Feather Nails Anyone???

So I did feather nails close to a year ago and while shopping at Micheal's the other day I realized that hey those where really cool and that I should do them again so hear we are Feather Nails!! :)

Ok so these may look difficult to do but trust me they are much easier then regular nail art that's for sure!

So this is what I used Started with a base coat of my favorite Nail Life Nail Revitilizer in Original, then I used 2 coats of Sally Hansen Smooth and Perfect in Linen and after I was done I topped it all off with Seche Vite top coat of course! And of course the thing that made this manicure possible feathers!! I picked these up at Micheal's and they are multi colored spotted feathers and they where only a few dollars, I would definitely recommend experimenting with all different colors for this mani!

To start pick out your feathers for your nails. When I bought my bag of feathers I picked the one with the biggest nicest looking feathers in it. This was a mistake! Because you're not going to be putting huge feathers on your nails just little itty bitty ones. So if you go out looking for feathers for your nails I recommend picking the bag with a bunch of little one instead of the bag with a bunch of big ones.

After your first coat of polish dried and you have applied your second before its dry all you do is stick a feather on your wet nail. Easy peasy! You wanna do this to one nail at a time so that the polish stays wet.

I though they looked pretty cool like this but DEFINITELY not practical lol. So you gotta trim them up just take nail clippers or cuticle nippers and cut them off right at the tip. After I did that I let them dry completely and them buffed the tips just to make sure nothing was sticking out anywhere. And when you're all done trimming everything up then apply your top coat. Because the feathers are not completely flat to get that flat shiny polished look your gonna need a couple layers of top coat.

But that's it really nothing to it! Now I experimented with putting a different base color under your nails before putting on the feathers and to get that to look right your gonna have to wait until the color dries and then apply a clear coat of what ever you have handy and then stick the feathers to that. If you stick them directly to the colored polish the feathers get lost and it just doesn't look right.

Thank you so much for reading! I hope I added a little inspiration to your day!

:)

Peacock feather inspired nail art

So I'm in the middle of planning my wedding! Its very exciting and my colors are like those of a peacock and that's is where I got my inspiration to try and do peacock nails they where easier then i thought they where going to be and didn't really have to be very precise with how you did the design to make it look good. Please disregard my thumb the black bled a bit.

So for this look I started off with a base coat of my Nail Life in original which is my normal base coat then I picked out a peacock like color for the base color I picked Wet N Wild's Morbid for that. After that dried I started from a corner and made "feather like" stripes with a few different colors before I was satisfied with what my feather looked like. For the stripes I used 4 different colors; Kiss Nail Art Paint - Beach Green, Wet N Wild - Teal of fortune, Nina Ultra Pro - Big Spender, and Sinful Colors - Call you later. After my stripes dried I made the eye part of the feather. Just gold didn't look good for the largest dot and I didn't have an orangey, bronzey, gold ish color so I mixed Nina Ultra Pro's Big Spender with Pure Ice's Really Rio to get the really cool orangey color. For the middle dot I used Revlon's Ocean Breeze and for the last I used Sinful Colors' Black on Black. For the bigger dots I used the end of a paint brush and for the smaller I used my little dotting tool I have.

These are all the colors I used I'm glad I used these colors because I found out that Wet N Wild's Teal of Fortune is an awesome color! Sparkly blues and greens I will definitely be using this in the future!

Thanks for reading and I hope you liked my design! If anyone has any requests for designs please let me know I can always use a little inspiration from others :)

:)
  Kristy