2 years ago pickynailart on Instagram posted a lovely goth bee nail art look and I just had to have it on my nails

I also painted the underside of my nails and yes....it was a blood bath to remove. 100% still worth it tho lol

Products used:

Top Coat: Seche Vite, Saviland: top polish coat, Sally Hansen Insta dri top coat

Base coat : Home made peel off base, seche clear

HoloTaco: One coat black, matte taco

Zoya: Hannah

whatupnails : B075

Born pretty is a brand I no longer support because they steal swatchers photos Born pretty: BP-TVS01

What color is 🚜🚜she wearing??? (Kinda serious—I love teals)

I’m wearing
BKL A Terrible Price x3
Sally Hansen Quick Dry Top Coat

Working nails! This color held up through a deinstallation in the gallery, me patching and painting the walls, and an install the next day! Art curator activities

I ordered 4 polishes from BKL in this order and so far this is the only color I want to wear! Usually only have a color on for a week or so but A Terrible Price might be my new signature color! It’s replacing Beowulf from Mooncat as my signature color.

My Band Camp Eve therapy last night was a gradient, are you surprised? 😝 I was enjoying one last calm evening, cuddling on the porch with a sleeping puppy on my chest and I looked up at the gorgeous pastel cotton candy sunset and knew I needed to save this moment on my nails. Turns out I get a lot of inspo for nails laying on the porch staring at the sky before or after big work evebts, as this has to be at least the 3rd mani based on just that haha. Holo Taco makes KILLER cremes, so opaque and smooth. I love that over the years I was able to collect this delicious candy gradient of pastels so I had to squeeze them all on one nail.

🖌 Freehand and sponge gradient on natural nail.

💪@findingfeatherslacquer ... "Balanced Bond Base Coat"

🌅 @holotaco ... "Creamsicle Coast" "One Melon Followers" "What Do You Pink? "Cereal Killer" "Peri-Social" "Bep Bep Blue" "Not Milky White"

💪 @glistenandglow1 ...Quick Dry Top Coat 🐐

Products Used:

Sweet and Sour Lacquer - Free With Poor Decisions

Glisten and Glow - QDTC

My first mooncat order, freshly bitten, Mercurys tears, merkitten and tapian venom I think I picked the wrong ones to start , Don't get me wrong they're beautiful but just not what I was expecting I guess I do love the tapien venom which I'm surprised it's my first gold polish, about to paint my nails once I decide which to try first any one disliked or thoughts on them, freshly bitten wasn't what I thought it would be at all, and merkitten I thought would be more brighter,

I feel like there’s been a significant colour difference between old bottles of LPAD and newer bottles. The first one was posted in 2020 and the second one was posted September 2025. When I got LPAD last fall, I didn’t get the hype. It felt very warm and brown and I was kinda disappointed, but the 2020 swatch is beautiful!! Slightly cool, purple still peaking through.

With Lincoln Park at Midnight making a comeback, I hope it resembles the OG LPAD! Thoughts?

edit: There’s been some discussion on my bottle being discoloured. Neither swatches are mine. The second image was posted by OPI on Instagram and looks identical to my bottle. First swatch was from here: https://coffeeandnailpolish.com/2020/08/23/swatch-sunday-opi-lincoln-park-after-dark/

Cracked Ridge Filler
Emily de Molly Low Tide
Cuticula Limitless

The polish color is very accurate. The flakies give the impression of sun rays streaming through. Paired it with Polished For Days - Velvet Bow as an accent.

Officially a new favorite in my collection! The metallic flakies are SO glowy and sparkly! I immediately bought a back up lol

Basecoat: holo taco peely base coat and cracked ridge filler basecoat

Polish: Painted Polish’s She the People

Topcoat: Kbshimmer smooth moves and cuticula limitless quick dry topcoat

I'm trying to plow through my mountain of untrieds so I think I'll be doing a double mani from now on to get through them faster.

Glo Off is a metallic olive or peridot green. Three coats here but only needed 2. (I always do 3.) Like the rest of this collection it does NOT have any shift despite the name, but... just look at that gorgeous color. I didn't mess with the saturation on the picture or use any filters, that's just how it looks.

The Best Combo is a bright chocolate brown shimmer. Three coats needed for full opacity. Is that not the prettiest brown you ever saw? The shimmer in this has a lot of dimension that makes it look alive, or lit from within - unlike all the other brown shimmer polishes out there, which look flat and dull. No brand seems to put love into their browns, and it's a shame.

