Clean your nails and remove any old nail polish. Trim, shape, and file your nails. Push back your cuticles, but hold off on the cuticle oil. It is best saved for last. Consider covering your cuticle area with petroleum jelly or white school glue. This will make cleaning up easier at the end. This is necessary, even if you want to keep your nails their natural color. It will not only protect your nails, but help your polish last longer. Wait 2 minutes before moving on to the next step. Clear or nude nail polish will look the best with peacock feathers. You can also use a flat white or black color. Avoid using cool colors, such as blue or green, or the feather won't stand out. Allow the base color to dry for 2 minutes. Apply slight pressure at the base of the stem to make the line taper. Start painting from the base of your nail, and stop partway up. You will need to leave room for the "eye." Try to give the stem a slight curve. This will make the feather look longer, wispier, and more peacock-like. You can paint the feather on every nail, or you can paint it on an accent nail, typically the ring finger. Use copper or bronze nail polish for this. Clean your striper brush using nail polish remover, then blot it dry. Paint more wispy, tapering lines to either side of your feather stem. Use shimmery green and copper/bronze nail polish for this. Use a clean spotter brush to add a small drop of blue polish at the center of the teardrop. Use a flat blue, if you can, to create contrast. Clean your spotter brush with nail polish remover, then blot it dry. Pick up some shimmery green nail polish, and paint a bean-shaped dot on top of the blue one. You will have something that looks like an eye. If you are having trouble, make a green dot first, then add a tiny light blue dot right at the bottom. Alternatively, you can use a tiny black or green crystal instead. Apply the crystal using a toothpick or dotter tool. Using a thin, stripper brush, add a thin stroke of gold to the stem, edges of the teardrop, and into the wispy feathers. Allow the feather to dry for 2 minutes, then apply a layer of clear top coat. Allow your manicure to dry completely. If you used petroleum jelly, now is the time to wipe it off. If you used white school glue, simply peel it away. Use a thin brush dipped in nail polish remover to wipe away any excess nail polish from the cuticle area. Apply some cuticle oil now, if needed.
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One-sentence summary -- Prep your nails. Apply a base coat. Apply two coats of your base color. Use black nail polish and a striper brush to paint the stem. Use a spotter brush to paint a teardrop at the top of the stem. Fill in with more lines using green and copper/bronze nail polish. Add a light blue dot into the teardrop. Add a curved green dot on top of the light blue dot. Add some gold highlights to the feather. Seal it in, then let it dry. Clean it up.

Article: Before you add designs or personal touches, you should create a solid base to work on. Cover the sides and top of the cooler with paint using a large paintbrush. To use multiple colors for the background, paint 1 color at a time and let the paint dry in between colors. One coat of acrylic paint should be enough for the background. After 24 hours, the cooler should feel dry to the touch. If you're doing additional colors for the background, paint them on one at a time and let the cooler dry for 24 hours in between each coat. While you can definitely draw designs on the cooler freehand, using designs printed off the computer will make the cooler look cleaner and more professional. Keep in mind that you'll be tracing the outlines of the designs onto the cooler and filling them in with paint, so stick with simple images and fonts. To use carbon paper, trace the outline of your design onto the paper. Then, hold the carbon paper on the cooler and draw over the lines to transfer the design onto the cooler. You can find carbon paper online or at your local art supplies store. Start by tracing your design onto a sheet of printer paper. Then, shade in the back of the paper with pencil. After the back is shaded in, place the paper on the cooler where you want the design to go and trace over the lines with a pencil to transfer it. Trace your design onto a piece of tissue paper. Then, position the tissue paper on the cooler where you want the design to go and draw over the outline with a fine-point permanent marker. The marker will bleed through the tissue paper and transfer onto the cooler. Use small paint brushes to apply the paint so you can be more detailed. If you want to do multiple colors in the same design, do 1 color at a time and let the paint dry in between colors otherwise, the colors might smudge together. It may be easier if you lay the cooler on its side so the side you're painting is facing up. If you do this, you'll need to paint 1 side at a time and let the paint dry in between sides. The thinner the coat of paint, the less time it will take to dry. After a few hours, touch the paint to see if it's completely dry. If it is, you can add additional colors to your designs, start on a new side of the cooler, or move on to sealing the cooler.
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Paint the cooler background with acrylic paint. Let the paint dry for 24 hours. Print out any designs or lettering you want to put on the cooler. Trace the designs and lettering onto the cooler using carbon paper. Use printer paper to transfer your designs if you don't have carbon paper. Try tissue paper if you don't have carbon printer paper. Fill in the designs and lettering with acrylic paint. Let the painted designs and lettering dry for several hours.