Feather Fun!! With a cute kittie!

So last week on MUA I saw a post about these cute kitty polishes and immediately ordered 2. I couldn't resist the kitty tops. I ordered them from periperaus.com. Oh and they shipped the same day!!! They are said to be perfumed, but I only smelled a little soap like aroma, which like Jack pointed out was better than polish, lol. The lids are silver, the lighting made it look gold. This one is Sea foam P027.

Also, I wanted to say thank you to Krissy, who is the sweetest thing ever!! She contacted me letting me know that not only did she find me a Revlon Whimsical, she hid it in the store for me!! So Saturday afternoon Jack and I went to go get it. It was like a little scavenger hunt, lol. So thank you girlie, sooooo much!!

Here I did 2 coats and a coat of SV.

See the blue!?!?!?! It really only came out when I tilted my nails directly under the light. Now I don't know if it would show more in sunlight though.

Then since its been forever, I did an accent nail with a feather.

Oh but wait, I wanted the mani to match better so I removed the P027 and used China Glaze Ingrid. Then another coat of SV. Maybe I didn't need an umpteenth coat of SV, because you can kind of see some teeny air bubbles, lol, but only up close. I got carried away with the shininess, lol

To see how I did the feather and where the original inspiration came from, click here :)

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Good From Far, But Far From Good...Like most men

You all know exactly what I'm talking about. You're out with the girls, maybe had a few drinks, see a hot guy across the room, you make eye contact, they make their way towards you, and BAM, you're instantly wishing they would have stayed on other side of the room. Well, this is how I feel about this mani, lol. Since I loved my other feather mani so much, I discovered a site that had small super fun feathers for sale. I got a few packs, and even some colored dried leaves that I shall try soon. Well this is how the mani started. I used 3 coats of Hard Candy Sky. I wish the bright blue shimmer, that you can see in the bottle in the 2nd pic, was more visible on the nail :(

Here is 1 of the packs I got. I ordered them from www.vivalanails.co.uk. Each pack I got had a different amount of feathers in there. This one had 3, and my pink one had like 6.

and just so you can get an idea of the size

This was after I cut the feather down to my nail size

This time, I applied the feather in the opposite direction, just to see. I wanted the light blue to poke out through my tips. I first brushed on a layer of Elmers Glue, then pressed the feather on top.

This was after it had mostly dried, and I trimmed the tips with clippers. The hard thing about feathers, is all the individual feathers are attached to the center stem, and once you cut them across, they are of course no longer attached :( so as I began placing, and trying to center the feather, it does split some, and the glue makes them stick in clumps, but it makes for a pretty cool effect on my tips.

Here is the final mani, with 2 coats of SV over top, to make it super shiny

Now from afar

See...I told you!!! lol.

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Birds of a feather flock together, Feather Mani..... (giveaway sneak peek)

Okay, I know I told you I would post another craft scissor mani, and I promise I had a funky french one scheduled, but after I completed this, i wanted to show you guys so bad! So the funky french will be tomorrow mornings post :) Hope you guys don't mind. Once I saw this mani, I knew I HAD to try and replicate it! This is in no way my idea, I saw it here first. It was just so fun and I loved the look of it. I'm always up for trying new things, and love a challenge. 

While at the craft store where I got my scissors, I saw this feather patch thingy, and thought it would be perfect for this. It was hard finding small enough feathers that I thought would work right. Anyways, okay this is what the feather patch looked like

and since I couldn't remember for the life of me, what she used to apply her feathers, I just grabbed some clear Elmer's glue and a pack of brushes. I could have used actual nail glue, but that stuff can be sooo damaging.

Well holy cow, I know it was my first time, but it was harder than I thought, but totally worth it! I ended up only doing this for accent nails, lol. I also have an issue with things being as perfect as I can get them, and there are quit a few issues I can see that bother me with this one, but I still LOVE LOVE LOVE this.

What I did, was paint a fairly thick layer of the glue onto my nail, and trimming the feather, as close as I could see, placed it onto my nail with tweezers, lightly pressing it down. I then added some more glue to my brush and did a coat over the entire feather and nail. Then when it was mostly dry, I went around with clippers, and clipped as much of the excess off the sides and tips that I could. Then when that was done, I did 2 coats of SV. It is perfectly smooth and shiny. Since I only did one nail on each hand, the rest of the mani is Brucci Blackened Emerald.

So what do you guys think? Have any of you tried it? I got soooo many compliments it was crazy.

Now I first wanted to thank you all for your feedback about the giveaway, and since the majority said 'more winners', that's what it will be, but instead of 4......I actaully had 25 polishes, so it will be 5 winners!! I still need to get the details and everything worked out, but here is a peak at what I have for you guys. Oh and NO these are NOT in any kind of order or group, I just placed them together and took pics.

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