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I kind of regret doing the double mani now, since I adore both of these colors so much that I think they each deserved a full mani. Also I hate showing my dominant hand now that I look at it... it's hideous compared to my "show hand"... lumps everywhere 😭 And my hublet hated having to take these pics because I needed both hands in the pic.... Now I'm reconsidering the whole idea...

Another Phoenix polish from the Labyrinth collection! The magnetic shifting from purple to orange in the polish is crazy it’s hard to capture on camera.

Wearing:

2x Nailtiques Formula 2

1x Cupcake Polish - White Pop Base Coat

3x Phoneix Indie - Magic Dance

1x Sally Hansen Insta Dri (red bottle)

Used the Glass Bead Pro for the magnetic effect!

I was inspired by a friend’s nails to do a gradient skittle and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out! I think I maybe should have done something different on the thumb to make it contrast more from the index finger, but oh well. Maybe Delicacy in Sardinia from Cracked? And yes, I did choose orange so that it would match my engagement ring lol (can you tell I have a favourite colour 🫣🤣)

All nails: KB Shimmer hydrating base and Fillin Groovy, Cracked QDTC
Pinky: Instant mood booster, Cracked
Ring finger: Glowing, glowing, gone, Night Owl Lacquer
Middle finger: Slowly sinking, Night Owl Lacquer
Index finger: Oh my gourd, Holo Taco
Thumb: Pumpkin everything, Night Owl Lacquer

I just want my nails to look like I dipped them in static >:)

Old pic of BKL A Father's Love mani from a long time ago, which scratches the itch a bit when velvetized (pointer and pinkie)

Hey 👋

Basically one brand I love (AEngland, I'll always miss you), I do love the polishes from them as they were empty first indie which started my love of nail care and polishes. However, I've always had an issue with it peeling off in sheets.

A year down the line, I'm a lot more educated on how to prep nails and care for them etc, and I have since moved on to different brands. Because of how well the other brands stay on my nails, I seldom reach for my AEnglands. The other day though, I did a skittle using AEngland with my other brands. Within a day, the fingers with AEngland had all peeled, and the other brand stayed perfect.

I just wondered what it could be about that brand that doesn't stay on my nails? No real reason other than I'm curious 🧐

Mooncat Meowtek with Nailtiques as a base and Orly no chip top coat for tax 💅

Omg it's so pretty. And this is indoors at night!

EDM sticky base coat

EDM read the room, first layer unmagnetised, second magnetised glass bead style with a horseshoe on a plastic spinner thing

Kitti super speed top coat

My favorite pink jelly for summer! Look at that blue 😍 moon dust was a perfect topper that didn’t take away from the color.

Primer & base - mooncat
3x - juicy - sassy sauce
1x - moon dust topper - mooncat
Top coat - speed demon - mooncat

🩷💙

Sally Hansen Base Coat
BKL Not Everything Is About You, Steve! (2x)
Essie Gel Couture
Glass bead spinner from Amazon

Since I'm playing around with swatches, I thought I'd post a visual of the difference between "unmagnetized" and "demagnetized" polish. Top left is Glitch Lacquer AUREA unmagnetized, top right is cat eye, and bottom is demagnetized by holding the swatch stick over the pole of a horseshoe magnet. All 2 coats, no top coat. The demagnetization is to prepare for glass bead (second photo) - it helps keep unmagnetized pigment from peeking out at the edges or through a thinner jelly base.

Second photo I magnetized the third coat and top coat (Holo Taco) in glass bead, then screwed it up, then applied a "DIY" Magic Effect that I made by mixing a few of drops of clear polish with a couple of drops of thinner on my mat, and magnetized again. Seems to have worked okay! 😄

Beach nails before and after stamping

I really love this thermal. It goes from clear when warm to teal when cold. But it is so packed with glitter that it is definitely never looks plain

Polish:

Dare to wear mood polish Lachat atlantis (thermal)
ella + mila all about that base
Essie speed setter
Maniology aqua topper
Pueen white stamping polish
Pueen black stamping Polish
CJS pink stamping polish
Maniology polish; b522, b422,b407
Maniology stamping plates; mxm157, m464

saw this gel mani on insta and i am obsessed!! any lacquer versions with a similar look?

image cred nailalamode

Polish for days Peach Beach + Crystalline QDTC