feather nail art | Craftynail

Today I’m wearing some more Moon Sugar Decals! These are a cute dreamcatcher design that come 33 to a sheet as shown here. BTW, did you see that I’m having an international GIVEAWAY where one lucky winner will get a $20 gift certificate for moonsugardecals.com ? Get on it!

Here’s how to enter my giveaway: a Rafflecopter giveaway

For this look I painted my nails with OPI My Vampire is Buff and I did a wood grain accent nail using my MoYou London nail stamping plate. Then I put dream catcher water slide decals on the other nails. Don’t know how to use water slide decals? Here’s a step-by-step that I put together: DECAL TUTORIAL. I followed the same application process for these dream catcher nails, except I also applied a very light layer of clear nail polish before sticking the decals on. You don’t need to do that though. They stick well enough from the clearcoat that you put on afterwards, but I just felt like trying it a different way.

I also used a dotting tool and some Wet n Wild I Need a Refresh-Mint to make some simple turquoise dots. It only took a minute to place the dots, but they really transformed the manicure. It gives a Native American feel I think.

I hope you like my nails and good luck in the giveaway! With a $20 gift certificate you could probably buy about 5 full sheets of decals! If you win…. which designs would you pick from their catalog??? I really like their sugar skulls, but I also have some of their lotus flowers that I haven’t tried yet. I got the lotus flowers from Julie at Short & Sweet in Texas. We purchase different decals online and then mail each other little samples. Julie and I are like an after-school-commercial… COLLECT THEM ALL, TRADE THEM WITH YOUR FRIENDS! LOL

♥ If you place an order on moonsugardecals.com make sure to use my crafty coupon code 20OFFCN to save 20% off your order!!! Code 20OFFCN is good til Feb 21, 2014.

I love the N.A.I.L. theme this week : INSPIRED BY PINTEREST! I have over 1600 pins (most of which are nails) so I had no problem finding a nail art pin that inspired me. When I pin pics I always think “Oooooh I love this nail art design, I’m pinning it so I remember to try it later!” But do I ever try it? NO. See, this is why I love this week’s theme!

I tried one manicure and it was an epic fail, but my second one came out great! Let’s see….

This handpainted feather motif was inspired by just1nail’s pin of her instagram pic posted here. Something about her design really stood out to me! I love how the opaque pastel feather stands out against the dark holo background! So pretty and sorta retro. Thanks for the inspiration Paola!