Abstract rainbow peacock feather nail art

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This week's theme in the RedditLaqueristas' 52 week challenge is rainbows! I was wondering what to do that would be original and I came up with this freehand pattern: rainbow-colours peacock feathers. How do you like it?

I'd been wanting to try peacock feather nail art for a while, but I'd never pictured it this way! I love how it turned out. The bright colours really flash against the black background, thanks to the white polish I put under them. If I had to do them again though, I think I'd add a green line in the middle to picture the main root of the feather.

The polishes I used today:

• Base coat: Essie - All In One Base
• Black background: Essence - Black is Black
• White (used under the colours to make them pop): Essie - Blanc
• Red: Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - All Fired Up
• Orange: Revlon - Alluring Amber
• Yellow: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Lightening
• Green: Rimmel 60 seconds - Camouflage
• Blue: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Brisk Blue
• Indigo: L'Oréal - Jet Set to Paris
• Purple: Julep - Morgan
• Top coat: Sèche Vite

The technique:

I applied a base coat, then two coats of black. Then, using a thin striping brush, I painted the shapes of my feathers in white onto the black background. Then I went colour by colour to fill in each strand of the feathers on all my nails. I was left with rainbow feathers, but they didn't look like peacock feathers yet.

Using a dotting tool, I drew a heart-shaped white dot on each feather. I then covered that white dot in green. I added another pale blue dot in the middle of the green, and then an inverted U shape in indigo to mimic the peacock pattern. Then I topcoated the whole shebang and ran here to show you guys! Weee!