How can you not admire such creation of Mother Nature? It's impossible.
My mani was inspired by this picture:

It is a siberian or amur tiger.

First I created the snow landscape over catrice Entering Atlantis: I painted with white and turquoise acryl paints fir trees covered with snow. I added also a bit Color Club Angel Kiss for sparkling.

Then the tiger body is gradient with white and orange. The head and body part on the middle finger are Moyou London Suki 01. The head on my thumb is also Moyou Suki, but 09. I did them as decals.

The ring finger is just a normal stamp over gradient. Cheeky CH2 for tiger thigh. And the tail is just freehanded.

After everything was done, I added a snow blizzard, which is surely happens in the cold Siberia. Actually the name of the snowy polish is very sommerlike: Blue Sky (Rival de Loop, Sorbet Nail Collection).