Playing around with the scale design, I started first with a Kleancolor White base and then used Wet n Wild Ebony Hates Chris to go in and paint the scales.  With that dry, I used 4 different brown/tan colors to fill the spaces; I didn’t realize that the two darker colors were soooooo close so those end up looking the same:

• L’Oreal Cockatoos Wisdom (dark brown)
• e.l.f. Smoky Brown (pretty much the same)
• e.l.f. Innocent (light cream)
• L’Oreal Cockatoos Mystery (greyish tone)

Went back in to fill a few lines afterwards and wanted to keep futzing (despite going over it twice some of the fill isn’t perfect) but whatever!  Not one of the cleaner executions but now I know more about those 4 polishes.