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

Pastels - major fail

These definitely are not by best. It was late when I started them. I wanted something Easter-y but I couldn't really think of anything that I wanted to do. Last year, I went all out with bunnies, eggs, Easter baskets... But it's one of the ones I took on my old phone and on my new phone, it is really blurry otherwise I would post it. Oh well.

I had to redo the ring finger and I only did two coats of my pink instead of three so you can see the nail line and I didn't apply the topcoat very well... It was late like I said.

The design could have been done a little better... but I like the colors together. My minty green is really really light so I had to draw it out with white first, then go over it again with the green. Usually I wear the same thing for almost a week (if i haven't picked it off by then. A very bad habit), but these ones didn't make it nearly that long. I'll come up with something better next time!

KH