Feathers!

It's been quite awhile since I did a post! It's also been awhile since I even did my nails. I thought they could use a break and between that and just life, I've just been busy. But I finally sat down and did my nails this weekend!

So, my sister has a bird. I'm not a fan of birds as pets personally, but it is pretty. I've always liked the colors. When it was a baby it was this really pretty bright blue and now I think it's more of a green/light blue. But either way, Kadie came up to visit and brought some of the feathers with her. She thought maybe I could use them on my nails and I've seen it done so I thought I would give it a try.

It didn't work out all that great.... Feathers are kinda hard to work with! Once I did a clear coat and got the feather on them they would stick ok and when I put some topcoat on to seal them, it completely changed the color of the feathers. Some of the pretty light green ones turned brown and just not pretty. I redid these a few times until I finally knew which of the feathers were bright enough to not change colors on me! They were a little plain so I did a stripe of silver.

From more of a distance though they looked really pretty! You can't see the rough edges as much. Pretty colors right?!

The main problem with these was that the very edge of the feathers wouldn't lay totally flat, even after 2 coats of topcoat. So after about 5 hours I was picking at the edges and pulling them off. So it didn't last long and if I try again, I'll maybe lay them differently or something. Overall, from a distance, they did look pretty good though! 

KH