Many people when they look at my feather earrings or necklaces, they worry about how to keep the feathers in-shape and wonder if they are durable. In fact, its pretty easy to keep your feathers looking gorgeous for years! Here are a few simple tips.
1.) Hang or Lay your feathers on a flat surface! There is nothing worse than when I forget and shove my own feather earrings into a jewelry box and later find them bent out of shape. But if that DOES happen, no fear, there is another trick to fix them!
2.) FLAT IRON!! Believe it or not, a flat iron that you use on your hair is PERFECT for flattening feathers as well. They are in fact very similar to hair. Just be sure that your flat iron is on a lower setting so that they don't burn, and run the feathers flat through the iron.
3.) In case they get WET, still don't freak out. Once again, remember that feathers are very similar to hair. What happens when you have unwanted wet hair, you use a blow dryer! Do the same with your feathers! Just be careful of any metal bits as they will heat up easily and burn your fingers!
4.) Last but not least, avoid getting your earrings dusty! Feathers have natural oils on them that keep them in shape, and too much dust on them is hard to get off with out hurting the feathers. Frequent wear will keep that from happening!! :-)
